DEL: Schedule for 2024 playoffs published

Wednesday, 07. February 2024 | DEL: Schedule for 2024 playoffs published

The PENNY DEL playoff dates have been set // NEWSThe German Ice Hockey League published the dates for the playoffs of the 2023/24 DEL season on Wednesday. The first playoff round starts on March 10, and the German champion will be crowned after the seventh final game on April 30 at the latest.

The main round of the PENNY DEL is entering the home straight. Eight games are still on the agenda for our Red Bulls before the "hottest time" of the year begins with the playoffs. EHC Red Bull München is currently in sixth place with 72 points and is fighting for the best possible starting position in the remaining games.

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If Munich win their next two games after the regular season, they would be guaranteed a place in the playoffs. It would be their eleventh appearance since their promotion to Germany's top division in 2010. Toni Söderholm's team have played 103 play-off games so far, of which the Red Bulls have won a whopping 65 (63 per cent). The team from the state capital scored a total of 321 times.

Best-of-seven mode from the quarter-finals onwards

The DEL main round ends on March 8 with the 52nd matchday. By then at the latest, it will be clear who will reach the play-offs and which teams will have to say goodbye for the summer break. For EHC Red Bull Munich, the final home game of the main round in the history of the venerable Olympia-Eisstadion is scheduled against the Augsburg Panthers (March 8 | 7:30 pm). The derby is already sold out.

The hottest phase of the season begins on March 10 with the first playoff round. The teams in positions 7 to 10 will battle it out in a best-of-three format for the last two places in the quarter-finals. The teams ranked 1 to 6 qualify directly for the last eight. From then on, all further rounds will be played in a best-of-seven format. This means that four wins are required in each series to reach the next round or win the championship.

MagentaSport will show all playoff matches live, while DF1 will broadcast selected matches on free-to-air TV.

The playoff dates at a glance

1st playoff round:

March 10 | 12 | 14

Quarter-finals:

16th/17th | 19th/20th | 22nd | 24th | 26th * | 28th * | 30th * March

Semi-finals:

01. | 03. | 05. | 07. | 09./10.* | 11./12.* | 13./14.* April

Final:

17th | 19th | 21st | 23rd | 26th | 28th | 30th * April

*if necessary

Due to hall occupancy, there may still be postponements in the match dates of individual playoff pairings. The exact dates will be announced after the conclusion of the main round on March 8.