If you are missing a team in the HGL next season, I am available. Although there are probably more than enough of you in the HGL.....
@all current HGL managers, important:
please inform me by Regular Season Round 13 (June 8th) that are you willing/committed continuing in HGL next Season as well (Season 6).This leaves us time to possibly run a HGL-Promotion league (or HGL-PL, or something like that) to determine the order of teams interested in joining HGL for the next Season, which would be possibly done in the case there are teams that decide to leave HGL after this Season
voluntarily.
@Hadár: It's good to hear from you! Like you've probably noticed (likely you have been reading these threads to some extent at least), it is more or less likely that 18 will remain the maximum limit of participating teams at least for now. Like you've noticed, it hasn't been absolutely locked, but not many aspects speak for further expansion - least of them the added work (and added Rounds) that adding 2 teams would produce. However, as I mentioned, you're very strong candidate to win HGL-PL, should there be for instance 1 current HGL team exiting voluntarily after this Season.
As you've also probably noticed our discussion on possible relegation possibility in the future, it would be too quick decision to apply that in a middle of the Season. So if it is decided that we'll begin using that promotion/relegation system (in where likely only worst, or possibly two worst HGL team(s) would be subjected to relegation
threat by forcing to take HGL-RPF, HGL Relegation/Promotion Final match, against best team of HGL-PL), we would only subject teams to that threat starting from Season 6 at the earliest, meaning that you could promote via HGL-PL only at the beginning of Season 7
unless teams would withdraw voluntarily from HGL, in which case teams would be offered place to HGL based on their position in HGL Promotion League (that is naturally played during current Season, as teams are fighting for places in HGL for next Season).
So it is likely best to make decision first on whether we're going to subject HGL teams to relegation threat based on Season 6 success, and then after that possibly invite all interested teams (interested in participating to HGL Season 6) to play in HGL-PL (which format is still undecided - either Round Robin, Playoffs, or combination), just in case 1 or more teams would decide to withdraw from HGL after this Season 5
voluntarily. The downside? Result on Season 5 HGL-PL (which still haven't been decided if that'll even exist, but like I mentioned, it might be good/okay idea to have it anyway) might not mean anything, before the very last minute (before pre-season), because sometimes there have been teams that leave HGL with very short notice (and then if we know the "correct" order of the teams, we can offer them place in HGL next Season if we have "a ranking" that we've got from playing HGL-PL.
However, the rule on HGL match times haven't changed, so every Season that starts when DST is observed in Europe, is played 15.30 EET DST, and when DST is not observed at the start of HGL Season, game time is 14.30 EET Normal Time (winter time), like stated in the rules.
Last edited by Wagner at 5/17/2026 7:06:23 PM