2024–25 SHL season

The 2024–25 SHL season was the 50th season of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). The regular season began on 21 September 2024, and ended on 11 March 2025, where it was followed by the playoffs and the relegation playoffs.

Having been promoted as the champions of the 2023–24 HockeyAllsvenskan season, Brynäs IF became the first promoted team to win the following regular season title – their first regular season title in forty-seven years^[1] – finishing five points clear of their closest competitors, Luleå HF.

For the second successive season, HV71 won the Play Out – defeating Modo Hockey 4–2, following four successive wins, relegating the latter after two seasons in the SHL.^[2]

Luleå

Skellefteå

Modo

Timrå

Leksand

Brynäs

Färjestad

Örebro

Linköping

HV71

Frölunda

Växjö

Rögle

Malmö

SHL team map

The league consists of 14 teams; Brynäs IF returned to the SHL after one season in the HockeyAllsvenskan, where they won the 2023–24 title. IK Oskarshamn were relegated to the HockeyAllsvenskan at the end of the previous season, after five seasons in the SHL.

Each team played 52 games, playing each of the other thirteen teams four times: twice on home ice, and twice away from home. Points were awarded for each game, where three points were awarded for winning in regulation time, two points for winning in overtime or shootout, one point for losing in overtime or shootout, and zero points for losing in regulation time. At the end of the regular season, the team that finished with the most points was crowned the league champion.

The following shows the top ten players who led the league in points, at the conclusion of the regular season.^[3] If two or more skaters are tied (i.e. same number of points, goals and played games), all of the tied skaters are shown.

Player	Team	GP	G	A	Pts	+/–	PIM
David Tomášek	Färjestad BK	47	24	33	57	+5	43
Filip Hållander	Timrå IK	51	26	27	53	+16	18
Patrik Karlkvist	Örebro HK	51	19	30	49	+10	32
Jakob Silfverberg	Brynäs IF	52	23	24	47	+14	0
Oscar Lindberg	Skellefteå AIK	52	19	28	47	−1	44
Jonathan Dahlén	Timrå IK	46	17	29	46	+5	12
Oskar Steen	Färjestad BK	52	30	15	45	+19	40
Henrik Borgström	HV71	49	19	26	45	−12	10
Viktor Lodin	Färjestad BK	50	17	27	44	+3	61
Marián Studenič	Färjestad BK	50	14	30	44	+11	43

The following shows the top ten goaltenders who led the league in goals against average, provided that they had played at least 40% of their team's minutes, at the conclusion of the regular season.^[4]

Player	Team	GP	TOI	W	L	GA	SO	Sv%	GAA
Ludvig Persson	Brynäs IF	23	1271:03	14	6	37	2	92.51	1.75
Arvid Holm	Rögle BK	35	2054:42	17	17	65	4	92.48	1.90
Tim Juel	Timrå IK	31	1749:51	14	14	56	2	92.92	1.92
Lars Johansson	Frölunda HC	32	1859:39	19	12	62	3	91.62	2.00
Tobias Normann	Frölunda HC	22	1270:07	13	8	46	0	91.19	2.17
Matteus Ward	Luleå HF	32	1925:44	21	11	71	3	90.80	2.21
Jhonas Enroth	Örebro HK	26	1552:08	15	10	60	3	90.34	2.32
Jesper Myrenberg	Linköping HC	28	1569:59	13	14	62	3	91.28	2.37
Jacob Johansson	Timrå IK	24	1367:19	13	11	54	5	89.75	2.37
Emil Larmi	Växjö Lakers	32	1908:23	13	18	76	3	90.04	2.39

Ten teams qualify for the playoffs: the top six teams in the regular season have a bye to the quarterfinals, while teams ranked seventh to tenth meet each other (7 versus 10, 8 versus 9) in a preliminary playoff round.^[5]

In the first round, the 7th-ranked team meets the 10th-ranked team and the 8th-ranked team meets the 9th-ranked team for a place in the second round. In the second round, the top-ranked team will meet the lowest-ranked winner of the first round, the second-ranked team will face the other winner of the first round, the third-ranked team will face the sixth-ranked team, and the fourth-ranked team will face the fifth-ranked team. In the third round, the highest remaining seed is matched against the lowest remaining seed. In each round the higher-seeded team is awarded home advantage. The meetings are in the first round played as best-of-three series, and in the later rounds as best-of-seven series. In the eighth-finals, the higher-seeded teams play at home for game 2 (plus 3 if necessary) while the lower-seeded teams play at home for game 1. In the later rounds, the higher-seeded teams are at home for games 1 and 3 (plus 5 and 7 if necessary) while the lower-seeded teams are at home for games 2 and 4 (plus 6 if necessary).^[5]

The following players led the league in points, at the conclusion of games played on 1 May 2025. If two or more skaters are tied (i.e. same number of points, goals and played games), all of the tied skaters are shown.^[6]

Player	Team	GP	G	A	Pts	+/–	PIM
Frédéric Allard	Luleå HF	17	3	18	21	+15	33
Pontus Andreasson	Luleå HF	17	12	8	20	+12	6
Brian O'Neill	Luleå HF	17	6	10	16	+4	6
Anton Rödin	Brynäs IF	17	3	12	15	+5	14
Markus Nurmi	Luleå HF	17	2	12	14	+11	10
Oskar Lindblom	Brynäs IF	17	7	6	13	+3	4
Jakob Silfverberg	Brynäs IF	17	7	6	13	+5	2
Brendan Shinnimin	Luleå HF	17	7	5	12	+5	28
Linus Weissbach	Frölunda HC	12	3	9	12	+5	27
Isac Hedqvist	Luleå HF	17	4	7	11	–1	26

The following shows the top goaltenders who led the league in goals against average, provided that they have played at least 40% of their team's minutes, at the conclusion of games played on 1 May 2025.^[7]

Player	Team	GP	TOI	W	L	GA	SO	Sv%	GAA
Jonas Arntzen	Örebro HK	2	118:15	1	1	2	0	96.55	1.01
Matteus Ward	Luleå HF	14	920:23	11	3	28	2	92.73	1.83
Lars Johansson	Frölunda HC	9	568:42	5	3	19	1	91.20	2.00
Tim Juel	Timrå IK	4	277:03	1	3	10	0	91.60	2.17
Emil Larmi	Växjö Lakers	5	328:50	2	3	12	1	89.38	2.19

The two bottom-placed teams from the regular season (Modo Hockey and HV71) played a best-of-seven series, with the winner remaining in the SHL and the loser relegated to the second tier, the HockeyAllsvenskan. The higher-seeded team held home advantage over the series, playing at home for the first two games and game five, while the lower-seeded team was at home for games three, four and six.^[5]

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