Polish ice hockey league 1988/89

Polish ice hockey league
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Master:	Polonia Bytom
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The 1988/89 season was the 54th season of the Polish Ice Hockey League , the highest Polish ice hockey division . Polonia Bytom became champions for the fourth time in the club's history .

mode

First, the ten teams spent a common main round. The six best-placed teams qualified for the final round, whose participants all qualified for the playoffs in which the champions were played off. The other four teams played a qualifying round, the top two of which also qualified for the playoffs. The results from the main round were carried over to the final or qualifying round. Each team received two points for a win, one point for a draw and zero points for a defeat.

Teams

Oświęcim Tychy Sosnowiec Katowice Gdańsk Cracovia Nowy Targ Bytom Toruń Janów Ekstraliga clubs in 1988/89

Polonia Bytom KS Cracovia Naprzód Janów Stoczniowiec Gdańsk GKS Katowice Podhale Nowy Targ Towimor Toruń Unia Oświęcim Zagłębie Sosnowiec GKS Tychy

Main round

table

	club	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
1.	Polonia Bytom	18th	13	2	3	83:40	28
2.	Naprzód Janów	18th	12	3	3	86:40	27
3.	GKS Tychy	18th	12	1	5	83:70	25th
4th	Podhale Nowy Targ	18th	11	2	5	82:40	24
5.	GKS Katowice	18th	8th	2	8th	73:80	18th
6th	Zagłębie Sosnowiec	18th	7th	1	10	60:57	15th
7th	KS Cracovia	18th	7th	1	10	46:62	15th
8th.	Towimor Toruń	18th	4th	2	12	68: 126	10
9.	Stoczniowiec Gdańsk	18th	4th	2	12	49:74	10
10.	Unia Oświęcim	18th	3	2	13	46:87	8th

Sp = games, S = wins, U = draws, N = losses, OTS = overtime wins, OTN = overtime losses, SOS = penalty wins, SON = penalty losses

Final round

	club	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
1.	Polonia Bytom	28	20th	4th	4th	134: 60	44
2.	Naprzód Janów	28	17th	5	6th	121: 74	39
3.	Podhale Nowy Targ	28	17th	3	8th	124: 72	37
4th	GKS Tychy	28	16	1	11	121: 125	33
5.	GKS Katowice	28	11	3	15th	107: 113	25th
6th	Zagłębie Sosnowiec	28	9	1	18th	90: 109	19th

Sp = games, S = wins, U = draws, N = losses, OTS = overtime wins, OTN = overtime losses, SOS = penalty wins, SON = penalty losses

Qualifying round

	club	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
7th	KS Cracovia	30th	14th	2	14th	102: 95	30th
8th.	Stoczniowiec Gdańsk	30th	10	3	17th	88: 118	23
9.	Towimor Toruń	30th	10	2	18th	121: 178	22nd
10.	Unia Oświęcim	30th	7th	2	21st	78: 138	16

Sp = games, S = wins, U = draws, N = losses, OTS = overtime wins, OTN = overtime losses, SOS = penalty wins, SON = penalty losses

Playoffs

Quarter finals

• Polonia Bytom - Stoczniowiec Gdańsk 2: 0 (8: 1, 16: 2)
• Naprzód Janów - KS Cracovia 2: 0 (4: 3, 8: 1)
• Podhale Nowy Targ - Zagłębie Sosnowiec 2: 0 (2: 1, 6: 2)
• GKS Tychy - GKS Katowice 0: 2 (3: 5, 1: 4)

Semifinals

• Polonia Bytom - GKS Katowice 2: 0 (12: 1, 6: 4)
• Naprzód Janów - Podhale Nowy Targ 2: 0 (3: 2, 2: 1)

final

• Polonia Bytom - Naprzód Janów 2: 1 (3: 1, 2: 4, 6: 1)

Placement games

Play for 9th place

• Towimor Toruń - Unia Oświęcim 2: 0 (6: 4, 4: 3 apt)

Game for 7th place

• KS Cracovia - Stoczniowiec Gdańsk 2: 0 (6: 2, 6: 2)

Play for 5th place

• Zagłębie Sosnowiec - GKS Tychy 2: 1 (5: 3, 1: 5, 5: 2)

3rd place match

• Podhale Nowy Targ - GKS Katowice 2: 1 (7: 1, 1: 6, 7: 2)

Web links

• Playing time at hockeyarchives.info (French)