Serie A (ice hockey)

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Italian Hockey League - Serie A

sport ice Hockey
abbreviation IHL Elite
Association Federazione Italiana Sport del Ghiaccio
League foundation 1935
Teams 7th
Country countries ItalyItaly Italy
Title holder Asiago Hockey
Record champions HC Bolzano (19)
Website fisg.it

The Italian Hockey League - Serie A is the highest ice hockey league in Italy . The first Italian ice hockey championship was played for the first time in 1925 as Coupe Cinzano , which was retrospectively declared the Italian championship in 1927. Series A and Series B were founded in 1935 . In the 1990s and 2000s, the highest league was partially divided into Serie A1 and Serie A2, in 2013/14 the name Elite.A was used. The Serie A clubs have been playing in the Alps Hockey League at the same time since 2016/17 , the Italian championship was called the Italian Hockey League Elite in 2017/18, and IHL Serie A since 2018 .

The record champions are HC Bozen with 19 championship titles, which meanwhile, however, play in the international Austrian ICE Hockey League , ahead of SG Cortina with 16 championship titles. 32 championship titles went to various clubs in Milan.

history

First throw in the puck final game 2010/11 Pustertal-Asiago
A game of the season 2009/10 between HC Bozen and SG Pontebba in the ice wave of Bozen

In the 2007/08 season nine teams took part in the league, HC Bozen became champions . After the regular season, there are two so-called master rounds with two groups, divided according to the season position. Depending on their placement in the master round, the clubs then play the champions in a play-off round in best-of-five mode , starting with the quarter-finals.

In the 2008/09 season, 8 teams took part in the championship. After the regular season there was an intermediate round and then finally the play-offs and play-out. Four teams out of eight played play-offs, the other four played play-out. Play-offs met the first and fourth placed ( Bozen - Cortina ) and the second and third placed ( Renon - Pustertal ). The game was best-of-seven. SV Ritten and HC Bozen qualified for the final, with HC Bozen winning the championship.

After the teams in the second league, which the year before had been banned from participating in the championship in the INL (second highest Austrian league) and were thus forced to return to Italy after only one year, the two leagues were merged and so in the summer of 2014 Twelve teams took part in the league in the 2014/15 season. In addition, it was decided to use the old name (Series A) again.

Another league reform was carried out before the 2017/18 season, when the league system was renamed the Italian Hockey League . The highest division - the IHL Elite - is played by the participants of the Alps Hockey League , with four teams qualifying for the league final.

The game is organized by the FISG (Italian Ice Hockey Federation). As in football , the winner of the championship receives the scudetto , a plaque in the Italian national colors, which he can wear on his jersey the following season.

The league's record champions are HC Bozen (which has been participating in the Erste Bank Eishockey Liga , the highest Austrian league, since the 2013/14 season ) with 19 titles, ahead of SG Cortina with 16 titles and HC Milano with 15 titles.

In addition, the Coppa Italia and the Supercoppa take place every year parallel to the regular season.

The next lower Italian division was Serie B until 2017 , which has been called the Italian Hockey League since then .

Clubs 2020/21

team city Venue capacity
Asiago Hockey Asiago , Veneto Pala Hodegart 2200
SG Cortina Cortina d'Ampezzo , Veneto Cortina Olympic Ice Stadium 2700
SHC Fassa Canazei , Trentino Gianmario Scola 3500
HC Gherdëina Selva , South Tyrol Pranives ice rink 2000
HC Pustertal Bruneck , South Tyrol Rienz Stadium 2150
Ritten sport Renon , South Tyrol Arena Ritten 1200
WSV Sterzing Broncos Sterzing , South Tyrol Weihenstephan Arena 1700

Champion of the first Italian league

1925 HC Milano
1926 HC Milano
1927 HC Milano
1930 HC Milano
1931 HC Milano
1932 SG Cortina
1933 HC Milano
1934 HC Milano
1935 HC Diavoli Rossoneri Milano
1936 HC Diavoli Rossoneri Milano
1937 HC Milano
1938 AC Milanese DG
1941 AC Milanese DG
1947 HC Milano
1948 HC Milano
1949 HC Diavoli Rossoneri Milano
1950 HC Milano
1951 HC Milano
1952 HC Milano
1953 HC Diavoli Rossoneri Milano
1954 HC Milano
1955 HC Milano
1957 SG Cortina
1958 HC Inter Milan
1959 SG Cortina
1960 HC Diavoli Milan
1961 SG Cortina
1962 SG Cortina
1963 HC Bozen
1964 SG Cortina
1965 SG Cortina
1966 SG Cortina
1967 SG Cortina
1968 SG Cortina
1969 HC Gherdëina
1970 SG Cortina
1971 SG Cortina
1972 SG Cortina
1973 HC Bozen
1974 SG Cortina
1975 SG Cortina
1976 HC Gherdëina
1977 HC Bozen
1978 HC Bozen
1979 HC Bozen
1980 HC Gherdëina
1981 HC Gherdëina
1982 HC Bozen
1983 HC Bozen
1984 HC Bozen
1985 HC Bozen
1986 HC Meran
1987 AS Mastini Varese Hockey
1988 HC Bozen
1989 AS Mastini Varese Hockey
1990 HC Bozen
1991 HC Milano Saima
1992 HC Devils Milano
1993 HC Devils Milano
1994 AC Milan
1995 HC Bozen
1996 HC Bozen
1997 HC Bozen
1998 HC Bozen
1999 HC Meran
2000 HC Bozen
2001 AS Asiago Hockey
2002 HC Milano Vipers
2003 HC Milano Vipers
2004 HC Milano Vipers
2005 HC Milano Vipers
2006 HC Milano Vipers
2007 SG Cortina
2008 HC Bozen
2009 HC Bozen
2010 AS Asiago Hockey
2011 AS Asiago Hockey
2012 HC Bozen
2013 AS Asiago Hockey
2014 Ritten Sport
2015 AS Asiago Hockey
2016 Ritten Sport
2017 Ritten Sport
2018 Ritter Buam
2019 Ritter Buam
2020 AS Asiago Hockey

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c d AC Milanese DG, HC Inter Milan and HC Diavoli Milan are teams that emerged from the dissolution of HC Milano and HC Diavoli Rossoneri Milano.
  2. ↑ The HC Devils Milano played in the 1993/94 season under the name AC Milan

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