1966–67 ice hockey Bundesliga season
The season 1966/67, the Ice Hockey League was the ninth season of the highest German Hockey League. German champion was the Düsseldorf EC that could win the championship just two years after the rise of the first West German team for 15 years and the ensuing dominance of the Bavarian teams finished for now. In the relegation matches could of only four Bundesliga Preussen Krefeld keep the class in the league of former champions SC Riessersee and the ESV Kaufbeuren and record champions had Berliner SC. They were replaced by the FC Bayern Munich, the SG Oberstdorf / Sonthofen and VfL Bad Nauheim.
- 2.1 Bundesliga West
- 2.2 Bundesliga South 2.2.1 playoff for 3rd place
- 3.1 West
- 3.2 South
- 6.1 Top goalscorers
- 6.2 Best Defender
- 6.3 Best Scorer of the final
Requirements
Participant
West
- Berliner SC
- Düsseldorf EC
- Krefeld EV
- Mannheimer ERC
- EC Bad Tolz
- EV Füssen
- ESV Kaufbeuren
- EV Landshut
- SC Riessersee
Mode
To reduce the high cost of travel to away games, the Bundesliga for the season 1966/67, was divided into two seasons, the first playing off a double round. The five Bavarian clubs were doing assigned to the Southern group, the teams from West and East Germany and Berlin played in the group West. After that, the top three teams in each group qualified for the league final round playing off the German champions in a single round. The fourth and fifth position in their group had in the play-offs, the event has gathered the Südvereine to the top three finishers of the Oberliga Süd, the northern clubs at the top three winners of the Oberliga West. The respective first and second position in their relegation season qualified for the new Bundesliga season.
The two winners of the relegation rounds then played for the DEV Cup.
Preliminary round
Bundesliga West
Abbreviations: Sp = Matches, W = Wins, D = Draws, L = Defeats, (N) = newbie Notes: = Meisterrunde, = Relegation Round West.
Bundesliga South
Abbreviations: Sp = Matches, W = Wins, D = Draws, L = Defeats, (N) = newbie, (M) = titleholder Notes: = Meisterrunde, = Relegation Round South.
Playoff for 3rd place
- EV Landshut - SC Riessersee 3:2
Relegation round
West
Abbreviations: Sp = Matches, W = Wins, D = Draws, L = Defeats Notes: = next year Bundesliga, Oberliga = next year.
Abbreviations: Sp = Matches, W = Wins, D = Draws, L = Defeats Notes: = next year Bundesliga, Oberliga = next year.
DEV Cup
Master Round
Abbreviations: Sp = Matches, W = Wins, D = Draws, L = Defeats, (M) = titleholder
Rankings
Top scorers
Best defender
Best scorer of the finals
Squad of the German Master
Goalkeepers: Rainer Gossmann, Hans -Joachim Schmengler
Defender: Dieter Hoja, Horst Hübbers, Horst Roes, Jochen Schmidt, Otto Snow Berger
Attacker: Erich Hooper, Peter Gregory, Karl Heitmüller, Kurt Jablonski, Ingo Lingemann, Sepp Mature, Karl -Heinz Löggow, Klaus Breidenbach, Reinhold Rief, Ferdinand Werdermann
Head Coach: Hans Rampf