CH Jaca · History

In the 1983-84 season, Club Hielo Jaca won its first Spanish ice hockey league title. Four teams took part, and Jaca finished on 14 points, three ahead of CG Puigcerdà. The club had been founded in 1972, the same year the Pista de Hielo del Pirineo opened in the town. Its first season began in April 1972, and that year it was one of six teams in the first edition of the national league. It has played every edition of the top flight since then. No other Spanish club did so between 1972 and 2025.

Foundation and early years

Hockey reached Jaca with the ice rink. The rink opened in 1972 and gave the Pyrenean town a sport played in only a handful of places in Spain, mostly in Catalonia, the Basque Country and Madrid. Through the 1970s the titles went to Real Sociedad, FC Barcelona, Casco Viejo of Bilbao and Txuri Urdin. Jaca gained experience in a short league with very few opponents and long trips between the two ends of the Pyrenees and the Cantabrian coast.

The first titles, 1984-1998

The 1983-84 league title changed the club's standing. In 1984 the Spanish Press Association named it Spain's club of the year. The following year, in 1985, it lifted its first Copa del Rey. From then on the trophies came regularly: the 1989 Copa, the 1990-91 league, the 1993 Copa, the 1993-94 league and the 1995 Copa. In 1996 Jaca won the league and the cup in the same season, and in 1998 it added another Copa del Rey. The club also received two official honours in 1998. In January the Spanish High Council for Sport gave it the Bronze Plaque for Sporting Merit, and the Government of Aragon later awarded it the Gold Medal for Sporting Merit.

The turn of the century

Between 2001 and 2006 Jaca had its longest winning run. In 2001 it won the league and cup again. It added another cup in 2002 and completed a second double in 2003. It then took the 2003-04 and 2004-05 leagues, which made three league titles in a row from 2003 to 2005. The 2006 Copa del Rey closed that run. In 2007 the Pabellón de Hielo de Jaca opened, with room for 2,000 spectators. It has been the team's home since then and has hosted national finals and international tournaments.

Three straight leagues and the 2010s

The new arena brought another period of steady success. Jaca were league champions in 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12. They also won the Copa del Rey in 2011 and 2012, and kept it for a third straight year in 2013. In 2011 the Government of Aragon named Jaca the region's best club. The 2014-15 and 2015-16 league titles followed. In all, the club has played in twelve editions of the European club competitions, the European Cup and the Continental Cup. Its opponents there included teams from Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark, Turkey, Croatia, the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Italy, Belarus and Hungary.

From the 2021 cup to the Iberian League

Jaca won the Copa del Rey back in 2021. It won the league and cup double in 2023 and again in 2024. The 2024 cup was the club's seventeenth, won 4-2 against SH Majadahonda in the final. From 22 to 24 September 2023, the Pabellón de Hielo hosted Group A of the first round of the IIHF Continental Cup. Belgium's Liège Bulldogs beat Jaca 6-1 and went through to the next round. In 2024-25 Spain and Portugal launched the Iberian League, whose title goes to the regular-season leader. In February 2025 Jaca were crowned the first Iberian League champions. In the same season they lost the Spanish league final to Puigcerdà, 3-0 in the series.

Honours

The club has won 16 Spanish league titles: 1983-84, 1990-91, 1993-94, 1995-96, 2000-01, 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2025-26. Its Copa del Rey wins include 1985, 1989, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2021, 2023 and 2024. It also won the first Iberian League in 2025. Its sixteenth league title came in the 2025-26 season, after a win over CHH Txuri Urdin in the final.