2023–24 EIHL season
The 2023–24 EIHL season will be the 20th anniversary season of the Elite Ice Hockey League. The regular season will commence on 22 September 2023, and the final match day will be on the 8 April; the playoff quarter-finals will be on the 13-14 April and Playoff final weekend will be on the 20-21 April.

Teams 
The same ten teams that competed in 2022–23 competed in the 2023–24 season.

Regular season

League standings 
Each team will play 54 games, playing each of the other nine teams six times: three times on home ice, and three times away from home. Points will be awarded for each game, where two points were awarded for all victories, regardless of whether it was in regulation time or after overtime or game-winning shots. One point was awarded for losing in overtime or game-winning shots, and zero points for losing in regulation time. At the end of the regular season, the team that will finish with the most points was crowned the league champion, and qualify for the 2024–25 Champions Hockey League. The top eight teams qualified for the playoffs.

Playoffs

Bracket 
In the two-legged quarter-finals, the highest-ranked team met the lowest-ranked team, the second-highest-ranked team met the second-lowest-ranked team and so forth. The winners of each tie was determined by aggregate scoring over the two games. In the semi-finals, the highest remaining seed was matched against the lowest remaining seed, with the other two teams facing off. The winners of the semi-finals progressed to the Final, with the losers playing in the third-place match.

Challenge Cup 
The league cup competition which is split into two stages, an initial group stage where the league is divided into three groups based off of geographical distance and an 8 team bracket where the winner is determined by the overall score over two legs and a final match held in the venue of the highest ranked finalist from the group stage.

The teams with the 9th and 10th highest win percentage will be eliminated from the tournament 

The team that's the highest win percentage in the group stage will take on the team with the 8th highest win percentage.

References

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Elite Ice Hockey League seasons
2023–24 in British ice hockey
2023–24 in European ice hockey