Year |
Champion |
Country |
1923-24 |
Oxford UIHC |
Great Britain |
1924-25 |
Berliner SC |
Germany |
1925-26 |
Oxford UIHC |
Great Britain |
1926-27 |
Berliner SC |
Germany |
1927-28 |
HC Davos |
Switzerland |
1928-29 |
Berliner SC |
Germany |
1929-30 |
LTC Praha |
Czechoslovakia |
1930-31 |
LTC Praha |
Czechoslovakia |
1931-32 |
Oxford UIHC |
Great Britain |
1932-33 |
LTC Praha |
Czechoslovakia |
1932-33 |
Oxford UIHC |
Great Britain |
1933-34 |
HC Davos |
Switzerland |
1934-35 |
HC Diavoli Rosso Neri |
Italy |
1935-36 |
HC Diavoli Rosso Neri |
Italy |
1936-37 |
HC Davos |
Switzerland |
1937-38 |
LTC Praha |
Czechoslovakia |
1938-39 |
HC Davos |
Switzerland |
1941-42 |
HC Davos |
Switzerland |
1942-43 |
HC Davos |
Switzerland |
1943-44 |
HC Davos |
Switzerland |
1944-45 |
Zurcher SC |
Switzerland |
1945-46 |
Zurcher SC |
Switzerland |
1946-47 |
LTC Praha |
Czechoslovakia |
1947-48 |
LTC Praha |
Czechoslovakia |
1948-49 |
LTC Praha |
Czechoslovakia |
1950-51 |
HC Diavoli Rosso Neri |
Italy |
1951-52 |
HC Davos |
Switzerland |
1952-53 |
EV Fussen |
West Germany |
1953-54 |
HC Milano Inter |
Italy |
1954-55 |
HC Milano Inter |
Italy |
1955-56 |
Ruda Hvezda Brno |
Czechoslovakia |
1957-58 |
HC Davos |
Switzerland |
1958-59 |
HC Davos |
Switzerland |
1959-60 |
ACBB Paris |
France |
1960-61 |
ACBB Paris |
France |
1961-62 |
ACBB Paris |
France |
1962-63 |
Spartak Sokolovo Praha |
Czechoslovakia |
1963-64 |
Spartak Sokolovo Praha |
Czechoslovakia |
1964-65 |
EV Fussen |
West Germany |
1965-66 |
Dukla Jihlava |
Czechoslovakia |
1966-67 |
Dukla Jihlava |
Czechoslovakia |
1967-68 |
Lokomotiv Moscow |
USSR |
1968-69 |
Dukla Jihlava |
Czechoslovakia |
1969-70 |
Lokomotiv Moscow |
USSR |
1970-71 |
SKA Leningrad |
USSR |
1971-72 |
SKA Leningrad |
USSR |
1972-73 |
Slovan Bratislava |
Czechoslovakia |
1973-74 |
Slovan Bratislava |
Czechoslovakia |
1974-75 |
Slovan Bratislava |
Czechoslovakia |
1975-76 |
TCH Olympic |
Czechoslovakia |
1976-77 |
USSR National B |
USSR |
1977-78 |
SKA Leningrad |
USSR |
1978-79 |
Dukla Jihlava |
Czechoslovakia |
1979-80 |
Krylja Sovetov Moscow |
USSR |
1980-81 |
Spartak Moscow |
USSR |
1981-82 |
Spartak Moscow |
USSR |
1982-83 |
Dukla Jihlava |
Czechoslovakia |
1983-84 |
Dynamo Moscow |
USSR |
1984-85 |
Team Canada |
Canada |
1985-86 |
Spartak Moscow |
USSR |
1986-87 |
Team Canada |
Canada |
1987-88 |
Krylja Sovetov Moscow |
USSR |
1988-89 |
USA Selects |
USA |
1989-90 |
Spartak Moscow |
USSR |
1990-91 |
Spartak Moscow |
USSR |
1991-92 |
CSKA Moscow |
Russia |
1992-93 |
Team Canada |
Canada |
1993-94 |
Farjestad Karlstad |
Sweden |
1994-95 |
Farjestad Karlstad |
Sweden |
1995-96 |
Lada Togliatti |
Russia |
1996-97 |
Team Canada |
Canada |
1997-98 |
Team Canada |
Canada |
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Three Times A Keeper
After winning the Spengler Cup 3 times, a team is given the trophy for keeps. This is the 1961 Spengler Cup given to ACBB Paris upon their 3rd consecutive victory.
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The First Rulers
This Oxford University squad won their 2nd Spengler Cup in 1925. Two years earlier, Oxford was the inaugural champion of the annual Davos tournament.
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America’s 1st Spengler
USA Selects captain Ron Wilson hoists the 1988 Spengler Cup Championship trophy. This was the first US based team to win the Spengler.
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Trifecta
With the great Vladimir Zabrodsky leading the way in 1948, LTC (Lawn Tennis Cercle) Praha of Czechoslovakia became the first team from outside Switzerland to win the prestigious Spengler Cup three years in a row. The Davos Hockey Club, which hosts the tournament annually between Christmas and New Year’s, had been the first three-time winners between 1941 and 1943. A giant of a man, Zabrodsky was perhaps the greatest player in Europe during the 1940s. He had exceptionally fast hands and played with a tremendous amount of poise. Besides the Spengler Cup, LTC Praha won three consecutive Czechoslovak national championships between 1946 and 1948. Zabrodsky, who later defected to Switzerland, was also a key figure in Czechoslovakia’s World Championship gold medal victories in 1947 and 1949. Stanislav Konopasek was also one of the great LTC players of the time and the team made good use of transplanted Canadians, including Matej Buckna, a native of Trail, B.C. who taught the Czechoslovaks much about the game.
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Canada Finally Takes Center Stage
The Spengler Cup tournament made its debut in the town of Davos, Switzerland in 1923. Until 1984, no representative from Canada had won the cup. When Canada defeated Khimik Voskresensk to win the tournament in December of 1984, it marked the beginning of a successful run for the country. Between 1984 and 1997 the Canada Selects, made up of members of the amateur national team, university players, minor pros and Canadians playing in Europe, won the Spengler Cup seven times. That included three consecutive victories between 1995 and 1997. Andy Murray, who coached Canada to a World Championship gold medal in 1997, coached six of those seven Spengler Cup champions. Besides restoring Canada’s tarnished hockey pride in Europe, the victories added much needed funds to the programs of Hockey Canada and later Canadian hockey for the development of future teams.
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Big Ned leads Slovan Bratislava
Following in the footsteps of another great Czechoslovakian club LTC Praha, Slovan Bratislava won its third consecutive Spengler Cup tournament in 1974. The triple occurred in the final season in Europe for the great Vaclav Nedomansky, who had scored 369 goals in 419 league matches with Slovan over 12 seasons. At the age of 30 Nedomansky defected to join the Toronto Toros of the World Hockey Association for the 1974-75 season. Later he played in the NHL with Detroit, St. Louis and the New York Rangers. Big Ned, who was a huge attraction in European hockey rinks, dazzled the fans in the Swiss town of Davos, along with goalie Vladimir Dzurilla, later a star at the 1976 Canada Cup.
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