Bisons de Neuilly-sur-Marne

• Champion in the Division 1 2008
• Champion in the Division 3 2001

The Bisons de Neuilly -sur -Marne (official name: Hockey Club Neuilly -sur- Marne) is a French ice hockey team from Neuilly -sur- Marne, which was founded in 1974 and in Division 1, the second highest French Hockey League, plays.

Play their home games from the club in the 500 -seat Patinoire Municipale de Neuilly -sur- Marne.

History

The HC Neuilly -sur -Marne was founded in 1974 by Patrick Demarcy after a new ice rink was opened in the city a year earlier. Until 2000 the club played mainly in the Division 2 and 3, the third and fourth hockey league in the country. In the 2000 /01 season the club managed to return to Division 2 Only a year later even managed the walkover in the second class Division 1

After standing on each of the fourth to sixth Division 1 between 2003 and 2007, succeeded in the 2007/ 08 season as champions of Division 1 promotion to the Ligue Magnus, the highest French Hockey League. This was the third rise since 2000, Neuilly- sur -Marne and the walkover from the fourth to the first division dar.

Achievements

• 2000/01, promotion to Division 2
• 2001/02, promotion to Division 1
• 2007/08, promotion to the Ligue Magnus

Women's Ice Hockey

Since the 2004/05 season, the first women's team of bison in the Championnat de France de hockey sur glace féminin, the highest French Hockey League plays in the women's area. In the 2007 /08 season, the team reached the runner-up behind record champions Cergy.

Well-known former players

• Canada Rane Carnegie
• Canada Joshua Boileau
• Slovakia Milan Vastusko
• France Julien Figved