the second-highest play class partly in two digits. In her first Bundesliga year there were always problems in and around the team. Thus team captain Sigbert Stotz finished his career on account of an injury and it gave riots in the board of directors. Manager Peter after whom financial problems with his tyre trade were repeated fled without news from the town. The association dismissed the trainer and fetched back rise trainer Ondrej Bendík to the gang. Still one created at the end extremely scarcely the class preservation. Also in the next playing time one had nothing to do with the descent. In 1975/76 became the first big crisis season of the sharks. The quarrel within the presidium led to beginning of the year in 1976 to the resignation of the president Rentergent who had also come under fire because of supposed payments to the players officially still applying as amateurs of the KEC. Besides, on account of the weak abscission and the turbulence in the association – middle of the season was dismissed trainer Bendík because of persistent failure – the numbers of spectators strongly decreased what led to a financial deficit. 1976 to 1983: The first success In spite of the acute monetary problems the sharks with big transfer drew the attention to themselves., Among the rest, thus new president Jochem Erlemann obliged Gerhard Kiessling and his son Udo as a trainer or defender. Nevertheless, the purchase of Erich Kühnhackl of EV Landshut for the record transfer fee at that time of more than 600,000 DM was even more spectacularly. Strangely in the obligation: Jochem Erlemann had sent several times employee with money to negotiations with Kühnhackl to Landshut which achieved, nevertheless, no success. The star player still changed to Cologne. However, even as had set up of the KEC sportily in the top flight of the league, tax additional payments and debts became known at the rate of more than two million DM. Only by immediately initiated consolidation measures the association president succeeded in turning away the bankruptcy and in holding the play company straight. And thus the sharks in March 1977 managed the profit of the first mastery when one defeated, among the rest, the former standard master from Eisbären Berlin, as well as the Rhenish rivals from Düsseldorfer EG and Krefeld Pinguine in the master round introduced anew. After the KEC did not manage the