2020–21 NL season

The 2020–21 National League season was the 83rd season of Swiss professional ice hockey and the fourth season as the National League (NL).
ZSC Lions were the defending regular season winners. Due to the 2020 coronavirus outbreak in Switzerland there was 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.
Pos	Team 	Pld	W 	OTW	OTL	L 	GF 	GA 	GD 	Pts	Qualification
1 	EV Zug 	52 	33	7 	6 	6 	197	128	+69	119	Advance to Playoffs
2 	HC Lugano 	52 	24	9 	2 	17	160	137	+23	92 	Advance to Playoffs
3 	Fribourg-Gottéron 	51 	26	4 	4 	17	159	151	+8 	90 	Advance to Playoffs
4 	Lausanne HC 	51 	23	7 	6 	15	159	125	+34	89 	Advance to Playoffs
5 	ZSC Lions 	52 	24	6 	6 	16	170	143	+27	90 	Advance to Playoffs
6 	Genève-Servette HC 	50 	22	7 	4 	17	167	129	+38	84 	Advance to Playoffs
7 	EHC Biel 	48 	20	6 	6 	16	149	137	+12	78 	Advance to Pre-playoffs
8 	HC Davos 	51 	20	5 	4 	22	174	177	−3 	74 	Advance to Pre-playoffs
9 	SC Bern 	48 	15	3 	5 	25	129	156	−27	56 	Advance to Pre-playoffs
10 	SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers	50 	15	3 	5 	27	141	180	−39	56 	Advance to Pre-playoffs
11 	HC Ambrì-Piotta 	51 	12	3 	8 	28	107	158	−51	50 	
12 	SCL Tigers 	52 	8 	2 	6 	36	107	198	−91	34 	
==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 (1) EV Zug vs. (6) Genève-Servette HC===
==References==
==External links==
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