page_title: EV Landshut
section_title: The new beginning in the third division (2000–2003)
hierarchical_section_title: EV Landshut / History / The new beginning in the third division (2000–2003)
caption_attribution_description: English: Atlanta Thrashers defenceman Christoph Schubert prior to a National Hockey League game against the Calgary Flames, in Calgary.
context_page_description: EV Landshut, also known as EVL Landshut Eishockey and formerly known as the Landshut Cannibals, are a professional ice hockey team based in Landshut, Bavaria, Germany. They currently play in Deutsche Eishockey Liga 2, the second level of ice hockey in Germany. They were promoted from the third-tier Oberliga in 2019 after winning the Oberliga finals against the Tilburg Trappers.
  The team was founded in 1948 as Eislaufverein Landshut, but since 2002 the professional operations have been incorporated as a separate entity. From 2002 to 2013 the professional team was competing as “Landshut Cannibals”; in 2013 the name was changed back to "EVL Landshut Eishockey", to more closely reflect the tradition and history of the team. There is close cooperation with the non-for-profit EVL, which is still responsible for non-professional areas, i.e. junior hockey and figure skating. From 1963 to 1994 the Team was a participant in the Ice hockey Bundesliga and is a founder member of the DEL. The team won the West German National Championship in 1970 and 1983.<"Germany". AZ Hockey. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
context_section_description: With canceling top-level professional ice hockey in Landshut most of the squad left the team and continued their careers with the Munich Barons or other clubs of the DEL. At first it was Michael Eibl who the team, that consisted mainly of young players out of the club's junior teams (e.g. Markus Hundhammer and Christoph Schubert) but also foreign players like Kamil Ťoupal from HC České Budějovice. Later the management signed Gary Clark as coach. On the sixth rank after the preliminaries the squad knocked out the Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg and the TSV Erding and were qualified for playing the 2000/01 2nd Bundesliga season but had to resign due to the cooperation contract with the Munich Barons.
  After completing the 2000/01 Oberliga preliminaries on rank six the team was swept by the Füchse Duisburg in the playoff quarterfinal round. That season saw later general manager Bernd Truntschka return as a player due to player shortage. The average audience dropped to 1,300 – a record low in the younger history of the club. The following season the management signed coach Bernhard Englbrecht and tried to struggle for promotion. Due to ongoing financial troubles – a legacy of the DEL-era – the club filed for bankruptcy, while the team still was playing the preliminaries. They were placed first finishing 14 points better than the second-place ESV Kaufbeuren. Finally the squad swept Erding in the semifinals and the Dresdner Eislöwen in the finals. Consequently, the EV Landshut promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga.
caption: Christoph Schubert playing for the Atlanta Trashers
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