CHL // Thursday, 17.03.2016
CHL: One Wild Card spot left
By receiving one Wild Card for the 2016-17 season Great Britain will participate in the Champions Hockey League for the third consecutive year. The Wild Card is awarded to the EIHL regular season winner who will be determined at the upcoming weekend.
Great Britain / EIHL is the lone exception as the EIHL, in line with their tradition, determines their national champion following the regular season (not in the playoffs). The team that wins the regular season standings is the national champion in Great Britain / EIHL. Therefore, it has been agreed with the EIHL that the national champion will obtain the Wild Card.
The Wild Card, also called C-Licenses, are in general awarded by the CHL to top teams from the “Challenge Leagues”, which are ranked below the six Founding Leagues. Same as the year before, there are 10 C-Licenses for 2016-17. Nine of them are now confirmed for the Leagues of Norway, Slovakia (champion and regular season winner each), Denmark, France, Belarus and Great Britain (champion each) as well as to the winner of the IIHF Continental Cup. The review for the last C-License spot is still in progress and the recipient will be announced later on.
Format 2016-17 / Group Stage Draw
The format for the 2016-17 Champions Hockey League remains the same as 2015-16. 48 teams compete on the “Destination Final” to be crown as Europe’s club champion. 26 A-License (Founding Clubs) clubs are joined by 12 B-License (in principle the national champions and regular season winners of the six Founding Leagues) and 10 C-License clubs.
The Group Stage Draw takes places on 3 May in Zurich (SUI).
The Group Stage of the 2016-17-season will begin on 18 August (16 August for Swiss teams) and finish on 11 September. The total of 48 teams will be divided into 16 groups of three and each team will play four games – one home and one away against the other two teams in its group. The first- and second-placed teams in each group will then advance to the Playoff Stage.
With 32 teams in the playoffs, five rounds will be required to determine the European club champion. The first four rounds will all be two-game, home-and-away, total-goal series, similar to the previous seasons. The playoffs will begin on 4 October and finish with a one-game final on 7 February.
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