IHC Leuven (''French: IHC Louvain'') is a professional

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team in

Leuven Leuven (, , ), also called Louvain (, , ), is the capital and largest City status in Belgium, city of the Provinces of Belgium, province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located about east of Brussels. The municipalit ...

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. Leuven plays in the

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(''Belgian Elite League''), where it competes as the Leuven Chiefs. The team are the current Belgian national ice hockey champions, having won the league playoffs in 2013. It also competes annually for the

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. The club also organizes affiliated recreational junior and senior hockey teams.

History

IHC Leuven was founded in 1993, and won their first Belgian Championship in 2005. In 1998 and 1999, they participated in the

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. In 1998, they were paired with

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, and Lyon Hockey Club, they lost to Frisk 26–1, and their best results was a 15–1 loss to Lyon. They fared marginally better in 1999, in a group with

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, Ducs d'Angers, and

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. They were hammered by Angers 26–0, but only lost 4–3 to Txuri Urdin. In 1999–2000, they won their first and only

. In 2005 and 2010, Leuven won their first and second Belgian Championship. In 2011, it joined the higher level North Sea Cup, a mixed Dutch-Belgian league, although it struggled against the bigger-budget Dutch teams and lost the Belgian championship to HYC Herentals. For 2012–2013, it withdrew from the Dutch league and returned to the Belgian Elite League, winning the Belgian national championship against

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Roster

Updated February 25, 2019.

Achievements

*Belgian champion (3): 2005, 2010, 2013 *Belgian Cup champion (1): 2006

Season Results

''Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, OTW = Overtime Wins, OTL = Overtime Losses, L = Losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, Pts = Points''

References

External links

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