The Moser Medical Graz99ers are an Austrian professional ice hockey team from Graz, Styria. The club was founded in 1999 after the previous club, EHC Graz, folded prior to the 1998–99 season due to financial difficulties. The Graz99ers started in the 1999–2000 season in the Austrian National League, Austria's second division, where they were crowned instant champions. Since the 2000–01 season they have been playing in the ICE Hockey League (ICEHL).

History

Forerunners

Hockey was played at the premier level in Graz mainly by two predecessor clubs. The hockey department of the ATSE Graz (Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association Eggenberg) was founded in 1947 and won the city's only top-flight national hockey titles to date in the 1974–75 and 1977–78 season. The club was merged early nineties with the UEC Graz, shortly after the EC Graz emerged. In 2008, the hockey section of was ATSE Graz reactivated on the league level.

The EC Graz (also called the Elephants) experienced under president Hannes Kartnig its heyday, finishing three times the runner-up title in the seasons 1991–92, 1992–93 and 1993–94 despite running at a high financial cost. After the departure of Hannes Kartnig, the football club SK Sturm Graz changed, they tried to rescue EC Graz. When this plan failed, EHC Graz was established in 1998, only to become bankrupt the same year.

Establishment and promotion to the Bundesliga

In 1999 Jochen Pildner-Steinburg founded the Graz 99ers as the successor club to EC Graz to keep professional hockey in the Styrian capital. The team premiered in the second division, the Austrian National League, finishing after 28 rounds played, in first place in the table. In the semifinals, the team continued after opening game defeat to persevere to a three games to one series win against the EHC Lustenau to meet EK Zell am See in the final. The series was decided in four games with Graz taking advantage of the opportunity for promotion to the Austrian Hockey League.

Players

Current roster

Updated 19 June 2025.

No.NatPlayerPosS/GAgeAcquiredBirthplace
20AustriaNico BrunnerDL332024Villach, Austria
–CanadaChris CollinsCL342025Calgary, Alberta, Canada
–AustriaNico FeldnerCR272025Hall in Tirol, Austria
17AustriaManuel GanahlRWL352024Bludenz, Austria
77United StatesTrevor GoochCL312024Mantua, New Jersey, United States
37SwedenJonas GunnarssonGL342024Eksjö, Sweden
8AustriaMarkus HanlFR232022Judenburg, Austria
40AustriaTim HarnischCL252024Wiener Neustadt, Austria
21AustriaLukas HaudumCL292024Linz, Austria
4GermanyKorbinian Holzer(C)DR382024Munich, Germany
3United StatesFrank HoraDR302024Cheektowaga, New York, United States
52AustriaPaul HuberFL262024Graz, Austria
19AustriaLukas KainzCL302024Mödling, Austria
–DenmarkAnders KochDL282025Esbjerg, Denmark
89AustriaClemens KrainzFR252018Zell am See, Austria
28AustriaLenz MoosbruggerFL212024Lustenau, Austria
82AustriaPaul ReinerDR192022Graz, Austria
23CanadaKevin RoyCL332024Longueuil, Quebec, Canada
13AustriaMichael Schiechl(A)CL372020Judenburg, Austria
–AustriaPaul StapelfeldtDL272025Braunau am Inn, Austria
–United StatesNick SwaneyRWR282025Lakeville, Minnesota, United States
12CanadaMarcus VelaCR292024Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
30AustriaNicolas WieserGL282022Villach, Austria
14AustriaKilian ZündelDR252024Dornbirn, Austria

Notable alumni

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