2014–15 Champions Hockey League
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 21 August 2014 – 3 February 2015 |
| Teams | 44 |
| Final positions | |
Champions 
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 Luleå Hockey (1st title)
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Runner-up 
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Frölunda HC
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Third place 
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 Oulun Kärpät Skellefteå AIK
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| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 161 |
| Goals scored | 894 (5.55 per match) |
| Attendance | 490,848 (3,049 per match) |
| Scoring leader(s) |
 Mathis Olimb(26 points) |
| MVP |
Mathis Olimb
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The 2014–15 Champions Hockey League was the first season of the Champions Hockey League, a European ice hockey tournament launched by 26 founding clubs, six leagues and the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF).
The regulation round began on 21 August 2014 and ended on 8 October 2014. The playoffs began on 4 November 2014 and ended with the Champions Hockey League Final on 3 February 2015. Luleå Hockey defeated Frölunda HC 4–2 to win the first edition of Champions Hockey League.
On 9 December 2013, the IIHF officially announced that they had launched the Champions Hockey League tournament, starting in the 2014–15 season. The season's format was revealed on 20 December 2013, during the playoffs of the 2013 European Trophy.
A total of 44 teams from eleven different European first-tier leagues participated in the 2014–15 Champions Hockey League. The teams were decided with regards to different licenses for the founding teams, leagues and wildcards.
The participating teams were decided with regards to different licenses for founding teams, league teams (from founding leagues) and other wildcard teams.
A full list of the teams participating in the inaugural season and how they qualified was presented on 10 May 2014.
The schedule of the competition is as follows.
The group stage draw took place on 21 May 2014 in Minsk, Belarus, and the teams were assigned to eleven groups from A to K. The 44 teams were allocated into four pots based on their positions in their national leagues 2014, with the top seeded teams being placed in Pot 1 and the lower ranked teams in Pot 2, Pot 3 and the lowest ranked teams in Pot 4. They were drawn into eleven groups of four, with the restriction that teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.
In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format, giving six games per team. In total, 132 games were played in the group stage.
The schedule was released on 2 June 2014, with 30 of 44 teams playing their first game 21 August 2014, and the other teams playing their first game the following day. The match days were 21–22 August, 23–24 August, 4–5 September, 6–7 September, 23–24 September and 7–8 October 2014. All game times are local times.
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