2019–20 Mercury Elite Hockey League

The 2019–20 Mercury Elite Hockey League is the fourth season of the Mercury Elite Hockey League, the premier ice hockey league in Mercury. The league will be contested by 24 teams, including 6 international clubs.

Qualification

Qualification for the MCHL will be determined according to the following criteria:

• Craitish Cosmos and Dyas Stiks qualify automatically
• Regular season champions
• Play-off champions
• Northern, Central and Southern Conference champions, best team from the International Conference, barring Craitish Cosmos and Dyas Stiks.
• If any team qualifies through more than one of the above criteria, then the remaining berths will be allocated to the highest-placed teams in the overall standings.

Regular season

The league's 24 teams play a 66-game schedule from September 2019 to March 2020. Each team plays every other team in the league twice, and each team in their conference a further four times. At the end of the season, the four conference winners advance to the play-offs in addition to the eight next-highest ranked teams in the overall standings.

Legend
	Qualified to play-offs and MCHL
	Qualified to play-offs
	Qualified to MCHL
XXX	Current Conference leader

Club	Conf.	GP	RW	OW	OL	RL	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Nafferton Panthers	CEN	64	39	12	3	10	276	159	+117	144
Bisminster Battalion	NOR	64	42	4	5	13	265	172	+93	139
Castleton Vikings	CEN	64	36	5	5	18	230	188	+42	123
Mercury Hornets	CEN	64	37	2	7	18	235	184	+51	122
Hanseong Stingrays	NOR	64	36	5	1	22	239	181	+58	119
Dyas Stiks	INT	64	34	6	3	21	253	207	+46	117
Kuiper Jets	CEN	64	33	7	3	17	239	197	+42	116
Savona Sport	INT	64	33	5	5	21	247	199	+48	114
Whitby Warriors	NOR	64	30	9	6	19	219	200	+19	114
Newcastle Leopards	INT	64	30	7	7	20	233	212	+21	111
Tow Law Bears	SOU	64	31	5	5	23	217	180	+37	108
Pelmanby Penguins	NOR	64	31	3	8	22	205	211	−6	107
Craitish Cosmos	INT	64	30	4	3	27	201	178	+23	101
PB Polar Bears	NOR	64	29	4	4	27	228	204	+24	99
Kincester Kraken	SOU	64	27	2	8	27	214	220	−6	93
Longstoke Lions	SOU	64	24	4	3	33	193	219	−26	83
Harlby Hawks	SOU	64	21	2	8	33	189	220	−31	75
Deacon Thunder	SOU	64	20	5	5	34	189	230	−41	75
Taylor Torpedoes	CEN	64	20	3	4	37	176	239	−63	70
Clarkson Pirates	NOR	64	18	4	6	36	198	249	−51	68
Eastmoor Archers	CEN	64	20	2	4	38	189	244	−55	68
West Grinstead Wasps	SOU	64	18	5	4	37	199	267	−68	68
NV Devils	INT	64	7	6	6	45	152	293	−141	39
Plennomorets Chetgavan	INT	64	6	6	4	48	179	308	−129	34

Conference standings

Northern Conference

Club	GP	RW	OW	OL	RL	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Bisminster Battalion	28	17	3	3	5	111	79	+32	60
Pelmanby Penguins	28	15	0	5	8	93	97	−4	50
Hanseong Stingrays	28	15	2	0	11	109	87	+22	49
Whitby Warriors	28	8	6	4	10	92	94	−2	40
PB Polar Bears	28	11	2	1	14	94	96	−2	38
Clarkson Pirates	28	3	2	2	21	78	124	−46	15

Central Conference

Club	GP	RW	OW	OL	RL	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Nafferton Panthers	28	16	6	2	4	110	65	+45	62
Mercury Hornets	28	13	0	6	9	103	94	+9	45
Castleton Vikings	28	13	2	2	11	88	85	+3	45
Kuiper Jets	28	10	4	1	13	92	92	0	39
Taylor Torpedoes	28	10	2	2	14	75	98	−23	36
Eastmoor Archers	28	8	1	2	17	82	112	−30	28

Southern Conference

Club	GP	RW	OW	OL	RL	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Kincester Kraken	28	17	0	5	6	113	79	+34	56
Tow Law Bears	28	14	4	3	7	96	75	+21	53
Longstoke Lions	28	12	3	0	13	91	88	+3	42
Deacon Thunder	28	11	3	2	12	84	88	−4	41
West Grinstead Wasps	28	9	3	2	14	91	114	−23	35
Harlby Hawks	28	7	1	2	18	76	107	−31	25

International Conference

Club	GP	RW	OW	OL	RL	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Dyas Stiks	28	19	3	1	5	125	79	+46	64
Newcastle Leopards	28	17	2	3	6	106	90	+16	58
Craitish Cosmos	28	14	3	1	10	105	72	+33	49
Savona Sport	28	15	1	1	11	94	78	+16	48
NV Devils	28	5	2	3	18	60	109	−49	22
Plennomorets Chetgavan	28	2	1	3	22	67	129	−62	11

Play-offs

Qualifying play-offs

The qualifying play-offs will be played over two legs in March 2020. The four conference winners will advance directly to the quarter-finals.

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Quarter-finals

The quarter-finals will be played over two legs in March 2020.

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Semi-finals

The semi-finals will be played at the Mercury Ice Arena in Mercury.

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Final

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