Champions Hockey League Announces 2025-26 Game Dates
On Thursday, the Champions Hockey League announced its game dates for the 2025-26 season. The regular season will begin on Aug. 28 and finish on Oct. 15. The playoffs will then begin on Nov. 11 and finish with the final on March 3.
As is usually the case, the first four rounds of games will be played on consecutive weekends, Thursday to Sunday, before the domestic national leagues start. Gamedays 5 and 6 then go on Tuesdays and Wednesdays in October. The playoffs, which are played in two-legged series, continue the pattern of Tuesdays and Wednesdays, with the round of 16 scheduled for November, the quarterfinals for December and the semifinals in January.
Due to the 2026 Winter Olympics, the final, which is usually scheduled for February, will instead be played in early March. This was also the case in 2022.
So far, 17 teams have already qualified to play in the CHL next season, with seven more spots still available.
Zurich Lions Win Champions Hockey League Final – Back-To-Back Titles For Switzerland For the second year in a row, a Swiss team has defeated a Swedish team in the Champions Hockey League final. On their home ice, the ZSC Lions defeated visiting Färjestad 2-1 before a sell-out crowd of 12,000 at Swiss Life Arena in Zurich.
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