Parts of this article (those related to this section) need to be. Another interesting feature of PHL is timeouts, similar to basketball and volleyball. As of the 2018–19 season, the divisions are the following: Each team plays each of the other teams in their league a total of four times; twice home, twice away. At the end of the regular season, the top 4 teams in the division take part in the Playoff weekend, which are one-off games, replacing the previous home/away format.

The SRG SSR airs regular season games highlights after each round and two selected games per playoff night in all three languages. There is no official rule as it would be against Swiss laws to limit foreign workers in a given enterprise. The subject of import players has been and still is a huge subject of debates among team owners and GMs. Each player will start with the ball on the 25 yard line and when the umpire blows the whistle player will have maximum of 8 secs to score a goal with only the goal keeper defending the goal.

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The winner of the playoffs would then be the team promoted to Division 1. At the start of the 1998–99 season the divisions, whilst still both under the ENIHL umbrella, performed in their own separate competitions; and the national division adopted the name Premier Division, and later on became known as the Premier League. This agreement is not directly related to Swiss citizenship as players with different nationalities but with Swiss player-licenses are considered Swiss players, thus they do not count as import players. It has now made way to another similar formatted tournament, the Hockey India League. During the 2018–19 season, the league had an average of 6,949 spectators per game which is the highest among European leagues (ahead of the KHL with 6,397 and the DEL with 6,215). Those spots are usually reserved for players who have had good NHL careers or players with great stats and performances in the AHL, SHL, KHL or Liiga. Formerly called the English National Ice Hockey League (ENIHL), it was renamed in 2012 to recognise the inclusion of several teams from Scotland and Wales.