Hockey Club Lugano | |
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City | Lugano, Switzerland |
League |
NLA: 1999–present NDA: 1970–1972, 1981–1999 NDB: 1963–1970, 1972–1981 |
Founded | 1941 |
Home arena | Pista La Resega |
Colors | |
Owner(s) | Vicky Mantegazza |
General manager | Roland Habisreutinger |
Head coach | Greg Ireland |
Captain | Alessandro Chiesa |
Website | Official website |
Franchise history | |
1941–present | Hockey Club Lugano |
Hockey Club Lugano, often abbreviated to HC Lugano or HCL, is a professional ice hockey club based in Lugano, Switzerland. The team competes in the National League A and has won seven Swiss championships. The team is the ninth most attended team in Switzerland for the 2015-16 season with 5,783 spectators.
The Resega hockey arena in Lugano is primarily used for ice hockey and is the home arena of HC Lugano, HC Lugano Ladies Team, HC Lugano-Ceresio and HC Porza. It was built in 1995, after the demolition of the previous one, and can hold 8,000 people.
Updated November 6, 2015.
HC Lugano records in the Swiss National League A.
The HC Lugano Ladies Team is a semi-professional women’s ice hockey team that competes in the Swiss Women’s A League. The club was officially founded on May 22, 1990. They won the Swiss Championship on 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2010.
In 2007 the HC Lugano Ladies Team qualified for the final round of the IIHF European Women's Champions Cup and even won the bronze medal 2010.