The Hannover Scorpions are a professional

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team, which plays in the Oberliga, Germany's third tier ice hockey league. They previously played in the

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from 1996 to 2013.

History

Founded in 1975 as ESC Wedemark, the team was renamed Wedemark Scorpions in their first DEL season in 1996 after the

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, who also call

Hanover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...

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their home. The next season, the Scorpions relocated to Hanover proper and began playing their home games at

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in 2000. Despite playing in the region's top venue, as well as enjoying sizeable corporate and political support, the team has struggled to generate sustained interest in Hanover. Before relocating there in 1997, the Scorpions played their home games in Mellendorf, a small town located 20 km north in Wedemark township. They were actually considered rivals of Hanover. Thus, many local fans resented their longtime foe taking over the Hanover market at the expense of the city's historic hockey team, the less-favored Indians, and refused to support the Scorpions. With the club stricken by financial problems at the conclusion of the 2012–13 season, the Scorpions were forced to sell their DEL license to 2nd Bundesliga club the

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on June 14, 2013. The Scorpions were then placed in the Oberliga, Germany's third tier league.

Honors

Champions

* DEL Championship ''(1)'':

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*Champion 1.League ''(1)'': 1996 *Oberliga Nord Champion ''(1)'': 1994 *Regionalliga Nord Champion ''(2)'': 1977, 1991

Players

Honored members

*10 Joe West *20 Len Soccio *85 Arthur Jamaev

Season records

References

External links

Official Team Website
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