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2025–26 SHL season

2025–26 SHL season
LeagueSwedish Hockey League
SportIce hockey
Duration
  • 13 September 2025 – 14 March 2026
  • (Regular season)
  • From March 2026
  • (Playoffs)
Regular season
Playoffs

The 2025–26 SHL season is the 51st season of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). The regular season began on 13 September 2025, and is intended to conclude on 14 March 2026, where it will be followed by the playoffs and the relegation playoffs.[1]

Teams

The league consists of 14 teams; Djurgårdens IF returned to the SHL after three seasons in the HockeyAllsvenskan, where they won the 2024–25 title.[2]

Modo Hockey were relegated to the HockeyAllsvenskan at the end of the previous season, after two seasons in the SHL.[3]

SHL team map
Team City Arena Capacity
Brynäs IF Gävle Monitor ERP Arena 7,909
Djurgårdens IF Stockholm Hovet 8,094
Färjestad BK Karlstad Löfbergs Arena 8,647
Frölunda HC Gothenburg Scandinavium 12,044
HV71 Jönköping Husqvarna Garden 7,000
Leksands IF Leksand Tegera Arena 7,650
Linköping HC Linköping Saab Arena 8,500
Luleå HF Luleå Coop Norrbotten Arena 6,300
Malmö Redhawks Malmö Malmö Arena 13,000
Örebro HK Örebro Behrn Arena 5,150
Rögle BK Ängelholm Catena Arena 5,150
Skellefteå AIK Skellefteå Skellefteå Kraft Arena 6,001
Timrå IK Timrå SCA Arena 6,000
Växjö Lakers Växjö Vida Arena 5,700

Regular season

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.

Along with the playoff winners, the two highest-ranked teams in the regular season will qualify for the 2026–27 Champions Hockey League.

Standings

Pos Team Pld W OTW OTL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Frölunda HC (T) 45 28 4 2 11 149 89 +60 94 Qualification to Quarter-finals and Champions Hockey League
2 Skellefteå AIK (T) 45 26 5 6 8 160 102 +58 94
3 Växjö Lakers (T) 45 23 5 4 13 132 114 +18 83 Qualification to Quarter-finals
4 Rögle BK (T) 45 22 4 6 13 131 103 +28 80
5 Luleå HF 45 19 5 3 18 125 114 +11 70
6 Malmö Redhawks 45 20 4 2 19 122 130 −8 70
7 Brynäs IF 45 17 7 2 19 137 128 +9 67 Qualification to Eighth-finals
8 Timrå IK 45 17 4 4 20 114 121 −7 63
9 Färjestad BK 45 16 5 4 20 115 118 −3 62
10 Djurgårdens IF 45 16 5 3 21 114 146 −32 61
11 Linköping HC 44 16 1 5 22 98 127 −29 55
12 Örebro HK 45 13 3 5 24 116 143 −27 50
13 HV71 45 13 3 5 24 118 149 −31 50 Qualification to Play Out
14 Leksands IF 44 11 2 6 25 89 136 −47 43
Updated to match(es) played on 21 February 2026. Source: SHL.se
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored
(T) Qualified, but not yet to the particular phase indicated

Statistics

Scoring leaders

The following shows the top ten players who led the league in points, at the conclusion of games played on 21 February 2026.[4] If two or more skaters are tied (i.e. same number of points, goals and played games), all of the tied skaters are shown.

Player Team GP G A Pts +/– PIM
Sweden Oscar Lindberg Skellefteå AIK 45 30 32 62 +21 46
Sweden Rickard Hugg Skellefteå AIK 45 15 34 49 +18 8
Sweden Jonathan Dahlén Timrå IK 43 26 20 46 +9 16
Sweden Jonathan Pudas Skellefteå AIK 45 16 30 46 +13 36
Sweden Lucas Elvenes Växjö Lakers 44 12 32 44 0 12
Sweden Patrik Karlkvist Örebro HK 45 11 30 41 –6 12
Denmark Mikkel Aagaard Skellefteå AIK 43 19 21 40 +16 10
Canada Jonathan Ang HV71 45 19 20 39 –11 34
Sweden Joel Persson Växjö Lakers 44 8 31 39 +6 28
Canada David Quenneville Örebro HK 45 14 24 38 –6 12

Leading goaltenders

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 games played on 21 February 2026.[5]

Player Team GP TOI W L GA SO Sv% GAA
Norway Tobias Normann Frölunda HC 21 1248:01 13 8 36 3 92.29 1.73
United States Strauss Mann Skellefteå AIK 37 2203:45 28 8 68 9 91.58 1.85
Sweden Lars Johansson Frölunda HC 24 1455:28 19 5 50 1 91.41 2.06
Sweden Arvid Holm Rögle BK 32 1872:26 18 13 69 4 89.70 2.21
Sweden Adam Åhman Växjö Lakers 27 1596:15 18 9 61 3 90.21 2.29
Finland Emil Larmi Färjestad BK 34 1866:30 16 16 72 2 89.92 2.31
Sweden Matteus Ward Luleå HF 29 1696:00 18 10 66 2 89.35 2.33
Sweden Ludvig Persson Växjö Lakers 20 1119:54 10 8 44 2 89.32 2.36
Sweden Jacob Johansson Timrå IK 29 1648:56 14 12 66 3 89.74 2.40
Italy Damian Clara Brynäs IF 30 1736:45 16 13 72 2 88.84 2.49

Playoffs

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.[6]

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).[6]

Play Out

The two bottom-placed teams from the regular season plays 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 holds home advantage over the series, playing at home for the first two games, games five and seven, while the lower-seeded team is at home for games three, four and six.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Här är spelschemat 2025/2026!" (in Swedish). Swedish Hockey League. 16 May 2025.
  2. ^ Larsson, Mac (25 April 2025). "Mesta mästarna Djurgården tillbaka i SHL" (in Swedish). Sveriges Television. Retrieved 25 July 2025.
  3. ^ Johansson, Anton; Karlsson, Mattias (25 March 2025). "HV71 vann kvalet – Modo åker ur SHL" [HV71 won the qualifier - Modo relegated from the SHL]. Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 25 July 2025.
  4. ^ "Spelarstatistik - Statistik" [Player Statistics - Statistik]. Swedish Hockey League (in Swedish). SHL AB. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
  5. ^ "Målvakter - Statistik" [Goalkeeper - Statistics]. Swedish Hockey League (in Swedish). SHL AB. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
  6. ^ a b c "Seriebestämmelser Säsongen 2025/2026" [Series regulations: Season 2025/2026] (PDF). Swehockey (in Swedish). Swedish Ice Hockey Association. pp. 5–7. Retrieved 25 July 2025.
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