2019-20 Czech Chance Liga season

In 2019-20 Czech Chance Liga season there were 16 teams playing this league. There were 30 games for each team in First part, 28 games for each team in the group For Standings In The Play-off or in the group For Participation In The 1st Round Of The Play-off and then play-offs for 10 best teams. It was stopped on March 12, 2020 (in the middle of the 1st rounds of the play-off) due to COVID-19 pandemic and the best team of the group For Standings in The Play-off (ČEZ Motor České Budějovice) was named a champion and advanced into the Tipsport Extraliga for the next season.

Format of the league
In the First part, every team played each other twice, which made for 30 games. The 30 game phase allowed each team to play one home game against each team, which also allowed every team to play one road game in every opposing team's arena.

After the First part, best eight teams created group For Standings In The Play-off, in which every team played four times each other (two home games and two road games), so it made for another 28 games (results from the First part were counted).

Teams on the 9th-16th place after the First part created group For Participation In The 1st Round Of The Play-off, in which every team played four times each other (two home games and two road games), so it made for 28 games, too (results from the First part were counted).

Teams on the 1st-6th place of the group For Standings in The Play-off (1st-6th overall) should have proceed straight to the quarterfinals. Teams on the 7th and 8th place of the group For Standings In The Play-off and teams on the 1st and 2nd place of the group For Participation In The 1st Round Of The Play-off (7th-10th overall) went to the 1st round of the play-off (best-of-five; 7th vs. 10th, 8th vs. 9th). Winners of the 1st rounds should have proceed into the quarterfinals (best-of-seven; 1st vs. 8th, 2nd vs. 7th, 3rd vs. 6th, 4th vs. 5th). Winners of the quarterfinals should have go to the semifinals (best-of-seven; 1st vs. 4th, 2nd vs. 3rd). Winners of the semifinals should have proceed into the finals (best-of-seven). Winner of the finals should have proceed into the Tipsport Extraliga for the next season.

From season 2017-18, Chance Liga was unrelegatious and it expanded until this season, so for teams on 11th-16th place overall after second phase season was over. Into Chance Liga proceeded the best teams of 2. Liga divisons (originally should have been played the play-off of the 2. Liga and the winner of the superfinal should have advance into Chance Liga for the next season, but it was skipped due to coronavirus pandemic) and the worst team after basic part of the Tipsport Extraliga was relegated to the Chance Liga for next season.

Three points were awarded for a win in regular time, and two points for an overtime victory, while the defeated team in overtime got one point. If it was/should have been necessary, penalty shots were/should have been used to decide games after five-minute overtime 3 vs. 3 in the First part, group For Standings in The Play-off and group For Participation In The 1st Round Of The Play-off and twenty-minute overime 5 vs. 5 in the first 3 matches of the 1st rounds of the play-off and first 4 matches of the quaterfinals, semifinals and finals. Continued overtime 5 vs. 5 should have be used in 4th and 5th matches of 1st rounds of the play-off and 5th, 6th and 7th matches of the quaterfinals, semifinals and finals.

Participants

 * ČEZ Motor České Budějovice
 * HC Zubr Přerov
 * HC Stadion Litoměřice
 * Piráti Chomutov
 * HC Slavia Praha
 * VHK ROBE Vsetín
 * HC Poruba
 * AZ Havířov

Participants

 * HC Dukla Jihlava
 * LHK Jestřábi Prostějov
 * HC Frýdek-Místek
 * SK Horácká Slavia Třebíč
 * HC Benátky nad Jizerou
 * HC Slovan Ústí nad Labem
 * HC Baník Sokolov
 * SK Kadaň

1st rounds
In the 1st round, there were played only two games of each series. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, second matches were played without any audience and on March 12, 2020, Chance Liga season was canceled. Results of the 1st rounds were annuled.