ATSE Graz is an ice hockey team in

Graz Graz (; sl, Gradec) is the capital city of the Austrian state of Styria and second-largest city in Austria after Vienna. As of 1 January 2021, it had a population of 331,562 (294,236 of whom had principal-residence status). In 2018, the popu ...

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

. They play in the Eliteliga, the third level of ice hockey in

History

The club was founded in 1947, and won the

Austrian Hockey League The ICE Hockey League (International Central European Hockey League), known as the win2day ICE Hockey League for sponsorship reasons, is a Central European hockey league that also serves as the top-tier ice hockey league in Austria, it currently f ...

in 1975 and 1978. The club was merged with UEC Graz into EC Graz in 1990. In 2008, they were revived, and began playing in the Austrian Oberliga. ATSE won the Oberliga in 2009, and were promoted to the Nationalliga for 2010. After failing to win in the Play-Off, ATSE retreated from the Nationalliga, starting to play in the

Styria Styria (german: Steiermark ; Serbo-Croatian and sl, ; hu, Stájerország) is a state (''Bundesland'') in the southeast of Austria. With an area of , Styria is the second largest state of Austria, after Lower Austria. Styria is bordered to ...

n Eliteliga.

Hans Dobida Hans Dobida (born 13 May 1929) is an Austrian former ice hockey and roller in-line hockey administrator. He was involved with ATSE Graz for almost 40 years, and served as president of the Austrian Ice Hockey Association from 1977 to 1996. He h ...

played with ATSE Graz for five seasons as a young adult, then later served as head of section at ATSE Graz for almost 40 years.

Achievements

*Austrian champion: 1975, 1978. *Austrian National League champion: 1963, 1966, 1981. *Austrian Oberliga champion: 2009. *Styrian Eliteliga champion: 2016

References

External links

Official site
Ice hockey teams in Austria Sport in Graz Ice hockey clubs established in 1947 1947 establishments in Austria Austrian National League teams {{Europe-icehockey-team-stub