It's finally time – the Champions Hockey League is back!
Europe's biggest club ice hockey competition returns for 2025/26 with six action-packed games scheduled for opening day. Here's what to look forward to as we get our 11th season underway!
The new season of elite European club ice hockey will commence in two locations at once, with the Luleå Hockey vs. EV Zug and Storhamar Hamar vs. Eisbären Berlin games doing the honours - both are scheduled to start at 19:00 CEST.
Four more games will come in quick succession as the first day of the 2025/26 season goes on. At 19:30 CEST, ERC Ingolstadt and Ilves Tampere will clash in Germany to get their CHL campaigns underway.
20:00 CEST will see the Belfast Giants and KalPa Kuopio both make their grand returns to the CHL, with the EIHL club back after a season out, whereas the Finns return to Europe's biggest club ice hockey stage for the first time since 2017/18.
Reigning French champions Grenoble will take on Swiss side SC Bern at 20:15 CEST and just 5 minutes later, the final game of opening night will see KAC Klagenfurt face Sparta Prague in Austria.
Click to read full game previews (all times CEST):
19:00 Luleå Hockey vs. EV Zug
19:00 Storhamar Hamar vs. Eisbären Berlin
19:30 ERC Ingolstadt vs. Ilves Tampere
20:00 Belfast Giants vs. KalPa Kuopio
20:15 Grenoble vs. SC Bern
20:20 KAC Klagenfurt vs. Sparta Prague
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