FFHG Division 1

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FFHG Division 1

Sport	Ice hockey
Country	France
Level on pyramid	2
Promotion to	Ligue Magnus
Relegation to	FFHG Division 2

FFHG Division 1 (Fédération Française de Hockey sur Glace Division 1 or French Ice Hockey Federation Division 1) is a semi-professional ice hockey league in France. In France, there are four levels of national ice hockey. The teams that end at the bottom of the table get relegated to FFHG Division 2 while the top get promoted to Ligue Magnus.

FFHG Division 1 consists of 14 teams.

Brest

Caen

Chambéry

Cholet

Clermont-Ferrand

Dunkirk

Épinal

Marseille

Mont Blanc

Montpellier

Nantes

Neuilly-sur-Marne

Strasbourg

Tours

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Teams currently participating in Division 1

During the regular season, each team plays each of the other teams twice: once at home and once away (26 games). In the event of a tie at the end of three periods, one 10-minute overtime period is played based sudden-death rules. If the game is still tied after this period, the teams proceed to a shoot-out to determine a winner.

At the end of this regular season the eight highest-ranking teams enter a series of play-offs. In order to be promoted to the division above (the Ligue Magnus), the winner of the Division 1 play-offs then plays a best-of-three series against the losing team that division. The winning team of that series then qualifies for play in Ligue Magnus the following season, while the losing team stays in (or is relegated to) Division 1.

The four lowest-ranking teams also enter a play-off series in which the losing teams continue, and the overall losing team must play (and win) a best-of-three series against the champion of the FFHG Division 2 in order to avoid being relegated.^[1]

• FFHG Division 1 Official Site Archived 2010-09-14 at the Wayback Machine