§ 7 Disqualification from League Play

Parent Category: Fundamental Rules
Category: II. League Play
  1. In case a club is not competing despite from side of ÖEHV and ICE Hockey League mandatory security order, willful and without any legitimate reason, in this case unauthorized, this culpable club will be immediate suspended during the current championship. Should an ICE Hockey League club fail to appear properly at championship games twice within one season, that ICE Hockey League club will be disqualified from the current championship, unless otherwise decided by the ICE Hockey League General Assembly in cooperation with ÖEHV.

  2. If an ICE Hockey League club is disqualified or leaves from the current championship, that ICE Hockey League club's games in the current season in each phase of the regular season will be removed (eliminated) from the league standings. Unless all teams have played their opponent 3 times, at which point, the previous points earned for the 3 previous games played against the team no longer playing in the current championship remain. If the disqualification/leaving happens in the Play-Offs, the current round at the time of the ICE Hockey League club's disqualification/leaving will be recorded as a loss for the disqualified/leaving ICE Hockey League club.

  3. If a club is insolvent respectively unable to pay salaries to players, coaches and employees or debts to other companies, an extraordinary General Assembly can decide whether the club should be expelled from the current championship or expulsion from the club ICE Hockey League.

  4. If an ICE Hockey League club is switching to another league or does not play the league season for any reasons after having made an official registration for the depending season an existent bank guarantee will expire for the benefit of the ICE Hockey League respectively the club will be requested to pay a fee of € 50,000.- to the ICE Hockey League.