Trans-Tasman Champions League

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Trans-Tasman Champions League
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2012 Trans-Tasman Champions League
SportIce hockey
Founded2012
No. of teams4
Most recent
champion(s)		Melbourne Ice

The Trans-Tasman Champions League is an ice hockey tournament between the

Melbourne, Victoria with the Melbourne Ice
winning the tournament. The second tournament is set to be held in New Zealand, with the location and teams yet to be announced.

History

The Trans-Tasman Champions League was first announced in August 2011 and is organised between the

Southern Stampede.[4] Melbourne Ice won the tournament on goal difference after winning both of their games against the New Zealand teams and finishing ahead of Newcastle on goal difference.[5]
The 2013 tournament was set to be held in New Zealand but was cancelled due to the Australian teams not being able to raise the funds in order to travel to New Zealand. Discussions are currently being undertaken to renew the tournament in 2016 and host it in New Zealand. [6]

Format

The Trans-Tasman Champions League trophy

The tournament takes place annually in the weekend of the first week of July, halfway through the regular season of both leagues.[3] Both leagues send two teams which are the previous season's regular season champions and the winner of that season's finals of each league.[3] In a situation where one team is both the regular season champion and winner of the finals of the previous season, the team that was the runner up of the previous grand final is selected instead to be the second seeded team of their respective league. One team of each league plays one game against the two teams of the other league.[3] At no point do two teams for the same league play each other. Therefore, there is a total of four games each in the tournament, played across two days. The winning team is the team who finishes first in the round-robin standings. They either have the best record of the four teams, or in the case of a tie, the best goal difference in their two match ups.[3]

Host and Results

The first edition of the Trans-Tasman Champions League was in 2012, and was hosted at the

Melbourne
. The second edition is to be hosted in New Zealand in 2014, with a site that has yet to be determined. Should there be more additions afterward, it is expected that this pattern will be repeated with even years been hosted by an AIHL or Australian city and odd years by a NZIHL or New Zealand city.

Year Location Teams Winner
2012
Melbourne, Victoria
Southern Stampede
 Melbourne Ice
2013 Queenstown Ice Arena, Queenstown, New Zealand
Southern Stampede, Melbourne Ice, Newcastle Northstars
 Cancelled
2016 TBD, New Zealand TBD

See also

References

  1. ^ "Trans-Tasman Champions League to be launched in 2012". Australian Ice Hockey League. Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2011-09-04.
  2. ^ "Trans-Tasman Champions League logo revealed". Hewitt Sports Network. Archived from the original on 2012-07-15. Retrieved 2012-07-15.
  3. ^ a b c d e "New format for TTCL". Hewitt Sports Network. Archived from the original on 2012-07-15. Retrieved 2012-07-15.
  4. ^ "Australia vs New Zealand in all new Ice Hockey Showdown". Australian Ice Hockey League. Archived from the original on 2012-07-24. Retrieved 2012-07-15.
  5. ^ "Melbourne Ice win innaugural [sic] Trans Tasman Champions League". Australian Ice Hockey League. 2012-07-08. Archived from the original on 2015-02-23. Retrieved 2012-07-15.
  6. ^ "Trans-Tasman Champions League Postponed". Australian Ice Hockey League. 2013-02-28. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-03-02.
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