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All time leagues: Champions Hockey League | Nordic Trophy | European Women´s Champions Cup | Juniors | Nationalliga A (NLA) | Nationalliga B (NLB) | Elite Jr. A | Elite Jr. B | Novizen Elite | Leistungsklasse A | EWHL Supercup | NLA relegation round
This club in 1997-1998: Nationalliga A (NLA)
| Pos | Player name | State | Born | Height | Weight | Shoots | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | Thomas Papp | ![]() | 30.12.1975 | 173 cm | 73 kg | N/A | Show profile» |
| G | Dino Stecher | ![]() | 05.04.1964 | 179 cm | 78 kg | left | Show profile» |
| D | Marc Haueter | ![]() | 25.06.1972 | 178 cm | 81 kg | N/A | Show profile» |
| D | Martin Kout | ![]() | 24.04.1973 | 187 cm | 92 kg | N/A | Show profile» |
| RD | Hannu Virta | ![]() | 22.03.1963 | 181 cm | 82 kg | left | Show profile» |
| D | Andreas Zehnder | ![]() | 11.12.1965 | 174 cm | 76 kg | N/A | Show profile» |
| LW | André Baumann | ![]() | 09.10.1977 | 188 cm | 98 kg | left | Show profile» |
| C | Scott Beattie | ![]() | 16.05.1968 | 170 cm | 74 kg | right | Show profile» |
| F | Patric Della Rossa | ![]() | 28.07.1975 | 187 cm | 92 kg | right | Show profile» |
| C | Stefano Figliuzzi | ![]() | 23.07.1968 | 177 cm | 83 kg | right | Show profile» |
| F | Axel Heim | ![]() | 05.08.1971 | 183 cm | 80 kg | N/A | Show profile» |
| F | Claudio Micheli | ![]() | 17.12.1970 | 180 cm | 85 kg | left | Show profile» |
| C | Patrizio Morger | ![]() | 09.04.1968 | 177 cm | 82 kg | N/A | Show profile» |
| F | Rolf Schrepfer | ![]() | 09.10.1973 | 179 cm | 85 kg | left | Show profile» |
| F | Christian Weber | ![]() | 19.02.1964 | 180 cm | 78 kg | N/A | Show profile» |
| F | Michel Zeiter | ![]() | 22.04.1974 | 186 cm | 93 kg | left | Show profile» |
| C | Gerd Zenhäusern | ![]() | 27.04.1972 | 184 cm | 85 kg | right | Show profile» |
| F | Thomas Ziegler | ![]() | 09.06.1978 | 180 cm | 87 kg | left | Show profile» |
| Coach name | State | Born | Coach position | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matti Alatalo | ![]() | 29.10.1958 | Assistant Coach | Show profile» |
* no longer in the club

Retired numbers:
31 Ari Sulander
Spengler Cup 1944, 1945, 1952
Swiss Cup 1960, 1961
Silver Stone Trophy 2009
Victoria Cup 2009

Ari Sulander gets farewell game
ZSC Lions' legendary goalie from Finland, Ari Sulander, ended his career this April after 14 years and 4 Swiss championships with the team at the age of 43. Now he gets honoured with a farewell game by his long-time club that will take place Saturday, 29 September 2012. A team led by Sulander will face a selction of Swiss players to play 2x 20 minutes during the afternoon. Later on the same day the ZSC Lions will play their regular season game against HC Ambrì-Piotta.
(17 Aug 2012)ZSC Lions hire Marc Crawford as new coach
Former Colorado Avalanche, Vancouver Canucks, Los angeles Kings and Dallas Stars coach Marc Crawford was named the new ZSC Lions headcoach. He signed a two-years contract. His assistant will be former Canada and Calgary Flames assistant coach Rob Cookson. They replaced another Canadian duo, Bob Hartley and Jacques Cloutier.
14 matches for Morant
SC Bern defender Johann Morant has been suspended for 14 matches for repeadtly hitting/punching Cyrill Bühler in the head and for shoving an oficial. On top of the suspension, Morant was fined 1,000CHF.
(13 Apr 2012)European Trophy schedules
European Trophy announced today the schedule for the 2012/13 season. Find the complete fixture list here.
(12 Apr 2012)New arena in Zurich in 2017
The municipality of Zurich has approved the construction of a new arena in the Alstetten area for 2017. An architectural competition will be published in mid-February to build a 12 000-capacity hockey arena for the ZSC Lions and a 3000-capacity volley arena for team Volero Zurich. Each club will invest 44 million Swiss francs and the municipality will put in 149 million. The ZSC Lions currently play at Hallenstadion, a 10 700-capacity arena, originally built in 1939 and completely rebuilt in 2005.
(12 Feb 2012)Pittis at Spengler Cup
Team Canada announced Italo-Canadian forward Domenico Pittis, 37, (ZSC Lions) will join Canadian roster for Spengler Cup
(26 Dec 2011)Last from Spengler Cup
Team Canada replaced injured SC Bern defender Travis Roche with Doug Lynch from Red Bulls Salzburg.
Kloten Flyers will allign Swedish forward Michael Nylander, recently released by ZSC Lions
2012 European Trophy with 32 teams
The next European Trophy will pass from current 24 teams to a new formula with 32 participants. New teams to get in are Swiss CP Bern, HC Fribourg-Gottéron, le EV Zug and ZSC Lions, German ERC Ingolstadt and Hamburg Freezers, Swedeish Brynäs IF and Finnish JYP Jyväskylä.
(20 Dec 2011)ZSC Lions secures promising forwards
ZSC Lions announces team extended until 2013-14 contracts of forwards Luca Cunti and Ronalds Kenins. Cunti,22, debuted last saturday after been recovered from an injury during the pre-season. Twenty years old Swiss-Latvian Kenins already played 15 games in this season for Lions after three season in farm club GCK Lions.
(20 Oct 2011)NLA game stopped will be replayed in January
The game between ZSC Lions and EHC Biel in Swiss NLA that stopped after 27 minutes because of fog in the arena will be replayed on January 24 at 19:45. The sScore was 0-0 when the game was stopped.
(20 Sep 2011)
Finland (1),
Italy (2),
Switzerland (15)ZSC Lions parcitipates in season 1997-1998: Nationalliga A (NLA)
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