Trophies and history of the Bianconera club

7 SWISS CHAMPION

1940S

TheHockey Club Lugano Lugano was constituted during the 1940/1941 season when the first small matches were played on the Muzzano lake. The actual constitution of the club took place, in the middle of World War II, during the meeting of 11 February 1941...

1970S

In the 1970/71 season, with the signings of Bernard Côté and Czechoslovakian Karel Blazek, who starred in a real escape to Switzerland during a tournament in Lugano, the bianconeri celebrated promotion to the LNA...

1990

Gaggini and Slettvoll rely on two Swedish stars for the 1990/1991 season: Magnus Svensson, a powerful defenseman with a great shot and Mats Näslund, an NHL star. With them also the goalkeeper Christophe Wahl arrived at Lugano from Ajoie...

2005

The 2005/2006 championship starts. Lugano wins with regularity. And it often convinces even its demanding public, in spite of the initial grumbling for Maneluk's cession. To Glen Metropolit, Canadian all inspiration and concreteness...

1950S

In Loreto, with players wearing a beautiful woolen bianconera jersey in which the letters HCL stand out, the first real ice puck games were held with performances by, among others, such emblazoned teams as Oxford University, and on Feb. 1, 1950, in front of 2,500 people...

1980

Two big names landed on the shores of Lake Lugano in 1980. Fresh from the extraordinary gold medal won with the US national team at the Lake Placid Olympics, Mark Pavelich and John Harrington arrived...

1995

The 1995/96 championship opens with an event that will go down in history: the inauguration of the much desired new Resega's rink, on the 25th of September 1995 with the first championship game between Lugano and Lausanne. After the unforgettable party...

2010

On April 6, 2010, the family bianconera mourns instead for a tragedy. The body of athletic trainer Tiziano Muzio is found under an avalanche on his beloved Mount Bar. A special man who went through 30 years of club life...

1960S

On the 29th of February 1964 on Rapperswil's rink, the HCL finally reached the coveted promotion to the LNB thanks to a sensational purchase campaign with the signing of Elwin Friedrich and Roland Bernasconi, both national players and already Swiss champions with Villars...

1985

Slettvoll prepares for the 1985/1986 season knowing that it may indeed be the most important one in the club's history bianconero. The buying campaign brings to Lugano two more hopeful pawns: Sandro Bertaggia and Andy Ton...

2000

The 2000/2001 season, the HCL's 60th birthday season, traces in some ways the previous one. I bianconeri indeed end the regular season in the lead, again ahead of the ZSC Lions. Quarterfinals and semifinals of the playoffs are very painful...

2015 - ...

The 2015/2016 season, the 75th anniversary season, gets off to a flying start in the summer. In Fischer and Andersson's court comes Tony Martensson, Swedish two-way centre with a gigantic international experience...