2016–17 Champions Hockey League
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| Dates | 2016 – 2017 |
| Teams | 48 |
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The 2016–17 Champions Hockey League is the third season of the Champions Hockey League, a European ice hockey tournament launched by 26 founding clubs, six leagues and the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). The group stage will begin on 16 August 2016, with the one-game Final being played on 7 February 2017.
Team allocation
A total of 48 teams from different European first-tier leagues will participate in the 2016–17 Champions Hockey League.
Team license
The teams will be decided with regards to different licenses for the founding teams, leagues and wildcards.[1]
- A license: The 26 founding teams get an A license, if they play in the first-tier league of their respective domestic league system in the 2016–17 season.
- B license: Two teams – the regular-season winner and the play-off champion in the 2014–15 season – from each of the founding leagues (the Austrian EBEL, the Czech Extraliga, the Finnish Liiga, the German DEL, the Swedish SHL and the Swiss NLA) will receive a B licence to the tournament. If those teams had already received an A license, other teams from the league will take the B license spots. The order the B licenses were handed out is:[2][3]
- National champion
- Regular season winner
- Runner-up, regular season
- Play-off finalist
- Best placed semifinal loser
- Worst placed semifinal loser
- C license: There will be 10 wild cards. The champions from Norway, Slovakia, Belarus, Denmark, France, the United Kingdom and Poland will get wild cards. From Norway and Slovakia a second team, the regular season winner, will also get a wild card. One wild card license will be assigned to the 2015–16 IIHF Continental Cup winner Dragons de Rouen.[4][5]
Teams
Teams in the 2016–17 Champions Hockey League.
Blue: A-license; 
Red: B-license; 
Yellow: C-license.
Blue: A-license; Red: B-license; Yellow: C-license.Notes:
- ‡ – Ligue Magnus champion Dragons de Rouen had already qualified via Continental Cup.
References
- ↑ "In the home stretch: clubs in 6 founding leagues eye CHL qualification". Champions Hockey League. 15 February 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
- ↑ "New clubs join CHL". iihf.com. 4 April 2014. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
- ↑ "Qualifikationskriterien für die Champions Hockey League". iihf.com (in German). 20 February 2014. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
- ↑ "33 CHL clubs already known". IIHF. 7 March 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
- ↑ "Rouen reaches for the stars". Champions Hockey League. 11 January 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
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