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Euro Hockey Challenge is an annual ice hockey tournament for 12 best teams of Europe. The tournament took place for the first time in 2011.

Format of the tournament[]

Teams are divided into three divisions:

  • Central Division
  • Nordic Division
  • Continental Division

In every division are 4 teams. They play twice each other (six games in total per team). After all games in every division, all statistics are summed up into one table of all divisions. The best team of this table is the Euro Hockey Challenge champion.

For the 2021 tournament, Austrian team was replaced by Belarus for the third week of the tournament due to same dates of the third week of this tournament and the World Championship Division IA. Although the World Championship Division IA was canceled this year, Belarus still replaced Austria in the third week.

In 2021, Finland did not participate in the Euro Hockey Challenge due to COVID-19 pandemic, so there were only three teams in the Nordic Division.

There were also several changes in the Continental Division for the 2021 edition. France was replaced by Belarus for its games against Russia and France did not play its games against Latvia. Latvia played only its two games against Switzerland. As a result, Russia played only its two games against Switzerland and two games against Belarus and Switzerland was the only team in the Continental Division to play all its games.

Participants[]

Central Division Nordic Division Continental Division
Flag of Austria Austria Flag of Denmark Denmark Flag of Belarus Belarus
Flag of Belarus Belarus Flag of Norway Norway Flag of France France
Flag of the Czech Republic Czech Republic Flag of Sweden Sweden Flag of Latvia Latvia
Flag of Germany Germany Flag of Russia Russia
Flag of Slovakia Slovakia Flag of Switzerland Switzerland

Euro Hockey Challenge standings[]

Year Winner Runner-up 3rd place
2011 Flag of Finland Finland Flag of Sweden Sweden Flag of the Czech Republic Czech Republic
2012 Flag of the Czech Republic Czech Republic Flag of Switzerland Switzerland Flag of Finland Finland
2013 Flag of Sweden Sweden Flag of Finland Finland Flag of Norway Norway
2014 Flag of Finland Finland Flag of the Czech Republic Czech Republic Flag of Sweden Sweden
2015 Flag of the Czech Republic Czech Republic Flag of Sweden Sweden Flag of Finland Finland
2016 Flag of Finland Finland Flag of Belarus Belarus Flag of the Czech Republic Czech Republic
2017 Flag of Switzerland Switzerland Flag of Finland Finland Flag of the Czech Republic Czech Republic
2018 Flag of the Czech Republic Czech Republic Flag of Finland Finland Flag of Sweden Sweden
2019 Flag of the Czech Republic Czech Republic Flag of Russia Russia Flag of Sweden Sweden
2020 canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Flag of the Czech Republic Czech Republic Flag of Switzerland Switzerland Flag of Slovakia Slovakia

Medal table[]

Country Gold Silver Bronze Medals
Flag of the Czech Republic Czech Republic 5 1 3 9
Flag of Finland Finland 3 3 2 8
Flag of Sweden Sweden 1 2 3 6
Flag of Switzerland Switzerland 1 2 0 3
Flag of Belarus Belarus 0 1 0 1
Flag of Russia Russia 0 1 0 1
Flag of Norway Norway 0 0 1 1
Flag of Slovakia Slovakia 0 0 1 1
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