The Select4-u Devils Nijmegen is a 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 in
Nijmegen
Nijmegen ( , ; Nijmeegs: ) is the largest city in the Dutch province of Gelderland and the ninth largest of the Netherlands as a whole. Located on the Waal River close to the German border, Nijmegen is one of the oldest cities in the ...
,
Netherlands
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, they play in the
BeNe League
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, the top-tier league in the Netherlands and Belgium. Formerly the team played in the semi-professional Dutch
Eredivisie
The Eredivisie (; "Honour Division" or "Premier Division") is a professional association football league in the Netherlands and the highest level of the Dutch football league system. The league was founded in 1956, two years after the start o ...
where they were the 7 time national champions; the most recent championship was in 2009–2010. Home games are played at the Triavium. As of 2019, the team are sponsored by decorating firm AHOUD.
History
Ice hockey in Nijmegen began in 1968, with the
Nijmegen Tigers winning its first national championship in 1984. At the end of the 1980s, several players moved to Rotterdam to join the short-lived
Rotterdam Panda's. Beginning in the early 1990s, financial difficulties hurt the Nijmegen Tigers, forcing the team to dissolve and reform in 1994. In 2003, the Tigers went bankrupt. The Nijmegen Emperors joined the Eredivisie in 2004, winning the national championship in 2006. However, the Emperors also went bankrupt in 2006. In 2007, the Devils joined the league with a title sponsor.
In the 2009–10 season, the Devils won the Cup (In Dutch, "Beker"), an annual tournament of Eredivisie teams played before the beginning of the regular season, finished the regular season in first place, and won the national championship.
Season results
''Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, OTW = Overtime Wins, OTL = Overtime Losses, L = Losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, Pts = Points''
Roster
Updated March 8, 2019.
Championships
;Eredivisie National Championships
Once (2009–10).
(Seven times as Nijmegen Tigers: 1983–4, 1987–8, 1992–3, 1996–7, 1997–8, 1998–9, 1999–2000.
Once as Nijmegen Emperors: 2005–06.)
; Bekers (Cups)
Once (2009)
Former players
*
TJ Sakaluk
* Brad Smulders
* Akim Ramoul
*Phil Aucoin
References
External links
Select4u Devils Nijmegen official website
Netherlands Ice Hockey Federation
Ijshockey.com information on the Eredivisie teams
{{Eredivisie (hockey)
BeNe League (ice hockey) teams
Ice hockey teams in the Netherlands
Ice hockey clubs established in 1981
1981 establishments in the Netherlands
Sports clubs and teams in Nijmegen