1952–53 Austrian Hockey Championship

The 1952-53 Austrian Hockey Championship was the 24th season of an organized ice hockey competition in Austria. The championship was divided into multiple groups, with the top teams meeting in the final. Innsbrucker EV defeated EC KAC in the final to win the championship. 
==Nationalliga==
===Western Group===
;Scores
*12/12: Wiener EV - WAT Ottakring 8:3 (1:0, 4:2, 3:1) 
*12/29: Innsbrucker EV - Wiener EV 9:1 (3:0, 2:0, 4:1)
*12/30: Innsbrucker EV - Wiener EV 4:1 (2:0, 2:0, 0:1)
*1/8: Innsbrucker EV - EC Kitzbuhel 6:2 (3:0, 3:1, 0:1)
*1/10: Innsbrucker EV - EC Kitzbuhel 3:3 (1:0, 2:1, 0:2) 
*1/17: Innsbrucker EV - WAT Ottakring 15:1
*1/18: Innsbrucker EV - WAT Ottakring 15:0 (5:0, 8:0, 2:0) 
*1/18: EC Kitzbuhel - Wiener EV 6:1 (3:0, 2:0, 1:1) 
*1/24-25: WAT Ottakring - EC Kitzbuhel
*2/3: Wiener EV - WAT Ottakring 9:0 (1:0, 3:0, 5:0) 
*2/22: Wiener EV - EC Kitzbuhel 
;Standings
 	Team 	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	Pts
1.	Innsbrucker EV	6 	5	1	0	52	8 	11
2.	Wiener EV 	5 	2	0	3	20	21	4
3.	EC Kitzbühel 	3 	1	1	1	11	10	3
4.	WAT Ottakring 	4 	0	0	4	3 	47	0
===Southern Group===
;Scores
*12/20: EK Engelmann Wien - Villacher SV 5:0 Forfeit
*12/28: SV Leoben - Villacher SV 3:3 (1:0, 0:2, 2:1) 
*1/6: SV Leoben - EC KAC 4:3 
*1/10: EC KAC - SV Leoben 7:1 (2:1, 3:0, 2:0) 
*1/10: EK Engelmann Wien - Villacher SV 5:0 Forfeit
*1/13: EC KAC - Villacher SV 2:1 (0:1, 2:0, 0:0) 
*1/14: EK Engelmann Wien - SV Leoben 3:0
*1/15: EC KAC - Villacher SV 9:0 (4:0, 3:0, 2:0) 
*1/17: EC KAC - EK Engelmann Wien 5:1 (1:0, 3:1, 1:0)
*1/17: SV Leoben - Villacher SV 7:1 (0:0, 2:1, 5:0)
*1/21: EC KAC - EK Engelmann Wien 3:0 (1:0, 0:0, 2:0) 
*2/14: EK Engelmann Wien - SV Leoben 4:1 (0:1, 0:0, 4:0)Wiener Kurier, 1953-02-16
;Standings
 	Team 	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	Pts
1.	EC KAC 	6 	5	0	1	29	6 	11
2.	EK Engelmann Wien	6 	4	0	2	18	9 	8
3.	SV Leoben 	6 	2	1	3	16	24	5
4.	Villacher SV 	6 	0	1	5	6 	30	1
===Final===
Two games total goals
*1/30: Innsbrucker EV - EC KAC 2:2 (0:0, 0:0, 2:2)
*2/3:Innsbrucker EV - EC KAC 4:3 (0:0, 2:1, 2:1) 
Innsbrucker EV defeated EC KAC 6 goals to 5.
==Liga==
===Wiener Liga===
Also called the "Liga Ost".
;Scores
*12/?: Union Wien - WAT Meidling 1:1
*12/16: Langenzersdorf - Schwarzweiss 3:2 (2:0, 0:0, 1:2)
*12/17: WAT Meidling - Wiener Jugend SV 4:2 (1:1, 2:0, 1:1) 
*12/18: Union Wien - WAT Favoriten 8:4 (2:2, 3:1, 3:1) 
*12/18: EK Engelmann Wien II - Schwarzweiss 10:0 (3:0, 2:0, 5:0)
*12/21: WAT Favoriten - Wiener Jugend SV 4:2 (1:1, 1:0, 2:1) 
*12/21: Langenzersdorf - Wiener Jugend SV 6:2
*12/27: WAT Meidling - Schwarzweiss 8:1 
*1/3: WAT Favoriten - Langenzersdorf - annulled
*1/7: EK Engelmann Wien II - Wiener Jugend SV 17:3 
*1/8: Langenzersdorf - WAT Meidling 4:3Österreichsiche Zeitung, 1953-01-18
*1/?: Union Wien - Langenzersdorf 2:1
*1/10: Wiener Jugend SV - Union Wien 3:1
*1/10: EK Engelmann Wien II - WAT Meidling 6:1
*1/11: Schwarzweiss - WAT Favoriten 4:3
*1/18: 'WAT Meidling - WAT Favoriten 3:1 
*1/29: Union Wien - WAT Favoriten
*2/4: Wiener Jugend SV - Schwarzweiss
*2/4: Wiener Jugend SV - Langenzersdorf 2:1
*2/14: Schwarzweiss - WAT Favoriten 6:1 (0:0, 3:1, 3:0) 
*2/20: Union Wien - Schwarzweiss 4:3 (2:0, 0:2, 2:1) 
*2/23: Wiener Jugend SV - WAT Favoriten 5:2 (1:1, 2:0, 2:1)Neues Österreich, 1953-02-24
*2/23: Langenzersdorf - WAT Meidling 4:3 (3:0, 0:1, 1:2)
*2/25: EK Engelmann Wien II - Langenzersdorf 6:5 (0:3, 4:1, 2:1) 
*Wiener Jugend SV - WAT Meidling 4:3
;Standings
 	Team 	GP	W 	T	L 	GF	GA	Pts
1.	EK Engelmann Wien II	10	10	0	0 	92	17	20
2.	Union Wien 	12	6 	3	3 	36	27	15
3.	SV Langenzersdorf 	12	6 	2	4 	37	37	14
4.	Wiener Jugend SV 	11	6 	0	5 	36	44	12
5.	WAT Meidling 	12	5 	1	6 	34	40	11
6.	Schwarzweiss 	11	2 	1	8 	24	50	5
7.	WAT Favoriten 	12	1 	1	10	23	67	3
as of 1/18
#Langenzersdorf 3-1-1-7 16:11
#EKE II 3-0-0-6 33:4
#WAT Meidling 2-1-1-5 14:10
#Union Wien 2-1-1-5 12:10
#WAT Favoriten 1-1-2-3 13:16
#WJV 1-0-4-2 12:32
#Schwarzweiss 1-0-3-2 7:24
EK Engelmann Wien II won the championship, but as they were a reserve team, Union Wien advanced to the promotion round.
===Liga West===
;Salzburg Group
*1/6: SV Spittal an der Drau - EK Zell am See 4:0 (0:0, 2:0, 2:0)Salzburger Nachrichten, 1953-01-07
*1/11: SV Spittal an der Drau - EK Zell am See 4:1 (0:0, 2:1, 2:0)Salzburger Nachrichten, 1953-01-12
;Upper Austrian Group
Won by OTSV Steyr. 
==Promotion round==
;West
*Blauweiss-Feldkirch (Voralberg champion) - ESV Schwaz (Tirol champion) 6:5, 5:5 - the second match was stopped with 40 seconds left due to incidents and was planned to be replayed; instead both teams were promoted to the Nationalliga
;South
*SV Spittal an der Drau (Salzburg champion) - OTSV Steyr (Upper Austrian champion) 4:1 (1:1, 2:0, 1:0) (1/24), 7:1 (2:0, 3:0, 2:1) (1/25)Salzburger Nachrichten, 1953-01-26
;East
*Atus Eggenberg (Styria champion) - Union Hollabrunn (Lower Austrian champion)
*Union Wien (Vienna champion) defeated Union Hollabrunn on forfeit
==Wiener Cup==
*12/18: EK Engelmann Wien - WAT Ottakring 7:1 (2:0, 4:1, 1:0)
*EK Engelmann Wien - WAT Ottakring 10:1 (5:0, 1:0, 4:1)
*2/17: EK Engelmann Wien - Wiener EV 4:1 (2:0, 2:1, 0:0) - final, game one
*2/24: EK Engelmann Wien - Wiener EV 7:1 (2:0, 2:1, 3:0) - final, game two
==Jugend Cup==
;First round
*1/7: Silz - Innsbrucker EV 3:2 
*Kitzbuhel - Villach
*Klagenfurt - Leoben
*Wiener EV - Graz
*Wiener Jugend SV - Union Hollabrunn
;Second round
*Kitzbuhel - Innsbruck
*Wiener EV - Klagenfurt
;Final
*3/1: Wiener EV - EC Kitzbuhel 5:2
==Other games==
*Zell am See - LASK Linz 6:3
*LASK Linz - Zell am See 4:3
*1/2: Hall - Wiener Jugend SV 6:4
*Wiener Jugendsportklub - Stockerau 4:1 (1:0, 2:0, 1:1) 
*WAT Ottakring - Union Wien 5:1 
*Lang-Enzersdorf - Schwarzweiss-Engelmann 3:2 (2:0, 0:0, 1:2) 
*Wiener EV - Wiener EV II 5:1 (2:0, 2:0, 1:1)
*SV Leoben - Grazer SV 24:1
*SV Leoben - WAT Ottakring 6:2
*1/4: Wiener EV - EC Bad Hofgastein 5:4
*1/6: Wiener EV - EC Bad Hofgastein 7:4 (2:3, 2:0, 3:1) 
*1/21: ESV Schwaz - WAT Ottakring 5:3 
*1/31: EC Bad Hofgastein - SV Spittal 9:2 (2:1, 3:0, 4:1)
*2/1: EC Bad Hofgastein - SV Spittal 4:1 (1:0, 2:0, 1:1)
*St. Ulrich - EC Kitzbuhel 7:6 
*EC Kitzbuhel - St. Ulrich 13:2
==Images==
Arbeiter 12-19-52.png|An image from the December 19 edition of the Arbeiter-Zeitung.
Arbeiter 12-30-52.png|An image from the December 30 issue. 
Arbeiter 1-13-53.png|An image from the January 13 issue. 
Arbeiter 1-20-53.png|An image from the January 20 issue. 
Arbeiter 2-21-53.png|An image from the February 21 issue. 
1953-02-16 Wiener Kurier.png|An image from the February 16 issue of the Wiener Kurier.
==Sources==
*Results from 1946-1958
*Arbeiter-Zeitung
Category:1952 in ice hockey
Category:1953 in ice hockey