Advance ticket sales for the Red Bulls Salute 2025 have started

Wednesday, 12. March 2025 | Advance ticket sales for the Red Bulls Salute 2025 have started

Rögle, Salzburg and Zug at the Red Bulls Salute on August 22 and 23 – advance ticket sales have started// CURRENTThis year, too, the motto is: top-class ice hockey in summer. From now on, you can get tickets for the Red Bulls Salute in Zell am See-Kaprun, where two other top teams will be competing alongside EHC Red Bull München and EC Red Bull Salzburg.

And these two clubs are tough. With the 2022 Swedish Champions League winner Rögle BK and three-time Swiss champion EV Zug, two more European top teams will complete the international invitational tournament on August 22 and 23 in Zell am See-Kaprun.

This means that around a month before the start of the 2025/26 PENNY DEL season, four top-class teams from four different European top leagues will be competing against each other. The matches will be played in the KE Kelit Arena, the home stadium of EK Die Zeller Eisbären, which seats up to 2,600 spectators.

The exciting history behind the Red Bulls Salute

The Red Bulls Salute was born out of the idea of offering fans top-class ice hockey in the summer. The invitational tournament took place for the first time in 2005, with ERC Ingolstadt taking the title. In the years that followed, the format and number of participants changed, but the top-class line-up of top teams from Europe's best leagues remained. From 2010 onwards, the Red Bulls Salute served as the final tournament of the European Trophy, the predecessor of the Champions League.

The Finnish team JYP Jyväskylä won the last edition in 2013. After that, the tournament gave way to the Champions League (CHL). Since 2017, the international invitational tournament has been held again annually in August.

NHL flair thanks to the LA Kings

One of the absolute highlights in the history of the tournament so far was the participation of the Los Angeles Kings. In 2007, the two-time Stanley Cup winners opened the NHL season with a game against the Anaheim Ducks in London.

The Red Bulls Salute served as the ideal preparation for the Los Angeles Kings for the new season. It's no surprise that the Kings won the tournament and thus eternalized themselves in the list of winners.

The tournament

This year, Salzburg will open the Red Bulls Salute on Friday (August 22nd | 4:00 p.m.) with the game against EV Zug. After that, Munich and Rögle will fight for the second final ticket at 7:30 p.m.

The grand finale of this year's invitational tournament with the two semi-final winners will take place the following day (August 23 | 7:00 p.m.). The third-place playoff will take place at 3:00 p.m.

That was the Red Bulls Salute 2024

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Overview of the games

Semi-final 1 | August 22, 2025 | 4:00 p.m. | EC Red Bull Salzburg – EV Zug | Tickets

Semi-final 2 | August 22, 2025 | 7:30 p.m. | EHC Red Bull München – Rögle BK | Tickets

Third-place game | August 23, 2025 | 3:00 p.m. | Loser of SF 1 – Loser of SF 2 | Tickets

Final | August 23, 2025 | 7:00 p.m. | Winner of SF 1 – Winner of SF 2 | Tickets

Ticket offers

Decide for yourself whether you want to experience the entire weekend, a single day or selected matches live on site. Various ticket bundles are available, with prices ranging from 10 to 80 euros. This allows you to put together your own individual matches from the international invitational tournament.

And the best part: Red Bulls season ticket holders receive a 20 percent discount on all tickets. Our current season ticket holders will automatically receive the codes by email.

Prices

Single game, standing room: 15 euros (children 13 and under: 10 euros)

Day ticket, standing room: 28 euros (children up to 13 years: 20 euros)

All games, standing room: 50 euros (children up to 13 years: 35 euros)

Single ticket, seating: 25 euros (children up to 13 years: 15 euros)

Day ticket, seating: 45 euros (children up to 13 years: 27 euros)

All games, seating: 80 euros (children up to 13 years: 50 euros)

All previous winners of the Red Bulls Salute:

2024: Växjö Lakers (SWE)

2023: IFK Helsinki (FIN)

2022: Mountfield HK (CZE)

2021: Bílí Tygri Liberec (CZE)