Ultras (ice hockey)

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French ice hockey fans with tifos in a 2008 French Cup game. Ice Hockey French Cup 2008 35.JPG
French ice hockey fans with tifos in a 2008 French Cup game.

Ultras are a type of ice hockey fans mainly in European ice hockey culture who are known for their fanatical support of a club. The term originated in Italy and comes from the Latin word ultra, meaning "beyond" or "farther", but is used worldwide to describe predominantly organised fans of sports clubs. Ultras fans in ice hockey are known for organised chants, tifo choreographies, flags and sometimes flares. [1] [2] [3]

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Ultras in ice hockey are known for violence and hooliganism. [4] [5] [6] Some ice hockey teams have association football sections and share fans and fan groups with them. Some ultras groups are linked to far-right ideologies and fascism. [7] [8]

Europe

Finland

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2,000 Ilves fans marching into the arena in Vaasa

The first ultras groups in Finnish hockey were HC TPS' Sissiryhmä founded in the early 2000s, Helsingin Jokerit's fan group Ultras Jokerit [9] and Vaasan Sport's Ultras 06 founded in 2004, and Lahti Pelicans' Ääriliike founded in 2005, [10] and Porin Ässät's fan group Pataljoona founded in 2008. [11]

Most of the first wave ultras groups no longer exist. HC TPS supporters go by the name Mutka. Since 2023 the ultras section of Jokerit went by Katupojat until being disestablished in 2024. [12] Pelicans' different supporter groups have united as Lahen Turkoosi. [10] Among the second-wave ultras groups activated during the 2010s are Ilves' Osasto 41, [13] Poromafia of Oulun Kärpät, [14] Raumam Boja of Lukko Rauma, [15] Men Behaving Badly Kouvola of KooKoo, [16] Viikinkiveljet of Jukurit [17] and Hermes Loyals of Hermes. [18] [19] Porin Ässät used to have an ultras group called Etulinja. [20]

Germany

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ETC Crimmitschau fans

Since the early 2000s, the ultras ieology has also become established in the German ice hockey fan scene, and various ultra groups can be found in many ice rinks and arenas from the DEL to the minor leagues. [21] However, the first ultra-similar groups formed earlier. In the mid-1990s the first choreographies were seen in Munich and the Munich Supporters were formed. The ultras group Red Line was founded in Krefeld in 1996. Groups also formed in Augsburg and Schwenningen before the turn of the millennium. Choreography and other ultra features were viewed very skeptically at the time, but are now common practice in many arenas. In the relatively small scene there are a lot of contacts between the active people of the various groups. Violence occurs irregularly between ultra groups in various clubs. [22] [23]

Sweden

Two of the biggest ultras groups in Swedish ice hockey belong to rival teams Djurgårdens IF and AIK IF. [3] [24] [25]

Switzerland

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ZSC Lions fans with a tifo

The most common violations of law by ultras and hooligans in the 2019–20 ice hockey and football season were infringements of the explosives law, not adhering to the ban on face-coverings and engaging in violence or intimidation towards authorities. [26]

Some ultras groups in Switzerland include the Friburgensis of the Fribourg-Gotteron [27] and the ZSC Lions ultras groups. [28]

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