Applications for 2025 Kånken Youth Retention Award now open!

Who will follow the Pilsen Wolves, KAC Klagenfurt, Junior Pelicans, Kárpáti Farkasok and Barani Banská Bystrica as the next winner of the Kånken Youth Retention Award? The application period is now open with a chance to win € 10 000.

Is your ice hockey club successfully recruiting, educating, and keeping young boys and girls in your development program?

Apply for the 2025 Kånken Youth Retention Award for the chance to win € 10 000.

For the sixth year, the Alliance of European Hockey Clubs, together with our partner Fjällräven, will award € 10 000 to a youth hockey club in Europe for its work in developing and retaining young ice hockey players, both boys and girls.

With the Kånken Youth Retention Award, the E.H.C. Alliance and Fjällräven wish to contribute to growth within European youth hockey, focusing on retaining young players in their program. Our contribution of €10 000 is meant to be a reward and encouragement for a club that focuses on youth development.

The club applying for the award must be in Europe, and the club’s program must be specifically focused on youth development.

The 2025 Kånken Youth Retention Award application period is now open and runs to the 30th of March, the deadline for this year’s application period. Click here for the application form.

The winning club will be presented with the Kånken Youth Retention Award at the 2025 Fenix Outdoor European Hockey Awards at Hotel Stages in Prague on the 11th of June.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact: caroline@hockeyclubs.eu.

Previous winners:

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2020 Pilsen Wolves, CZE
2021 KAC Klagenfurt, AUT
2022 Junior Pelicans, FIN
2023 Kárpáti Farkasok, HUN
2024 Barani Banská Bystrica, SVK