WSV Sterzing Broncos

WSV Sterzing
Greatest successes
Runner-up in the series A1 1998 Master Series A2 : 2005, 2009, 2011
Club information
history	WSV Sterzing (since 1948)
Location	Sterzing , Italy
Nickname	Wipptal Broncos
Club colors	blue White
league	Alps Hockey League
Venue	Weihenstephan Arena
capacity	approx. 1,700 seats
executive Director	Simone Bressan
Head coach	Ivo Jan
captain	Fabian Hackhofer
AlpsHL 2018/19	9th place, pre-playoffs

The winter sports Sterzing / Vipiteno - Wipptal Broncos is an Italian ice hockey team of Sterzing , who is currently in the cross-border Alps Hockey League plays and previously a member of the Italian Serie A was. The home stadium has a capacity of approx. 1,700 seats.

history

The winter sports club Sterzing was founded in 1948. In the mid-1990s, the other winter sports sections were separated. The team played in Serie A from 1997 to 2002 . The club also played in the Alpine League . In the 2002/2003 and 2003/2004 seasons, the club did not send a senior team to the championship for economic reasons. From autumn 2004 Sterzing played again in the A2 series. In the summer of 2010, the WSV Sterzing Broncos club tried to climb over the green table to the first Italian league ( Serie A1 ). An agreement was planned with EV Bozen 84 , as the association had initially given the Broncos the condition to find a club as a farm team from the A2 series. The Italian Ice Hockey Federation (FISG) finally rejected the club's request on July 9th.

In 2011, the Broncos rose to Serie A with the championship title of Serie A2, but had to return to Serie A2 in 2012 after a season in the upper house.

In the 2016/17 season the club was one of the founding members of the cross-border Alpine Hockey League .

Trainer

Trainer list:

time	Trainer
1988/89	Enio Sacilotto
1997/98	Ray Tessier
1998/99	Ken Tyler
1999/2000	Pertti Hasanen
2000/01	Gary Prior
2001/02	Paul Theriault
2002-2004	no game operation
2004/05	Bernd Haake
2005/06	Jorma Siitarinen
2006/07	Perti Hasanen, Richard Farda , Jeff Job
2007/08	Michael Mair , Jeff Job
2008/13	Oly Hicks
2013/14	Zdenek Travnicek , Axel Kammerer
2014/15	Axel Kammerer
2015-2017	Clayton Beddoes
2017/18	Ivo Jan

Well-known former players

• Tomáš Kucharčík
• Jan Alston
• Emanuel Viveiros
• Agris Saviels
• Clayton Beddoes
• Rod Hinks
• Jordan Owens
• Claude Boivin
• Oļegs Sorokins

WSV Broncos Wipptal C

The Wipptal Broncos C are the second team of the Broncos.

Broncos Wipptal C
Greatest successes
Series C champions 2016/17
Club information
history	{{{history}}}
Location	Sterzing
Nickname	Broncos
Club colors	blue White
league	IHL Division 1
Venue	Weihenstephan Arena
Head coach	Roman Vanek

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Master duel opens Sky Alps Hockey League season . In: Südtirol News . ( archive.org [accessed December 4, 2016]).
2. ↑ sonice.it: Trainer of the WSV Sterzing Broncos

Web links

• Website of the Wipptal Broncos
• WSV Sterzing Broncos at sonice.it