Milton Keynes Lightning are pleased to confirm the fixture schedule for the upcoming 2025/26 season.
The League campaign will begin on home ice at Planet Ice Milton Keynes on Saturday 20th September, with a 7:00pm face-off against the Bristol Pitbulls. The team will then travel to Telford on Sunday 21st September with face-off scheduled for 6pm.
As in previous seasons, the majority of MK Lightning home fixtures will take place on Saturday evenings, with a small number of exceptions throughout the calendar.
Wednesday 29th October vs Basingstoke Bison (Half term)
Sunday 2nd November vs Sheffield Steeldogs
Sunday 7th December vs Bristol Pitbulls
Sunday 21st December vs Swindon Wildcats
Sunday 25th January vs Basingstoke Bison
Sunday 8th March vs Bristol Pitbulls
Friday 20th March Vs Romford Raiders
Home fixtures around Christmas and New Year are Sunday 21st December vs. Swindon, 27th December vs Peterborough Phantoms and 3rd January vs Telford Tigers.
We have a Solway double header this year, 17th and 18th January for the Barmy Army Travelling fans.
This season, the cup competition will be the same as last season. The qualifying stage will consist of 10 games, Each team will play every other team once, resulting in 5 home and 5 away games. The semi-finals and finals of the cup competition (both over 2 legs home and away) will aim to be completed by the end of December, subject to fixture availability.
The final weekend of the regular season is 20th March 2026, which will then be followed by three weekends of playoffs and Coventry weekend on 18th-19th April if we qualify. Playoff format will be shared in due course.
Full fixtures are available here:Â https://mk-lightning.co.uk/fixtures and will automatically appear in your calendar in due course if you have subscribed to our calendar service.
Tickets are not yet on sale (we’ll let you know when they are). The website fixtures page does show on sale dates for each fixture, but please note these may be subject to change as the fixtures are loaded on (we hope the first 3 matches will go on sale at 10am 2nd August 2025 – we will confirm on social media and email our mailing list).
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