Grasshopper Club Küsnacht Lions known as GCK Lions is a
Swiss
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professional
ice hockey
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team founded in 1932.
They are currently playing in the
Swiss League
The Swiss League is the second tier of the main professional ice hockey league in Switzerland, behind the National League. The winners of the league each season plays a best-of-seven series against the bottom team of the NL, and if they win, th ...
(SL), Switzerland's second tier ice hockey division, as the affiliate to the
ZSC Lions
The Zürcher Schlittschuh Club Lions (ZSC Lions) are a professional ice hockey team located in Zürich, Switzerland, playing in the National League (NL). Their home arena is the 12,000-seat Swiss Life Arena. The team was founded in 1930 and play ...
.
The home arena is
KEK Küsnacht
, known as KEK, is a Japanese organization whose purpose is to operate the largest particle physics laboratory in Japan, situated in Tsukuba, Ibaraki prefecture. It was established in 1997. The term "KEK" is also used to refer to the laboratory ...
(capacity 2,800). The team has won one Swiss Championships, in 1966, as well as two championships in the Swiss second division (
National League B
The Swiss League is the second tier of the main professional ice hockey league in Switzerland, behind the National League. The winners of the league each season plays a best-of-seven series against the bottom team of the NL, and if they win, the ...
), in 1946 and 1963. The name of GCK is derived from "
Grasshopper Club Zürich
Grasshopper Club Zürich, commonly referred to as simply GC, GCZ, or Grasshoppers, is a multisports club based in Zürich, Switzerland. The oldest and best known department of the club is its football team. With 27 titles, Grasshopper holds the ...
" (GCZ) and "SC
Küsnacht
Küsnacht is a municipality in the district of Meilen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
History
Küsnacht is first mentioned in 1188 as ''de Cussenacho''.
Earliest findings of settlement date back to the stone age. There are also findi ...
" (SCK) — two sports clubs which merged to form GCK.
Honors
*
National League Championship: ''(1)'' 1966
*
NLB Championship: ''(2)'' 1946, 1963
*
Swiss Cup
The Swiss Cup (; ; ; ) is a football cup tournament that has been organised annually since 1925–26 by the Swiss Football Association. Since 1999 the winner earns the chance to qualify for the UEFA Europa League or the UEFA Europa Conference L ...
: ''(1)'' 1966
References
External links
GCK Lions official website
Ice hockey teams in Switzerland
Küsnacht
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