The 2024–25 SHL season is the 50th season of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). The regular season began on 21 September 2024, and will end on 11 March 2025, where it will be followed by the playoffs and the relegation playoffs.
Having been promoted as the champions of the 2023–24 HockeyAllsvenskan season, Brynäs IF became the first promoted team to win the following regular season title – their first regular season title in forty-seven years[1] – finishing five points clear of their closest competitors, Luleå HF.
For the second successive season, HV71 won the Play Out – defeating Modo Hockey 4–2, following four successive wins, relegating the latter after two seasons in the SHL.[2]
The league consists of 14 teams; Brynäs IF returned to the SHL after one season in the HockeyAllsvenskan, where they won the 2023–24 title. IK Oskarshamn were relegated to the HockeyAllsvenskan at the end of the previous season, after five seasons in the SHL.
Each team played 52 games, playing each of the other thirteen teams four times: twice on home ice, and twice away from home. Points were awarded for each game, where three points were awarded for winning in regulation time, two points for winning in overtime or shootout, one point for losing in overtime or shootout, and zero points for losing in regulation time. At the end of the regular season, the team that finished with the most points was crowned the league champion.
Source: SHL.se Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored (R) Relegated.
Statistics[]
Scoring leaders[]
The following shows the top ten players who led the league in points, at the conclusion of the regular season.[3] If two or more skaters are tied (i.e. same number of points, goals and played games), all of the tied skaters are shown.
The following shows the top ten goaltenders who led the league in goals against average, provided that they had played at least 40% of their team's minutes, at the conclusion of the regular season.[4]
Ten teams qualify for the playoffs: the top six teams in the regular season have a bye to the quarterfinals, while teams ranked seventh to tenth meet each other (7 versus 10, 8 versus 9) in a preliminary playoff round.[5]
Format[]
In the first round, the 7th-ranked team meets the 10th-ranked team and the 8th-ranked team meets the 9th-ranked team for a place in the second round. In the second round, the top-ranked team will meet the lowest-ranked winner of the first round, the second-ranked team will face the other winner of the first round, the third-ranked team will face the sixth-ranked team, and the fourth-ranked team will face the fifth-ranked team. In the third round, the highest remaining seed is matched against the lowest remaining seed. In each round the higher-seeded team is awarded home advantage. The meetings are in the first round played as best-of-three series, and in the later rounds as best-of-seven series. In the eighth-finals, the higher-seeded teams play at home for game 2 (plus 3 if necessary) while the lower-seeded teams play at home for game 1. In the later rounds, the higher-seeded teams are at home for games 1 and 3 (plus 5 and 7 if necessary) while the lower-seeded teams are at home for games 2 and 4 (plus 6 if necessary).[5]
Playoff bracket[]
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The following players led the league in points, at the conclusion of games played on 1 May 2025. If two or more skaters are tied (i.e. same number of points, goals and played games), all of the tied skaters are shown.[6]
The following shows the top goaltenders who led the league in goals against average, provided that they have played at least 40% of their team's minutes, at the conclusion of games played on 1 May 2025.[7]
The two bottom-placed teams from the regular season (Modo Hockey and HV71) played a best-of-seven series, with the winner remaining in the SHL and the loser relegated to the second tier, the HockeyAllsvenskan. The higher-seeded team held home advantage over the series, playing at home for the first two games and game five, while the lower-seeded team was at home for games three, four and six.[5]
David Tomášek
Filip Hållander
Henrik Borgström
Marián Studenič
Tobias Normann
Frédéric Allard
Brian O'Neill