2024–25 EIHL season

2024–25 EIHL season
League	Elite Ice Hockey League
Sport	Ice hockey
Duration	7th September 2024 – 20th April 2025
Number of teams	10
Regular season
Challenge Cup
Playoffs

The 2024–25 EIHL season will be the 21st season of the Elite Ice Hockey League. The regular season began on 7th September 2024, and the final match day will be on 6th April 2025; the playoff quarter-finals will be held the weekend of the 12th and 13th, the Playoff final weekend will be held the following weekend.

Teams

The same ten teams that competed in 2023–24 competed in the 2024–25 season

Team	City/Town	Arena	Capacity
Belfast Giants	Belfast	SSE Arena Belfast	8,700
Cardiff Devils	Cardiff	Vindico Arena	3,088
Coventry Blaze	Coventry	Coventry Skydome	3,000
Dundee Stars	Dundee	Dundee Ice Arena	2,400
Fife Flyers	Kirkcaldy	Fife Ice Arena	3,525
Glasgow Clan	Glasgow	Braehead Arena	4,000
Guildford Flames	Guildford	Guildford Spectrum	2,001
Manchester Storm	Altrincham	Altrincham Ice Dome	2,351
Nottingham Panthers	Nottingham	Motorpoint Arena Nottingham	7,500
Sheffield Steelers	Sheffield	Utilita Arena Sheffield	9,300

Regular season

League standings

Each team will play 54 games, playing each of the other nine teams six times: three times on home ice, and three times away from home.Points will be awarded for each game, two points will awarded for all victories, regardless of whether it was in regulation time or after overtime or game-winning shots. One point was awarded for losing in overtime or game-winning shots, and zero points for losing in regulation time. At the end of the regular season, the team that finished with the most points will be crowned the league champion, and wil qualify for the 2025–26 Champions Hockey League. The top eight teams will qualify for the playoffs.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Cardiff Devils	7	6	0	0	1	26	11	+15	12	Regular season champions Qualification to playoffs
2	Belfast Giants	3	2	0	1	0	12	7	+5	5	Qualification to playoffs
3	Coventry Blaze	2	2	0	0	0	8	4	+4	4
4	Sheffield Steelers	3	1	1	0	1	11	8	+3	4
5	Manchester Storm	4	2	0	0	2	16	19	−3	4
6	Guildford Flames	3	1	0	1	1	10	9	+1	3
7	Nottingham Panthers	2	1	0	0	1	6	3	+3	2
8	Glasgow Clan	4	1	0	0	3	6	11	−5	2
9	Dundee Stars	4	0	1	0	3	12	21	−9	2
10	Fife Flyers	6	1	0	0	5	13	27	−14	2

Source: Elite League
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Games won in regulation time; 3) Number of games won; 4) Head-to-head results, ranked by criteria 1 to 3; 5) Fewest regulation losses; 6) Away game results, ranked by criteria 1 to 3; 7) Goals scored; 8) Goal difference; 9) Fewest penalty minutes; 10) Drawing of lots. Updated 13.10.24

Statistics

Scoring leaders

The following players lead the league in points. If two or more skaters are tied (i.e. same number of points, goals and played games), all of the tied skaters are shown, unless there are 10 or more players.

Player	Team	GP	G	A	Pts	+/–	PIM
Cole Sanford	Cardiff Devils	6	4	5	9	+6	4
Zach O'Brien	Cardiff Devils	7	4	4	8	+7	0
Josh MacDonald	Cardiff Devils	7	4	4	8	+3	0
Lucas Chiodo	Fife Flyers	6	3	5	8	+1	2
Elijiah Barriga	Belfast Giants	3	4	2	6	+2	0
Jake Durflinger	Manchester Storm	4	3	3	6	+3	4
Reid Duke	Cardiff Devils	7	2	4	6	+4	4
Alexis D'Aoust	Manchester Storm	4	2	4	6	0	4
Brett Perlini	Cardiff Devils	7	4	2	6	+3	0
Joey Martin	Cardiff Devils	7	1	5	6	+7	0

Leading goaltenders

The following goaltenders lead the league in goals against average, provided that they have played at least 40% of their team's minutes.

Player	Team(s)	GP	TOI	W	L	GA	SO	SV%	GAA
Jake Kupsky	Guildford Flames	1	60:00	1	0	1	0	95.83%	1.00
Tom McCollum	Belfast Giants	2	125:00	1	1	3	0	94.34%	1.44
Ben Bowns	Nottingham Panthers	6	399:00	6	1	10	0	95.58%	1.50
Ryan Bernard	Cardiff Devils	2	118:00	1	1	3	0	94.12%	1.53
Mat Robson	Coventry Blaze	2	120:00	2	0	4	0	94.29%	2.00

Challenge Cup

The Challenge Cup will be split into two stages: an initial group stage where the league's ten teams were divided into three groups based on geographical distance – one group of six teams (Group A) and a group of four teams (Groups B). The winners of Group A and B, as well as the runners up in Group A, will go directly into the Semi-finals.The Runners-Up in Group B will face the Third-placed team in Group A in a special 'play-in' round to decide the final place in the Semi-Finals. This will be a one-off game, played at the home arena of the team with the higher points percentage from the Group Stage.

Group Stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Nottingham Panthers	8	4	2	1	1	27	20	+7	13	Qualification to knockout stage
2	Sheffield Steelers	5	2	2	1	0	20	15	+5	9
3	Manchester Storm	7	1	2	1	3	22	26	−4	7	Play-in match
4	Coventry Blaze	6	1	1	2	2	14	21	−7	6
5	Cardiff Devils	4	2	0	1	1	18	12	+6	5
6	Guildford Flames	8	2	0	1	5	21	28	−7	5

Source: Elite League
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Games won in regulation time; 3) Number of games won; 4) Head-to-head results, ranked by criteria 1 to 3; 5) Fewest regulation losses; 6) Away game results, ranked by criteria 1 to 3; 7) Goals scored; 8) Goal difference; 9) Fewest penalty minutes; 10) Drawing of lots. Updated 12.10.2024

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Belfast Giants	7	4	2	0	1	34	16	+18	12	Qualification to knockout stage
2	Glasgow Clan	7	4	0	1	2	29	25	+4	9	Play-in match
3	Fife Flyers	6	2	0	1	3	17	26	−9	5
4	Dundee Stars	8	1	1	1	5	23	36	−13	5

Source: Elite League
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Games won in regulation time; 3) Number of games won; 4) Head-to-head results, ranked by criteria 1 to 3; 5) Fewest regulation losses; 6) Away game results, ranked by criteria 1 to 3; 7) Goals scored; 8) Goal difference; 9) Fewest penalty minutes; 10) Drawing of lots. Updated 13.10.2024