HC Varese

	HC Varese
City:	Varese, Italy
League:	Serie A2
Founded:	1977
Home Arena:	PalaAlbani; (1,200 places)
Colors:	Black, yellow and white
General Manager:	Claudio Pucci
Head Coach:	Matteo Malfatti
Captain:	Salvatore Sorrenti
Franchise history
Scudetti:	1987, 1989

Hockey Club Varese (HC Varese) is a professional hockey team based in Varese, Lombardy, Italy that plays in the Serie A2 in Italy. The team is the resurrection of the defunct AS Mastini Varese Hockey that folded in 2005.

Achievements[]

Scudetti won: (2) (1987, 1989)
Federation Cup won: (1) (1996)

History[]

The club's history begins in 1977 as the club was founded under the name AS Mastini Varese Hockey (complete name: Associazione Sportiva Mastini Varese Hockey; the Varese Mastiffs).

Ten years after being founded, in 1987, the Mastini won their first Scudetto, bringing the award back in Lombardy for the first time in 27 years since Diavoli Hockey Club Milano won it in 1960; Varese repeated the feat two years later.

In 1996, the team won the second and last edition of the Federation Cup, to date the only continental tournament won by an Italian club. From these years however, a long period of crisis arose in Varese, with the club voluntarily withdrawing itself from the top italian league due to serious financial problems. It would take until 2003-04 before Varese would again ice a solid team. The team enjoyed a succesful season, but it was too little too late - the team nevertheless went bankrupt and was dismantled.

In August of the same year, the team was re-founded with its actual name, inheriting of the youth team of the defunct team, of the team's colours and of the logo. For the first two seasons, HC Varese existed solely as a youth team; however, in 2007-08, the team joined the Serie C Under 26 league, thus becoming the farm team of HC Junior Milano Vipers.

In 2008-09, the Mastini returned to the professional level, joining Serie A2 and becoming the farm team of SG Pontebba. The team finished dead last of the league with 21 points.

Head coaches[]

1981-1982 - Werner Holzner - Ray Mckay
1982-1984 - Ron Ivany
198?-1987 - William Pourcell
1987-1988 - Grant Standbrook - Dave Chambers
1988-1990 - Brian Lefley
1990-1991 - Ron Ivany
1991-1992 - Jim Webster
1992-1993 - Kim Gellert
1993-1994 - Pat Cortina
1994- - Paul Theriault
1995- - Luciano Basile^[1]
1995-2000 - Nenad Ilic^[2]
2000-2003 - Igor Kosovic, Frank Odino
2004-2005 - Tony Martino
2007-2009 - Matteo Malfatti
2011-2013 - Zdenek Kudrna/Nenad Ilic
2013-oggi - Nenad Ilic

Varese Greats[]

Jan Alston
Luciano Basile
Chad Biafore
Marcello Borghi
Mario Brunetta
Joe Busillo
Paolo Casciaro^[3]
James Camazzola
Greg Chambers
Jason Chimera
Al Conroy
Jim Corsi
Mario Debenedictis
Bob DePiero
Paolo Della Bella
Cesare Carlacci
Angelo Catenaro
Anthony Circelli

Cory Murphy
Tony Martino
Pat Mazzoli
Patrick Micheletti
Peter Michelutti
Roberto Marchiorato
Stefan Mair
Mario Nobili
Mark Napier
Frank Nigro
Anders Olsson
Mauro Papalillo
Luca Brugnoni
Paolo Di Dio
Jon Pittis
John Prase
Steve O'Brien
Stefano Rizzo

References[]

Externsl links[]

This article is part of the Italian hockey portal

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