EC Bad Nauheim
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German runner-up in 1948, |
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VfL Bad Nauheim (1946–1982) EC Bad Nauheim (1981–2004) Rote Teufel Bad Nauheim (2004–2006) EC Rote Teufel Bad Nauheim (2006–2013) EC Bad Nauheim (since 2013) |
| Nickname | Red Devil |
| Parent club | EC Bad Nauheim |
| league | DEL2 |
| Venue | Colonel Knight Stadium |
| capacity | 4,500 seats (including 1,626 seats) |
| executive Director | Andreas Ortwein |
| Head coach | Christof Kreutzer |
| Season 2018/19 | 6th place / PO quarter-finals |
The Red Devils of EC Bad Nauheim (actually Ice Hockey Cracks Bad Nauheim ) are an ice hockey team from Bad Nauheim . As the successor to VfL Bad Nauheim Eissport, which had to file for bankruptcy in 1982, and the previously newly founded EC Bad Nauheim , you take part in the DEL2 game operations . In 2013 the club reached the championship in the ice hockey league and thus the greatest success in the recent club history.
The club's teams play their home games in the Colonel Knight Stadium with a capacity of 4,500 .
history
VfL Bad Nauheim (1946 to 1982)
After the end of World War II , an artificial ice stadium was built in Bad Nauheim in 1945 on the instructions of the local commander of the Allied forces, US Colonel Paul Rutherford Knight, on the edge of the large pond in the spa gardens. The construction of this stadium caused a sensation not only in Germany at the time. Even before the opening on January 22, 1946, ice hockey players from the former ice sports club VfL Rastenburg, who had fled East Prussia, contacted Bad Nauheim. People looked for and met there and in 1946 they founded an ice hockey department within VfL Bad Nauheim.
The team, which was quickly given the nickname "Red Devil", took part in the German ice hockey championship as early as 1947 . After winning the Hessian championship, VfL Bad Nauheim took first place in the Southwest finals, but was disqualified for playing ineligible players. In the final round of the German ice hockey championship in 1948 , VfL Bad Nauheim came in second behind SC Riessersee and was runner-up.
In 1948 VfL was one of the founding members of the ice hockey league, which was the highest German ice hockey league at the time. In the 1957/58 season , VfL Bad Nauheim failed to qualify for the newly created Bundesliga . The rise from the league succeeded only in the following year .
In the 1973/74 season , VfL Bad Nauheim achieved third place, its best final placement in the Bundesliga. After he reached the championship round for the last time in 1979 and finished the 1978/79 season with fifth place, VfL went downhill inexorably.
In order to be able to maintain game operations, the ice hockey department was spun off from the main club as VfL Bad Nauheim Ice Hockey for the 1979/80 season . The remaining VfL departments founded a new club in 1978 under the name VfL Bad Nauheim . This club, which is still active today, was renamed VfL Bad Nauheim after the bankruptcy of VfL Ice Hockey . V. renamed.
On March 9, 1981, there was a mass brawl in the Bundesliga match against the Cologne EC . The referee imposed a total of 166 penalty minutes, including match penalties, game time penalties and disciplinary penalties.
In the 1981/82 season , VfL only reached one relegation place, although he was the top scorer in the Bundesliga with Bill Lochead . Instead of relegation, bankruptcy and the end of VfL Bad Nauheim ice hockey followed . VfL Bad Nauheim is in 12th place in the all- time Bundesliga table, which was completed in 1994 when the DEL was founded . With Werner Kadow, Helmut Keller, Rolf Knihs, Paul Langer, Rainer Makatsch , Dieter Niess (captain), Peter Obresa and Rainer Philipp , VfL players have been called up to the German national team over the years. With 90 DEB international goals, Rainer Philipp is still third on the DEB perpetual list and ninth with 199 DEB international appearances. At the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, he won the bronze medal with the German national team. For his services he was honored with the induction into the Hall of Fame Germany .
EC Bad Nauheim (1981 to 2001)
When VfL's financial problems began to emerge, EC Bad Nauheim, founded in 1981, started playing in the fourth-class Regionalliga Süd-West . After its second season, the EC Bad Nauheim celebrated promotion to the third-class Oberliga Nord. In the final of the regional league championship, however, he was defeated by Bad Reichenhaller EG .
In the following season, the club won the championship of the Oberliga Nord and rose to the 2nd Bundesliga North . With the exception of the two seasons 1990/91 and 1993/94 , the EC belonged to the second highest league without interruption until 2004. Even after the introduction of the German Ice Hockey League , the EC continued to take part in the second-rate 1st League North . The club celebrated its greatest success in 1998 and 1999 with the two runner-up championships and the consequent narrowly missed promotion to the DEL.
During the seasons 1990/91 and 1991/92 and at the beginning of the 1992/93 season , the club played under insolvency administration , but could each be saved financially. In the 2000/01 season , the club had to file for bankruptcy again. In order to be able to continue the game operations for the teams of EC Bad Nauheim, the professional team playing in the 2nd Bundesliga was spun off in the summer of 2001 in the EC Bad Nauheim Spielbetriebs GmbH , the junior and amateur game operations in the newly founded club Rote Teufel Bad Nauheim .
EC Bad Nauheim Spielbetriebs GmbH (2001 to 2004)
From 2001 the professional team continued the league game under the leadership of the sole shareholder and patron Hans-Bernd Koal. Missing or premature elimination in the play-offs of the 2nd Bundesliga prevented the sole shareholder from advancing to the German ice hockey league , whereupon Koal withdrew after the end of the 2003/04 season , forcing the GmbH to cease playing.
Rote Teufel Bad Nauheim (2004-2006)
After the cessation of game operations by the GmbH, the goal of the first team of the parent club, which is now playing as the Red Devil, and the associated promotion from the Hessian Ice Sports Association to the ice hockey league . This was achieved by the club, whose professional team was spun off into the Rote Teufel Bad Nauheim Spielbetriebs GmbH after the successful licensing by the ice hockey game operating company for the major league . The amateur and junior teams remained under the umbrella of the parent club.
On February 7, 2006, and thus still during the preliminary round of the 2005/06 season , the management of the GmbH had to submit a renewed application for the opening of insolvency proceedings . In terms of sport, the team took part in the relegation round after the preliminary round, where they missed the league with the last place. On March 20, 2006, insolvency proceedings were finally opened via the GmbH. Although the Red Devils would have been allowed to take part in the 2006/07 league season because of the impracticability of the fundamental decisions of the ESBG on the division of leagues despite the sporting relegation , this was prevented by the ongoing proceedings.
The parent club also had significant financial problems in the summer of 2006, which threatened its continued existence.
EC Rote Teufel Bad Nauheim (2006-2013)
In the 2006/07 season , the first senior team, which was internally outsourced to the Rote Teufel Bad Nauheim Spielunternehmungs GmbH ice hockey club , which was founded in the summer of 2006 , again took part in the fourth-class regional league Hessen, while the second team played in the fifth-class Landesliga Hessen. The first senior team reached the runner-up title in the 2006/07 regional league season in the joint promotion round of the state associations of Baden-Württemberg , Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia, with which one could simultaneously earn the right to promotion to the league.
In the 2007/08 Oberliga season , the Red Devils took part in the Northern Group of the Oberliga games under the name of the Rote Teufel Ice Hockey Club Bad Nauheim Spielunternehmungs GmbH . After the Teufel reached the 7th place in this group with a total of nine teams, they had to play in a play-down round to stay up against the Eisbären Juniors Berlin . With a 2-1 win after extra time in the sixth game of the best-of-seven series , the Red Devils secured relegation in the league.
In contrast, the Red Devils reached the play-off final of the Oberliga Nord in the following season , which they clearly lost against the Hanover Indians with three defeats.
The major league season 2009/10 was played again in a single-track league. With the 4th place in the table in the main round, the play-offs were reached, but the Red Devils were eliminated in the quarter-finals after seven games against the eventual champions Starbulls Rosenheim .
Even after the major league was restructured into four regional groups (north / west / east / south) and the start of the western season, EC Bad Nauheim was able to continuously make it into the play-offs. In the 2010/11 season Bad Nauheim reached 3rd place in the preliminary round. In the final round with the best teams from the north and east group, the Red Devils reached 1st place in group B of the cup and qualified again for the play-offs. After winning the play-off quarter-finals against EC Peiting , they lost again to the eventual champions, this time in the semi-finals against SC Riessersee .
Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga was also the declared season goal in the 2011/2012 season. After 2nd place in the preliminary round and 1st place in the qualifying round of the Oberliga West, the Red Devils qualified for the play-offs again in the final round of the Oberliga Nordgruppen with 2nd place in Group A. But as in previous years, the Red Devils were eliminated against the eventual champions, this time in the quarter-finals against the Tölzer Löwen .
The Red Devils also reached the play-offs in the 2012/13 season . After victorious rounds against EHC Klostersee (quarter finals) and the VER Selb (semifinals), the Hessian competitor Kassel Huskies met in the final . After four final games won by the respective home team, the Bad Nauheimers finally won the 5th and decisive game in Kassel in overtime with 3-2. With this, the Red Devils became champions of the league again after 1984 and had qualified for promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga.
EC Bad Nauheim (since 2013)
In order to put the Spielbetriebs GmbH, which organizes the professional gaming operations, on a broad basis, the Ice Hockey Cracks Bad Nauheim GmbH i.Gr. (EC Bad Nauheim) founded as the successor to EC RT Bad Nauheim GmbH . The GmbH, which has been in charge of gaming operations since 2007, was founded by a company in which two sponsors, the Förderverein Teufelskreis and the parent club Rote Teufel Bad Nauheim Eishockey Nachwuchs e. V. are involved.
At the beginning of the 2013/2014 season , the newly founded DEL2 began its first season as the successor to the 2nd ice hockey Bundesliga as the second highest league in German ice hockey - with EC Bad Nauheim as the promoted team. For a short time, the promotion was still uncertain due to a legal dispute between the DEB as the umbrella organization of the Oberliga and the ESBG as the host of the 2nd Bundesliga over the validity of cooperation agreements. The team secured relegation in the 2013/14 play-downs . In the following four years, the ECBN played twice after eleventh places in the main round, the play-down round successfully, and twice he reached the playoff quarter-finals.
Placements
| season | league | placement |
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| 1948 | championship | Runner-up |
| 1948/49 | Oberliga | 4th Place |
| 1949/50 | Oberliga | 4th Place |
| 1950/51 | Oberliga | 4th Place |
| 1951/52 | Oberliga | 3rd place |
| 1952/53 | Oberliga | 5th place |
| 1953/54 | Oberliga | 6th place |
| 1954/55 | Oberliga | 5th place |
| 1955/56 | Oberliga | 4th Place |
| 1956/57 | Oberliga | 5th place |
| 1957/58 | Oberliga West | 5th place |
| 1958/59 | Oberliga | master |
| 1959/60 | Bundesliga | 7th place |
| 1960/61 | Bundesliga | 8th place |
| 1961/62 | Oberliga | Runner-up |
| 1962/63 | Oberliga | 5th place |
| 1963/64 | Oberliga | 2nd place |
| 1964/65 | Oberliga | 3rd place |
| 1965/66 | Bundesliga | 10th place |
| 1966/67 | Oberliga | Runner-up |
| 1967/68 | Bundesliga West | 2nd place relegation |
| 1968/69 | Bundesliga | 6th place |
| 1969/70 | Bundesliga | 6th place |
| 1970/71 | Bundesliga | 9th place |
| 1971/72 | Bundesliga | 7th place |
| 1972/73 | Bundesliga | 4th Place |
| 1973/74 | Bundesliga | 3rd place |
| 1974/75 | Bundesliga | 6th place |
| 1975/76 | Bundesliga | 7th place |
| 1976/77 | Bundesliga | 6th place |
| 1977/78 | Bundesliga | 7th place |
| 1978/79 | Bundesliga | 5th place |
| 1979/80 | Bundesliga | 9th place |
| 1980/81 | Bundesliga | 10th place |
| 1981/82 | Bundesliga | 11th place |
| 1981/82 | Regionalliga South-West | 5th place preliminary group 1 |
| 1982/83 | Regionalliga South-West | Runner-up |
| season | league | placement |
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| 1983/84 | Oberliga | master |
| 1984/85 | 2nd Bundesliga North | 2nd place qualifying round |
| 1985/86 | 2nd Bundesliga North | 1st place qualifying round |
| 1986/87 | 2nd Bundesliga North | 8th place qualifying round |
| 1987/88 | 2nd Bundesliga North | 8th place qualifying round |
| 1988/89 | 2nd Bundesliga North | 5th place qualifying round |
| 1989/90 | 2nd Bundesliga North | 8th place qualifying round |
| 1990/91 | 2nd Bundesliga North | 5th place qualifying round |
| 1991/92 | 2nd Bundesliga North | 2nd place qualifying round |
| 1992/93 | 2nd Bundesliga North | Loser playdowns |
| 1993/94 | Oberliga | Playoff quarterfinals |
| 1994/95 | 1st League North | Quarter finals |
| 1995/96 | 1st League North | Quarter finals |
| 1996/97 | 1st League North | Semifinals |
| 1997/98 | 1st League North | Runner-up |
| 1998/99 | Bundesliga | Runner-up |
| 1999/00 | 2nd Bundesliga | Semifinals |
| 2000/01 | 2nd Bundesliga | Loser playdowns |
| 2001/02 | 2nd Bundesliga | 4th place relegation round |
| 2002/03 | 2nd Bundesliga | Quarter finals |
| 2003/04 | 2nd Bundesliga | Semifinals |
| 2004/05 | Regionalliga Hessen | master |
| 2005/06 | Oberliga | 8th place relegation round |
| 2006/07 | Regionalliga Hessen | master |
| 2007/08 | Oberliga Nord | 7th place, winner play-downs |
| 2008/09 | Oberliga Nord | Runner-up |
| 2009/10 | Oberliga | Quarter finals |
| 2010/11 | Oberliga West | Semifinals |
| 2011/12 | Oberliga West | Quarter finals |
| 2012/13 | Oberliga West | master |
| 2013/14 | DEL2 | 9th place, winner play-downs |
| 2014/15 | DEL2 | 11th place, winner play-downs |
| 2015/16 | DEL2 | 6th place, quarter-finals |
| 2016/17 | DEL2 | 11th place, play-downs relegation |
| 2017/18 | DEL2 | 5th place, quarter-finals |
| 2018/19 | DEL2 | 6th place, quarter-finals |
| 2019/20 |
player
Squad for the 2019/20 season
As of September 5, 2019
| activity | Surname | Date of birth | In the team since | place of birth | |
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Christof Kreutzer | May 26, 1967 | 2018 | Uerdingen |
| Assistant coach |
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Harry Lange | 5th December 1983 | 2018 | Klagenfurt |
Significant past teams
Vice champion 1st division 1997/98
| position | Surname |
| Goal: | Markus Flemming , Josef Schlickenrieder |
| Defense: | Boris Ackermann , Serge Lajoie , Steffen Michel , Svein Enok Nørstebø , Anton Raubal , Dale Reinig , Marco Rentzsch , Jan Sturatschek , Steven Woodburn |
| Storm: | Thomas Barczikowski , Matthias Becker , Stephan Kraft , Robert Larsson , Moe Lemay , Gaétan Malo , Cal McGowan , Larry Mitchell , Andreas Morczinietz , Sjur Robert Nilsen , Sven Paschek , Mika Puhakka , Jürgen Schaal , Jan Schier , Olaf Scholz , Frank Strauss , Mark Teevens |
| Trainer: | Frank Carnevale |
Bundesliga runner-up in 1998/99
| position | Surname |
| Goal: | Joachim Appel , Ingo Schwarz |
| Defense: | Chris Clarke , Michael Eckert , Steffen Michel , Dale Reinig , Marco Rentzsch , Alexander Wedl , Marc West , Steven Woodburn |
| Storm: | Dennis Cardona , Daniel Del Monte , Dino Felicetti , Sven Gerbig , Wladimir Gomow , Gaétan Malo , Brian McCarthy , Doug Murray , Larry Mitchell , Bernhard Naulin , Sven Paschek , Timothy Regan , Jürgen Schaal , Olaf Scholz , Tray Tuomie |
| Trainer: | Frank Carnevale |
Oberliga champions 2012/13
| position | Surname |
| Goal: | Thomas Ower , Niklas Deske , Alexander Wagner |
| Defense: | Alexander Baum , Daniel Ketter , Mike Schreiber , Jan-Niklas Pietsch , Marius Pöpel , Aron Reckers , Brad Miller |
| Storm: | Tim May , Mathias Baldys , Michel Maaßen , Janne Kujala , Jannik Stripike , Harry Lange , Daniel Oppolzer , Patrick Strauch , Pierre Wex , Chris Stanley , Daniel Huhn , Sven Schlicht , Eddy Rinke-Leitans , Josiah Anderson |
| Trainer: | Frank Carnevale , Marcus Jehner |
Well-known former players
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Club-internal records
All preliminary round and play-off games are included.
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More teams
Under the umbrella of the Rote Teufel Bad Nauheim association
- a team takes part in the fourth-class Regionalliga West in the amateur area and
- In the junior division, the junior, youth and school teams take part in the top division - the Bundesliga. Other teams in the age groups from the youngest to the schoolchildren take part in games in North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse or Baden-Württemberg.
- German Junior Champion 2013
Venue
EC Bad Nauheim plays its home games in the Colonel Knight Stadium with a capacity of 4,500 spectators on the edge of the spa gardens. The arena was built in 1946 on the instructions of US Colonel Paul Rutherford Knight as an open-air arena under the name 100-day stadium in order to establish ice hockey as a popular sport in Bad Nauheim. After the roofing in 1969, the stadium was named Kunsteisstadion Bad Nauheim , before it was renamed the Colonel Knight Stadium in 1996 in honor of its builder.
mascot
The mascot is shaped like a devil. Before the 2015/16 season, a new mascot was purchased through donations. In a public naming competition it was named "Hellvis", a suitcase word from the English hell (hell) and Elvis ( Elvis Presley ). Presley, who did his military service from 1959 to 1960 in the Ray Barracks in Friedberg , lived during this time at Goethestrasse 14 in neighboring Bad Nauheim.
literature
- Markus Bachmann, Yvonne Gebhard, Thomas König: Höllenspaß and Höllenqual - 60 years of the Red Devils - A journey through the history of Bad Nauheim ice hockey , Bad Nauheim 2007, without ISBN.
Web links
- Professional team website
- Website of the parent club
- Website of EC RT Bad Nauheim GmbH until 2013 ( Memento from May 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Neue Spielbetriebs GmbH founded , eishockey.info, April 15, 2013
- ^ Ortwein becomes managing director , Wetterauer Zeitung, April 15, 2013.
- ↑ Red Devils examine legal steps , EC Bad Nauheim, March 2013
- ↑ Total Chaos , Merkur Online, February 17, 2013.
- ↑ hockeyarenas.net stadium profile
- ↑ hockeyarenas.net Stadium History Colonel Knight Stadium
