| Team: | Frankfurt Lions |
| Colour: | background:#FFFFFF; border-top:#000000 5px solid; border-bottom:#000000 5px solid; |
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| Name2: | Frankfurt Lions |
| Founded: | 1959 |
| Folded: | 2010 |
| City: | Frankfurt |
| Arena: | Eissporthalle Frankfurt |
| Capacity: | 6,946 |
| League: | DEL (1994–2010) |
The Frankfurt Lions were a German professional men's ice hockey club from Frankfurt, Germany that played in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. The club ceased operations in 2010 due to financial difficulty.
The hockey team was founded as a section of the renowned sports club Eintracht Frankfurt in 1959. After the section split from the club on March 5, 1991, the hockey team was renamed the Frankfurter ESC "Die Löwen" (meaning The Lions). When the DEL formed in 1994, the team became known as the Frankfurt Lions. It experienced its greatest success in 2004 when it won the DEL, but folded in 2010 after having had their licence revoked and was replaced by a phoenix club, the Löwen Frankfurt.[1]
| Position | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Goaltenders: | Ian Gordon, Marc Dillmann | |
| Defensemen: | Peter Ratchuk, Paul Stanton, François Bouchard, Jonas Stöpfgeshoff, Mikael Magnusson, Sebastian Klenner, Markus Jocher, Daniel Peters, Michael Bresagk | |
| Forwards: | Pat Lebeau, Jesse Belanger, Jason Young, Dwayne Norris, David Gosselin, Martin Reichel, Jamie Sargent, Mike Harder, Michael Hackert, [Jeff Simison], David Sulkovsky, Christian Kohmann, Mark Etz, Robert Francz, Jan Hemmes |