2024–25 BCHL season
| 2024–25 BCHL season | |
|---|---|
| League | BCHL |
| Sport | Ice hockey |
| Duration | Regular Season 20 September - 30 March Post-season 3 April - 25 May |
| Number of games | 569 |
| Number of teams | 21 |
| Total attendance | 732,585 |
| Regular season | |
| Season champions | Penticton Vees |
| Post-season | |
| Coastal champions | Chilliwack Chiefs |
| Coastal runners-up | Victoria Grizzlies |
| Interior champions | Brooks Bandits |
| Interior runners-up | Penticton Vees |
| Finals champions | Brooks Bandits |
| Runners-up | Chilliwack Chiefs |
The 2024–25 BCHL season was the 63rd season of the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL) and its second season as an independent league.
The Merritt Centennials folded its BCHL operations and joined the KIJHL as an expansion team.
The Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League (VIJHL) announced that it would withdraw from the Hockey Canada framework and operate as an independent farm league for the BCHL.
The league introduced "universal affiliate" players. Teams will be allowed to supplement their rosters with affiliate players from the VIJHL and the Junior Prospects Hockey League (JPHL).
The league granted "exceptional player status" to Eli McKamey, a 15-year-old forward, allowing him to join the Penticton Vees' roster before the age of 16. He was the first player to receive that designation from the BCHL. In May 2025, McKamey was drafted by the Victoria Royals of the WHL.
The league's 21 teams will be organized into two conferences — Coastal and Interior — with each conference divided into West and East divisions. The five Alberta-based teams, which left the AJHL part-way through the 2023–24 season, will play in the East division of the Interior conference, as will the Cranbrook Bucks. The Prince George Spruce Kings, who had been in the Interior Conference, has been moved into the Coastal Conference's East division.
The teams will play a 54-game regular season with top 8 teams from each conference advancing to the playoffs. In the first round of the playoffs, the first seed in each conference will play the eighth seed, the second seed will play the seventh seed, the third seed will play the sixth seed, and the fourth seed will play the fifth seed. Each round will be a best-of-seven series with the winner advancing to the next round.
