The 2024–25 Slovak Extraliga season is the 32nd season of the Slovak Extraliga, the highest ice hockey league in Slovakia.
Team changes HC 19 Humenné finished in the 2023–24 Slovak Extraliga season on the last 12th place and was relegated to a second highest ice hockey league in Slovakia. Meanwhile Vlci Žilina won the promotion from the second league.
Regular season Standings Each team played 54 games: playing each of the other eleven teams four times – 2x at home, 2x away (44 games) and during the Christmas holidays (18.12.2024 – 12.1.2025) each team played the inserted matches within variant "Group West" and "Group East" 1x at home, 1x away = 10 games.
Points were awarded for each game, where three points are 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.
Statistics Scoring leaders
The following players led the league in regular season points at the completion of games played on 26 February 2025. Player Team HK Poprad 50 20 45 65 +9 12 HK Poprad 51 33 23 56 +7 14 HC '05 Banská Bystrica 48 29 27 56 +8 34 HK Dukla Trenčín 51 27 27 54 −4 41 HKM Zvolen 47 29 20 49 −7 73 HK Spišská Nová Ves 50 11 37 48 +8 14 HC Slovan Bratislava 48 16 30 46 +20 18 HK Dukla Michalovce 51 29 16 45 −8 32 HK Nitra 50 26 19 45 +18 44 Vlci Žilina 46 22 23 45 +13 57
Leading goaltenders The following shows the top ten goaltenders who led the league in goals against average, provided that they have played at least 40% of their team's minutes, at the conclusion of games played on 22 December 2024.
Player Team HK Spišská Nová Ves 27 1,573:17 18 9 63 1 91.75 2.40 HK Poprad 24 1,366:13 12 12 58 4 91.70 2.55 22 1,337:22 13 9 59 0 91.97 2.65 HK 32 Liptovský Mikuláš 15 864:07 5 10 39 2 91.41 2.71 HC Košice 18 1,026:37 12 6 47 1 90.93 2.75 HK Nitra 19 1,091:26 12 7 51 1 91.84 2.80 Vlci Žilina 22 1,249:51 12 10 59 0 90.12 2.83 HK Dukla Ingema Michalovce 19 1,106:56 10 9 54 1 90.83 2.93 HK Dukla Trenčín 17 920:39 9 8 46 2 91.10 3.00 HK 32 Liptovský Mikuláš 16 819:30 5 11 41 2 90.33 3.00
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.
Bracket
Wild card round
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Final rankings Košice Nitra Žilina4 Zvolen5 Spišská Nová Ves6 Banská Bystrica7 Poprad8 Trenčín9 Slovan Bratislava10 Michalovce11 Liptovský Mikuláš12 Nové Zámky
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