Ratinger Ice Aliens

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Ratinger Ice Aliens 1997
Greatest successes

Champion of the Regionalliga NRW 2004 , 2005
Promotion to the Oberliga 2005
Promotion to the Regionalliga NRW 2008
Promotion to the Oberliga West 2010
Champion 1st League West 2015/16

Club information
history Ratinger Ice Aliens 1997 (since 1997)
Parent club Ratingen 1997 Ice Aliens eV
Club colors Red White
league Regionalliga West
Venue Ice rink Ratingen am Sandbach
capacity 3,800 seats
executive Director Dirk Klare
Rainer Merkelbach
Head coach Andrej Fuchs
captain Dennis Fischbuch
Season 2019/20 6th place RL-West

The Ratinger Ice Aliens are an ice hockey club from Ratingen , North Rhine-Westphalia , which has been playing in the Regionalliga West since 2016 . The exact name of the club is Ratinger Ice Aliens 97 eV

history

Until 2005

When, in 1997, the EC Ratingen association decided to move the venue for the professional team to Oberhausen and renamed the gaming company Revierlöwen Oberhausen GmbH, the Ice Aliens were founded. The regional association immediately classified the team in the highest amateur class, the Regionalliga-NRW . As a result, two Ratinger teams (Ratinger Löwen - as the parent club of Revierlöwen Oberhausen and Ratinger Ice Aliens) took part in the regional league this season. In the very first season, the Ice Aliens were able to win the runner-up. In the following round of promotion, the team from Ratingen managed to qualify for the third-class 1st League North.

As a result of this success, the audience interest also rose to unimagined heights. Often more than 2000 spectators visited the ice rink at Sandbach. A short time later, in 2000, the club was down financially and athletically. The future of the association was discussed for a long time. At that time, reasons such as B. called missing sponsor payments.

In the summer of 2002 insolvency proceedings were then opened over the club, but these were concluded positively in the 2003/04 season.

From the 2002/03 season the Ice Aliens played again in the Regionalliga-NRW . Here you could fight your way through to the final after a third place in the main round. There the team was defeated by the mosquitoes from Essen in three games. In the following year, the team was sovereign champions of the regional league. The fiercest competitors this time were the Revierlöwen Oberhausen and the team from Herne . Then you played for promotion to the league . Here, however, the Ice Aliens could not prevail and ended up in third place.

Only a year later, the march succeeded. After an outstanding main round, which was completed with 16 points ahead of second-placed Herner EG , the team also dominated the subsequent promotion round. Ultimately, they took first place with 56 points in front of the ESC Hall 04

2005/2006

After the return to the league was in the summer of 2005, the professional team was outsourced to the RIA97 Spielbetriebs GmbH , which missed the sporting league with fourth place in the qualifying round in the 2005/06 season .

In addition to the seniors, the Ratinger Ice Aliens are represented by six teams in youth work. A U23 and a women team were added in the 2005/2006 season.

2006/2007

By omitting the Neuss EV on the athletic Promoted to Oberliga 2006/07 the first team of Ratingen Ice Aliens could remain in the league with the approval of the regional figure skating association of North Rhine-Westphalia. The Ratinger Ice Aliens 97 association received the license applied for in the summer of 2006. The actual game operations of the team were transferred from the RIA 97 Spielbetriebs GmbH to an ice hockey club Ratingen 06/07 Ltd , which was founded at the beginning of August 2006 , with which the players and the coach signed contracts.

Ratingen ice rink

In October 2006 the managing director of the Ltd. terminated in due time after a discussion for the end of November 2006 and a few days later due to the fact that the Ltd. economic problems that have become known, a financial status of an external auditing company is created on behalf of the board of directors of the association.

On October 25, 2006, after the presentation of the financial status and discussion about it, the financial situation of the Ltd. on a subsequent communication of the public as over-indebted and on the part of the association by the executive board in agreement with the administrative board the still acting managing director of the Ltd. the application for the opening of insolvency proceedings is recommended. Based on this application, a provisional insolvency administrator was appointed by the responsible district court in Düsseldorf on October 27, 2006 , who was already in charge of the 2002 bankruptcy proceedings.

Team of the Ratinger Ice Aliens '97

The upper league licensor ESBG summoned the people who signed the Ratinger Ice Aliens license application to an interview to clarify any questions that had arisen in connection with the license conditions, as the information that became known through the press resulted in ambiguities between the information in the license documents and the actual figures. As a result of this interview, the ESBG imposed conditions on the association, some of which had to be fulfilled by November 15, 2006 and some by November 16, 2006. On November 15, 2006, the club's board announced that the club could not meet the requirements, and on November 16, 2006, the ESBG terminated the license agreement with the club and excluded the league team from playing. Since the league team was excluded from play and was not withdrawn by the club, the U23 team - now as the club's first senior team - was allowed to continue to play in the - fifth-rate - association league due to a decision by the State Sports Association of North Rhine-Westphalia.

At the end of the 2007/08 season, he was promoted again to the Regionalliga-NRW , in which the first senior team of Ratinger Ice Aliens took part in the game in 2008/09 .

2009/2010

In the 2009/10 season , the Ratinger Ice Aliens under coach Alexander Jacobs managed to qualify for the finals in the league renamed Regionalliga West with fourth place after the preliminary round. In the final round, the team reached fourth place - ahead of Lippe-Hockey-Hamm - the qualification for the playoffs with the teams of the Regionalliga Nord. There the team was eliminated in two games against the eventual champions of the Regionalliga West / Southwest and North, the Mosquitos Essen , but they had qualified for the newly introduced Oberliga West 2010/11 .

Player and coach

Trainer

Women's team

For the first time, a women's team took part in the game in 2006/07. After just two seasons in the regional league, coach Stefan Binder's team had advanced confidently to the association league. Due to the high demand from female players, the Ratinger Ice Aliens had already decided at the end of the 07/08 season to register a second women's team for the national league. Since too few clubs were available for the association league, this league was dissolved by the association after the 2007/08 season and four clubs were upgraded to the 2nd division north. The women were faced with a great sporting challenge. In their first year in the 2nd division north - in the season 2008/2009 - the women reached third place in the table in the 2nd division north, which could be repeated in the 2009/10 season.

Placements

season league Division space Post season Result
1997/98 RL NRW IV 2. Promotion lap (Ascent)
1998/99 1st League North III 8th. Relegation to the OL 2.
1999/00 OL North III 3. Play-offs Quarter finals
2000/01 OL North III 6th Play-offs Semifinals
2000/01 OL North III 6th Play-offs Semifinals
2001/02 Oberliga III 9. Relegation round 3. Group 1
2002/03 RL NRW IV 4th Play-offs final
2003/04 RL NRW IV 1. North finals 3.
2004/05 RL NRW IV 1. North finals 1.
2005/06 Oberliga III 11. Relegation round 5.
2005/06 Oberliga III 11. Relegation round 5.
2006/07 Oberliga III excluded from gaming
2007/08 VL NRW V 1. Relegation to RL 3.
2008/09 RL NRW IV 5. Final round NRW / BaWü / Hes. 7th
2009/10 RL West IV 4th Final round NRW / BaWü / Hes. 4th
2010/11 Orienteering west III 6th Relegation to the OL 1. Group 1
2011/12 Orienteering west III 7th Qualifying round 7th
2012/13 Orienteering west III 11. Relegation to the OL 5.
2013/14 Orienteering west III 9. Relegation to the OL 2.
2014/15 Orienteering west III 5. Placement round middle 3.
2015/16 1st League West IV 1.
Championship round / play-offs		 1st
master
2016/17 RL West IV 1.
Championship round / play-offs		 3rd
final
2017/18 RL West IV 4th Play-offs Semifinals
2018/19 RL West IV 5. Play-offs Quarter finals
2019/20 RL West IV 6th Pre-playoffs 6th
2020/21 RL West IV

offspring

After the youth team, which has been participating in the youth Bundesliga since 2006/07, the junior team made it to the junior Bundesliga north in the 2009/10 season without losing a season. In addition to the two teams, the Ratinger Ice Aliens also take part in the game in the other age groups.

Fan clubs and fan communities

The Ratinger Ice Aliens have always been popular with the audience. In the league times, several hundred to a thousand fans often traveled to the club's away games. Ratinger Ice Aliens has a total of 22 fan clubs and fan communities, which are organized centrally under the “umbrella association of fans 'Ice Aliens 97'”. In addition to various choreos, themed trips and other activities organized by the individual fan clubs and fan groups, the “umbrella association of fans 'Ice Aliens 97'” annually organizes a samba parade for an away game by Ratinger Ice Aliens.

There are also several fan friendships with various clubs, including abroad. The “Zo moet het” fan club and the “Old School Contras” regularly travel to the Netherlands to visit their ice hockey fans from Tilburg . In particular, the SUPCOM fan club maintains a friendship with the fans of the EHC Dortmund - this came about in the 2007/08 season when Ratinger fans supported the EHC in the promotion games against the Herner EV. The SUPCOM fan club has also launched the Fan Radio project , through which all Ice Aliens fans can follow the away games on the Internet. The Internet radio broadcast for the first time on October 17, 2009 against the Königsborn Bulldogs .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Championnat d'Allemagne 2007/08 at hockeyarchives.info (French)