Union Cup

Overview
The Union Cup is the most prestigious cup competition in the ILIH. Despite it's prestige, it's one of the younger competitions, only having been founded in Season 4. It uses a seeding bracket based on Division 1 and 2 league performances of its members.

Format
The Union Cup uses a seeded bracket system with its 16 qualified teams. Once seeds are decided through qualification stages and league performance, the tournament starts with best 2 of 3, first round match-ups between 1st-16th, 2nd-15th, 3rd-14th, etc. The higher seed hosts the 1st and 3rd game, if needed. The final is one game. The tournament bracket is drawn, from the first round, to ensure a 1st-2nd match-up isn't possible until the final.

Qualification
The Qualification stages are played as 1 game knockout fixtures similar to a 16 team tournament bracket. The best seeded of the not automatically qualified teams hosts the worst seeded, 2nd hosts the 2nd worst and so on, until there are only 4 teams left in the tournament. These 4, ordered by preexisting seed, are seeds 11-14. 15 and 16 were the teams who lost to those 4 with the best goal differential. Ties in GD are decided by preexisting seed. The losers of the Round of 16 are all qualified as the top 8 seeds for The Vase Round of 16.
 * All Division 2 sides are in the Qualification Playoffs.

Season 5
NHL 17

 -- RAPPERSWIL EAST CHAMPIONS --

Final:

Znojmo 1-3 East

Semi Finals:

Znojmo 2-0 Kelowna

East 2-0 North Bay

Quarter Finals:

Znojmo 2-0 Rostock

West 1-2 North Bay

East 2-0 La Chaux de Fonds

Kelowna 2-1 Swift Current

Round of 16:

Znojmo 2-0 Dynasty

West 2-0 Olomouc

East 2-0 Borussia

Kelowna 2-0 Mora

Swift Current 2-0 Lubbock

La Chaux de Fonds 2-1 Hershey

Madison 0-2 North Bay

Rostock 2-0 Moncton MVP - Stuart Novak

Winner's Lineup

(C)K. Dopita - (A)N. Dupont - H. Robinson

A. Lehtera - (A)S. Novak

R. Holmberg - T. Hulse - B. Lalande

C. Bentley - K. Sislo

B. Bates - Y. Sislo - B. Sislo

J. Glebov - E. Glebov

K. Fritsche - P. Hlinka - L. Fazzini

H. Zednik - D. Brimanis

Season 4
NHL 14

 -- RAPPERSWIL WEST CHAMPIONS --

Final:

West 4-1 Swift Current

Semi Finals:

Znojmo 1-2 Swift Current

West 2-1 East

Quarter Finals:

Znojmo 2-0 Madison

Swift Current 2-1 Rostock

West 2-1 La Chaux de Fonds

East 2-0 Kelowna Winner's Lineup

(A)J. Doherty - (A)R. Svedberg - R. Sykora

T. Zherdev - (C)B. Lazarev

J. Brylin - P. Latta - L. O'Byrne

M. Mogilny - W. McCauley

K. Loughlin - T. Smits - S. Roy

A. Tenkrat - J. Desharnais

V. Laitinen - T. Petruzalek - K. Norman

T. Kelly - L. Keller