1995–96 Alpenliga season

The 1995/96 season was the fourth regular edition of the transnational Hockey League contest of the Alps. It was was discharged with a total of seventeen professional teams from Austria, Italy and Slovenia. Defending champion was the HC Bolzano, but lost his championship to the VEU Feldkirch, which thus established a year-long dominance in the Alps in the Austrian Hockey League and.

Participants and mode

After last season, no team had participated in the Slovenian Alps League, the HK Jesenice, the HDD Olimpija Ljubljana and Bled HK now returned to the championship. Otherwise, the participants remained virtually unchanged.

Seventeen teams were this time divided into three groups of two times six and a time of five teams and played a simple round-trip round against each other ( eight or ten games). The best teams in the East and middle groups were automatically qualified for the playoffs, the other teams that ranks one and two occupied in their respective groups, eventually played each a qualifying match to determine the remaining two semi-finalists. Semifinals and finals were finally discharged as a simple game.

Regular season

The Group West was dominated by the VEU Feldkirch who could defeat in a memorable game the later group Latter Devils Milan with 28:0. This result was the main reason for the superior goal difference of the TEU, which she finally ranked first in front of the only Italian playoff participants, the HC Varèse secured. The Devils, however, had to contend throughout the season with financial problems and completed the season with a barely increased youth team.

The middle group was won by the EC KAC, especially thanks to striker trio consisting of Dieter Kalt, Rob Doyle and Dmitri Gogolev. Here the HC Bolzano had big problems, who had won in the previous year instead of the Alps League discharged European Ligacup, made it in this year only fourth.

The group went east on scarcest of all, and was finally won by HK Jesenice. Again, the Italian teams played only a minor role and showed that especially the smaller Italian teams could only partially compete with the big names of the Austrian and Slovenian ice hockey.

Group West

Group Centre

Group East

Playoffs

The final tournament was held from 20 to 22 October 1995 Klagenfurt am Wörthersee.

Cadre of the Alps League Champion

Goalkeepers: Reinhard Divis, Arnulf Zimmermann

Attacker: Franz Fussi, Fritz Ganster, Christoph Gesson, Bengt -Åke Gustafsson, Siegfried Haberl, Normand Krumpschmid, Rick Nasheim, Gerhard Puschnik, Thomas Rundqvist, Bernd Schmidle, Thomas Sticha, Simon Wheeldon