CEHL 2024-2025 competitie opzet

From the last weekend of September, the CEHL will start with 9 clubs

1. -The Hague, Geleen and Heerenveen

2. -Diez and Neuwied

3. -Herentals, Leuven, Liège and Mechelen

CEHL Competition structure consists of 2 parts:

1. CEHL cup competition with semi-finals and a cup match in January 2025

2. CEHL championship from December with quarter-finals, semi-finals and a final series in March. Depending on the time needed for make-up games to be scheduled, the final series will be played in a Best of 3,5 or 7

Dutch Cup

The matches of the Dutch Cup are played under the direction of IJshockey Nederland. These are not listed on the CEHL site.

 

Belgian Cup

The matches in the CEHL Cup between the Belgian clubs are kept in a separate Belgian Cup table to determine the ranking for the BVB. The semi-finals will be played at the beginning of December and the final on the 8th of February. The place where it will be played will be determined when the finalists are known.

 

Referees

Since the start of the competition, the participating countries have appointed the referees in their own country. In consultation, there have always been exchanges between the countries. For this season, IJshockey Nederland has announced that it will provide referees for the Dutch Cup matches and the friendly matches, but not for the CEHL.

 

For Germany, the referees will be appointed by DEB, as in previous years. Later in the season, we will discuss whether more cooperation and exchange can be achieved here as well.

We have found Patrick van de Wijgert willing to help us as RIC for the CEHL with the referees for CEHL competitions in the Netherlands and Belgium.

 

Referees can indicate their availability via the CEHL website. The board of the CEHL and the RIC are of the opinion that it is important for the development of the referees that they referee as many matches as possible.

Restricting the availability of referees is not in the interest of the sport. Therefore, as a CEHL board, we encourage referees that, in addition to the CEHL matches, referees also remain connected to the RBIHF / Ice Hockey Netherlands as a referee and can be used for matches.

 

Supervision and development of referees has always been seen by CEHL as a federation duty for which the clubs contribute by paying contributions to both organizations. Because there have been requests for more support, we will work within the CEHL on a system to help the referees with their development through supervision.