2017–18 IIHF Champions Hockey League (WFAC)

The 2017–18 IIHF Champions Hockey League will be the 53rd season of the Champions Hockey League, the premier European club ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). The season will take place between October 2017 and February 2018.

Team allocation
A total of 32 teams from different European first-tier leagues will participate in the 2017–18 Champions Hockey League. Besides the Continental Cup champions, 25 teams from the seven largest leagues, as well as the national champions from Denmark, France, Great Britain and Poland will qualify.

The qualification for these places is set out in the rules as follows:
 * 1) National league champion (play-off winners)
 * 2) Regular season winners
 * 3) Regular season runner up
 * 4) Losing play-off finalist
 * 5) Higher regular season ranked losing semi-finalist
 * 6) Lower regular season ranked losing semi-finalist
 * 7) Third placed team in regular season
 * 8) Fourth placed team in regular season
 * 9) Fifth placed team in regular season.