Straubing Tigers | |
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City | Straubing |
League | Deutsche Eishockey Liga |
Founded | 1941 |
Home arena | Eisstadion am Pulverturm (capacity: 5,635) |
Colours | |
General manager | Jason Dunham |
Head coach | Tom Pokel |
Captain | Sandro Schönberger |
Website | straubing-tigers.de |
Franchise history | |
Straubing Tigers |
The Straubing Tigers are a professional men's ice hockey team, based in Straubing, Germany, that competes in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. Straubing plays its home games at the Eisstadion am Pulverturm, which has a capacity of 5,635 spectators.
Promoted to the DEL in 2006, and operating with one of the league's smallest budgets, the team could finish no better than twelfth before the 2011–12 DEL season, when it reached the semi-finals of the playoffs. Their greatest success so far is the qualification for the Champions Hockey League seasons 2020–21 (cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic), 2022-23 and 2024-25. In 2022-23, Straubing finished first in the CHL group stage and reached the round of 16 against Frölunda HC.