Release from 19.05.2021

ICE teams know CHL opponents

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32 teams from 13 leagues will compete in eight groups of four in the 2021/22 Champions Hockey League Group Stage. bet-at-home ICE Hockey League champion EC-KAC will take on opponents from Denmark, France and Ukraine, while group H will see a league internal duel between HCB Südtirol Alperia and EC Red Bull Salzburg.

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The eight groups for the 2021/22 Champions Hockey League season, which starts on August 26th and ends on October 13th, have been determined. Due to the Olympic qualifiers being postponed to this summer - scheduled to coincide with the CHL opening weekend - the draw has been split into two: Those teams whose countries are still fighting for a ticket to Beijing 2022, including those in the bet-at-home ICE Hockey League, were drawn from one pot into two groups. The remaining 24 teams were drawn separately into the pools of four according to a familiar scheme.

bet-at-home ICE Hockey League champions EC-KAC will play in Group G from September 2nd and will face reigning Danish champions Rungsted Seier Capital, 16-time French champions Rouen Dragons and first-time participants HC Donbass Donetsk from Ukraine.

In Group H there will be the ICE-internal duel between HCB Südtirol Alperia and EC Red Bull Salzburg. Furthermore, the duo will meet the Polish champion JKH GKS Jastrzebie and the Norwegian regular season winner Frisk Asker.

2021/22 Playing Format
The 2021/22 Group Stage will start on 26 August and finish on 13 October. A total of 32 teams are divided into eight groups of four and each team plays six games – one home and one away – against the other three teams in its group. The first- and second-placed teams in each group then advance to the Playoff Stage. First-round matchups will be drawn at the Playoff Draw on 15 October – and then the path for each team is determined all the way to the CHL Final via the playoff tree.

With 16 teams in the Playoffs, four rounds are required to determine the European club champions. The first three rounds are all two-game, home-and-away, aggregate-scoring series, similar to previous seasons. The playoffs start on 16 November and finish with the ultimate one-game Final on 1 March 2022.

group A: Växjö Lakers (SWE), Sparta Prague (CZE), TPS Turku (FIN), Pinguins Bremerhaven (GER)
group B: Frölunda Indians (SWE), IFK Helsinki (FIN), BK Mladá Boleslav (CZE), ZSC Lions Zurich (SUI)
group C: Lukko Rauma (FIN), Adler Mannheim (GER), Lausanne HC (SUI), Cardiff Devils (UK)
group D: EV Zug (SUI), Rögle Ängleholm (SWE), Red Bull Munich (GER), SønderjyskE Vojens (DEN)
group E: Eisbären Berlin (GER), HC Lugano (SUI), Skellefteå AIK (SWE), Tappara Tampere (FIN)
group F: Oceláři Třinec (CZE), Leksands IF (SWE), Fribourg-Gottéron (SUI), Yunost Minsk (BLR)
group G: KAC Klagenfurt (AUT), Rouen Dragons (FRA), Rungsted Seier Capital (DEN), HC Donbass Donetsk (UKR)
group H: HC Bolzano (ITA), Red Bull Salzburg (AUT), Frisk Asker (NOR), JKH GKS Jastrzębie (POL)

Groupstage Draw