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The International Ice Hockey Federation has decided the venue for the Continental Cup Super Cup, the second largest club tournament in Europe, announced the official website of the IIHF..
British Belfast will host the Continental Cup Super Final on January 11 and 13, 2019. The games will be held on the SSE Arena Belfast ice. The stands at this stadium in the Northern Ireland capital are designed for 7,400 spectators.
Four teams will win the trophy, including Belarusian "Gomel", Kazakhstan "Arlan" of Kokshetau, Polish "Katowice" and the British "Belfast".
In total, the qualification consisted of three stages. "Gomel" started with the 3rd qualifying round that he successfully overcame in mid-November in Lyon.
In total, 17 clubs took part in the qualification this season.
The United Kingdom will welcome for the first time the Super Final of the Continental Cup. By the way, in 2017, the trophy was won by a British club – "Nottingham".
And in Belfast, in November, one of the qualifying groups of the 3rd round of the current Continental Cup.
In 2016, Belfast hosted the Division I Group B World Championship, where the United Kingdom obtained the promotion right. In 2018 in Budapest, the British team moved into the elite World Cup division.
Belfast has more than 330,000 inhabitants, it is the largest city of Northern Ireland and the second largest city of the island of Ireland (after Dublin).
The winner of the continental cup will receive a pbad for the Champions League.
"Gomel" has already participated in the draw for the Continental Cup. In the 2003/04 season, Gomel was the master of the super final and took 2nd place. In the following years, the Belarusian clubs won four victories in this competition: Minsk "Youth" – in 2007, 2011 and 2018, Grodno "Neman" – in 2015.
Moreover, in 2010 and 2012, "Youth" Minsk took second place and in 2013, Zhlobinsk "Metallurg" became the second.
The Continental Cup has been contested since the 1997/1997 season, 16 clubs have won the tournament: Slovak Kosice (in 1998), Ambri-Piotta of Switzerland (1999, 2000), Zurich of Switzerland (2001, 2002), Finnish Yokerit "( 2003), Slovak "Slovan" (2004), Slovak "Zvolen" (2005), Russian "Lada" (2006), Byelorussian "Youth" (2007, 2011, 2018), Russian "Ak Bars" (2008), Slovak " Martin "(2009)," Austrian Red Bull "(2010), French" Rouen "(2012, 2016)," Donbbad "Ukrainian (2013), Norwegian" Stavanger "(2014), Belarussian" Neman "(2015)), the British "Nottingham" (2017).
With regard to Gomel, the club, which started well this season, is now experiencing financial problems, which forced several top players to leave the team – the top scorer, Alexander Liquid (he went to Jeunesse), as well as defenders Alexander Syrey, Alexander Yronov and striker Yegor Stepanov.
During the matches of the 3rd round of the Continental Cup, the inhabitants of Gomel went by bus to Lyon.
"The veteran hockey club Gomel Alexander Liquid has been transferred to the Yunost-Minsk hockey club.
This season, the striker has played 22 games for the "trot" and scored 23 (12 +11) points. He was the club's top scorer # the strongest red blue # younosminsk # more than one hockey pic.twitter.com/8rMSuoNG16– HC Junost Minsk (@JunostHC) November 28, 2018
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