Street hockey
Street Hockey (synonyms: ball hockey ; Fieseln , old name for the sport in the southern Bavarian, street hockey , old name for the sport in Switzerland) is a team sport that is played with four or five field players and a goalkeeper.
Street hockey is played on hard surfaces (concrete, asphalt, etc.). The players wear normal running shoes, ice hockey gloves and an ice hockey helmet and use a normal ice hockey stick. The sport is played with an orange hard plastic ball. In recent years, however, the sporting goods industry has reacted to the “street hockey” boom and has developed its own material that meets the requirements of this sport or the differences to ice hockey in terms of the surface (concrete, asphalt etc.) and the season (spring and summer) is fair. Special, more abrasion-resistant club blades, lighter gloves and thinner jerseys make street hockey a newly styled trend sport . In Switzerland, like in Slovakia and the Czech Republic, the championship is held from autumn to spring. The rules largely correspond to the ice hockey rules .
The term street hockey is also used in a generalized form for playing “ inline skater hockey ” (ball) or “ inline hockey ” (puck) on streets and squares outside of regular game or training operations. The international skater hockey association IISHF was founded in 1988 as the "European Street Hockey Association" (ESHA).
The size of the playing field is between 26 × 52 and 30 × 60 meters. The game is played with five field players and one goalkeeper. In North Rhine-Westphalia and Berlin, street hockey is played on smaller playing fields measuring around 20 × 40 meters. The offside regulation is used here somewhat differently compared to ice hockey. In Switzerland, due to the smaller playing fields, the lower leagues also play 4 against 4.
Development of street hockey
Street hockey was created as a by-product of ice hockey. Children and young people who wanted to emulate their role models and idols in ice hockey, but could not or could not ice skate themselves. Ice hockey players who did not want to give up their sport entirely in summer played against each other in parking lots, school and backyards with ice hockey sticks and tennis balls. Quarter or village championships were sometimes held. There were no ordered structures for a long time. In the 1970s, the first organized national leagues emerged in Canada and the USA. A national association was established in what was then Czechoslovakia at the end of the 1980s. Germany, Austria and Switzerland followed shortly thereafter. Although street hockey had developed independently in all these countries, the rules of the game were very similar everywhere thanks to the proximity to ice hockey. When street hockey began as an organized sport, there was hardly any infrastructure. A playing field - which could be very different - two goals, a set of similar dresses was enough. Today street hockey fields are mostly surrounded by high boards, the size is standardized, many playing fields have electronic displays and the playing attire is - at least in the higher leagues - uniform.
Street hockey international
The world association ISBHF (International Street & Ballhockey Federation) was founded in Canada in 1994. George Gortsos (Canada) is the president, Roman Novák (Czech Republic) and Milan Ladiver (Slovakia) are senior vice-presidents. The other vice-presidents are Ronny Strähler (Switzerland), Elio Pascuzzo (Canada), Gabi Missakian (Armenia), Ricky Laperriere (USA), and Colin Gennoe (South Korea). The secretariat is headed by David Tor (Czech Republic).
Around 40 countries belong to the ISBHF. Of these, the following countries take or have participated in international competitions:
- Europe: Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Great Britain, Latvia, Hungary, Finland, France, Spain and Bosnia and Herzegovina
- North America: Canada, USA
- Central America and the Caribbean: Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Mexico, Turks and Caicos, Bahamas, Haiti
- Asia: Armenia, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Lebanon, Pakistan, South Korea
World and European championships
Street hockey world championship
Chronicle of the World Championships
| year | venue | World Champion | Vice world champion |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Bratislava (Slovakia) | Canada | Czech Republic |
| 1998 | Litomerice (Czech Republic) | Czech Republic | Slovakia |
| 1999 | Zvolen (Slovakia) | Slovakia | Canada |
| 2001 | Toronto (Canada) | Canada | Czech Republic |
| 2003 | Sierre (Switzerland) | Canada | Czech Republic |
| 2005 | Pittsburgh (USA) | Canada | Slovakia |
| 2007 | Ratingen (Germany) | Canada | Czech Republic |
| 2009 | Pilsen (Czech Republic) | Czech Republic | India |
| 2011 | Bratislava (Slovakia) | Czech Republic | Canada |
| 2013 | St. John's (Canada) | Slovakia | Czech Republic |
| 2015 | Zug (Switzerland) | Slovakia | United States |
| 2017 | Pardubice (Czech Republic) | Slovakia | Canada |
| 2019 | Kosice (Slovakia) | Slovakia | Finland |
Chronicle of the women's world championships
| year | venue | World Champion | Vice world champion |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Ratingen (Germany) | Canada | Slovakia |
| 2009 | Pilsen (Czech Republic) | Canada | Slovakia |
| 2011 | Bratislava (Slovakia) | Slovakia | Canada |
| 2013 | St. John's (Canada) | Canada | Slovakia |
| 2015 | Zug (Switzerland) | Canada | Czech Republic |
| 2017 | Pardubice (Czech Republic) | Czech Republic | United States |
| 2019 | Kosice (Slovakia) | Canada | United States |
Chronicle of the Junior World Championships
| year | venue | World Champion |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Kralupy (Czech Republic) | Canada |
| 2002 | Champèry (Switzerland) | Czech Republic |
| 2004 | Martin (Slovakia) | Slovakia |
| 2006 | Aosta (Italy) | United States |
| 2008 | St. John's (Canada) | Canada |
| 2010 | Villach (Austria) | Canada |
| 2012 | Pisek (Czech Republic) | Canada |
| 2014 | Bratislava (Slovakia) | Slovakia |
| 2016 | Sheffield (UK) | Canada |
| 2018 | St. John's (Canada) | Czech Republic |
| 2020 | Visp (Switzerland) |
Chronicle of the European Championships
- 1996 in Bratislava (Slovakia) European Champion Czech Republic, bronze Germany
- 1997 in Prague (Czech Republic) European Champion Czech Republic
- 2000 in Most (Czech Republic) European Champion Czech Republic
Since then, no more European championships have been held
Chronicle of the U20 European Championships
- 1997 Prague (Czech Republic) European Champion Slovakia
- 1998 Jilhava (Czech Republic) European Champion Czech Republic
- 1999 Zvolen (Slovakia) European Champion Czech Republic
From 2000 onwards there were no more U20 European Championships
Chronicle of the U18 World Championships
| year | venue | World Champion |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Zvolen (Slovakia) | Canada |
| 2010 | Most (Czech Republic) | Slovakia |
| 2012 | Strakonice (Czech Republic) | Canada |
| 2014 | Bratislava (Slovakia) | Slovakia |
| 2016 | Sheffield (UK) | Slovakia |
| 2018 | St. John's (Canada) | Canada |
| 2020 | Visp (Switzerland) |
Chronicle of the U18 European Championships
- 2002 Villach (Austria) European Champion Czech Republic
- 2003 Rakovnik (Czech Republic) European Champion Czech Republic
- 2004 Kaufbeuren (Germany) European Champion Czech Republic
- 2005 Ostrava (Czech Republic) European Champion Czech Republic
- 2006 Villach (Austria) European Champion Czech Republic
- 2007 Huttwil (Switzerland) European Champion Czech Republic
- 2009 Bayreuth (Germany) European Champion Slovakia
Chronicle of the U16 world championships
| year | venue | World Champion |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Zvolen (Slovakia) | Canada |
| 2010 | Most (Czech Republic) | Canada |
| 2012 | Pisek (Czech Republic) | Slovakia |
| 2014 | Bratislava (Slovakia) | Slovakia |
| 2016 | Sheffield (UK) | Canada |
The last world championship was held for the time being in 2016. It is planned to re-plan to hold continental championships in this age category. Since a North American championship in 2018 did not materialize, the planned U16 European Championship was converted into a U16 World Cup. Two Canadian teams (Canada West and Canada East) take part in this tournament, which will be played in the two Czech cities of Prerov and Zlin.
Chronicle of the U16 European Championships
- 2003 Rakovnik (Czech Republic) European Champion Czech Republic
- 2004 Kaufbeuren (Germany) European Champion Czech Republic
- 2005 Ostrava (Czech Republic) European Champion Slovakia
- 2006 Villach (Austria) European Champion Czech Republic
- 2007 Huttwil (Switzerland); European Champion Slovakia
Chronicle of the U20 World Championships, women 2018 will be the first time a women's world championship will be held in the U20 category.
| year | venue | World Champion |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Prerov / Zlin (Czech Republic) |
Street hockey in Germany
The street hockey game in Germany was coordinated by the "Interest Group Street Hockey Germany" until 2007, which organized the tournaments for the German championship in cooperation with various regional associations. Three regional associations were united in the interest group: Berlin (“Berlin Street Hockey Department”), North Rhine-Westphalia (“Street Hockey Association NRW”) and for southern Germany the SHV with Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg (“Street Hockey Association eV”). Own championships are held in the regional associations. A regional association organized a final tournament for the German championship at the end of the season.
After the IGSD was dissolved in January 2008, the German Street and Ballhockey Association (DSBHB), under the leadership of Ilja Ludenberg, Torsten Bosse and Oliver Jung, is organizing the game operations and the national teams. The Berlin association BSA withdrew from the final tournaments of the German championship for at least one season due to its own structural weakness in 2008 (only three clubs take part in the Berlin championship). In 2008, the final round with the champions, runner-ups and third-placed from the regional associations South and North Rhine-Westphalia took place in Ratingen (ice rink on Sandbach, July 26th / 27th). For NRW, the Running Rams from Düsseldorf started third in the preliminary round, the Blau Weiß Schalke Cannibals as runner-up and as champions the Wilddragons Hamm, which this year not only won the regional championship but also the NRW Cup competition. From the SHV, the master Weilheim Streetkings, runner-up Green Monsters Kaufbeuren and the third-placed, the Piranhas Germaringen, started.
At the moment (2018) street hockey is actually only played on a regional level in Germany (e.g. Stadtliga Kaufbeuren), a national championship is not played or can no longer be proven on the Internet. At the annual general meeting of DSBHB eV in July 2018, it was decided that regular gaming operations should start again in 2019.
German street hockey champion
| year | Tournament location / mode | German champions | Runner-up | place 3 | 4th place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Kaufbeuren | Green Monsters Kaufbeuren | |||
| 1990 | All-German league | Green Monsters Kaufbeuren | Paulus Panther Düsseldorf | ||
| 1991 | All-German league | Green Monsters Kaufbeuren | Paulus Panther Düsseldorf | ||
| 1992 | Play-off | Green Monsters Kaufbeuren | Paulus Panther Düsseldorf | Wild Boys Rosenheim | |
| 1993 | not carried out | ||||
| 1994 | not carried out | ||||
| 1995 | Play-offs | Green Monsters Kaufbeuren | Black Crocodiles Berlin | ||
| 1996 | Play-offs | Bayreuth hurricans | Green Monsters Kaufbeuren | WSV Oberaudorf | Mengede Vikings Dortmund |
| 1997 | Play-offs | Bayreuth hurricans | Green Monsters Kaufbeuren | Running Rams Düsseldorf | WSV Oberaudorf |
| 1998 | Play-offs | WSV Oberaudorf | Bayreuth hurricans | TuS Nord Tigers Düsseldorf | |
| 1999 | Bad Aibling | WSV Oberaudorf | Large check tigers | Piranhas Germaringen | Black Crocodiles Berlin |
| 2000 | Berlin | Weilheim Streetkings | WSV Oberaudorf | Pink Panthers Berlin | FC Schalker Chiefs |
| 2001 | Dusseldorf | Bayreuth hurricans | Marzahn Warriors Berlin | WSV Oberaudorf | FC Schalker Chiefs |
| 2002 | Bad Aibling | Weilheim Streetkings | Wild Boys Rosenheim | Black Crocodiles Berlin Old Stars | Running Rams Düsseldorf |
| 2003 | Berlin | Weilheim Streetkings | FC Schalker Chiefs | Black Crocodiles Berlin Old Stars | Heilbronn Hornets |
| 2004 | Ratingen | Weilheim Streetkings | Bayreuth hurricans | FC Schalker Chiefs | Marzahn Warriors Berlin |
| 2005 | Bayreuth | Bayreuth hurricans | Weilheim Streetkings | FC Schalker Chiefs | Marzahn Warriors Berlin |
| 2006 | Bayreuth | Weilheim Streetkings | Bayreuth hurricans | Marzahn Warriors Berlin | Blue and white Schalke cannibals |
| 2007 | Peissenberg | Bayreuth hurricans | Weilheim Streetkings | Wild Boys Rosenheim | Marzahn Warriors Berlin |
| 2008 | Ratingen | Piranhas Germaringen | Green Monsters Kaufbeuren | Wild Dragons Hamm | Weilheim Streetkings |
| 2009 | Kaufbeuren | Green Monsters Kaufbeuren | Weilheim Streetkings | Heilbronn Hornets | Wild Dragons Hamm |
| 2010 | Heilbronn | Green Monsters Kaufbeuren | Heilbronn Hornets | Piranhas Germaringen | Wild Dragons Hamm |
| 2011 | Bayreuth | Heilbronn Hornets | Green Monsters Kaufbeuren | Bayreuth hurricans | Wild Dragons Hamm |
| 2012 | Kaufbeuren | Heilbronn Hornets | Bayreuth hurricans | Green Monsters Kaufbeuren | Blue and white Schalke cannibals |
| 2013 | Bayreuth | Heilbronn Hornets | Bayreuth hurricans | Wild Boys Rosenheim | Shadow Warriors Menden |
After 2013, the championship was no longer held.
Street hockey in Switzerland
In Switzerland, street hockey is played 5 against 5 in the National League A and part of the U18 championship. In the lower leagues they play 4 against 4 and without offside. Street hockey can look back on a long tradition in Switzerland. Street hockey was already being played all over the country in the first half of the 20th century - albeit without a sustainable organizational structure.
history
The history of organized street hockey in Switzerland is much shorter. It started in the 1980s in two regions. A well-structured street hockey championship with a relatively dense network of teams was created in the Bernese Seeland (region southwest of Lake Biel with the main town of Biel). A similar development took place in Central and Eastern Switzerland, where another championship was set up with a focus on Zug, Zurich and Romanshorn. After several attempts, the two groups merged in the spring of 1990 in Wettingen to form the Swiss Street Hockey Association.
It soon became apparent that the organizational form chosen in 1990 with an umbrella organization and two more or less independent sub-associations was anything but ideal. Instead of advancing the sport together, the two regional associations became increasingly opposed to one another. The ideas of how street hockey should be further developed differed greatly and were the cause of constant arguments. The central association, which should actually have mediated between the two sub-associations, behaved politically inept and thus further encouraged the drifting apart. Finally in 1992 the board of directors of the SSHA could no longer be filled and the presidents of the two sub-associations took over provisional leadership of the central association. Agreement talks were held and a compromise seemed to have been reached, but the associations of the Eastern Association withdrew at short notice. As a result, both associations decided to go their separate ways in the future. Both wanted to try to advance the sport with their development model. The separation was peaceful. Despite the differences, the first junior championship was held in 1992/1993.
From the 1993/94 season there were two street hockey championships in Switzerland. The former western association, the larger of the two sub-associations, had kept the name SSHV, while the eastern association was now called the Swiss Ballhockey Association (SBHV). While the SSHV is rapidly gaining membership, the SBHV could hardly grow, but made its first international contacts and founded the European Ball Hockey Association in 1994 together with Germany and Austria. In 1995 the first European Cup was held in Seewen (Schwyz), which was won by the Cormorants Zug. At the same time contacts were established with the ISBHF. In 1996 a team from the SBHV took part in the first world championships in Bratislava and finished fifth there. At the same time, the SSHV had more than doubled the number of member clubs and had become a bilingual association with the integration of the Valais championship. In the summer of 1996 there was a renewed rapprochement between SSHV and SBHV, because the SSHV had the numerous members, but had no international contacts, while the SBHV was international, but was no larger than at the time of the separation. The following merger talks were successful. The functionaries of both sides had grown a few years older and all saw in reuniting the only way to advance the sport. The merger of the two associations to form the SSBHV was then completed in the spring of 1997. The name SSBHV was then changed two years later to the Swiss Street Hockey Association (SSHA). The association has been called Swiss Street Hockey since July 2016.
After the merger, the SSHA grew rapidly. The growth took place on two levels. New clubs were added, and the old clubs continued to grow. Soon many of the top clubs had two teams and two junior teams. A first division, later a second division, was introduced. In addition to the U18, a U15 and later a U12 junior championship was launched. A senior championship has also been held since summer 2007. The 2003 World Cup in Sierre triggered a veritable street hockey boom in Valais, which has since ebbed away. In the rest of Switzerland, hardly any new clubs have emerged in recent years. There was even a decrease - mainly due to mergers but also to insufficient youth work in individual clubs. The number of street hockey players remains more or less stable, however, because the existing clubs are constantly expanding their range. Since 1998 junior trainers have been trained as part of Jugend + Sport. The SSHA has been a member of the Swiss Olympic Association since 2002. Today there are around 1,500 licensed street hockey players and around 150 licensed female players in Switzerland, around 150 people take part in the senior championship. The association has an office in Bätterkinden (Canton of Bern).
Swiss Championship
The Swiss championship is organized by Swiss Street Hockey (until July 2016 under the old name Swiss Street Hockey Association). The adults play in four strength classes: National League A , National League B , 1st League and 2nd League. There are three age categories in the youth sector: U18, U15 and U12. A Future Day has been held annually since 2016 for players younger than 10 years. A women's championship has also been held since the 2004/2005 season. In the senior sector (over 30), Swiss street hockey has been organizing a championship in tournament form for the first time since summer 2007.
Swiss street hockey champion
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- ↑ Source: International Street- & Ballhockey Federation
- ↑ Source: The websites of the German association are (partially) still active, but there is no longer any championship activity to be seen. https://chayns.net/61633-04503/aboutus?ID=93 (queried May 28, 2018) and https://www.facebook.com/Streethockey-Verband-NRW-eV-305707566133578/ (queried on 28 May 2018) May 2018)
- ↑ Source: Swiss Streethockey Association / Swiss Streethockey
