1943–44 Romanian Hockey League season

The 1943-44 Romanian Hockey League season was the 17th season of the Romanian Championship. All games took place during daylight hours as night time lighting was prohibited due to Soviet bombing. Venus Bucharest won the championship,

Northern Regional Championship
Dragos Voda Cernauti qualified for the national championship.

Central Regional Championship
Universitatea Sibiu qualified for the national championship

Bucharest Regional Championship

 * January 12, 1944: Juventus Bucharest 3 - PTT Bucharest 0 (0:0, 2:0, 1:0) - Anastasiu, Sadovsky, Flamoropol
 * January 14, 1944: Venus Bucharest 3 - Viforul-Dacia Bucharest 1 (0:0, 2:0, 1:1) - Ion, Dlugosch, Singerozan (own goal) / Ganga
 * January 15, 1944: Venus Bucharest 2 - Juventus Bucharest 0 (0:0, 0:0, 2:0)*
 * January 15, 1944: PTT Bucharest 1 - Viforul-Dacia Bucharest 1
 * January 17, 1944: Venus Bucharest 8 - PTT Bucharest 1 (2:0, 5:0, 1:1) - Dlugosch (4), Teodorescu (2), Barbulescu, Popescu / Mardarescu
 * January 17, 1944: Juventus Bucharest 7 - Viforul-Dacia Bucharest 1 (2:0, 4:0, 1:1) - Botez (2), Flamaropol (2), Wanieck (2), Meicu / Simionescu

Politehnica Bucharest had enrolled in the competition but forfeited their participation after not appearing for their first match against Venus. *Juventus filed a claim against Venus' use of the goaltender Fluieras in their match. The federation had authorized him to participate, but ruled the match be re-played. Venus won the replay and qualified for the national championship.
 * January 20, 1944: Venus Bucharest 1 - Juventus Bucharest 0 (1:0, 0:0, 0:0) - Popescu

National Championship
The national championship was staged from January 23-25, 1944, in Bucharest. Dragos Voda Cernauti withdrew from the championship on the grounds that the federation had initially stated the tournament would be played in Cernauti.

The director of the Venus Bucharest hockey club, Andrei Barbulescu, stated that his team should be declared national champions without facing Juventus, whom they had already defeated twice, again. The General Pompeius Demitrescu, president of the Venus sports club, decided the team should play the game against Juventus, for which 2000 spectators were expected.

Venus defeated Juventus for a third time and claimed the national championship after an easy victory over Universitatea Sibiu. Barbulescu was suspended for one year by the federation for "unsportsmanlike conduct".


 * Venus Bucharest 2 - Juventus Bucharest 0 (2:0, 0:0, 0:0) - Barbulescu, Turceanu
 * Juventus Bucharest 9 - Universitatea Sibiu 1
 * Venus Bucharest 9 - Universitatea Sibiu 1

Team rosters

 * Venus Bucharest: Fluieras, Florian Marinescu, T. Ion, Florin Popescu, Al. Teodorescu, Cosman, Turceanu, Diugosch, Alexandrescu, Andrei Barbulescu.
 * Juventus Bucharest: Mircea Ratiu, Dorin Dron, Sadovsky, Paul Anastasiu, Mihai Flamoropol, Alexandru Botez, Eduard Pana, Ciuca, Wanieck, Meicu.