National League 2022/23

2022/23 calendar announced

The match schedule of the new league has been released: the National League match between SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers and ZSC Lions will open the 2022/2023 season on Wednesday, 14 September 2022. Thereafter, fans will be able to watch many matches on TV for free. Four days after the season opener, the first Sunday evening game will be played. This...

Lorenzo Canonica

Lorenzo Canonica QMJHL champion

Congratulations to Lorenzo Canonica, a forward who grew up in the youth sector ofHockey Club Lugano and made his debut as a 16-year-old in the first team in 2019. "Lollo" won the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) championship with the Shawinigan Cataractes, playing 68 games with 15 goals and 30 assists. A feat achieved in 2016 by a certain ... Timo Meier....

Mikko Koskinen

Mikko Koskinen is Lugano's foreign goalkeeper

'Hockey Club Lugano finalized the identity of the fifth foreigner on the roster after captain Mark Arcobello, renewals with forwards Daniel Carr and Troy Josephs, and the signing of defender Oliwer Kaski. The bianconera club signed 33-year-old Finnish goalkeeper Mikko Koskinen to a contract valid for the next two championships, which ended...

Raffaele Sannitz's jersey and retirement

TheHockey Club Lugano has defined the schedule of friendly matches in view of the 2022/23 season, which will debut with the first Regular Season game on 16 September. Chris McSorley's men will take to the ice for the first time on Saturday 13 August against the Lakers on the St. Gallen rink. Central moment in the build-up to the championship...

Thibault Fatton

Fatton bianconero until 2025

Hockey Club Lugano is pleased to announce that it has extended the contract of goalkeeper Thibault Fatton until the end of the 2024/25 season. The 20-year-old born in La Chaux-de-Fonds (186 cm. 75 kg.) had arrived at the Cornèr Arena in the 2018/19 season and has since played three consecutive championships with the U20 Elit...

Nüm da Lügan

Nüm da Lügan: renew your membership for the 2022/23 season!

The campaign for the renewal of the season tickets in sight of the championship 2022/23 at the Cornèr Arena has started today. The message of the campaign, called "Nüm da Lügan", wants to underline the uniqueness and the originality of the HCL, a club and a fan base that every year proudly renews the challenge to the powerful beyond the Gotthard. Although aware of its limits...

Training contract for four boys class 2002

L'Hockey Club Lugano announces that it has renewed the training contracts with four young talents, all class 2002, who last season were among the protagonists of the brilliant ride of the U20 Elit team coached by Luca Gianinazzi, who finished the regular season at the second rank and played the playoff final. Si...

Loic Vedova

Loic Vedova renews

TheHockey Club Lugano announces that it has renewed the contract with the forward Loïc Vedova until the end of the season 2022/23. The 24 years old winger from Valmaggiore, whose most appreciated skills are skating and intensity, has been part of the HCL since the Mini Top age, has been captain of the U20 Elit team and has played 97 games of...

Oliwer Kaski

Oliwer Kaski: a world champion for McSorley

TheHockey Club Lugano has finalized the identity of the fourth foreigner on its roster after captain Mark Arcobello and renewals with the other two forwards Daniel Carr and Troy Josephs. The bianconera club has in fact signed a contract valid for the next two championships with 26-year-old Finnish defender Oliwer Kaski (190 cm x 89...

Lugano Marittima - Forty-one

L'HC Lugano at Lugano Marittima from 25 May

The City's presence on the ground to promote aggregation and exchange among players, staff, fans, citizens and tourists is a central point for the future ofHockey Club Lugano. In this spirit, the bianconera club will be present with its own little house called Forty One from Wednesday, May 25 at 11:30 a.m. to Sunday, July 10 at...

Auction closed for 2021/22 season jerseys

The online auction for the set of original black jerseys worn by the first-team players during the 2021/22 championship closed at 12:00 today. The 36 jerseys enabled the club to collect a total of CHF 13,560. The six most successful jerseys were, in order, that of Santeri Alatalo (CHF 1,800), that of...

Calle Andersson

Lugano will find Calle Andersson again next season

TheHockey Club Lugano announces to have signed a contract valid for the next four seasons with the Swedish passport but Swiss hockey licence defenseman Calle Andersson (189 cm. x 96 kg.), born in Malmö on 27.05.1994. Drafted in 2012 in the fourth round by the New York Rangers and regularly included in the youth national...

Roland Habisreutinger Director of Sports

HCL and Roland Habisreutinger part ways

The board of directors of the Hockey Club Lugano SA analysed in the last days the outcome of the 2018/2019 season, ended with the premature elimination in the playoff's quarterfinal. After having defined last Tuesday the position of Greg Ireland and Jussi Silander, the work of the team manager Roland Habisreutinger, who is in charge...

Ireland Silander HCL

Ireland's era in Lugano is over

The President Vicky Mantegazza and the board of directors of the Hockey Club Lugano have met today the members of the technical staff at the end of the 2018/2019 season, ended with the elimination at the playoff's quarterfinal against Zug. On this occasion the club has informed Greg Ireland and Jussi Silander, whose contract would...