Budapest Akademia HC (also known before as MAC HKB Újbuda) is a
Hungarian 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 ...
team that currently plays in the
Erste Liga. They play their home games at
Tüskecsarnok, located in
Budapest
Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul ...
. In their first year of competition they would finish second in the regular season, and would reach the league finals, being swept in 4 games by
DVTK Jegesmedvék. In their second season MAC would once again finish the regular season in 2nd place. They won their first playoff series 4-1 over
Fehérvári Titanok, as well as their second over
Debreceni HK in the semi-final 4-1.
In the final they would be swept four games to one by the defending champions
DVTK Jegesmedvék to once again finish in second place overall. In 2018 team began new era with joining slovak Tipsport liga. They managed to win both the Erste Liga and hungarian league in 2018.
Arena
Budapest Akademia HC plays out of the newly renovated
Tüskecsarnok on the 'Buda' side of Budapest. It is the home of the
Hungarian national team as well as
KMH Budapest playing in the
Slovak 2. Liga.
Current roster
Current roster (as of November 12, 2018):
References
External links
Official Club Website
Ice hockey teams in Hungary
Erste Liga (ice hockey) teams
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