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This
page contains information about the structure of women's ice hockey
in Great Britain and links to all British women's ice hockey clubs
and organisations.
Competitions
British
Premier League
This
is top level of British women's league ice hockey.
Entry
to the Premier League can only be done on promotion from Division
One. Normally the Division One champions from the North and South
leagues will play off for one promotion chance. The winner of the
play off games then play the bottom placed Premier team for
promotion/relegation. See Premier
teams
Premier
League Playoffs
The
top four finishers in the Premier league qualify for the playoffs.
The games take place over a single weekend and in a single venue.
The Premier league winners play the forth placed team (and second
play third). The winners of Saturdays matches play a final on the
Sunday evening. Saturdays losing teams playoff for 3rd spot.
Division
One
Teams
entering league competition for the first time enter Division one,
however this does not mean that all D1 teams are new or
inexperienced. The top D1 clubs are generally very competitive and
feature skilled players and professional organisation. There
have been talks of creating a Division Two league (in the South) to
enable new teams to develop and gain promotion to D1, to date this
has never gone past the discussion phase.
Division
One has two leagues split North and South, both are considered as
separate championships. See
Division One Teams
Division
One Playoffs
The
top four finishers from D1 play off over the same weekend and venue
as the Premier League. D1 North champions play D1 South runners up
(and vice versa). The winners of Saturdays matches play a final on
the Sunday evening. Saturdays losing teams playoff for 3rd spot. The
winners of the D1 playoffs are considered as overall Division One
champions.
EIHA
Knockout Cup
Introduced
fairly recently, the Knockout cup is open to all registered and
insured teams. Teams are drawn at random on a home or away basis.
Teams from different leagues can meet and winners from each round
progress through to the next round. The final two teams meet in the
Knockout cup final.
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