Borås HC is a
Swedish professional
ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...
club, based in
Borås
Borås ( , , ) is a city (officially, a locality) and the seat of Borås Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 114,556 inhabitants in 2024. It is widely known for being a textile city, home to worldwide brands and companie ...
, currently playing in
HockeyEttan
Hockeyettan is the third tier of ice hockey in Sweden. As of the 2015–16 season, the league consists of 39 teams divided geographically into four groups. Hockeyettan operates a system of promotion and relegation with HockeyAllsvenskan and D ...
in Sweden.
The club played constantly in the second-tier league
HockeyAllsvenskan
HockeyAllsvenskan (previously Allsvenskan and SuperAllsvenskan) is a professional ice hockey sports league, league, and the second-highest league in the Swedish ice hockey system, after the Swedish Hockey League, SHL. Since the 2009–10 season, t ...
between 2007 and 2012, but due to economical problems the Board of HockeyAllsvenskan announced on 27 June 2012 that they would not grant Borås HC
elite license for the 2012–13 season and the club was therefore relegated to
Division 1. They
appeal
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ed the decision to the
Swedish Ice Hockey Association
The Swedish Ice Hockey Association () in Swedish, is an association of Swedish ice hockey clubs. It was established in Stockholm on 17 November 1922 by representatives from seven clubs. Before then, organized ice hockey in Sweden had been admi ...
, but the appeal was effectively turned down on 6 July 2012.
Notable players
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Nikolai Drozdetsky (1989–1995)
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Sergei Fokin (2002–2005)
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Stefan Persson (1986–1990)
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Fabian Brunnström (2006–2007)
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Mattias Remstam (2008–)
References
External links
Official website
Sports clubs and teams in Borås
Ice hockey clubs established in 1969
1969 establishments in Sweden
Ice hockey teams in Västra Götaland County
20th-century establishments in Älvsborg County
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