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, the protagonist of a real escape to Switzerland during a tournament in Lugano, 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 the players wearing a beautiful black-and-white wool jersey with the letters HCL emblazoned on it, the first real ice hockey games took place, with performances by, among others, emblazoned teams such as Oxford University, and on 1 February 1950, in front of 2500 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 6 April 2010, the HCL family mourned a tragedy. The body of athletic trainer Tiziano Muzio is found under an avalanche on his beloved Monte Bar. A special man who walked through the life of the club for 30 years...

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 the 1985/1986 season aware that it could be the most important one in the club's history bianconero. The purchase campaign brings to Lugano two more pawns of good hopes: Sandro Bertaggia and Andy Ton...

2000

The 2000/2001 season, the one of the 60th birthday of the HCL, follows in some ways the previous one. As a matter of fact, the bianconeri closed the regular season in the lead, always in front of ZSC Lions. The quarter-finals and the semi-finals of the playoffs are very suffered...

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...