EC Kitzbühel

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EC Kitzbühel
Greatest successes
Club information
history Founded in 1910
Location Kitzbuhel , Austria
Nickname KEC
Club colors blue White
league Alps Hockey League
Venue Kapserbrücke sports park
capacity 1700 seats (including 900 seats)
Head coach Charles Franzen
captain Henrik Hochfilzer (AUT)
AlpsHL 2018/19 12th place, playoff quarter-finals

The EC Kitzbühel is an Austrian Hockey Club of Kitzbühel in Tyrol , in the (second-rate) since 2016 Alps Hockey League play.

history

After the Kitzbühel Sports Club had been founded in 1910, it was renamed the Kitzbühel Ice Hockey Club in 1925 and joined the Austrian Ice Hockey Association . In the years after 1934 the team was an integral part of the Austrian provincial championship, in which clubs from all over Austria outside Vienna took part in several locally organized groups, and celebrated a number of successes there, even though the championship title was not won.

After the Second World War, which had taken a heavy toll on the long-serving players Hans Schweinester, Frorl Oberaigner and Peter Salvenmoser, the club was rebuilt and professionally organized. In the years 1949, 1952 and 1954, the ASKÖ State League championship title could be won. The title in 1952 came so unexpectedly that the medals that had already been pre-cut in favor of the favorite from Vienna had to be corrected with lime paint at the awards ceremony.

When today's Bundesliga was founded in 1965 , the people of Kitzbühel were among the participants from the start. The team played eight seasons in the top division up to 1973 and played their home games on the newly built artificial ice rink on Lebenberg. In the 1972/73 season , however, the Kitzbühel Eagles finished last and were relegated to the major league.

In the season 1987/88 the club celebrated the title of Tyrolean national champion and rose again to the national league, the second highest division. The following years brought a number of placements in the midfield. The championship was only won in the 1995/96 season , when the Kitzbühel team won the final against EHC Fischerbräu Wien . In 1997 the team was relegated to the state league and then shuttled back and forth between this and the changing lower performance levels of the Austria-wide championships. In the 2004 and 2005 seasons , the club dominated the league and celebrated two more championships.

In 2005 the club moved to the Tyrolean regional league. On December 9, 2006, the club's long-term home with the Lebenbergstadion was closed and a roofed arena was built for the first time with the Sportpark Kapserbrücke, in which the team has played since then and in 2007, after seventeen victories in a row, was last able to win the title of Tyrolean national champion . In 2014 the club won the third-rate National Amateur Hockey League and rose to the second-rate INL .

The club has been playing in the successor league to the INL, the Alps Hockey League, since 2016 .

Club statistics

season league Games S. U N Gates Pt rank Playoffs
1965-1966 ÖEHL 12 2 0 10 28:56 4th 4th No playoffs played
1966-1967 ÖEHL 16 6th 2 8th 63:77 14th 3 No playoffs played
1967-1968 ÖEHL 10 4th 3 3 38:31 11 3 No playoffs played
1968-1969 ÖEHL 12 4th 0 8th 39:66 8th 6th Relegation in playouts
1969-1970 ÖEHL 14th 6th 2 6th 56:48 14th 5 Relegation in playouts
1970-1971 ÖEHL 28 12 1 15th 129: 137 25th 5 No playoffs played
1971-1972 ÖEHL 28 9 3 16 83: 109 21st 7th No playoffs played
1972-1973 ÖEHL 28 3 1 24 74: 217 7th 8th Relegation to the league

Venue

The Kitzbühel Eagles have played their games in the Kitzbühel Sports Park since 2006. The sports park has a capacity of 1700 seats (including 900 seats).

successes

  • ASKÖ state league champions in 1949, 1952 and 1954
  • Champion of the major league in 1996 , 2004 and 2005
  • Tyrolean national champion 1987, 1988, 2006 and 2007

Club-internal records

season

Gates
space player Gates season
1. SlovakiaSlovakia Jaroslav Betka 58 2006/07
SlovakiaSlovakia Jaroslav Betka 48 2007/08
3. Czech RepublicCzech Republic Martin Juza 39 2009/10
4th AustriaAustria Roland waiter 38 2003/04
5. SlovakiaSlovakia Jaroslav Betka 37 2005/06
Assists
space player Assists season
1. SlovakiaSlovakia Jaroslav Betka 67 2006/07
2. Czech RepublicCzech Republic André Niec 56 2013/14
3. SlovakiaSlovakia Jaroslav Betka 49 2005/06
4th SlovakiaSlovakia Jaroslav Betka 48 2007/08
AustriaAustria Philipp Ullrich 48 2013/14
Points
space player Points season
1. SlovakiaSlovakia Jaroslav Betka 125 2006/07
2. SlovakiaSlovakia Jaroslav Betka 96 2007/08
3. Czech RepublicCzech Republic André Niec 87 2013/14
4th SlovakiaSlovakia Jaroslav Betka 86 2005/06
5. AustriaAustria Philipp Ullrich 85 2013/14
Penalty minutes
space player Penalty minutes season
1. AustriaAustria Patrick Hager 126 2012/13
2. AustriaAustria Roland waiter 115 2007/08
3. AustriaAustria Roland Luchner 111 2009/10
4th AustriaAustria Patrick Hager 105 2011/12
5. CanadaCanada Blake Sorensen 102 2004/05

All in all

Gates
space player Gates
1. SlovakiaSlovakia Jaroslav Betka 143
2. AustriaAustria Henrik Hochfilzer 123
3. AustriaAustria Lucas Etz 122
4th AustriaAustria Roland waiter 103
5. AustriaAustria Philipp Ullrich 97
Assists
space player Assists
1. AustriaAustria Lucas Etz 181
2. SlovakiaSlovakia Jaroslav Betka 168
3. AustriaAustria Philipp Ullrich 136
4th AustriaAustria Henrik Hochfilzer 134
4th AustriaAustria Roland waiter 125
Points
space player Points
1. SlovakiaSlovakia Jaroslav Betka 311
2. AustriaAustria Lucas Etz 303
3. AustriaAustria Henrik Hochfilzer 257
4th AustriaAustria Philipp Ullrich 233
5. AustriaAustria Roland waiter 228
Games
space player Games
1. AustriaAustria Kevin Wirl 426
2. AustriaAustria Andreas Karrer 381
3. AustriaAustria Henrik Hochfilzer 309
4th AustriaAustria Lucas Etz 292
5. AustriaAustria Patrick Huber 223

literature

  • Margreiter, Haiszan, Kilias: The Great Austrian Ice Hockey Book , Verlag Buch Spezial Dornbirn, ISBN 3-900496-04-4

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