They play in Bergkamen, a centrally-situated town in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), at the Eissporthalle Bergkamen-Weddinghofen ('Bergkamen-Weddinghofen Ice Sport Hall').

Beginning in the 1988–89 season, the team took part in the newly founded women's ice hockey league, in which they reached the final tournament in 1994 without interruption.

In the 1997–98 season, the Bergkamener Bären were relegated from the Bundesliga, but managed to get promoted from the NRW-Liga in the following year.

[2] EC Bergkamen and opponents ECDC Memmingen made international ice hockey news when the shootout of their DFEL match on 23 January 2016 extended to a world record-setting 54-shots.

[3][4] The unprecedented overtime eventually ended in a victory for Memmingen, with Julia Seitz netting the shootout-ending 27th shot for her team.