We're counting down the days to the start of the 2015–16 Champions Hockey League with 48 reasons to follow the 48 clubs in Europe's top club hockey competition. Come back each day to see a new reason. Tell your friends, spread the word, and let us know why you'll be following the CHL this season!

1. Enough reasons! Drop the puck and let's play already.

2. Goals guaranteed! The CHL averaged 5.5 goals per game last season.

3. Go to the place where the German beer purity laws were written in 1516 (psst ... it's Ingolstadt).

4. Go to Klagenfurt and find out what happens when you tell everyone that your favourite team is Villach.

5. Learn which city SpnderjyskE actually come from.

6. You get to see your team wear a special CHL uniform that is reserved especially for Europe's elite.

7. Whose Sebastian Aho is better – Skelleftea's or Karpat's?

8. See Pardubice's first games after returning to their traditional name from the '50s.

9. Try the famous "Mozartkugeln" while watching a CHL game in Salzburg.

10. See which team will get its name on our beautiful trophy this season!

11. Watch hockey in France, Switzerland and Great Britain, 3 of 4 IIHF's founding members.

12. Learn more about the man in HK Nitra's logo.

13. Because "summer" in Glasgow is like winter to anyone else anyway!

14. It gives you a reason to learn how to pronounce "Grenoble Brûleurs de Loups" – and learn what it means.

15. See highly competitive game early in the season!

16. See if hosting and winning the Spengler Cup has taught Davos to play internationally.

17. See the underdogs upsetting the old powerhouses.

18. Get to know various cities from Vojens with 7 650 inhabitants to Berlin with a population of 3.5 million people.

19. The hockey rink is the coolest place to be in August.

20. The CHL takes you from the Arctic Circle (Lulea and Oulu) to the South Pole ("Patiniore Pole Sud" in Grenoble)

21. See two hockey players of Iranian descent on one team (Linkoping HC).

22. You'll se just how passionate Belarussian fans are.

23. See if Dusseldorf's Ken Andre Olimb can match his MVP-brother's CHL standard!

24. You'll know what KAC actually stands for.

25. Learn your first Finnish words (and quickly forget them). 

26. Watch this guy with an extraordinary beard captain Bili Tygri Liberec.

27. You don't need to go to Western Canada to watch the Oilers, they have them in Stavanger too!

28. Hear the difference between Slovak in Kosice and Slovak in Nitra.

29. Watch the Swedish champions play and, in the process, learn how to correctly pronounce "Växjö". 

30. Yorkshire won 7 gold medals on its own at the 2012 Olympics – now the Sheffield Steelers carry the county's proud tradition to Europe.

31. See which French team will score their country's first points in the CHL – Grenoble or Gap.

32. See if Frolunda Gothenburg can eliminate another Finnish team (3–0 in the knockout stage last season).

33. See which of the three newcomers in Group 6 (Litvinov, Grenoble and Espoo) will advance the furthest.

34. Experience new, long-lasting rivalries being born!

35. Witness the growth of ice hockey in Great Britain, Denmark or France!

36. The CHL gives coaches the chance to showcase their teams' style of play internationally.

37. Will the Nordics dominate again, or can the rest of Europe stop them?

38. Watch Arno Del Curto coach Davos in his 20th season with the club!

39. Experience the Alps! Nine of the CHL teams are situated within the largest mountain range in Europe.

40. See a club that was founded in 1903 – Sparta Prague.

41. You can see lots of different animals!

42. Visit the arena in Kosice where the 2019 World Championships will be held.

43. Because Lulea & Lukko just can't get enough of playing each other.

44. See just how great Scottish hockey fans are!

45. The CHL takes you places you'd never think that you would ever visit. 

46. You'll get to learn Cyrillic supporting ХК Нёман Гродна!

47. Get to know the difference between the German language spoken in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

48. The Champions Hockey League determines the club hockey champion of Europe!

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