Graz 99ers

Hockey was played at Premier League level in Graz mainly from two predecessor clubs. The Hockey department of the ATSE Graz (Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association Eggenberg) was founded in 1947 and won to date the only Graz Hockey club title at the top Austrian League level in the 1974–75 and 1977-78 season. The club was merged early nineties with the UEC Graz, shortly after the EC Graz emerged. In 2008, the Hockey section of was ATSE Graz reactivated on the league level. The new goalie was Ben Bowns.

The EC Graz (also called "the elephant") experienced under President Hannes Kartnig its heyday, finishing three times the runner-up title in the seasons 1991–92, 1992–93 and 1993–94 despite running at a high financial cost. After the departure of Hannes Kartnig, the football club SK Sturm Graz changed, they tried to rescue the EC Graz. When this plan failed, the EHC Graz was established in 1998, only to become bankrupt the same year.

Establishment and promotion to the Bundesliga

In 1999 Jochen Pildner-Steinburg founded the Graz 99ers as the successor club of the EC Graz to offer Hockey League back in the Styrian capital. The team premiered in the second division, the Austrian National League, finishing after 28 rounds played, in first place in the table. In the semifinals, the team continued after opening game defeat to persevere to a 3: 1 series win against the EHC Lustenau to meet EK Zell am See in the final. The series was decided in four games with Graz taking advantage of the opportunity for promotion to the Austrian Hockey League.

Updated 24 January 2023.^[1]

No.	Nat	Player	Pos	S/G	Age	Acquired	Birthplace
66		Adis Alagic	C	L	30	2020	Villach, Austria
73		Mario Altmann (C)	D	L	37	2020	Wien, Austria
76		Sam Antonitsch	LW	L	28	2022	Wien, Austria
37		Gustav Bouramman	D	R	27	2022	Stockholm, Sweden
15		Armadeus Egger	D	L	24	2017	Graz, Austria
22		Jakob Engelhart	F	L	19	2022	Graz, Austria
31		Christian Engstrand	G	L	35	2021	Linköping, Sweden
40		Tobias Fladeby	LW	L	28	2022	Asker, Norway
59		Viktor Granholm	F	R	27	2022	Bærum, Norway
23		Cornelius Kaschnig	F	L	22	2021	Graz, Austria
65		Michael Kernberger	D	L	27	2021	Klagenfurt, Austria
71		Erik Kirchschläger (A)	D	L	28	2018	Linz, Austria
89		Clemens Krainz	F	R	23	2018	Graz, Austria
3		Florian Murg	D	L	19	2021	Graz, Austria
74		Daniel Oberkofler (C)	F	L	35	2017	Graz, Austria
18		Ken Ograjensek	RW	R	32	2016	Celje, Slovenia
21		Kevin Pesendorfer	F	L	22	2020	Graz, Austria
5		Jacob Pfeffer	D	L	23	2020	Wien, Austria
82		Paul Reiner	D	R	17	2022	Graz, Austria
9		Aleksi Salonen	D	R	31	2022	Muurame, Finland
13		Michael Schiechl (A)	C	L	35	2020	Judenburg, Austria
30		Nicolas Wieser	G	L	26	2022	Villach, Austria
51		Daniel Woger	LW	R	36	2022	Bregenz, Austria
12		Andrew Yogan	C	L	32	2022	Coconut Creek, Florida, United States
10		Zintis Zusevics	LW	L	30	2021	Riga, Latvia

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