2020–21 NL season

The 2020–21 National League season is the 83rd season of Swiss professional ice hockey and the fourth season as the National League (NL).
ZSC Lions are the defending regular season winners. Due to the 2020 coronavirus outbreak in Switzerland there is no defending champion as the previous season's playoffs were cancelled.
Due to the 2019–20 league qualification series also being cancelled, the participating teams remained the same as the previous season.
The league announced changes to the format ahead of the season, meaning that 52 games rather than 50 would be played in the regular season. The playoffs would also be re-formatted, so that the top 6 teams now qualified directly for the quarter-finals, with the next four teams playing in pre-playoffs for the remaining two spots. There would also be no relegation from the season. The two pre-playoffs series were played in a best-of-three, the quarter finals in a best-of-seven and the semi-finals and final in a best-of-five. The series were shortened to allow enough time for the national team to prepare for the 2021 IIHF World Championship.
EV Zug won the regular season with 6 games remaining, having already clinched their club record points total, surpassing their previous best of 98 points from the 2011–12 season. With two games remaining EV Zug broke the record for most points in a single regular season, held by HC Davos from the 2010–11 season. Whilst this season was the first to be 52 games in length, EV Zug passed the milestone in the same number of games as the previous record holders.
EV Zug swept Genève-Servette HC 3-0 in the final to win its first NL title since 1998.
==Teams==
Team 	City 	Arena 	Capacity	COVID-19 Capacity
HC Ambrì-Piotta 	Ambrì 	Valascia 	6,500 	0
SC Bern 	Bern 	PostFinance Arena 	17,031 	0
EHC Biel 	Biel/Bienne 	Tissot Arena 	6,521 	0
HC Davos 	Davos 	Eisstadion Davos 	6,800 	0
Fribourg-Gottéron 	Fribourg 	BCF Arena 	8,934 	0
Genève-Servette HC 	Geneva 	Patinoire des Vernets 	7,135 	0
Lausanne HC 	Lausanne 	Vaudoise Aréna 	9,600 	0
HC Lugano 	Lugano 	Cornér Arena 	7,800 	0
SCL Tigers 	Langnau im Emmental	Ilfis Stadium 	6,000 	0
SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers	Rapperswil 	St. Galler Kantonalbank Arena	6,200 	0
ZSC Lions 	Zürich 	Hallenstadion 	11,200 	0
EV Zug 	Zug 	Bossard Arena 	7,200 	0
==Regular season==
Due to coronavirus cases in both EHC Biel and SC Bern forcing late season stoppages to training, not all regular season games could be completed, and the league would use points per game to determine the final regular season standings.
==Player statistics==
===Scoring leaders===
The following players led the league in points, at the conclusion of the regular season. 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 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	EV Zug 	52	16	47	63	+24	58
 	Genève-Servette HC 	49	22	39	61	+8 	55
 	ZSC Lions 	52	27	28	55	+10	18
 	HC Davos 	44	15	37	52	0 	16
 	SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers	49	16	35	51	-1 	63
 	Fribourg-Gottéron 	50	23	25	48	-1 	34
 	HC Lugano 	52	13	35	48	+12	58
 	Fribourg-Gottéron 	48	15	31	46	-5 	48
 	Genève-Servette HC 	49	15	31	46	+8 	46
 	EV Zug 	50	24	21	45	+24	6
 	Fribourg-Gottéron 	51	9 	36	45	+11	8
===Leading goaltenders===
The following goaltenders 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.
Player	Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	Lausanne HC 	29	1719	12	2	2	9 	65 	4	.928	2.27
 	HC Lugano 	42	2359	21	5	2	12	92 	6	.928	2.34
 	Genève-Servette HC	42	2526	19	4	2	11	100	5	.927	2.38
 	Lausanne HC 	23	1359	11	2	2	5 	54 	1	.920	2.38
 	ZSC Lions 	37	2204	20	4	1	10	88 	4	.918	2.40
==Playoffs==
===Bracket===
===Pre-Playoffs===
====(7) EHC Biel vs. (10) SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers====
====(8) HC Davos vs. (9) SC Bern====
===Quarter-finals===
====(1) EV Zug vs. (9) SC Bern====
====(2) HC Lugano vs. (10) SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers====
====(3) HC Fribourg-Gottéron vs. (6) Genève-Servette HC====
====(4) Lausanne HC vs. (5) ZSC Lions====
===Semi-finals===
====(1) EV Zug vs. (10) SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers====
====(5) ZSC Lions vs. (6) Genève-Servette HC====
===Final===
==References==
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Category:National League (ice hockey) seasons