The 2024–25 SHL season was the 50th season of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). The regular season began on 21 September 2024, and ended on 11 March 2025, where it was followed by the playoffs and the relegation playoffs.

Having been promoted as the champions of the 2023–24 HockeyAllsvenskan season, Brynäs IF became the first promoted team to win the following regular season title – their first regular season title in forty-seven years – finishing five points clear of their closest competitors, Luleå HF.

For the second successive season, HV71 won the Play Out – defeating Modo Hockey 4–2, following four successive wins, relegating the latter after two seasons in the SHL.

Frölunda HC drew the highest average home league attendance with 11,359.https://www.eurohockeyclubs.com/attendance

Teams

The league consists of 14 teams; Brynäs IF returned to the SHL after one season in the HockeyAllsvenskan, where they won the 2023–24 title. IK Oskarshamn were relegated to the HockeyAllsvenskan at the end of the previous season, after five seasons in the SHL.

Team City Arena Capacity Brynäs IF Gävle Monitor ERP Arena 7,909 Färjestad BK Karlstad Löfbergs Arena 8,647 Frölunda HC Gothenburg Scandinavium 12,044 HV71 Jönköping Husqvarna Garden 7,000 Leksands IF Leksand Tegera Arena 7,650 Linköping HC Linköping Saab Arena 8,500 Luleå HF Luleå Coop Norrbotten Arena 6,150 Malmö Redhawks Malmö Malmö Arena 13,000 Modo Hockey Örnsköldsvik Hägglunds Arena 7,265 Örebro HK Örebro Behrn Arena 5,150 Rögle BK Ängelholm Catena Arena 5,150 Skellefteå AIK Skellefteå Skellefteå Kraft Arena 6,001 Timrå IK Timrå SCA Arena 6,000 Växjö Lakers Växjö Vida Arena 5,700

Regular season Each team played 52 games, playing each of the other thirteen teams four times: twice on home ice, and twice away from home. Points were awarded for each game, where three points were 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.

Standings

Statistics Scoring leaders

The following shows the top ten players who led the league in points, at the conclusion of the regular season. If two or more skaters are tied (i.e. same number of points, goals and played games), all of the tied skaters are shown.

Player Team Färjestad BK 47 24 33 57 +5 43 Timrå IK 51 26 27 53 +16 18 Örebro HK 51 19 30 49 +10 32 Brynäs IF 52 23 24 47 +14 0 Skellefteå AIK 52 19 28 47 −1 44 Timrå IK 46 17 29 46 +5 12 Färjestad BK 52 30 15 45 +19 40 HV71 49 19 26 45 −12 10 Färjestad BK 50 17 27 44 +3 61 Färjestad BK 50 14 30 44 +11 43

Leading goaltenders The following shows the top ten goaltenders who led the league in goals against average, provided that they had played at least 40% of their team's minutes, at the conclusion of the regular season.

Player Team Brynäs IF 23 1271:03 14 6 37 2 92.51 1.75 Rögle BK 35 2054:42 17 17 65 4 92.48 1.90 Timrå IK 31 1749:51 14 14 56 2 92.92 1.92 Frölunda HC 32 1859:39 19 12 62 3 91.62 2.00 Frölunda HC 22 1270:07 13 8 46 0 91.19 2.17 Luleå HF 32 1925:44 21 11 71 3 90.80 2.21 Örebro HK 26 1552:08 15 10 60 3 90.34 2.32 Linköping HC 28 1569:59 13 14 62 3 91.28 2.37 Timrå IK 24 1367:19 13 11 54 5 89.75 2.37 Växjö Lakers 32 1908:23 13 18 76 3 90.04 2.39

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.

Format In the first round, the 7th-ranked team meets the 10th-ranked team and the 8th-ranked team meets the 9th-ranked team for a place in the second round. In the second round, the top-ranked team will meet the lowest-ranked winner of the first round, the second-ranked team will face the other winner of the first round, the third-ranked team will face the sixth-ranked team, and the fourth-ranked team will face the fifth-ranked team. In the third round, the highest remaining seed is matched against the lowest remaining seed. In each round the higher-seeded team is awarded home advantage. The meetings are in the first round played as best-of-three series, and in the later rounds as best-of-seven series. In the eighth-finals, the higher-seeded teams play at home for game 2 (plus 3 if necessary) while the lower-seeded teams play at home for game 1. In the later rounds, the higher-seeded teams are at home for games 1 and 3 (plus 5 and 7 if necessary) while the lower-seeded teams are at home for games 2 and 4 (plus 6 if necessary).

Playoff bracket

Eighth-finals (7) Rögle BK vs. (10) Malmö Redhawks

(8) Växjö Lakers vs. (9) Örebro HK

Quarter-finals (1) Brynäs IF vs. (10) Malmö Redhawks

(2) Luleå HF vs. (8) Växjö Lakers

(3) Frölunda HC vs. (6) Timrå IK

(4) Färjestad BK vs. (5) Skellefteå AIK

Semi-finals (1) Brynäs IF vs. (5) Skellefteå AIK

(2) Luleå HF vs. (3) Frölunda HC

Finals (1) Brynäs IF vs. (2) Luleå HF

Statistics

Scoring leaders The following players led the league in points, at the conclusion of games played on 1 May 2025. If two or more skaters are tied (i.e. same number of points, goals and played games), all of the tied skaters are shown.

Player Team Luleå HF 17 3 18 21 +15 33 Luleå HF 17 12 8 20 +12 6 Luleå HF 17 6 10 16 +4 6 Brynäs IF 17 3 12 15 +5 14 Luleå HF 17 2 12 14 +11 10 Brynäs IF 17 7 6 13 +3 4 Brynäs IF 17 7 6 13 +5 2 Luleå HF 17 7 5 12 +5 28 Frölunda HC 12 3 9 12 +5 27 Luleå HF 17 4 7 11 –1 26

Leading goaltenders The following shows the top 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 1 May 2025.

Player Team Örebro HK 2 118:15 1 1 2 0 96.55 1.01 Luleå HF 14 920:23 11 3 28 2 92.73 1.83 Frölunda HC 9 568:42 5 3 19 1 91.20 2.00 Timrå IK 4 277:03 1 3 10 0 91.60 2.17 Växjö Lakers 5 328:50 2 3 12 1 89.38 2.19

Play Out The two bottom-placed teams from the regular season (Modo Hockey and HV71) played a best-of-seven series, with the winner remaining in the SHL and the loser relegated to the second tier, the HockeyAllsvenskan. The higher-seeded team held home advantage over the series, playing at home for the first two games and game five, while the lower-seeded team was at home for games three, four and six.

SHL awards Award Winner(s) Guldhjälmen David Tomášek (Färjestad BK) Guldpucken Honken Trophy Arvid Holm (Rögle BK) Håkan Loob Trophy Oskar Steen (Färjestad BK) Rinkens riddare Jakob Silfverberg (Brynäs IF) Rookie of the Year Melvin Fernström (Örebro HK) Salming Trophy Victor Söderström (Brynäs IF) Stefan Liv Memorial Trophy (Luleå HF) Guldpipan

References

External links

SHL on eliteprospects.com