Ratinger Löwen

  • Promotion to the Bundesliga in 1992
  • Quarter-final league play-offs in 1993

The EC Ratingen was an ice hockey club based in Ratingen, who played in the German Ice Hockey League until 1997 and was then moved to Oberhausen.

  • 3.1 Significant former players

History

The EC Ratingen " The Lion" was founded in 1977 and rose to the 1984/85 season for the first time in the then fourth-rate Regionalliga. There, the team qualified in the first season as a first group of West - season and the winner qualifying for the league. In this class, the lions remained until 1987, when the team after the narrow defeat last year in the relegation could celebrate the first promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga.

There, the EC Ratingen was able to continue the operation of gambling in the 1990/91 season despite an ongoing bankruptcy proceedings, and finally made the following year the rise in the 1st Bundesliga. After the team had finished second in the main round, she slipped into the second round here on the sixth and reached thus only about the promotion round, which could be terminated again as the second best. In the play-offs for the first division, the Lions finally the ES white water hit in three games.

As one of 18 teams was the EC Ratingen 1994 founding member of the German Ice Hockey League, who belonged to the club until 1997. In the summer of 1997, the first team of the EC Ratingen moved against the declared will of the club members to Oberhausen. There they continued the game operating in the DEL in the arena of Centro as Revierlöwen Oberhausen. After the conditions of participation of the highest league that still prescribed a club with youth work to have as substructure, were changed, the EC Ratingen ultimately broke up, especially since in Ratingen, a new hockey club, the Ratingen Ice Aliens, was founded in 1997. The Revierlöwen finally retired in 2002 from the DEL and then played back to 2006. Club The EC Ratingen was deleted 31 August 2006 from the Ratingen register of associations.

Placements

↑ ↓ in the Auf-/Abstiegsrunde or in the Play-offs/Play-downs for each league

Venue

Its home games wearing the EC Ratingen in the 3,800 -seat ice rink at Sandbach, which was built in 1981. In 1992 the hall was completely rebuilt and equipped with additional 1,650 seats and 40 VIP seats. Today, the successor and third division club Ratingen Ice Aliens plays its home matches at the stadium.

Player

Significant former players

( Team membership and position in brackets)

  • Brad Bergen (1992-1994, defense)
  • René Bielke (1992-1994, Tor)
  • Dieter Frenzel (1989-1993, defense)
  • Christian Kohmann (1992-1996, storm)
  • Christoph Kreutzer (1988-1989, defense)

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