2019–20 Austrian Hockey League season explained

2019–20 Erste Bank Eishockey Liga
League:	Erste Bank Eishockey Liga
Sport:	Ice hockey
Duration:	13 September 2019 – 3 March 2020
No Of Teams:	11
Season:	Regular season
League Champ Name:	no champion (season abandoned)
Mvp Link:	Ron Kennedy Trophy
Seasonslist:	Austrian Hockey League#Seasons
Seasonslistnames:	Austrian Hockey League
Prevseason Year:	2018–19 season
Nextseason Year:	2020–21 season

The 2019–20 Austrian Hockey League season began on 13 September 2019.^[1] The defending champion's are EC KAC.

Following the conclusion of his previous season Croatian club, KHL Medveščak Zagreb, announced their withdrawal from the EBEL citing financial difficulties.^[2] With the reduction to the 11 team league, the EBEL announced changes in the second round of the season, taking place from 26 January 2020.

The placement round will be reduced to a pool of 5 teams, qualifying automatically for the post-season while each playing 8 games for seeding. The bottom placed 6 teams are drawn into the Qualifying round with each team playing 10 games, with the highest 3 ranked clubs advancing to the post-season.^[3]

The season was prematurely ended on 3 March 2020 due to concerns about the 2020 coronavirus outbreak in Europe.^[4]

Teams

Team	City	Arena	Capacity
			4,270
			4,126
			3,000
			4,945
			4,863
			3,200
			7,022
			4,500
			4,800
			3,500
			7,200

Standings

Regular season

(^[5])
Legend:

Rank	Team	GP	W	L	OTW	OTL	GF	GA	GD	Points
1		40	22	7	6	5	138	82	+56	83
2		40	23	10	2	5	130	86	+44	78
3		40	19	14	4	3	110	79	+31	68
4		40	18	14	4	4	113	113	0	66
5		40	18	15	5	2	118	96	+22	66
6		40	17	15	5	3	122	109	+13	64
7		40	17	14	3	6	132	132	0	63
8		40	17	16	3	4	128	133	−5	61
9		40	13	19	4	4	108	137	−29	51
10		40	7	26	3	4	100	159	−59	31
11		40	6	27	4	3	84	157	−73	29

Placement round

Rank	Team	GP	W	L	OTW	OTL	GF	GA	GD	Points
1	HC Bozen	8	7	1	0	0	27	11	+16	21 (0)
2	EC Red Bull Salzburg	8	4	2	2	0	22	21	+1	20 (4)
3	Vienna Capitals	8	3	4	1	0	25	24	+1	13 (2)
4	EC KAC	8	2	3	0	3	19	22	−3	10 (1)
5	EC Graz 99ers	8	0	6	1	1	19	34	−15	3 (0)

Qualification round

Rank	Team	GP	W	L	OTW	OTL	GF	GA	GD	Points
1	EC VSV	10	4	3	2	1	30	27	+3	25 (8)
2	Black Wings Linz	10	5	3	1	1	38	32	+6	24 (6)
3	HC Orli Znojmo	10	4	3	0	3	25	28	−3	19 (4)
4	Fehérvár AV19	10	3	4	2	1	35	29	+6	16 (2)
5	HC Innsbruck	10	4	4	1	1	33	32	+1	16 (1)
6	Dornbirn Bulldogs	10	2	5	2	1	23	36	−13	11 (0)

External links

- Erste Bank Eishockey Liga Statistics

Notes and References

Web site: 2019-20 EBEL Standings and schedule . https://web.archive.org/web/20190326221457/https://www.erstebankliga.at/index.php/tabelle . dead . March 26, 2019 . . 2017-05-04 . 2017-05-04 .
Web site: News about the future of KHL Medveščak Zagreb . . hr . 28 January 2019 . 28 January 2019 .
Web site: Schedule for the 2019-20 season is fixed . . 28 June 2019 . 28 June 2019 . de .
Web site: NEWS . 2021-03-20 . 2020-03-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200330161407/https://www.erstebankliga.at/news/?id%2F10657%2F103105 . dead .
Web site: Erste Bank Eishockey Liga . 2020-03-03 . 2019-07-04 . 2018-08-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180812040952/https://www.erstebankliga.at/ . dead .