Youth development

With around 300 children and young people in the junior field, who are looked after by around 150 largely honorary coaches, supervisors and officials, the EVZ is an important institution in national top-class and popular sport. The EVZ supports young ice hockey athletes on their way to a professional career, among other things with the training concept «The Hockey Academy», founded in 2014, and offers a meaningful leisure activity to a large number of young people in the field of mass sports. In order to give children from financially disadvantaged families the opportunity to pursue their hobby of ice hockey, they are financially supported by the EVZ. The EVZ has also established the Hockey Academy Foundation for this purpose.