The 2023–24 National League season is the 86th season of Swiss professional ice hockey and the seventh season as the National League (NL).

Genève-Servette HC is the defending champion.

Teams

Regular season

Standings

Statistics

Scoring leaders

The following shows the top ten players leading the league in points. If two or more skaters are tied (i.e. same number of points, goals and played games), all of the tied skaters are shown.

Leading goaltenders

The following shows the top five 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 the regular season.

Postseason

Play-In

Bracket

Rules

The teams ranked 7th to 10th at the end of the National League regular season compete in the play-in, with a view to obtaining one of the two qualifying places for the playoffs. The 7th faces the 8th and the 9th faces the 10th in a series of 2 matches with the higher ranked team starting away. The winner of the series is the one with the most points. In the event of a tie at the end of the two matches, the teams decide on overtime. This translates as follows: a team wins 1-0 the first match and loses 8-1 the second match, can qualify thanks to an overtime goal, with a goal difference of -5. If the higher ranked team starts away, it is to have the advantage in the decisive match.

The winner of the match between the 7th and 8th qualifies for the playoffs and faces the 2nd in the general ranking. The loser will face the winner of the match between the 9th and the 10th in a second round. The winner of this confrontation qualifies for the playoffs and faces the winner of the regular season. The two eliminated teams see their seasons end.

Round 1

(7) HC Lugano vs (8) HC Ambrì-Piotta

(9) EHC Biel vs (10) Genève-Servette HC

Round 2

(8) HC Ambrì-Piotta vs (9) EHC Bienne

Playoffs

Bracket

Quarter-Finals

(1) ZSC Lions vs (9) EHC Biel

(2) HC Fribourg-Gottéron vs (7) HC Lugano

(3) Lausanne HC vs (6) HC Davos

(4) EV Zug vs (5) SC Bern

Semi-Finals

(1) ZSC Lions vs (4) EV Zug

(2) HC Fribourg-Gottéron vs (3) Lausanne HC

Finals

Team of Swiss champions

Goalkeepers: Šimon Hrubec, Robin Zumbühl

Defense: Phil Baltisberger, Patrick Geering, Scott Harrington, Dean Kukan, Mikko Lehtonen, Christian Marti, Dario Trutmann, Yannick Weber

Offense: Sven Andrighetto, Rūdolfs Balcers, Chris Baltisberger, Simon Bodenmann, Jesper Frödén, Derek Grant, Denis Hollenstein, Juho Lammikko, Denis Malgin, Willy Riedi, Vinzenz Rohrer, Reto Schäppi, Justin Sigrist, Yannick Zehnder

Coaching: Marc Crawford, Rob Cookson, Fabio Schwarz

References