Olympia Heist op den Berg is a Belgian ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 team in the city of Heist-op-den-Berg

Heist-op-den-Berg

Heist-op-den-Berg is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises the villages of Booischot , Hallaar, Heist-op-den-Berg proper , Itegem, Schriek and Wiekevorst.-History:The 48-meter-high hill on which Heist would...

. They play in the Belgian Hockey League

Belgian Hockey League

The Belgian Hockey League was the highest level of competition sanctioned by the Royal Belgian Ice Hockey Federation until 2011 . The league winner was the Belgian Champion. It is played since 1912...

, which is the elite ice hockey league in Belgium

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

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History

The club was founded in 1959, and have won eleven Belgian Hockey League

Belgian Hockey League

The Belgian Hockey League was the highest level of competition sanctioned by the Royal Belgian Ice Hockey Federation until 2011 . The league winner was the Belgian Champion. It is played since 1912...

 championships, second to Brussels Royal IHSC

Brussels Royal IHSC

Brussels Royal IHSC was an ice hockey team in Brussels, Belgium. The team played in the Belgian Hockey League.-History:The club was founded in 1912 as Brussels IHSC, and quickly won the 1912 and 1913 Belgian championships....

, which has won twenty-three titles. On their twentieth anniversary in 1979, Op den Berg won their first Belgian championship. Despite winning eleven national titles, the club has only managed to win the Belgian Cup

Belgian Cup (ice hockey)

The Belgian Cup is the national ice hockey cup in Belgium. It has been competed for since 1986. It is currently competed for by the three Belgian teams of the North Sea Cup hockey league, in a separate tournament that runs prior to the North Sea Cup season....

twice, in 1994 and 2010.

Achievements

• Belgian Champion (11): 1979, 1983, 1986 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1999, 2004
• Belgian Cup winner (2): 1994, 2010

External Links

• Club profile on hockeyarenas.net