Slovak Extraliga

Slovak Extraliga
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2015–16 Slovak Extraliga season
Sport Ice hockey
Founded 1994
Inaugural season 1993–94
CEO Richard Lintner (Pro-Hokej a.s.)
No. of teams 10
Country Slovakia
Most recent champion(s) HK Nitra (1st title)
Most titles HC Slovan Bratislava &
HC Košice (both 8 titles)
TV partner(s) Sport 1
Related competitions Slovak 1.Liga, Slovak 2.Liga
Official website tipsportextraliga.sk (Slovak)

Slovak Extraliga (Slovenská Extraliga) is the name of the highest-level ice hockey league in Slovakia. As of 2009, it is ranked by the IIHF as the fifth strongest league in Europe and in 2012 it was ranked by The Hockey News as the sixth strongest league in the world behind the NHL, KHL, Elitserien, SM-liga and Czech Extraliga.[1] The name of the league is leased to sponsor and changes frequently. From 1993/94 to 1997/98 season it was called Extraliga, then the name changed to West Extraliga until the end of 2000/01 season. In 2001/02 its name was Boss Extraliga. Since 2002/03 season to 2004/05 the name changed to ST Extraliga and in 2005/06 to T-Com Extraliga. From 16 January 2007 the name changed to Slovnaft Extraliga when a general sponsor agreement with Slovnaft was signed, and from 2011–12 season is called Tipsport extraliga and Slovnaft-Play-off, and from 2015–16 season is called Tipsport liga and Slovnaft-Play-off.

The Slovak Extraliga is rooted in the Czechoslovak Extraliga. The 1993/94 was the first season of Slovak Extraliga as Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia on 1 January 1993.

Clubs

Ten clubs play in the 2015–16 Slovak Extraliga season. The HK Orange 20 is a project for preparation of the Slovakia junior ice hockey team for the IIHF World U20 Championship. The team do not play complete regular season and cannot promote to the playoffs. First 8 teams in table after the regular season (57 games) will promote to the playoffs.

2015–16 season

Team Name Location Venue Capacity Titles
HC Košice Košice Steel Aréna 8,378 8
HC ’05 Banská Bystrica Banská Bystrica Banská Bystrica Ice Stadium 2,841 0
HK 36 Skalica Skalica Skalica Ice Stadium 4,100 0
HK Dukla Trenčín Trenčín Pavol Demitra Ice Stadium 6,150 3
HK Nitra Nitra Nitra Aréna 3,600 1
HK Orange 20 Bratislava Vladimír Dzurilla Ice Stadium 3,500 –
HK Poprad Poprad Poprad Ice Stadium 4,500 0
HKm Zvolen Zvolen Zvolen Ice Stadium 5,372 2
MHC Mountfield Martin Martin Ice Stadium 4,200 0
MsHK Žilina Žilina Garmin Arena 6,200 1
ŠHK 37 Piešťany Piešťany EASTON Aréna 3,238 0

Names and sponsorship

Period Name Sponsor
1993–1997 Extraliga none
1997–2001 West Extraliga West
2001–2002 BOSS Extraliga BOSS
2002–2005 ST Extraliga Slovak Telekom
2005–2007 T-Com Extraliga T-Com
2007–2011 Slovnaft Extraliga Slovnaft
2011–2015 Tipsport Extraliga Tipsport
2015– Tipsport Liga Tipsport

Champions

No. Season No. of teams Reg. season games Champion Reg. season scoring leader Playoffs scoring leader
1. 1993–94 10 36 Dukla Trenčín Roman Kontšek Radoslav Kropáč
2. 1994–95 10 36 HC Košice Ľubomír Kolník Ľubomír Rybovič
3. 1995–96 10 36 HC Košice (2) Vlastimil Plavucha Oto Haščák
4. 1996–97 10 36 Dukla Trenčín (2) Ján Pardavý Marián Hossa
5. 1997–98 10 36 Slovan Bratislava Vlastimil Plavucha Zdeno Cíger
6. 1998–99 12 42 HC Košice (3) Zdeno Cíger Peter Pucher
7. 1999–00 8 56 Slovan Bratislava (2) Vlastimil Plavucha Richard Kapuš
8. 2000–01 8 56 HKm Zvolen Ján Plch Richard Šechný
9. 2001–02 10 54 Slovan Bratislava (3) Richard Šechný Juraj Halaj
10. 2002–03 10 54 Slovan Bratislava (4) Petr Kořínek Richard Kapuš
11. 2003–04 10 54 Dukla Trenčín (3) Martin Bartek Martin Bartek
12. 2004–05 10 54 Slovan Bratislava (5) Pavol Demitra Miroslav Šatan
13. 2005–06 10 54 MsHK Žilina Erik Weissmann Arne Kroták
14. 2006–07 10 54 Slovan Bratislava (6) René Školiak Marek Uram
15. 2007–08 11 54 Slovan Bratislava (7) Žigmund Pálffy Žigmund Pálffy
16. 2008–09 12 46 HC Košice (4) Žigmund Pálffy Žigmund Pálffy
17. 2009–10 10 57 HC Košice (5) Martin Kuľha Ľubomír Vaic
18. 2010–11 10 57 HC Košice (6) Miroslav Zálešák Miroslav Zálešák
19. 2011–12 10 55 Slovan Bratislava (8) Žigmund Pálffy Miroslav Šatan
20. 2012–13 10 56 HKm Zvolen (2) Žigmund Pálffy Richard Jenčík
21. 2013–14 10 56 HC Košice (7) Jozef Stümpel Richard Jenčík
22. 2014–15 10 56 HC Košice (8) Radovan Puliš Arne Kroták
23. 2015–16 10 56 HK Nitra

By Club

Club Winners Runners-up Winning Years
HC Košice 8 7 1995, 1996, 1999, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015
HC Slovan Bratislava 8 2 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2012
HK Dukla Trenčín 3 4 1994, 1997, 2004
HKm Zvolen 2 4 2001, 2013
MsHK Žilina 1 0 2006
HK Nitra 1 1 2016

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Russian league tops first CHL ranking". Retrieved 3 November 2009.

External links

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