Oliver Betteridge

Oliver Betteridge
Date of birth	January 16, 1996
place of birth	Nottingham , UK
size	180 cm
Weight	80 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
2008–2012	Nottingham Cougars
2008-2010	Sheffield Rapiers
2010-2013	Nottingham Leopards
since 2011	Nottingham Panthers
2012-2013	Nottingham Lions
2012-2015	Swindon Wildcats

Oliver Betteridge (born January 16, 1996 in Nottingham ) is a British ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Nottingham Panthers in the Elite Ice Hockey League since 2011 .

Career

Oliver Betteridge began his career as a hockey player in his hometown of Nottingham, where he played for various junior teams and in 2007 was named a U11 All-Star by the English Ice Hockey Association . He was also on the ice with the Sheffield Rapiers from 2008 to 2010. In the 2011/12 season he made his debut with the Nottingham Panthers in the Elite Ice Hockey League . In the following season he played mostly for the Swindon Wildcats in the English Premier Ice Hockey League and the Nottingham Lions in the National Ice Hockey League , but was also used once in the EIHL with the Panthers. From 2013 to 2015 he played mainly for the Wildcats in the EPIHL and only came to a few games in the EIHL. Since 2015 he has played exclusively with the Panthers, with whom he won the Challenge Cup and the EIHL Playoffs in 2016 and the IIHF Continental Cup in 2017 .

International

In the junior division, Betteridge first played at the U18 World Championships in 2013 and 2014 in Division II. With the British U20 selection , he took part in the 2014 and 2016 world championships in Division I and 2015 in Division II.

For the British men's team , he played in Division I at the 2018 World Cup and made it to the top division, making the island team for the first time since relegation back to the top level of the World Cup in 1994.

Achievements and Awards

• 2007 U11 All-Star of the English Ice Hockey Association
• 2015 Promotion to Division I, Group A, at the U20 World Cup 2015 Division II, Group A.
• In 2016 won the Playoffs and Challenge Cup of the Rushed Ice Hockey League with the Nottingham Panthers
• 2017 won the IIHF Continental Cup with the Nottingham Panters
• 2018 Promotion to the top division at the Ice Hockey World Championship Division I, Group A.

EIHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	7th	169	10	17th	27	48
Playoffs	3	8th	2	0	2	2

(Status: end of the 2017/18 season)

Web links

• Oliver Betteridge at hockeydb.com (English)
• Oliver Betteridge at eliteprospects.com (English)