The Playoff picture of the 2026/27 season of the Champions Hockey League is beginning to take shape. With the penultimate round of the Regular Season completed over the past two days, 12 of the 16 places in the knockout stage have now been secured.

Skellefteå AIK, Kölner Haie and current Regular Season Standings leaders HC Pilsen were the first three teams to qualify for the Round of 16 at the very end of the September portion of CHL games and they were joined yesterday by Finnish side SaiPa Lappeenranta and eight more teams tonight!

The heated battle for the remaining four places is set to go down to next week's final Regular Season round, but in the meantime, here's a full list of teams currently qualified for the Playoffs:

• HC Pilsen
• Kölner Haie
• Dynamo Pardubice
• Skellefteå AIK
• Adler Mannheim
• SaiPa Lappeenranta
• Fribourg-Gottéron
• Växjö Lakers
• Rögle Ängelholm
• Genève-Servette
• Eisbären Berlin
• Frölunda Gothenburg

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