1982–83 ice hockey Bundesliga season
The 1982/83 season of ice hockey league was the 25th season of the highest German hockey league. German champion was the EV Landshut, who thus won his second league title after he was failed in the preseason as the winner of the main round in the play- offs. Bayern defeated into four finals of the Mannheimer ERC, for the second time in a row won so the runner.
The 16- time German champions EV Füssen was relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga, however, after a third place in the relegation round, the place was taken by second division champions ERC Freiburg. The ECD Iserlohn assured, however, in the relegation round of the league.
- 2.1 Final Table
- 2.2 Best Scorer
- 2.3 Best Defender
- 3.1 Final Table
- 4.1 quarterfinals
- 4.2 Placement matches 4.2.1 1st Round
- 4.2.2 Game for 7th place
- 4.2.3 game for 5th place
Requirements
Participant
- Düsseldorf EC
- EV Füssen
- ECD Iserlohn
- ESV Kaufbeuren
- Kölner EC
- EV Landshut
- Mannheimer ERC
- SC Riessersee
- SB Rosenheim
- Schwenningen ERC
Mode
In comparison to the previous year, there were only small changes in the flow. So the play-off semi-finals and finals were first played in best of five mode that failed in the quarterfinals teams also played in the play-off system for the places 5 to 8 To begin the descent played in the Bundesliga ninth and tenth with the second and third place winners of the 2nd Bundesliga Relegation round from one in which the winner could qualify for the Erstligasaison again. In addition, the champions of the 2nd Bundesliga rose to directly.
Preliminary round
Final Table
Abbreviations: Sp = Matches, W = Wins, D = Draws, L = Defeats, (N) = newbie, (M) = titleholder Notes: = play-offs, = Relegation Round.
Best Scorer
Best defender
Relegation round
The relegation round was played in a single round, so each team played each one home and one away match against the other clubs.
Final Table
Abbreviations: Sp = Matches, W = Wins, D = Draws, L = Defeats Notes: = next year Bundesliga, Bundesliga 2 = next year.
Play-offs
Both the quarter-finals as well as the placement matches were played in the mode " Best of Three". From the semi-finals the teams played in the best- of-five - mode against each other.
Quarterfinals
Placement matches
First round
Game for 7th place
Match for 5th place
Semifinal
3rd Place Match
Final
Squad of the German Master
Goalkeepers: Bernhard Englbrecht, Rupert Master, Franz Spornraft
Defender: Thomas Gandorfer, Bernd Wagner, Franz Steer, Bernhard Seyller, Klaus Auhuber, Peter Weigl, Christoph Schödl, Wolfgang Oswald, Alois Schloder
Attacker: Klaus Gotsch, Gerald Riedl, Mike Nash, Bob Laycock, Robin Laycock, Michael Betz, Bernd Truntschka, Hans -Jörg Eder, Joe Wasserek, Ewald Steiger, Helmut Steiger, Alfred Weiss
Head Coach: Karel Gut