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Spengler Cup
2012 Spengler Cup logo
Spengler Cup logo
Sport Ice Hockey
Founded 1923
Motto The Peak of Hockey
Inaugural season 1923
No. of teams 6 (group stage)
Most recent champion(s) Flag of Switzerland HC Ambrì-Piotta (1st)
Most championships Flag of Canada Team Canada (16)
Qualification Invitation only
TV partner(s) SUI: Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
Europe: Eurosport 2
RUS: Match TV & NTv2
GER: Sport1
CAN: TSN & RDS
USA: NBCSN
CZE / SVK / HUN: Sport1
DEN: TV2
SLO: Šport TV
SRB / CRO / BIH / MNE / MKD: Arena Sport
Official website www.spenglercup.ch/en
Founder Dr. Carl Spengler


The Spengler Cup is an annual tournament held in Davos, Switzerland. First held in 1923, it is the second oldest international club team tournament after the Stanley Cup playoffs, the Spengler Cup is hosted by HC Davos and is held between Christmas and New Year's Day. The entry is invitational only. Currently, all games are held at the Eisstadion Davos. It was originally devised by Dr. Carl Spengler as a means to promote teams from German-speaking Europe, who might have suffered ostracism in the aftermath of World War I. Eventually, the tournament grew well beyond expectations. Many of Europe's most prestigious clubs and national programs have appeared, including Soviet, Czechoslovak, Swedish, German, and Finnish powerhouses. Through its history, club or national teams from 13 countries have won the tournament, with Team Canada winning the most cups as a club (16) while various teams from Switzerland have won the most cups for one country (20).

Among non-European organizations, Team Canada, Team USA, nationally ranked U.S. collegiate teams, reigning AHL Calder Cup and Ontario Hockey Association champions, and even Team Japan (in 1971, building international experience before playing as hosts of the 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics) have competed for the Spengler Cup. Since at least 1990, Team Canada has been the only participant from North America, with the exception of the AHL's Rochester Americans in 1996 and 2013.

In the 2018 tournament, Finnish club team KalPa from the city of Kuopio defeated Team Canada 2–1 in the final. The game was decided in the 8th round of a shootout, the first series of game-winning shots in tournament history that determined the winner of the Spengler Cup.

The Spengler Cup tournament was not played in 2020 or 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the 2022 torunament, Swiss club team HC Ambrì-Piotta defeated Sparta Prague 3–2 in the final; with the game decided in the 5th round of a shootout.

History[]

Spengler Cup

The former Spengler Cup trophy on display at the Hockey Hall of Fame, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Many participating teams are club teams, rather than national teams, where a club team might have players from many nations on the roster. The first tournament was won in 1923 by the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club, composed of Canadians studying at the University of Oxford.[1]

The first 24 tournaments were dominated by host HC Davos (7 wins, 12 runners-up) and the Czechoslovak club team LTC Prague (7 wins, 2 runners-up). The LTC Prague team was shut down by the Czechoslovak communist authorities after players defected at the 1948 Spengler Cup tournament. Between 1965 and 1983, the tournament was dominated by various Czechoslovak and Soviet teams. Since joining the tournament in 1984, Team Canada has been the dominant participant, with 16 wins and 10 runners-up. Team Canada is made up of Canadians predominantly playing in Europe, as the tournament occurs during the NHL and AHL seasons, though active NHL stars Joe Thornton and Rick Nash played for HC Davos during the 2004 NHL lockout.

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1976 program

From its inception until 1978, the tournament was played on an outdoor rink. The outdoor rink still exists outside the indoor arena, and is one of the largest outdoor rinks in the world. Starting in 1978, all tournament games have been played indoors.

The Spengler Cup was cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While the tournament was scheduled to return in 2021, Team Canada withdrew from the competition due to problems scheduling a quarantine isolation period before the start of play, and HC Ambrì-Piotta withdrew from the competition due to COVID-19 cases among the club's players.[2][3] The 2021 event was ultimately cancelled on 25 December due to COVID-19 cases within HC Davos.[4]

Sponsorship[]

The Spengler Cup is the second-largest sporting event in Switzerland, after tennis' Swiss Indoors in Basel. The tournament had a budget of CHF 11 million in 2016. About 40% of the total tournament budget amount comes from corporate sponsors.[5] Since 1985, UBS has been the main sponsor and presenting partner of the Spengler Cup.[6] Other current major sponsors are Würth, Schenker Storen, Škoda, Calanda, and McDonald's – each of whom, along with UBS, are the main tournament sponsor of one of the six teams each year.

International broadcasts[]

The Spengler Cup is broadcast on Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen in Switzerland, on Eurosport 2 in most of Europe, on Match TV and NTv2 in Russia, on Sport1 in Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary, on Šport TV in Slovenia, on TSN and RDS in Canada and on the free-to-air channel FreeSports in the United Kingdom.

Spengler Cup winners[]

Year Winner Runner-up
1923 Flag of United Kingdom Oxford University Berlin SC
1924 Berlin SC Flag of Switzerland HC Davos
1925 Flag of United Kingdom Oxford University Flag of Switzerland HC Davos
1926 Berlin SC Flag of Switzerland HC Davos
1927 Flag of Switzerland HC Davos Berlin SC
1928 Berlin SC Flag of United Kingdom Cambridge University
1929 Flag of Czechoslovakia LTC Prague Flag of Switzerland HC Davos
1930 Flag of Czechoslovakia LTC Prague Flag of Switzerland HC Davos
1931 Flag of United Kingdom Oxford University Berlin SC
1932 Flag of Czechoslovakia LTC Prague
Flag of United Kingdom Oxford University1
Flag of Switzerland HC Davos (3rd place)
1933 Flag of Switzerland HC Davos Paris Rapides
1934 Flag of Italy Diavoli Rossoneri Milano Flag of United Kingdom Oxford University
1935 Flag of Italy Diavoli Rossoneri Milano Flag of Switzerland HC Davos
1936 Flag of Switzerland HC Davos Flag of Czechoslovakia LTC Prague
1937 Flag of Czechoslovakia LTC Prague Flag of Switzerland HC Davos
1938 Flag of Switzerland HC Davos Flag of Czechoslovakia LTC Prague
1939 Tournament not held due to World War II
1940
1941 Flag of Switzerland HC Davos Flag of Nazi Germany Berlin SC
1942 Flag of Switzerland HC Davos Flag of Switzerland Zürcher SC
1943 Flag of Switzerland HC Davos Flag of Switzerland Zürcher SC
1944 Flag of Switzerland Zürcher SC Flag of Switzerland HC Davos
1945 Flag of Switzerland Zürcher SC Flag of Switzerland HC Davos
1946 Flag of Czechoslovakia LTC Prague Flag of Switzerland HC Davos
1947 Flag of Czechoslovakia LTC Prague Flag of Switzerland HC Davos
1948 Flag of Czechoslovakia LTC Prague Flag of Switzerland HC Davos
1949 Tournament not held due to high Cold War tensions
1950 Flag of Italy Diavoli Rossoneri Milano Flag of Sweden AIK Stockholm
1951 Flag of Switzerland HC Davos Flag of Federal Republic of Germany Preussen Krefeld
1952 Flag of Federal Republic of Germany EV Füssen Flag of Switzerland Zürcher SC
1953 Flag of Italy HC Milano Inter Flag of Switzerland HC Davos
1954 Flag of Italy HC Milano Inter Flag of Federal Republic of Germany EV Füssen
1955 Flag of Czechoslovakia Rudá Hvězda Brno Flag of Switzerland HC Davos
1956 Tournament not held for financial reasons[7]
1957 Flag of Switzerland HC Davos Flag of Czechoslovakia Rudá Hvězda Brno
1958 Flag of Switzerland HC Davos Flag of Italy Diavoli Rossoneri Milano
1959 Flag of France ACBB Paris Flag of Federal Republic of Germany EV Füssen
1960 Flag of France ACBB Paris Flag of Switzerland HC Davos
1961 Flag of France ACBB Paris Flag of Federal Republic of Germany EV Füssen
1962 Flag of Czechoslovakia Sparta Prague Flag of Federal Republic of Germany EV Füssen
1963 Flag of Czechoslovakia Sparta Prague Flag of Austria Klagenfurt AC
1964 Flag of Federal Republic of Germany EV Füssen Flag of Sweden Modo Hockey
1965 Flag of Czechoslovakia Dukla Jihlava Flag of Sweden VIK Västerås HK
1966 Flag of Czechoslovakia Dukla Jihlava Flag of Belgium CP Liège
1967 Flag of Soviet Union Lokomotiv Moscow Flag of Canada Kingston Aces
1968 Flag of Czechoslovakia Dukla Jihlava Flag of Sweden Rögle BK
1969 Flag of Soviet Union Lokomotiv Moscow Flag of Switzerland HC Davos
1970 Flag of Soviet Union SKA Leningrad Flag of Czechoslovakia Dukla Jihlava
1971 Flag of Soviet Union SKA Leningrad Flag of Czechoslovakia Dukla Jihlava
1972 Flag of Czechoslovakia HC Slovan Bratislava Flag of Soviet Union Torpedo Gorkiy
1973 Flag of Czechoslovakia HC Slovan Bratislava Flag of Soviet Union Traktor Chelyabinsk
1974 Flag of Czechoslovakia HC Slovan Bratislava Flag of Poland Team Poland
1975 Flag of Czechoslovakia Czechoslovak Olympic Team Flag of Finland Team Finland
1976 Flag of Soviet Union USSR B Flag of Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia B
1977 Flag of Soviet Union SKA Leningrad Flag of Czechoslovakia Dukla Jihlava
1978 Flag of Czechoslovakia Dukla Jihlava Flag of Sweden AIK Stockholm
1979 Flag of Soviet Union Krylya Sovetov Moscow Flag of Federal Republic of Germany Düsseldorfer EG
1980 Flag of Soviet Union Spartak Moscow Flag of Czechoslovakia TJ Vítkovice
1981 Flag of Soviet Union Spartak Moscow Flag of Switzerland HC Davos
1982 Flag of Czechoslovakia Dukla Jihlava Flag of Soviet Union Spartak Moscow
1983 Flag of Soviet Union Dynamo Moscow Flag of Czechoslovakia Dukla Jihlava
1984 Flag of Canada Team Canada Flag of Czechoslovakia Dukla Jihlava
1985 Flag of Soviet Union Spartak Moscow Flag of Canada Team Canada
1986 Flag of Canada Team Canada Flag of Soviet Union Sokil Kiev
1987 Flag of Canada Team Canada Flag of Soviet Union Krylya Sovetov Moscow
1988 Flag of the United States USA Selects Flag of Canada Team Canada
1989 Flag of Soviet Union Spartak Moscow Flag of Sweden Färjestad BK
1990 Flag of Soviet Union Spartak Moscow Flag of Canada Team Canada
1991 Flag of Soviet Union / Flag of Russia CSKA Moscow Flag of Switzerland HC Lugano
1992 Flag of Canada Team Canada Flag of Sweden Färjestad BK
1993 Flag of Sweden Färjestad BK Flag of Switzerland HC Davos
1994 Flag of Sweden Färjestad BK Flag of Switzerland HC Davos
1995 Flag of Canada Team Canada Flag of Russia Lada Togliatti
1996 Flag of Canada Team Canada Flag of Switzerland HC Davos
1997 Flag of Canada Team Canada Flag of Sweden Färjestad BK
1998 Flag of Canada Team Canada Flag of Switzerland HC Davos
1999 Flag of Germany Kölner Haie Flag of Russia Metallurg Magnitogorsk
2000 Flag of Switzerland HC Davos Flag of Canada Team Canada
2001 Flag of Switzerland HC Davos Flag of Canada Team Canada
2002 Flag of Canada Team Canada Flag of Switzerland HC Davos
2003 Flag of Canada Team Canada Flag of Switzerland HC Davos
2004 Flag of Switzerland HC Davos Flag of the Czech Republic Sparta Prague
2005 Flag of Russia Metallurg Magnitogorsk Flag of Canada Team Canada
2006 Flag of Switzerland HC Davos Flag of Canada Team Canada
2007 Flag of Canada Team Canada Flag of Russia Salavat Yulaev Ufa
2008 Flag of Russia Dynamo Moscow Flag of Canada Team Canada
2009 Flag of Belarus Dinamo Minsk Flag of Switzerland HC Davos
2010 Flag of Russia SKA Saint Petersburg Flag of Canada Team Canada
2011 Flag of Switzerland HC Davos Flag of Latvia Dinamo Riga
2012 Flag of Canada Team Canada Flag of Switzerland HC Davos
2013 Flag of Switzerland Genève-Servette HC Flag of Russia CSKA Moscow
2014 Flag of Switzerland Genève-Servette HC Flag of Russia Salavat Yulaev Ufa
2015 Flag of Canada Team Canada Flag of Switzerland HC Lugano
2016 Flag of Canada Team Canada Flag of Switzerland HC Lugano
2017 Flag of Canada Team Canada Flag of Switzerland Team Switzerland
2018 Flag of Finland KalPa Kuopio Flag of Canada Team Canada
2019 Flag of Canada Team Canada Flag of the Czech Republic HC Oceláři Třinec
2020 Tournament not held due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021
2022 Flag of Switzerland HC Ambrì-Piotta Flag of the Czech Republic Sparta Prague

Notes

1 Oxford University and LTC Prague play to a 0–0 score after overtime. Both teams are declared winners.[7]

Performances[]

By club[]

Performance in the Spengler Cup by club
Club Won Runner-up Years won Years runner-up
Flag of Canada Team Canada 16 10 1984, 1986, 1987, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019 1985, 1988, 1990, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2018
Flag of Switzerland HC Davos 15 25 1927, 1933, 1936, 1938, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1951, 1957, 1958, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2011 1924, 1925, 1926, 1929, 1930, 1935, 1937, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1953, 1955, 1960, 1969, 1981, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2009, 2012
Flag of the Czech Republic LTC Prague 7 2 1929, 1930, 1932, 1937, 1946, 1947, 1948 1936, 1938
Flag of the Czech Republic Dukla Jihlava 5 5 1965, 1966, 1968, 1978, 1982 1970, 1971, 1977, 1983, 1984
Flag of Russia Spartak Moscow 5 1 1980, 1981, 1985, 1989, 1990 1982
Flag of United Kingdom Oxford University 4 1 1923, 1925, 1931, 1932 1934
Flag of Russia SKA Leningrad /
SKA Saint Petersburg
4 0 1970, 1971, 1977, 2010
Flag of Germany Berlin SC 3 4 1924, 1926, 1928 1923, 1927, 1931, 1941
Flag of Italy Diavoli Rossoneri Milano 3 1 1934, 1935, 1950 1958
Flag of France ACBB Paris 3 0 1959, 1960, 1961
Flag of Slovakia HC Slovan Bratislava1 3 0 1972, 1973, 1974
Flag of Germany EV Füssen 2 4 1952, 1964 1954, 1959, 1961, 1962
Flag of Switzerland Zürcher SC 2 3 1944, 1945 1942, 1943, 1952
Flag of Sweden Färjestad BK 2 3 1993, 1994 1989, 1992, 1997
Flag of the Czech Republic Sparta Prague 2 2 1962, 1963 2004, 2022
Flag of Italy HC Milano Inter 2 0 1953, 1954
Flag of Russia Lokomotiv Moscow 2 0 1967, 1969
Flag of Russia Dynamo Moscow 2 0 1983, 2008
Flag of Switzerland Genève-Servette HC 2 0 2013, 2014
Flag of the Czech Republic Rudá Hvězda Brno 1 1 1955 1957
Flag of Russia Krylya Sovetov Moscow 1 1 1979 1987
Flag of Russia CSKA Moscow 1 1 1991 2013
Flag of Russia Metallurg Magnitogorsk 1 1 2005 1999
Flag of Czechoslovakia Czechoslovak Olympic Team 1 0 1975
Flag of Soviet Union USSR B 1 0 1976
Flag of the United States USA Selects 1 0 1988
Flag of Germany Kölner Haie 1 0 1999
Flag of Belarus Dinamo Minsk 1 0 2009
Flag of Finland KalPa Kuopio 1 0 2018
Flag of Switzerland HC Ambrì-Piotta 1 0 2022
Flag of Switzerland HC Lugano 0 3 1991, 2015, 2016
Flag of Sweden AIK Stockholm 0 2 1950, 1978
Flag of Russia Salavat Yulaev Ufa 0 2 2007, 2014
Flag of United Kingdom Cambridge University 0 1 1928
Flag of France Paris Rapides 0 1 1933
Flag of Germany Preussen Krefeld 0 1 1951
Flag of Austria Klagenfurt AC 0 1 1963
Flag of Sweden Modo Hockey 0 1 1964
Flag of Sweden VIK Västerås HK 0 1 1965
Flag of Belgium CP Liège 0 1 1966
Flag of Canada Kingston Aces 0 1 1967
Flag of Sweden Rögle BK 0 1 1968
Flag of Russia Torpedo Gorkiy 0 1 1972
Flag of Russia Traktor Chelyabinsk 0 1 1973
Flag of Poland Team Poland 0 1 1974
Flag of Finland Team Finland 0 1 1975
Flag of Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia B 0 1 1976
Flag of Germany Düsseldorfer EG 0 1 1979
Flag of the Czech Republic TJ Vítkovice 0 1 1980
Flag of Ukraine Sokil Kiev2 0 1 1986
Flag of Russia Lada Togliatti 0 1 1995
Flag of Latvia Dinamo Riga 0 1 2011
Flag of Switzerland Team Switzerland 0 1 2017
Flag of the Czech Republic HC Oceláři Třinec 0 1 2019

Notes

1 Slovakia was a part of Czechoslovakia until 1993, so HC Slovan Bratislava in the 1970s represented both Czechoslovakia and the Slovak Socialist Republic.
2 Ukraine was a Soviet republic at the time, so Sokil Kiev represented both the Soviet Union and Soviet Ukraine.

By nation[]

Performance by nation
Nation Winners Runners-up
Flag of Switzerland Switzerland 20 32
Flag of Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia1 19 10
Flag of Canada Canada2 16 11
Flag of Soviet Union Soviet Union3 13 5
Flag of Germany Germany4 6 10
Flag of Italy Italy5 5 1
Flag of Russia Russia6 4 5
Flag of United Kingdom United Kingdom 4 2
Flag of France France7 3 1
Flag of Sweden Sweden 2 8
Flag of Finland Finland 1 1
Flag of Belarus Belarus 1 0
Flag of the United States United States 1 0
Flag of the Czech Republic Czech Republic 0 3
Flag of Austria Austria 0 1
Flag of Belgium Belgium 0 1
Flag of Latvia Latvia 0 1
Flag of Poland Poland 0 1

Notes

1 Includes hockey clubs from the First Czechoslovak Republic, the Third Czechoslovak Republic, the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the last Czech and Slovak Federative Republic based in today's Czech Republic and Slovakia, and Czechoslovak national teams.
2 Includes the runner-up 1967 Kingston Aces of the Ontario Hockey Association.
3 Includes hockey clubs based in today's Russia and Ukraine, and Soviet national teams.
4 Includes hockey clubs from the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, Allied-occupied Germany, West Germany, and today's united Federal Republic.
5 Includes hockey clubs from the Kingdom of Italy and today's Italian Republic.
6 Includes CSKA Moscow's Cup win in 1991.
7 Includes hockey clubs from the French Third Republic, the Fourth Republic, and today's Fifth Republic.

References[]

  1. The Isis, 23 Jan. 1924, page 19. (Future Prime Minister of Canada Lester Pearson was a member of the Oxford University team in the spring of 1923; however, he returned to Canada in the summer of 1923 and therefore did not compete in the first Spengler Cup played at the end of December 1923 and early January 1924. See: Pearson, Lester B. Mike : The Memoirs of the Right Honourable Lester B. Pearson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972, page 50.)
  2. Hockey Canada withdraws from 2021 Spengler Cup, citing COVID-19 concerns.
  3. Canada and Ambri are replaced, Slovan Bratislava moves up. SpenglerCup.ch (20 December 2021).
  4. Ellis, Steven. Spengler Cup Cancelled for Second Straight Year (en).
  5. Ruch, Fabian. "Ein Berner vermarktet den Spengler-Cup", Berner Zeitung, Berner Zeitung, 2015-12-23. (de) 
  6. Presenting and gold partner – Spengler Cup.
  7. 7.0 7.1 SpenglerCup.ch

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