The 2018–19 Austrian Hockey League season began on 14 September 2018 and ended on 24 April 2019. The defending champion were HC Bolzano. On 24 April 2018, EC KAC won the Austrian Hockey Championship for the 31st time in their history.
Following the regular season, bottom placed KHL Medveščak Zagreb announced they would not be participating in the second phase of the season at the qualifying round due to financial and scheduling difficulties on 28 January 2019. The Qualifying round was reduced to a pool of 5 teams each playing 8 games.
Teams
Team City Arena Capacity Dornbirn Bulldogs Dornbirn Messestadion Dornbirn 4,270 Moser Medical Graz 99ers Graz Merkur-Eisarena 4,126 HC TWK Innsbruck Innsbruck Tyrolean Ice Arena 3,000 EC KAC Klagenfurt Stadthalle Klagenfurt 4,945 EHC LIWEST Black Wings Linz Linz Keine Sorgen EisArena 4,863 EC Red Bull Salzburg Salzburg Eisarena Salzburg 3,200 Vienna Capitals Vienna Albert Schultz Eishalle 7,022 EC Panaceo VSV Villach Stadthalle Villach 4,500 HC Orli Znojmo Znojmo Hostan Arena 4,800 SAPA Fehérvár AV19 Székesfehérvár Ifjabb Ocskay Gábor Ice Hall 3,500 HCB Alto Adige Alperia Bolzano Eiswelle 7,200 Medveščak Zagreb Zagreb Dom Sportova & Arena Zagreb 5,000 & 15,000
Standings Regular season Rank Team GP W L OTW OTL Goals Diff. Pts 1 Graz 99ers 44 23 11 8 2 170:118 +52 87 2 Vienna Capitals 44 24 10 5 5 162:117 +45 87 3 EC KAC 44 22 12 7 3 146:96 +50 83 4 EC Red Bull Salzburg 44 21 14 4 5 181:125 +56 76 5 HC Bolzano 44 22 14 2 6 131:108 +23 76 6 Fehérvár AV19 44 19 14 6 5 166:148 +18 74 7 EHC Black Wings Linz 44 20 17 2 5 142:129 +13 69 8 Orli Znojmo 44 19 21 1 3 164:163 +1 62 9 Dornbirn Bulldogs 44 17 18 2 7 136:148 -12 62 10 HC TWK Innsbruck 44 13 19 8 4 148:164 -16 59 11 EC VSV 44 8 29 5 2 110:158 -48 36 12 KHL Medveščak Zagreb 44 6 35 0 3 78:260 -182 21
Placement round Rank Team GP W L OTW OTL Goals Diff. Pts (Bonus) 1 Vienna Capitals 10 8 0 2 0 47:21 +26 32 (4) 2 Graz 99ers 10 6 3 0 1 32:28 +4 25 (6) 3 EC KAC 10 4 5 1 0 28:22 +6 16 (2) 4 Fehérvár AV19 10 4 6 0 0 26:31 -5 12 (0) 5 EC Red Bull Salzburg 10 2 5 1 2 23:39 -16 11 (1) 6 HC Bolzano 10 2 7 0 1 25:40 -15 7 (0)
Qualification round Rank Team GP W L OTW OTL Goals Diff. Pts (Bonus) 1 EHC Black Wings Linz 8 3 2 0 3 25:32 -7 18 (6) 2 Orli Znojmo 8 4 3 1 0 37:23 +14 18 (4) 3 HC TWK Innsbruck 8 4 3 0 1 27:24 +3 14 (1) 4 EC VSV 8 4 4 0 0 18:18 0 12 (0) 5 Dornbirn Bulldogs 8 1 4 3 0 20:30 -10 11 (2)
Playoffs
References
External links
Erste Bank Eishockey Liga Statistics