Vicky Mantegazza celebrates ten years as president

Exactly ten years ago, on 22 June 2011, the shareholders' meeting ofHockey Club Lugano SA, gathered at Palazzo Civico, elected Vicky Mantegazza as the new President of the Board of Directors. Grown up with the love for the City of Lugano in her blood and the passion forHockey Club Lugano in her DNA, Vicky became the second female president of the hockey...

Thank you Raphael

Raffaele Sannitz informedHockey Club Lugano these days of his decision to retire from professional field hockey after 22 consecutive seasons. The 38-year-old forward, born on 05/18/1983 and raised in Mendrisio, had made his debut in the first team bianconera during the 1999/2000 season at the age of sixteen years, eight months and seventeen days, the second youngest rookie...

Club'41 Restaurant

Club'41 reopens

The timetable for the resumption of business in Switzerland is finally moving ahead. From today, the green light is on for indoor restaurants. For this reason, we would like to inform you that from 01 to 18 June, the Restaurant Club' 41 will once again open its doors to the public: Monday to Friday 07:30-20:00, at weekends only for events. The...

Subscribe: every promise is a debt!

Last 22 March, through a video message from President Vicky Mantegazza,Hockey Club Lugano thanked all the people and companies who, as part of the 'A gesture of love' campaign, had chosen to waive the reimbursement of the full amount or half of the season ticket for the 2020/21 season. With a donation fee in favour of the club,...

I bianconeri start sweating again

Training of theHockey Club Lugano first team players in preparation for the 2021/22 championship resumed these days at the Cornèr Arena. Under the guidance of athletic trainer Lassi Laakso, the players bianconeri will conclude this first phase of dry training on July 3 and then face, after two weeks of rest, a second intense...

Champions Hockey League opponents drawn

The group draw of the Champions Hockey League, which, now in its current format in its seventh edition, will begin next August 26, 2021, took place a short while ago via streaming. Fate has reserved Group E for Chris McSorley's men with three respectable opponents. I bianconeri Indeed, they will face the Swedes...

Mirco Müller's solidity for the defense. bianconera

After Santeri Alatalo and Samuel Guerra,Hockey Club Lugano today adds another key piece to its defensive department of the present and future. In fact, the bianconera club tonight signed a contract valid for the next six seasons (2021-2027) with defender Mirco Müller, born in Winterthur on 21.03.1995, who is particularly appreciated in the...

Cortesi Gallery: silent auction ended

In the wake of the #ForzaLuganoForza campaign, which in the past few months had involved numerous realities of the Lugano area, Cortesi Gallery decided to promote an initiative in favour ofHockey Club Lugano in this particular historical moment marked by the pandemic. The two works made available by the young artist Francesco Carozza were sold during the silent auction scheduled in recent weeks (more...

Four-year for Alatalo, three-year for Guerra and Thürkauf

Hockey Club Lugano is pleased to announce the signing of three players who will play an important role on the roster of the future. They are defencemen Santeri Alatalo (31) and Samuel Guerra (27) and forward Calvin Thürkauf (23). Santeri Alatalo (defenceman left, 180 cm. x 80 kg.) was born on 09.05.1990 in Tampere...

Belotti's glasses wear Chris McSorley

The face of the new coach bianconero Chris McSorley will be paired at least for the span of the 2021/22 season with "BELOTTI," a brand of excellence active in the field of optics and hearing (but not only) that has been sharing its passion for the senses with the people of Ticino and Switzerland for years. The characteristics that unite Chris McSorley, an iconic and charismatic character...

Chris McSorley new head coach

TheHockey Club Lugano is pleased to announce that Chris McSorley will be the new head coach of the first team bianconera. The 59-year-old Canadian coach, born in Hamilton, Ontario, on 03/22/1962, has signed a three-year agreement. The company will soon define with him the position of assistant coaches who will complete the coaching staff. With the profile of ...

A renewal for each role

TheHockey Club Lugano is pleased to announce a contract renewal with a two-year agreement with three first team players, one for each position. Niklas Schlegel will defend the cage bianconera for at least the next two championships. The 26-year-old goalkeeper, who is currently in the Swiss national team's training camp for the World Cup in Riga, has...

Pelletier will not be the head coach of the future

TheHockey Club Lugano announces that it informed Serge Pelletier this morning of its decision not to renew his contract as head coach of the first team that has come to a natural end on April 30, 2021. Serge Pelletier had taken over the bench bianconera, following the exoneration of Sami Kapanen, on Dec. 21, 2019, by virtue of his deep knowledge...

Cortesi Gallery for ForzaLuganoForza

In the wake of the #ForzaLuganoForza campaign that had involved numerous entities in the Lugano area in recent months, Cortesi Gallery decided to promote an initiative in favor ofHockey Club Lugano in this particular historical moment marked by the pandemic. The art gallery based in Lugano and Milan is selling for the benefit of the society bianconera two works put to...

Departing players

Few days have passed since the end of the 2020/21 season and theHockey Club Lugano is continuing its in-depth internal analysis on the league's trend and in particular on the disappointing outcome of the playoffs. While waiting to present its strategy for the future, the HCL is making official the names of the players who, on the 30th of April 2021, will close their...