With the DEL Playoffs 2025, the German Ice Hockey Championship is in its decisive phase. The DEL Playoffs 2025 schedule begins on March 9. The final series starts on April 17. In between, there will be quarter-finals and semi-finals.
Here you can find all the information about the DEL Playoffs 2025: Schedule and all dates, the teams, the mode and the broadcast on TV and stream.
DEL Playoffs 2025 Dates & Rounds
DEL Playoffs 2025 Schedule & Dates – Round by Round
The DEL playoff schedule comprises a total of four rounds. It starts on March 9 with the 1st round. The teams that finished in 7th to 10th place in the final standings will play for two spots in the quarter-finals.
- Game: March 9
- Game: March 11. March
- Game: March 13 (if necessary)
These are the pairings of the pre-playoffs:
- 7. vs. 10.: Straubing Tigers – Löwen Frankfurt
- 8. vs. 9. : Nuremberg Ice Tigers – Schwenninger Wild Wings
DEL Playoffs schedule 2025 for the quarterfinals:
- Game: March 16
- Game: March 18 and 19
- Game: March 21
- Game: March 23 and 24 March
- Match: March 25 and 26 (if necessary)
- Match: March 28 (if necessary)
- Match: March 30 (if necessary) March (if necessary)
The DEL Playoffs 2025 schedule for the quarterfinals are March 16, 18/19, 21, 23/24, 25/26, 28, 30.
From the quarter-finals onwards, the “best of seven” rule will apply in all play-off rounds. This means that four wins are required to reach the next round.
This means that all four quarter-final winners and thus the semi-finalists will be determined on the DEL Playoffs 2025 schedule on March 24 at the earliest.
DEL Playoffs Dates 2025 for the semi-finals:
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- Game: April 1 and 2
- Game: April 4
- Game: April 6
- Game: April 5 April
- Game: April 8 and 9
- Game: April 11 (if necessary)
- Game: April 13 and 14 (if necessary)
- Game: April 15 (if necessary)
The 2025 DEL Playoffs 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 semifinals will also be played in “best-of-7” mode, which means that four wins are needed to reach the next round, i.e. the final.
The dates for the final series of the DEL Playoffs 2025:
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- Game: April 17
- Game: April 19 April
- Match: April 21
- Match: April 23
- Match: April 25 (if necessary)
- Match: April 27 (if necessary)
- Match: April 29 (if necessary) April (if necessary)
The dates on the schedule for the 2025 DEL final series are set from April 17 to 29.
The final of the German Ice Hockey League begins on April 17. The other match dates are: April 19, 21, 23, 25,*, 27,*, 29,*.
If a team wins four times in a row, the German ice hockey champion is determined on April 23. The latest date on which the German ice hockey champion 2025 is determined is April 29. This is the case if a seventh and deciding game is necessary in the final series.
DEL Playoffs Teams 2025: Who’s in?
Which teams are playing in the DEL Playoffs 2025?
Out of a total of 15 teams playing in the German Ice Hockey League (DEL), 10 teams will qualify for the DEL Playoffs 2025 after the 56-match basic round, i.e. two thirds.
The top six teams after the basic round qualify for the quarter-finals.
The other four teams that finished in 7th to 10th place in the table have to go into the pre-playoffs. The two winners of 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 Teams 2025
- ERC Ingolstadt
- Eisbären Berlin
- Pinguins Bremerhaven
- Adler Mannheim
- EHC Red Bull München
- Kölner Haie
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After the DEL main round 2024/25, the eight of the ten participants for the playoffs have been determined.
ERC Ingolstadt took first place after the basic round. The reigning champions Eisbären Berlin, the Pinguins Bremerhaven, the Mannheim Eagles, EHC Red Bull Munich and the Cologne Sharks also progressed to the 2025 DEL playoffs without any problems.
The teams that finished the basic round in 7th to 10th place will play in the “pre-playoffs” for the last two free playoff tickets.
Mode with home ice and best-of-7 format
The DEL playoffs mode is anything but complicated. The pairings are based on the final ranking of the basic round.
The first team after the basic round faces the winner of the pre-playoff round with the lowest ranking in the main round in the quarter-finals. The runner-up will face the second lowest-placed team after the main round.
The other two quarter-final series have already been decided in advance. Here, 5 of the basic round play against each other. In the semi-finals and final, home ice will also be decided by which team finished higher in the main round.
While the pre-playoffs are played according to the “best of three” format (two wins are needed to advance), the “best of seven” mode is played from the quarter-finals up to and including the final series of the DEL playoffs. This means that four wins in a series are required to win.
In the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final, the ranking after the main round also has a major 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 DEL Playoffs 2025 will be broadcast entirely 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 via Telekom’s linear TV. On Magenta TV, the sports channels can be found from the numbers 301 and 9301. Ice field hockey fans can also watch their team’s games in the Magenta Sport live stream.
In addition, individual playoff games can be seen on free TV on ServusTV Deutschland and in the livestream on Servus TV On.
