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{{Infobox sports league
| title          = National League B
| current_season = 2013–14 National League B season
| logo           = National-league-logo.png
| pixels         = 180px
| caption        = 
| sport          = Ice hockey
| teams          = 10
| country        = {{SUI}}
| champion       = [[Lausanne HC]]
| founded        = 1947
| folded         = 
| TV             = SRG, Teleclub
| website        = [http://www.nationalleague.ch/NL/de/index.php www.nationalleague.ch]
| related_comps  = [[National League A]]
}}

'''National League B''' or '''Nationalliga B''' (German) or '''Ligue Nationale B''' (French) is the second tier of the main professional ice hockey league in [[Switzerland]], behind [[National League A]]. The winners of this league each season play a best-of-seven series against the bottom team of [[National League A]] and, if they win, are promoted, while the National League A team is relegated to National League B.

The attendance in 2012–13 was about 3,500 spectators.

==Participating teams==
===Current Teams===

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left" width=60%
|-
! Team
! City
! Arena
! Capacity
|-
| [[HC Ajoie]]
| [[Porrentruy]]
| [[Patinoire de Porrentruy]]
| 4,300
|-
| [[EHC Basel]]
| [[Basel]]
| [[St. Jakob Arena]]
| 6,600
|-
| [[GCK Lions]]
| [[Küsnacht]]
| [[Eishalle Küsnacht]]
| 2,200
|-
| [[HC La Chaux-de-Fonds]]
| [[La Chaux-de-Fonds]]
| [[Patinoire des Mélèzes]]
| 7,200
|-
| [[SC Langenthal]]
| [[Langenthal]]
| [[Schoren Halle]]
| 4,320
|-
| [[SCL Tigers]]
| [[Langnau im Emmental]]
| [[Ilfis Stadium]]
| 6,500
|-
| [[HC Martigny|Martigny Red Ice]]
| [[Martigny]]
| [[Forum d'Octodure]]
| 4,500
|-
| [[EHC Olten]]
| [[Olten]]
| [[Kleinholz Stadion]]
| 6,500
|-
| [[HC Thurgau]]
| [[Weinfelden]]
| [[Güttingersreuti]]
| 3,200
|-
| [[EHC Visp]] 
| [[Visp]]
| [[Litternahalle]]
| 4,300
|}

===Former Teams===
*[[HC Forward-Morges]] - withdrawal at the end of the 2005–06 season
*[[EHC Biel]] - promoted to [[National League A]] after the 2007–08 season
*[[EHC Chur]] - withdrawal at the end of the 2007–08 season
*[[Lausanne HC]] - promoted to [[National League A]] after the 2012-13 season
*[[HC Sierre-Anniviers]] - bankruptcy at the end of the 2012-13 season

==External links==
*[http://www.sehv.ch/ Swiss Ice Hockey, official site] - in [http://www.f.sehv.ch/ French] and [http://www.f.sehv.ch/ German]
*[http://puck.ch/e/ Puck.ch] Results of Swiss Ice Hockey - in [http://puck.ch/e/ English], [http://puck.ch/f/ French], [http://puck.ch/g/ German] and [http://puck.ch/e/ Italian]*

==See also==
*[[National League A]]
*[[Swiss 1. Liga]]

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