# Göteborg HC

Göteborg Hockey Club, abbreviated as Göteborg HC or GHC, are an ice hockey club in Angered, a borough of Gothenburg (Swedish: Göteborg) in southwestern Sweden. They played in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL), the top Swedish women's hockey league, during 2017 to November 2022. In early November 2022, the club withdrew from the SDHL.

## History

Göteborg HC was founded in 2014 and its representative team earned promotion to the SDHL in 2017. The team finished the regular season in last place during each of the five seasons they completed in the SDHL but they managed to avoid relegation each time.
The club earned its first win in the SDHL in November 2017, with a 4–2 victory over SDE Hockey.
In October 2020, goaltender Frida Axell became the first Göteborg HC player to earn a call-up to the senior Swedish national team.

## In the community

In addition to the senior representative team, Göteborg HC operates a free youth hockey school at Angered Arena on Sundays, offering all-girls and coed classes. Frölunda Hockey Club of the Swedish Hockey League has donated funds to GHC to help support, as Frölunda's Academy and Development Manager Mikael Ström described, “the important work GHC is doing in Angered.” Regarding Göteborg HC's hockey school and its partnership with Frölunda HC, GHC president Jan Mellgren said, “We think it is important to build hockey in multicultural areas and we have a good collaboration with Frölunda in that work.”

## Season-by-season results

This list includes all seasons completed by Göteborg HC since gaining promotion to the SDHL.
Code explanation: Finish = Rank at end of regular season; GP = Games played, W = Wins (3 points), OTW = Overtime wins (2 points), OTL = Overtime losses (1 point), L = Losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, Pts = Points, Top scorer: Points (Goals+Assists)
| Season | League | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Post season results |
| Season | League | Finish | GP | W | OTW | OTL | L | GF | GA | Pts | Top scorer | Post season results |
| 2017-18 | SDHL | 10th | 36 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 29 | 67 | 178 | 16 | G. Bannon 33 (18+15) | Saved in relegation playoff |
| 2018-19 | SDHL | 10th | 36 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 32 | 31 | 212 | 10 | A. MacMillan 11 (7+4) | Saved in relegation playoff |
| 2019-20 | SDHL | 10th | 36 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 28 | 52 | 140 | 14 | H. Thuvik 17 (9+8) | Saved in relegation playoff |
| 2020-21 | SDHL | 10th | 36 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 31 | 46 | 159 | 11 | H. Clayton-Carroll 16 (8+8) | Relegation playoff cancelled |
| 2021-22 | SDHL | 10th | 36 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 35 | 40 | 186 | 1 | H. Haasová 14 (11+3) | Saved in relegation playoff |
| 2022-23 | SDHL | 10th | 13 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 60 | 4 | J. Costa 4 (3+1) | Withdrew during regular season |

## Players and personnel
### 2022–23 roster

    As of 4 November 2022
| No. | Player | Pos | S/G | Age | Acquired | Birthplace |
| 9 | Jessica Bélanger (A) | F | L | 27 | 2022 | Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada |
| 23 | Rebecca Brown (A) | F | R | 26 | 2022 | Steamboat Springs, Colorado, United States |
| 18 | Jennifer Costa | F | L | 25 | 2022 | Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States |
| 86 | Andrea Dellblad | D | L | 41 | 2022 | |
| 22 | Molly Eljas | D | L | 21 | 2022 | Björbo, Dalarna, Sweden |
| 25 | Sarah Gaiser | F | L | 21 | 2022 | Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
| 24 | Mimmi Gill (A) | F | L | 21 | 2022 | Västerås, Västmanland, Sweden |
| 3 | Moa Gustavsson | F | R | 18 | 2022 | |
| 30 | Nicole Jackson | G | L | 32 | 2016 | Oldham, England, United Kingdom |
| 2 | Anny Källum | F | L | 37 | 2022 | Gothenburg, Sweden |
| 10 | Alexa McMillan (C) | D | L | 25 | 2022 | Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| 21 | Anna Neuenschwander | F | L | 23 | 2022 | Davos, Grisons, Switzerland |
| 31 | Loryn Porter | G | L | 25 | 2022 | North Bay, Ontario, Canada |
| 12 | Fumika Sasano | D | L | 27 | 2022 | Aomori, Tōhoku, Japan |
| 19 | Klára Seroiszková | D | L | 23 | 2020 | Karviná, Moravskoslezský kraj, Czechia |
| 16 | Filippa Wahlfried | F | L | 23 | 2022 | |
| 17 | Julia Weckström | F | L | 21 | 2022 | Uppsala, Uppland, Sweden |
| 66 | Anna Zíková | D | L | 26 | 2022 | Český Těšín, Moravskoslezský kraj, Czechia |
| 86 | Sara Åkerlund | D | L | 28 | 2022 | Hudiksvall, Hälsingland, Sweden |
| 2 | Jill Öhlin | F | L | 19 | 2022 | |
| – | Elsa Öhrfelt | F | L | 19 | 2022 | |
Coaching staff and team personnel
* Head coach: Snorri Sigurbergsson
* Assistant coach: Henry Vilhelmsson
* Assistant coach: Johan Vilhelmsson
* Goaltending coach: Dennis Hedstrom
* Mental coach: Barbro Sundberg
* Medical team: Ida Leipe & Gert Norell
* Equipment manager: Christoffer Gustafsson
* ↑ Approximate roster and staff on 4 November 2022, the date Göteborg HC announced withdrawal from the SDHL. Most players subsequently transferred to other clubs.

### Team captaincy history

* Anna Borgfeldt, 2017–2020
* Margot Möllersten, 2020–2022
* Alexa McMillan, 2022

### Head coaches

* Jan Mellgren, 2014–2016
* Heini Lundin, 2017–18
* Oscar Annell, 2018–2020
* Stefanie McKeough, 2020 – 13 October 2020
* Heini Lundin, 14 October 2020 – 11 January 2022
* Henry Vilhelmsson, 14 January 2022 – 22 April 2022
* Snorri Sigurbergsson, 22 April 2022 – 4 November 2022