Rögle BK

Rögle BK (Rögle Bandyklubb) is a professional ice hockey club based in Ängelholm, Sweden. The team has competed in the SHL since the 2015–16 season. Prior to this, Rögle played in Sweden’s top league (formerly known as Elitserien) during the periods 1992–1996, 2008–2010, and briefly in 2012–13. The club won the Champions Hockey League in 2022.

The club was founded on 18 December 1932 as a bandy club, which explains its name. Rögle became Scanian district champions in bandy in 1948. The ice hockey side first reached Sweden’s top division (then called Division I) from 1966 to 1969. After returning to the top flight as Elitserien in 1992–93, the team stayed until 1995–96.

Following twelve seasons in the second-tier HockeyAllsvenskan, Rögle earned promotion back to Elitserien by finishing second in the 2008 Kvalserien. The 2008–09 season began strongly, with Rögle sitting near the top of the standings after 18 rounds, just behind Linköpings HC. However, the team finished eleventh and had to secure its place via the 2009 Kvalserien, which it did by again placing second. In 2009–10, Rögle finished last and failed to re-qualify in the 2010 Kvalserien, dropping back to HockeyAllsvenskan.

Rögle made a brief return to Elitserien after finishing second in the 2012 Kvalserien, becoming the first team to earn a top-league spot by winning the HockeyAllsvenskan playoff round to claim the final Kvalserien berth. But the club finished last in the 2012–13 season and was relegated after failing to re-qualify in the 2013 Kvalserien, spending only one season back in the top division.

The 2021–22 season saw Rögle win the Champions Hockey League, defeating Finland’s Tappara 2–1 in the final held in Ängelholm on 1 March 2022. On 14 December 2022, the club announced plans to start a women’s team for the 2023–24 season, beginning play in the WDHL.