2018–19 Oberliga (ice hockey) season

The 2018/19 Oberliga season was the 60th season of the Oberliga, the third-tier of German ice hockey. The Oberliga operated with two regional leagues, North and South. 25 teams competed in the season that spanned from 21 September 2018 till 30 April 2019. Tilburg Trappers and EC Peiting won the North and South premierships respectively. EV Landshut was crowned Oberliga champions by winning the playoffs, and by doing so they also secured promotion to DEL2. EHC Waldkraiburg, EC Harzer Falken, ECC Preussen Berlin were all relegated to Regionalliga.

2018–19 Oberliga season
LeagueOberliga
SportIce Hockey
Duration21 September 2018 – 30 April 2019
Number of teams25
TV partner(s)Sprade TV (select teams)
Regular season
Season champions Tilburg Trappers (North)
EC Peiting (South)
Top scorer Björn Bombis (North)
Ian McDonald (South)
Promoted to
DEL2		EV Landshut
Relegated to RegionalligaEHC Waldkraiburg
EC Harzer Falken
ECC Preussen Berlin
Championship playoffs
Champions EV Landshut
  Runners-upTilburg Trappers

Teams
Erfurt
Essen
Herne
Berlin
Braunlage
Höchstadt
Memmingen
Lindau
Sonthofen
Regensburg
Selb
Weiden
Waldkraiburg
2018/19 German teams in Oberliga
2018/19 Dutch teams in Oberliga
Oberliga North Teams: 2018–19 Season
Team Location Arena Capacity Founded Joined
league
CityState
Füchse DuisburgDuisburg North Rhine-WestphaliaScania Arena4,80019712010
Black Dragons ErfurtErfurt ThuringiaKartoffelhalle Erfurt1,20020102010
Moskitos EssenEssen North Rhine-WestphaliaEissporthalle Essen-West3,85019942015
Saale Bulls HalleHalle (Saale) Saxony-AnhaltEissporthalle Halle2,20020042010
Hamburg CrocodilesHamburg HamburgEisland Farmsen2,30019902010
Hannover IndiansHannover Lower SaxonyEisstadion am Pferdeturm4,60819482013
Hannover ScorpionsHannover Lower SaxonyEishalle Langenhagen3,80019962013
EC Harzer FalkenBraunlage Lower SaxonyEisstadion Braunlage2,54819842013
Herner EV 2007Herne North Rhine-WestphaliaGysenberghalle3,70020072012
IceFighters LeipzigLeipzig SaxonyKohlrabizirkus Eisarena2,50020102010
ECC Preussen BerlinBerlin BerlinEissporthalle Charlottenburg1,00020042015
Rostock PiranhasRostock Mecklenburg-VorpommernEishalle Rostock2,00019902010
Tilburg TrappersTilburg North BrabantIJssportcentrum Tilburg2,50019382015

Oberliga North planned to expand to a sixteen team competition for 2018/19. However, those plans did not eventuate when the champions of Regionalliga North (Weserstars Bremen), East (ELV Tornado Niesky) and West (Herforder EV) all declined promotion to Oberliga North. The runners-up of each league also declined to submit an application for a licence. As such, the relegation of EC Harzer Falken was overturned and the team from Braunlage remained in the league.[1] In August 2018, EHC Timmendorfer Strand 06 withdrew from the league and filed for bankruptcy.[2] Oberliga North started the season with 13 teams.

Oberliga South Teams: 2018–19 Season
Team Location Arena Capacity Founded Joined
league
CityState
EV LandshutLandshut BavariaEisstadion am Gutenbergweg4,99619482019
Höchstadter ECHöchstadt BavariaEisstadion Höchstadt2,00019932018
ECDC MemmingenMemmingen BavariaEissportstadion am Hühnerberg3,85019922017
EV Lindau IslandersLindau BavariaEichwaldstadion1,10019762016
EC PeitingPeiting BavariaEisstadion Peiting2,50019732000
SC RiesserseeGarmisch-Partenkirchen BavariaOlympia-Eissport-Zentrum6,92619202018
ERC Sonthofen 1999Sonthofen BavariaEissporthalle Sonthofen2,86019992014
Eisbären RegensburgRegensburg BavariaDonau Arena4,96119622010
Starbulls RosenheimRosenheim BavariaEmilo Stadion4,75020002017
Selber WölfeSelb BavariaHutschenreuther Eissporthalle4,08220042010
1. EV WeidenWeiden BavariaEisstadion Weiden2,56019852012
EHC WaldkraiburgWaldkraiburg BavariaEissporthalle Waldkraiburg3,50019912019

Oberliga South planned to expand to a fourteen team competition for 2018/19. However, those plans were scrapped when the league was unable to find any suitable candidates in the Regionalliga East, South-West or Baveria. Deggendorfer SC left the league after being promoted to DEL2.[3] Regionalliga South-West champion, SC Bietigheim-Bissingen U23 was unable to join the league due to the club having their first team in DEL2. TEV Miesbach also left the league after being relegated the previous season. Joining the league was the recently relegated DEL2 team, Bayreuth Tigers.[3] On 16 May 2018, DEL2 team, SC Riessersee, also joined the league after having their DEL2 licence cancelled. SC Riessersee had a protracted negotiation with DEL2 but ultimately was unable to agree to re-join the league.[4] SC Riessersee then agreed to join Oberliga South for 2018/19. Oberliga South admitted the team with strict conditions including Riessersee not being able to participate in the championship playoffs and being forced to participate in the relegation playoffs regardless of their regular season performance.[5] Oberliga South started the season with 12 teams.[6]

Oberliga North

Oberliga North ran from 21 September 2018 till 3 March 2019. The league operated with a 48 match (4 matches against each team) regular season. The top six teams automatically qualified for the championship playoffs. The next four teams advanced to the qualification playoffs, playing for two final spots in the championship playoffs. Team's finishing eleventh to thirteenth have their season end after the regular season. The thirteenth team would be relegated to the Regionalliga.[1] After 26 days into the season, Hamburg Crocodiles opened insolvency procedures, however they were okay to continue to compete in the season. The Oberliga board decided to impose the same conditions on Hamburg as they did SC Riessersee, the Crocodiles would be excluded from the championship playoffs. If they finished within the qualification positions, the next team below the qualification positions would take their place.[7]

Regular season
Pos Team Pld W OTW OTL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Tilburg Trappers 48 35 4 5 4 256 127 +129 118 Oberliga
Championship playoffs
2 Hannover Scorpions 48 32 2 2 12 237 142 +95 102
3 Hannover Indians 48 29 5 3 11 188 139 +49 100
4 Saale Bulls Halle 48 26 3 4 15 220 145 +75 88
5 ESC Moskitos Essen 48 26 3 2 17 198 129 +69 86
6 Herner EV 2007 48 23 5 3 17 204 169 +35 82
7 Rostock Piranhas 48 21 3 2 22 148 171 −23 71 Nord
Qualification playoffs
8 Icefighters Leipzig 48 22 1 2 23 174 157 +17 70
9 Hamburg Crocodiles 48 20 4 2 22 184 178 +6 70
10 Füchse Duisburg 48 18 5 0 25 160 167 −7 64 Nord
Qualification playoffs
11 Erfurt Black Dragons 48 12 3 7 26 137 193 −56 49
12 EC Harzer Falken 48 4 1 6 37 107 277 −170 20
13 ECC Preussen Berlin 48 4 1 2 41 103 322 −219 16 Regionalliga
Source: www.hockey-db.de
Rules for classification:
Tie-break: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
Points: 3 points for regulation win; 2 points for OT or SO win; 1 point for OT or SO loss; 0 points for regulation loss

Qualification playoffs

Teams finishing seventh to tenth play best of three match series in the qualification playoffs to determine the final two places from Oberliga North in the Championship playoffs. Due to Hamburg being excluded and finishing ninth, Erfurt Black Dragons, who finished eleventh, progressed to the qualification playoffs instead. The matches occurred between 5 March and 10 March 2020.

Qualified for Championship playoffs
Team 1 Team 2 Series result Match 1 Match 2 Match 3
Rostock PiranhasErfurt Black Dragons2:16–24–52–1
Icefighters LeipzigFüchse Duisburg1:22–11–53–4 (OT)

Oberliga South

Oberliga South ran from 28 September 2018 till 10 March 2019. The league was broken into two stages. Stage one, the regular season, had all twelve teams compete in a home and away round before splitting into two regional groups for a second home and away round for a total of 32 matches. The top ten teams advanced to the Oberliga South qualification round to determine the league premier and eight qualifiers for the Oberliga championship playoffs. Normally the bottom two teams advanced to the relegation playoffs with eight Bayernliga teams, however, due to SC Riessersee entry conditions to the league, the bottom team and Riessersee would advance to the relegation playoffs.[6]

Regular season
Group A
# Team
1 ECDC Memmingen
2 EV Lindau Islanders
3 EC Peiting
4 SC Riessersee
5 Starbulls Rosenheim
6 ERC Sonthofen Bulls
Group B
# Team
1 Eisbären Regensburg
2 EHC Waldkraiburg
3 Selber Wölfe
4 Höchstadter EC
5 1. EV Weiden
6 EV Landshut
Pos Team Pld W OTW OTL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 EC Peiting 32 21 3 1 7 149 84 +65 70 Süd
Qualification round
2 Eisbären Regensburg 32 22 1 2 7 149 87 +62 70
3 EV Landshut 32 18 4 4 6 138 81 +57 66
4 SC Riessersee 32 16 6 3 7 109 79 +30 63 Relegation playoffs
5 Starbulls Rosenheim 32 18 1 6 7 122 88 +34 62 Süd
Qualification round
6 ECDC Memmingen 32 12 4 4 12 97 108 −11 48
7 1. EV Weiden 32 10 6 3 13 107 123 −16 45
8 Selber Wölfe 32 10 6 1 15 113 116 −3 43
9 Höchstadter EC 32 9 3 4 16 93 129 −36 37
10 EV Lindau Islanders 32 7 4 3 18 71 112 −41 32
11 ERC Sonthofen Bulls 32 4 4 4 20 97 144 −47 24
12 EHC Waldkraiburg 32 2 1 8 21 70 164 −94 16 Relegation playoffs
Source: www.hockey-db.de
Rules for classification:
Tie-break: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
Points: 3 points for regulation win; 2 points for OT or SO win; 1 point for OT or SO loss; 0 points for regulation loss

Qualification round
Pos Team Pld W OTW OTL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 EC Peiting 50 34 5 1 10 228 135 +93 113 Oberliga
Championship playoffs
2 EV Landshut 50 31 5 6 8 220 118 +102 109
3 Eisbären Regensburg 50 33 2 4 11 240 137 +103 107
4 Starbulls Rosenheim 50 28 2 7 13 197 147 +50 95
5 ECDC Memmingen 50 21 5 6 18 154 166 −12 79
6 Selber Wölfe 50 20 8 1 21 186 187 −1 77
7 1. EV Weiden 50 15 7 3 25 165 196 −31 62
8 EV Lindau Islanders 50 11 6 6 27 115 163 −48 51
9 Höchstadter EC 50 10 4 4 32 136 221 −85 42
10 ERC Sonthofen Bulls 50 6 4 6 34 148 255 −107 32
Source: www.hockey-db.de
Rules for classification:
Tie-break: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
Points: 3 points for regulation win; 2 points for OT or SO win; 1 point for OT or SO loss; 0 points for regulation loss

Relegation playoffs

Ten teams took part in the relegation playoffs. Eight Regionalliga teams and two Oberliga teams. The top two teams from the eighteen match playoffs would qualify for the Oberliga in 2019/20. The bottom eight would qualify for the 2019/20 Regionalliga. SC Riessersee topped the playoffs to retain its status as an Oberliga team. EHC Waldkraiburg finished ninth and was relegated from Oberliga. EV Füssen secured promotion to Oberliga after finishing second.

Pos Team Pld W OTW OTL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 SC Riessersee (OL) 18 13 2 3 0 85 38 +47 46 Oberliga
2 EV Füssen (RL) 18 11 1 1 5 91 64 +27 36
3 HC Landsberg (RL) 18 9 4 0 5 72 62 +10 35 Regionalliga
4 TEV Miesbach (RL) 18 11 0 0 7 83 56 +27 33
5 EHC Klostersee (RL) 18 9 0 1 8 74 58 +16 28
6 EC Bad Kissinger Wölfe (RL) 18 7 1 2 8 72 75 −3 25
7 EHC Königsbrunn (RL) 18 6 0 1 11 49 84 −35 19
8 TSV Erding (RL) 18 6 0 0 12 69 90 −21 18
9 EHC Waldkraiburg (OL) 18 6 0 0 12 58 92 −34 18
10 TSV Peißenberg (RL) 18 4 0 0 14 52 86 −34 12
Source: www.hockey-db.de
Rules for classification:
Tie-break: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
Points: 3 points for regulation win; 2 points for OT or SO win; 1 point for OT or SO loss; 0 points for regulation loss

Championship playoffs

The championship playoffs to determine the Oberliga champion and promotion to DEL2. The championship playoffs consisted of eight teams each from North and South who play a best of five series elimination format from the round of 16 to the Oberliga final.[8] EV Landshut won the championship final series 3:2 over Tilburg Trappers to be crowned Oberliga-Meister and secure promotion to DEL2.[9][10]

  Round of 16 Quarter finals Semi finals Championship final
                                         
S1 EC Peiting 3  
N8 Füchse Duisburg 0  
  S1 EC Peiting 0  
  N6 Herner EV 2007 3  
N1 Tilburg Trappers 3
S8 EV Lindau Islanders 1  
  N1 Tilburg Trappers 3  
  N6 Herner EV 2007 2  
S2 EV Landshut 3  
N7 Rostock Piranhas 0  
  N1 Tilburg Trappers 3
  S6 Selber Wölfe 0  
N2 Hannover Scorpions 3
S7 1. EV Weiden 1  
  N1 Tilburg Trappers 2
  S2 EV Landshut 3
S3 Eisbären Regensburg 0  
N6 Herner EV 2007 3  
  S2 EV Landshut 3
  N4 Saale Bulls Halle 1  
N3 Hannover Indians 1
S6 Selber Wölfe 3  
  S2 EV Landshut 3
  N2 Hannover Scorpions 0  
S4 Starbulls Rosenheim 3  
N5 Moskitos Essen 0  
  N2 Hannover Scorpions 3
  S4 Starbulls Rosenheim 2  
N4 Saale Bulls Halle 3
S5 ECDC Memmingen 0  
Oberliga-Meister

EV Landshut		 Goaltenders:
Patrick Berger, Leon Doubrawa, Maximilian Englbrecht, Philipp Maurer

Defenders:
Sebastian Alt, Christian Ettwein, Stephan Kronthaler, Marius Nägele, Elia Ostwald, Paul Pfenninger, Mario Zimmermann, Luca Zitterbart

Attackers:
Leon Abstreiter, Peter Abstreiter, Marco Baßler, Alexander Ehl, Christoph Fischhaber, Maximilian Forster, Maximilian Hofbauer, Miloslav Horava, Ales Jirik, Elias Lindner, Lukas Mühlbauer, Julien Pelletier, Tomas Plihal, Luis Schinko, Marc Schmidpeter, Marco Sedlar, Sebastian Stanik, Vitali Stähle, Luca Trinkberger, David Wrigley

Coaching staff:
Axel Kammerer (head coach), Ralf Hantschke (General manager)

References
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  2. "EHC Timmendorfer Strand muss Insolvenz anmelden" [EHC Timmendorfer Strand has to file for bankruptcy] (in German). www.eishockey.info. 7 August 2018. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  3. "14 Clubs ohne den SC Riessersee – Sportlicher Absteiger Bayreuth und Aufsteiger Deggendorf erhalten Lizenzen" [14 clubs for DEL2 without the relegation of SC Riessersee and Bayreuth and promotion of Deggendorf who has received a license] (in German). www.eishockeynews.de. 29 June 2018. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  4. Weisenburger, Udo (16 May 2018). "Offener Brief von Udo Weisenburger" [Open letter from Udo Weisenburger] (in German). SC Riessersee. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  5. "SC Riessersee erhält Lizenz unter Auflagen" [SC Riessersee receives license under certain conditions] (in German). www.eishockey.info. 19 July 2018. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  6. "Durchführungsbestimmungen Senioren (Oberliga Süd)" [Implementation regulations for senior citizens (Oberliga South)] (PDF) (in German). Deutscher Eishockey-Bund. September 2018. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  7. Groß, Sebastian (17 December 2018). "Crocodiles Hamburg dürfen nach eröffnetem Planinsolvenzverfahren nicht an den Playoffs teilnehmen – Erste Abgänge drohen" [Crocodiles Hamburg are not allowed to take part in the playoffs after the planned insolvency proceedings have been opened] (in German). www.eishockeynews.de. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
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