Eindhoven Kemphanen Top IJshockey is a professional hockey team playing in the Dutch Top League (Eredivisie). The team is located in Eindhoven, The Netherlands and plays its home games at the Ijssportcentrum.
Eindhoven Kemphanen is the professional ice hockey team of Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Kemphanen plays in the Dutch Eredivisie, the highest-level hockey division in the Netherlands and Belgium. Home games are played at the IJssportcentrum Eindhoven wich also is the National Ice Hockey Center.
Eindhoven ice hockey began in the 1970s with the construction of a hockey arena. Eindhoven Kemphanen (Kemphanen, "fighting roosters" in English, is a play on words using the name of the "Kempen" region) first played in the Eredivisie in 1981-82 and played intermittently in the Eredivisie in the 1980s and 1990s. The highlight of this period was winning the Netherlands cup competition in 1986. The team returned to the Eredivisie in 2008-09 for the first time since 1996-97.
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