With the DEL Playoffs 2025, the German Ice Hockey Championship is in the decisive phase. The DEL Playoffs 2025 schedule begins on March 9. The final series starts on April 17. In between, there are quarterfinals and semi-finals.
Here you will find all the information about the DEL playoffs 2025: the schedule and all dates, the teams, the mode, and the TV and stream.
DEL Playoffs 2025 Dates & Rounds
DEL Playoffs: Quarterfinals Standings
DEL Playoffs 2025 Quarterfinals: Dates & Results
DEL Playoffs 2025 Schedule & Dates – Round by Round
The DEL playoff schedule includes a total of four rounds. It starts on March 9 with round 1. The teams that finished in 7th to 10th place in the final table will play for two spots in the quarterfinals.
- Game: March 9
- Game: March 11
- Game: March 13 (if necessary)
These are the pairings for the pre-playoffs:
- 7th against 10th: Straubing Tigers – Löwen Frankfurt
- 8. vs. 9.: Nürnberg Ice Tigers – Schwenninger Wild Wings
DEL Playoffs 2025 playoff schedule for the quarter-finals:
- Game: March 16
- Game: March 18 and 19
- Game: March 21
- Game: March 23 and 24
- Game: March 25 and 26 (if necessary)
- Game: March 28 (if necessary)
- Game: March 30 (if necessary)
The DEL Playoffs 2025 schedule for the quarterfinals are March 16, 18/19, 21, 23/24, 25/26, 28, 30.
From the quarterfinals onwards, the “best of seven” rule applies in all playoff rounds. This means that four wins are required to reach the next round.
This means that the four quarter-final winners and thus the semi-finalists will not be known until March 24, 2025 at the earliest.
DEL Playoffs Dates for the semi-finals in 2025:
- 1st game: April 1 and 2
- 2nd game: April 4
- 3rd game: April 6
- 4. Game: April 8 and 9
- 5. Game: April 11 (if necessary)
- 6. Game: April 13 and 14 (if necessary)
- 7. Game: April 15 (if necessary)
The DEL playoff 2025 game schedule for the semi-finals begins on April 1 and 2.
The dates are April 1/2, 4, 6, 8/9, 11, 13/14 and 15.
The semi-finals will also be played in a best-of-7 format, which means that four wins are also needed to reach the next round, i.e. the final.
The dates for the final series of the DEL Playoffs 2025:
- Game 1: April 17
- Game 2: April 19
- Game 3: April 21
- 4. Game: April 23
- 5. Game: April 25 (if necessary)
- 6. Game: April 27 (if necessary)
- 7. Game: April 29 (if necessary)
The dates on the schedule for the 2025 DEL finals series are set for April 17-29.
The finals of the German Ice Hockey League begin on April 17. The other game dates are: April 19, 21, 23, 25*, 27*, 29*.
If one team wins four times in a row, the German ice hockey champion will be determined on April 23. The latest date for the German ice hockey champion to be determined in 2025 is April 29. This will be the case if a seventh and decisive game is needed in the final series.
DEL Playoffs Teams 2025: Who’s in?
Which teams will play in the DEL Playoffs 2025?
Of the 15 teams that play in the German Ice Hockey League (DEL), 10 qualify for the 2025 DEL playoffs after the 56-game basic round. That’s two-thirds.
The top six after the basic round are automatically qualified for the quarter-finals.
The other four teams, which have finished in places 7 to 10 in the table, have to go through the pre-playoffs. The two winners from these “qualifying games” are in the quarter-finals of this year’s DEL playoffs and can continue to play for the championship title.
The playoff teams 2025
- ERC Ingolstadt
- Eisbären Berlin
- Pinguins Bremerhaven
- Adler Mannheim
- EHC Red Bull München
- Kölner Haie
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After the 2024/25 DEL regular season, eight of the ten participants in the playoffs have been determined.
ERC Ingolstadt took first place after the regular season. The reigning champions Eisbären Berlin, the Pinguins Bremerhaven, the Mannheim Eagles, EHC Red Bull Munich and the Cologne Sharks also made it into the 2025 DEL playoffs with ease.
The teams that finished the regular season in 7th to 10th place will play in the “pre-playoffs” for the last two playoff tickets.
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Modus mit Heimrecht und Best-of-7-Format
The DEL Playoffs mode is anything but complicated. The pairings are based on the final standings in the regular season.
The first-place team after the regular season will face the winner of the pre-playoff round who was worst placed in the main round in the quarter-finals. The second-placed team will face the second-worst placed team after the main round.
The other two quarterfinal series are already known. Here 5 of the regular season play against each other. In the semi-finals and the finals, home advantage is then also determined by which team was better placed in the main round.
While the pre-playoffs are played in a best-of-three format (two wins are needed to advance), the DEL playoff format is best-of-seven from the quarterfinals through the final series. That means four wins are needed in a series to win.
In the quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals, the seeding after the main round also has a big advantage. The lower-seeded team has home games in games 1, 2, 5, and in a possible decisive 7th game.
Where will the playoff games be broadcast?
The broadcast of the DEL Playoffs 2025 will be shown in full on Magenta Sport. As during the regular season, the pay-TV channel will also broadcast all games live in the postseason.
Magenta Sport is available on Telekom’s linear TV. On Magenta TV, the sports channels can be found starting from number 301 or 9301. On the other hand, ice hockey fans can also follow their team’s games in the Magenta Sport livestream.
In addition, individual playoff games can be seen on free TV on ServusTV Deutschland and in the livestream on Servus TV On.
