1978–79 ice hockey Bundesliga season
The 1978/79 season of ice hockey league was the 21st season of the highest German Hockey League. German champion was the Cologne EC, who was thus able to win his second title. In the 2nd Bundesliga, however, had to dismount the ESV Kaufbeuren and the Augsburger EV. Even before the season starts the ex - champion had to sign Krefeld EV bankruptcy and subsequently withdrawn from the league. Also the EV Rosenheim had financial problems before the season and subsequently merged with the TC Rosenheim, henceforth to participate under the name Sports Federation Rosenheim in the game mode.
Due to the violation of deadlines at club changing still used players also should be the Mannheimer ERC and the SB Rosenheim numerous after completion of the preliminary round points disallowed what would have imposed Mannheim a crash in the relegation round with it. It was only in court, both teams could fight for the preservation of the points.
- 2.1 Final Table
- 5.1 Best Scorer
- 5.2 Best Defender
Requirements
Participant
- Augsburger EV
- VfL Bad Nauheim
- Berliner SC
- Düsseldorf EC
- EV Füssen
- EC Deilinghofen
- ESV Kaufbeuren
- Kölner EC
- EV Landshut
- Mannheimer ERC
- SC Riessersee
- SB Rosenheim
Mode
As the Bundesliga had previously been increased to twelve teams, the teams first played in a single round, after its completion, the field was divided into a master and in a relegation round with six teams. Master and relegation round were subsequently discharged taking with the previous round points in a triple round, which meant a total of 52 games for each club. The number of promoted and relegated was increased to two. Due to the fact that both the championship and the descent at a relatively early stage of the final round were already decided, the mode of critics has been called " boring", followed by a completely new mode has been added for the following season.
Preliminary round
Final Table
Abbreviations: Sp = Matches, W = Wins, D = Draws, L = Defeats, (N) = newbie, (M) = titleholder Notes: = Meisterrunde, = relegation round.
Master Round
Abbreviations: Sp = Matches, W = Wins, D = Draws, L = Defeats, (N) = newbie, (M) = titleholder
Relegation round
Abbreviations: Sp = Matches, W = Wins, D = Draws, L = Defeats, (N) = newbie Notes: = relegation, = descent.
Rankings
Best Scorer
Best defender
Squad of the German Master
Goalkeepers: Rainer Makatsch, Klaus rental
Defender: Harald Krüll, Georg Kink, Vic Stanfield, Christian Nicholas, Udo Kiessling
Attacker: Hans Rothkirch, Dick Decloe, Marcus Kuhl, Hardy Nilsson, Walter Stadler, Peter Schiller, Miroslav Sikora, Henryk Jaworowski, Mike Nash, Franz courtier, Siegfried Bernhardt, Detlef Lange Man
Head Coach: Gerhard Kiessling