2020–21 DEL season

2020–21 DEL season
League	Deutsche Eishockey Liga
Sport	Ice hockey
Duration	17 December 2020 – TBD
Number of games	364
Number of teams	14
Regular season
Top scorer	Daniel Fischbuch; Joe Whitney; (21 points)
Finals

The 2020–21 Deutsche Eishockey Liga season is the 27th season since the founding of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the league announced 13 November 2020 as the start date, which was later postponed to a later date.[1][2] On 19 November 2020, the DEL announced that the season will start on 17 December 2020.[3]

Format

The season will see the same 14 teams as last year, as all teams were given a license.[4] Adler Mannheim will be the defending champions from the 2018–19 DEL season as the 2019–20 season was ended after the regular season. At that point, EHC Red Bull München, who won three consecutive DEL titles until Mannheim’s 2019 triumph (a 4–1 series win against Munich), were the league leaders and had clinched the first seed for the DEL playoffs.

This season would have marked the return of promotion and relegation, as the last placed team would have been relegated to the second tier DEL2 and the 2020–21 DEL2 champions would have replaced them for the 2021–22 season DEL.[5] On 23 October 2020, the relegation rule was moved to next season. Still, the DEL2 champion can be promoted at the end of this season, so next season could be played with 15 teams.[6] The 14 teams will play the regular season in two groups (North and South). They play the teams from the same group four times and the teams from the other group twice. After that, the top four clubs from both groups advance to the playoffs. The quarterfinals will be played within the group before, from the semifinals on, it will be mixed. All playoff rounds will be best of three.[3]

Teams

Teams of the 2020–21 DEL season

Blue: North group;

Yellow: South group

Team	City	Arena	Capacity
Augsburger Panther	Augsburg	Curt Frenzel Stadium	6,218
Eisbären Berlin	Berlin	Mercedes-Benz Arena	14,200
Fischtown Pinguins	Bremerhaven	Eisarena Bremerhaven	4,674
Düsseldorfer EG	Düsseldorf	ISS Dome	13,400
ERC Ingolstadt	Ingolstadt	Saturn Arena	4,815
Iserlohn Roosters	Iserlohn	Eissporthalle Iserlohn	5,000
Kölner Haie	Cologne	Lanxess Arena	18,500
Krefeld Pinguine	Krefeld	König Palast	9,000
Adler Mannheim	Mannheim	SAP Arena	13,600
EHC Red Bull München	Munich	Olympia Eishalle	6,256
Nürnberg Ice Tigers	Nuremberg	Arena Nürnberger Versicherung	7,810
Schwenninger Wild Wings	Villingen-Schwenningen	Helios Arena	6,215
Straubing Tigers	Straubing	Eisstadion am Pulverturm	6,000
Grizzlys Wolfsburg	Wolfsburg	Eis Arena Wolfsburg	4,660

Regular season

North

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Fischtown Pinguins	12	8	1	0	3	40	25	+15	26	Playoffs
2	Eisbären Berlin	13	8	0	2	3	45	32	+13	26
3	Düsseldorfer EG	14	5	4	1	4	51	42	+9	24
4	Iserlohn Roosters	14	5	3	2	4	50	48	+2	23
5	Kölner Haie	13	4	1	3	5	45	46	−1	17
6	Grizzlys Wolfsburg	12	3	2	3	4	32	34	−2	16
7	Krefeld Pinguine	14	2	0	0	12	26	62	−36	6

Updated to match(es) played on 5 February 2021. Source: DEL
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored.

Results

Home \ Away	BER	BRE	DÜS	ISE	KÖL	KRE	WOL	BER	BRE	DÜS	ISE	KÖL	KRE	WOL
Eisbären Berlin	—	3–2	4–2	4–2	5–0	5–0		—	2–0			4–2
Fischtown Pinguins		—	4–3	5–2	3–4	6–2	5–2		—
Düsseldorfer EG	5–4 (OT)	1–4	—	3–1		1–3	4–5 (OT)	5–3		—			3–0
Iserlohn Roosters	5–2	2–3 (OT)	5–6 (OT)	—	6–5	3–6	5–3				—	3–2 (OT)
Kölner Haie		3–4	4–5 (SO)	3–4 (SO)	—		2–1			1–5		—
Krefeld Pinguine	2–5	0–2	3–6	2–3	2–7	—	2–3				3–7	0–7	—
Grizzlys Wolfsburg	1–0 (SO)	1–2	1–2 (OT)	1–2 (OT)	4–5 (SO)	4–1	—	6–4						—

Updated to match(es) played on 5 February 2021. Source: DEL
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

South

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Adler Mannheim	14	7	4	1	2	43	27	+16	30	Playoffs
2	EHC Red Bull München	14	8	1	1	4	55	45	+10	27
3	ERC Ingolstadt	13	8	0	2	3	47	26	+21	26
4	Schwenninger Wild Wings	14	6	1	0	7	41	36	+5	20
5	Augsburger Panther	14	5	2	1	6	41	47	−6	20
6	Straubing Tigers	13	4	0	1	8	28	41	−13	13
7	Nürnberg Ice Tigers	14	2	0	2	10	27	60	−33	8

Updated to match(es) played on 7 February 2021. Source: DEL
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored.

Results

Home \ Away	AUG	ING	MAN	MUN	NÜR	SCH	STR	AUG	ING	MAN	MUN	NÜR	SCH	STR
Augsburger Panther	—	6–3	3–4 (OT)		1–4	2–3	3–2	—		4–3 (OT)
ERC Ingolstadt	5–1	—	2–3 (SO)		8–0	1–2			—			7–0	3–1
Adler Mannheim	2–1	2–1 (OT)	—	3–2 (SO)	5–1	3–2	3–0			—			1–3	4–1
EHC Red Bull München	3–2	4–6	3–6	—	6–0	4–3	6–2	5–6	1–3		—
Nürnberg Ice Tigers	5–6 (OT)	1–4	2–3	3–4	—	1–2 (OT)	4–3				2–4	—
Schwenninger Wild Wings	4–0			2–3	4–2	—	5–2	3–4			4–6		—
Straubing Tigers	1–2	3–1	2–1	3–4 (SO)	3–2	4–3	—		2–3					—

Updated to match(es) played on 7 February 2021. Source: DEL
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Intra-groups games

First match(es) will be played on TBD. Source: DEL
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Playoffs

All rounds will be played in a best of three format. The first round will be played in the regional group.

Bracket

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

N1

N4

N2

N3

S1

S4

S2

S3

References

"Saisonstart am 13. November 2020". del.org. 4 August 2020.
"PENNY DEL kann am 13. November 2020 nicht starten". del.org. 2 October 2020.
"PENNY DEL Saison 2020/21 startet mit 14 Clubs". del.org. 19 November 2020.
"Alle 14 Clubs erhalten Lizenz – PENNY DEL verschiebt Saisonstart". del.org. 9 July 2020.
"Profi-Eishockey führt Auf- und Abstieg wieder ein". del.org. 27 July 2018.
"PENNY DEL und DEL2 einigen sich über Auf- und Abstieg für die Saison 2021/22". del.org. 23 October 2018.

External links

Official website

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[1] "Saisonstart am 13. November 2020". del.org. 4 August 2020.

[2] "PENNY DEL kann am 13. November 2020 nicht starten". del.org. 2 October 2020.

[Start-3] "PENNY DEL Saison 2020/21 startet mit 14 Clubs". del.org. 19 November 2020.

[4] "Alle 14 Clubs erhalten Lizenz – PENNY DEL verschiebt Saisonstart". del.org. 9 July 2020.

[5] "Profi-Eishockey führt Auf- und Abstieg wieder ein". del.org. 27 July 2018.

[6] "PENNY DEL und DEL2 einigen sich über Auf- und Abstieg für die Saison 2021/22". del.org. 23 October 2018.

Deutsche Eishockey Liga
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Playoffs	~~2020~~