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The start of the new season will also be postponed for a month. It begins on October 6, 2020.
The Champions Hockey League You must include 13 nations in your planning. This is not an easy task. In times of the Corona crisis, this does not become easier.
The CHL Board of Directors has now decided. The season will be postponed and begin on October 6, 2020. “Our participating teams must be able to travel and our goal is for us to play CHL with the spectators in the arenas. For this reason, and also due to currently very uncertain developments across Europe, we made a proactive decision and wanted to avoid the risk of a short-term postponement, “says CHL President Peter Zahner.
The game system is adjusted
The new season will be shortened by four days of play. This results in an adjustment of the game format. “We have reviewed many different alternative scenarios in the past few weeks and have concluded that an elimination system is the simplest and fairest solution that can be used,” Zahner said.
32 teams will be drawn in pairs and the competition will begin with the sixteenth final. The first and second stage will be played until the semifinals. The final is scheduled for February 9 with just one, instead of two, as before.
Complete field of participants
Neman Grodno He is the 32nd participant of the CHL 2020/21 season. The CHL Board of Directors has awarded the last remaining wild card to the second-ranked Belarusian.
This after the Slovak league officially asked the CHL to replace its qualified team for the 2020/21 season due to infrastructure problems.
