Rouen

Eighteen Ligue Magnus titles separate the Dragons de Rouen from every other club in French hockey, and the run has not gone quiet with age: the most recent came in 2024, following 2023, 2021 and 2018. The domestic haul runs deeper than the league table — six French Cups, four League Cups, two Atlantic League titles from the mid-1990s — but it is the continental record that marks the club out from its rivals: the IIHF Continental Cup, won in 2012 and again in 2016, and a European League Cup from 1996.

Franck Pajonkowski carried much of that 1990s success on the ice, while Fabrice Lhenry moved from goaltender to long-serving coach.

Two fixtures carry more weight than the rest of the calendar. Games against Gothiques d'Amiens are billed as the Derby du Nord, while the meetings with Brûleurs de Loups de Grenoble pit the two most decorated clubs in the country against each other.