Euro Hockey Tour

Euro Hockey Tour
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2023–24 Euro Hockey Tour
The EHT logo
SportIce hockey
Founded1996
Most recent
champion(s)
 Sweden (7th title)
Most titles Finland
 Russia
(9 titles each)
Trophies being awarded from the tournament

The Euro Hockey Tour (EHT) is an annual ice hockey tournament open to only the national men's teams of the Czech Republic, Finland, Switzerland and Sweden. Most of the teams use the competition as a preparation for the upcoming World Championships or Olympics, allowing less experienced players to collect valuable ice time in their national colours.

History

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Tournaments

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Current
Former

Playing format

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Each team plays three games in each of the tournaments, giving a total of twelve games per team. After the four tournaments have finished, the teams are seeded according to their respective combined point total from all four tournaments.

In each tournament, five games are played in the host city, and one game in another participating country. For example, in the 2007 edition of Karjala Tournament, the game between Sweden and Russia was played in Jönköping, Sweden, rather than in Finland, who host the Karjala Cup. Every country is assigned one home game and one away game in those games.

Each team is given three points for a regulation-time win, two points for an overtime or shootout win, one point for a loss in overtime or shootout, and zero points for a loss in regulation time. In the four tournaments, if two or more teams end with the same number of points, they are seeded based on head-to-head results in games against the tied teams. In the EHT standings however, two or more teams tied in points are seeded based on the better goal difference.

Prize money

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The prize money for the winner of each tournament is 50,000 while the second seed gets €30,000, the third seed gets €25,000, and the fourth seed gets €15,000. The EHT season winner receives another €75,000, the team finishing second gets €30,000, and the team finishing third gets €15,000.[1]

Finals in previous years

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Medal games were not played until the 2003–04 season. Before that, place order was determined by the tournament standings. The seasons 2003–04, 2004–05 and 2006–07 used a format where the first- and second-placed teams played a home-and-home two-game series for the EHT gold and silver medals, while the third- and fourth-placed teams played two games for the bronze. In 2005–06, the championship was determined by a single game played at the home of the first-place team. Since 2007–08, no EHT finals have been played.

Participating teams

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Four European teams compete in EHT. The Czech Republic, Finland, and Sweden have participated since the tournament was started in 1996. Switzerland replaced Russia in 2022 after the Russian team was suspended from participation in international tournaments due to the military invasion of Ukraine.[2]

Results

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Men

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# Season Winner Runner-up 3rd place 4th place
1 1996–97[a]  Finland  Sweden  Russia  Czech Republic
2 1997–98  Czech Republic  Sweden  Finland  Russia
3 1998–99  Sweden  Finland  Czech Republic  Russia
4 1999–00  Finland  Czech Republic  Russia  Sweden
5 2000–01  Finland  Russia  Sweden  Czech Republic
6 2001–02  Finland  Russia  Sweden  Czech Republic
7 2002–03  Finland  Russia  Czech Republic  Sweden
8 2003–04  Finland  Sweden  Russia  Czech Republic
9 2004–05[b]  Russia  Sweden  Finland  Czech Republic
10 2005–06  Russia  Sweden  Finland  Czech Republic
11 2006–07  Sweden  Russia  Czech Republic  Finland
12 2007–08  Russia  Finland  Czech Republic  Sweden
13 2008–09  Russia  Finland  Sweden  Czech Republic
14 2009–10  Finland  Russia  Czech Republic  Sweden
15 2010–11  Russia  Sweden  Finland  Czech Republic
16 2011–12  Czech Republic  Finland  Russia  Sweden
17 2012–13  Russia  Czech Republic  Finland  Sweden
18 2013–14  Finland  Russia  Czech Republic  Sweden
19 2014–15  Sweden  Finland  Czech Republic  Russia
20 2015–16  Sweden  Finland  Czech Republic  Russia
21 2016–17  Russia  Czech Republic  Finland  Sweden
22 2017–18  Finland  Czech Republic  Russia  Sweden
23 2018–19  Russia  Finland  Sweden  Czech Republic
24 2019–20[c]  Czech Republic  Sweden  Finland  Russia
25 2020–21  Russia  Czech Republic  Sweden  Finland
26 2021–22  Sweden  Finland  Czech Republic  Russia
27 2022–23  Sweden  Czech Republic  Finland   Switzerland
28 2023–24  Sweden  Finland  Czech Republic   Switzerland
  1. ^ Only points from Karjala Cup, Izvestija Cup and Swedish Hockey Games counted in the final standings due to that the Russian team did not participate in the Pragobanka Cup.
  2. ^ Czech tournament not played due to 2004 World Cup of Hockey.
  3. ^ Czech Hockey Games not played due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Women

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  1. 2018–19 Euro Hockey Tour (women)
  2. 2019–20 Euro Hockey Tour (women):  Finland /  Sweden /  Russia
  3. 2022–23 Euro Hockey Tour (women):  Finland /  Czechia /  Sweden
  4. 2023–24 Euro Hockey Tour (women):  Czechia /  Finland /  Sweden
  5. 2024–25 Women's Euro Hockey Tour:

Medals

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Men (1996-2023)

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Finland (FIN)99826
2 Russia (RUS)96520
3 Sweden (SWE)77519
4 Czech Republic (CZE)361019
Totals (4 entries)28282884

Women (2019-2023)

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Finland (FIN)2002
2 Sweden (SWE)0112
3 Czech Republic (CZE)0101
4 Russia (RUS)0011
Totals (4 entries)2226

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Euro Hockey Tour prize money 2012–13" (PDF). Swedish Ice Hockey Association. Retrieved 8 June 2013.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "The Swiss national team will replace Russia on the Euro Hockey Tour in two years". Sport.cz. 16 March 2022.