The Hockey Club Bolzano Foxes, also known as commercial name HCB Alto Adige Alperia (in Italian) or HCB Südtirol Alperia (in German) is an Italian professional

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team located in the city of

Bolzano Bolzano ( ; ; or ) is the capital city of South Tyrol (officially the province of Bolzano), Northern Italy. With a population of 108,245, Bolzano is also by far the largest city in South Tyrol and the third largest in historical Tyrol. The ...

South Tyrol South Tyrol ( , ; ; ), officially the Autonomous Province of Bolzano – South Tyrol, is an autonomous administrative division, autonomous provinces of Italy, province in northern Italy. Together with Trentino, South Tyrol forms the autonomo ...

autonomous province, that plays in the

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(ICEHL). It remains the most successful team in the history of the Italian

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, with 19 championships.

History

HC Bolzano was founded in 1933 and in the first twenty years of its existence, home games were played in an outdoor rink until 1953, when the club moved into the Bolzano Exhibition Hall (''Messe Bozen''), which was the first artificial ice was available. Eleven of the nineteen Italian league titles were won there before the team moved in 1994, to the newly built

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. At the same time, the team also participated in the Alps League in part, an international ice hockey competition, attended by teams from Slovenia and Austria were involved. In addition to a master and three runner-up titles in this competition, the team also won another seven Italian titles, the last of which in 2012 was given the three-time winning the Coppa Italia, the Italian League Cup competition. Other achievements include three gains of the Supercoppa Italiana and the Six Nations tournament, also called Caucasian Ligacup, in 1994. In 2013, the HC Bolzano applied again for inclusion in the

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(EBEL), after earlier applications failed each time due to the resistance of the Italian Ice Hockey Federation. However, the chaotic conditions in the Serie A paved the way to acceptance, since a large part of the club that was from the second division had been released. The move was also largely motivated by the need of a new major sponsor to help clear their financial situation. Known as the HCB Südtirol in the EBEL (the main sponsor is the tourism promotion agency of the Alto Adige – Südtirol region), Bolzano had surprisingly successful inaugural season in 2013–14. On the back of a heavy recruitment scheme which centred in signing Canadian players of Italian heritage, Bolzano finished in fourth place by the end of the Regulation season. In the EBEL finals, they went on to win the championship by defeating the

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in the finals, and in doing so becoming to first non-Austrian based club to win the Austrian Championship. With the victory of the EBEL championship, Bolzano ensured qualification to the first edition of the

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, a prestigious tournament for European clubs. Despite their status of EBEL defending Champions, Bolzano due to numerous financial difficulties that risked compromising the entry of the team in these competitions, were late in confirming their status for a second EBEL season. In May 2016 it was announced that the South Tyrol energy producer Alperia would become the main sponsor of the team. In 2018 the HC Bozen Alperia defeat the EC Red Bull Salzburg in game-7 of the final to win the EBEL championship for a second time. After the successful final, historic captain Alexander Egger announced his retirement from professional ice hockey.

Honours

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**Winners (2): 2013–14, 2017–18 *

**Winners (19): 1962–63,

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, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1987–88, 1989–90, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98, 1999–00, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2011–12 *

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**Winners (3): 2004, 2007, 2009 *

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**Winners (4): 2004, 2007, 2008, 2012 *

Alpenliga The Alpenliga was an international professional ice hockey league which existed between 1991 and 1999. It was contested by club teams from Austria, Italy and Slovenia. In 1994-95 and 1995–96, the Alpenliga was part of a larger competition call ...

**Winners (1):

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

* Six Nations Tournament: **Winners (1):

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: **Winners (1): 1963

Players

Current roster

Updated 17 June 2025

Notable alumni

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* Alexander Andrijevski * Dave Baseggio * Scott Beattie * Oleg Belov * James Black * Jim Boni *

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* Markus Brunner *

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* Matt DeMarchi *

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* Nate DiCasmirro * Flavio Faggioni *

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* Daniel Fernholm * Ron Flockhart * Martin Gendron *

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Jari Helle Jari Juhani Helle (August 10, 1962 in Tampere – April 20, 2017) was a Finnish ice hockey player and coach. He had a brief career in the SM-liiga, playing 18 games for Ilves Tampere in 1979-80 and 9 with Lukko Rauma in 1981-82./ He started his ...

(coach) * Rudi Hiti *

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Viktors Ignatjevs Viktors Ignatjevs (born April 26, 1970 in Riga, Soviet Union) is a Latvian former ice hockey player who played 11 games in the National Hockey League with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Currently Ignatjevs works as the head coach of Kunlun Red Star of ...

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* Kim Issel *

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* Jordan Krestanovich *

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Jamie Lundmark Jamie Lundmark (born January 16, 1981) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward. A first-round draft pick of the New York Rangers, Lundmark played 295 games in the National Hockey League (NHL). Playing career As a youth, Lundmark pl ...

* Bob Manno * Daniel Marois *

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* Paul Messier * Robert Mulick * Jason Muzzatti * Mark Napier * Sergei Naumov * Jeff Nelson *

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Kent Nilsson Kent Åke Nilsson (born 31 August 1956) is a Swedish former professional ice hockey centre. He played in the World Hockey Association (WHA) for the Winnipeg Jets, and in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Atlanta and Calgary Flames, Minnes ...

* Robert Oberrauch *

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* Grigorijs Panteļejevs *

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* Martin Pavlu * Mario Nobili * Michel Petit * Neil Petruic * Frank Pietrangelo * Ray Podloski * Deron Quint *

Mike Rosati Michael Anthony Rosati (born January 7, 1968) is a Canadian-born Italian former professional ice hockey player. He played one game in the National Hockey League with the Washington Capitals during the 1998–99 season. The rest of his career, w ...

* Adam Russo * Peter Schaefer * Jeff Sebastian * Patrice Tardif * Lucio Topatigh *

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* Tony Tuzzolino *

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* Bruno Zarrillo

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bozen Ice hockey teams in Italy Austrian Hockey League teams Alpenliga teams

HC Bozen–Bolzano The Hockey Club Bolzano Foxes, also known as commercial name HCB Alto Adige Alperia (in Italian) or HCB Südtirol Alperia (in German) is an Italian professional ice hockey team located in the city of Bolzano, South Tyrol autonomous province, that ...

Ice hockey clubs established in 1933 1933 establishments in Italy