The All-CCHA Teams are composed of players at all positions from teams that are members of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association, an NCAA Division Ihockey-onlyconference that existed from 1971 to 2013 and is set to be revived in 2021. Each year, from 1972–73 thru 2012–13, at the conclusion of the CCHA regular season the head coaches of each member team vote for players to be placed on each all-conference team.[1] The First Team and Second Team were named in every CCHA season after the inaugural year while the Rookie Team was added starting in 1988–89. The all-CCHA teams were discontinued after the 2012–13 season when the original CCHA was dissolved as a consequence of the Big Ten Conference forming its men's ice hockey conference.[2]
In February 2020, seven schools that had announced in 2019 that they would leave the Western Collegiate Hockey Association after that league's 2020–21 season[3] announced that they would revive the CCHA, with league play to start in 2021–22.[4] Four of these seven schools—Bowling Green, Ferris State, Lake Superior State, and Northern Michigan—played in the final season of the original CCHA. A fifth member of the revived league, Michigan Tech, was briefly a CCHA member in the early 1980s.
The all-conference teams were composed of one goaltender, two defensemen and three forwards. If a tie occurred for the final selection at any position, both players were included as part of the all-conference team; if a tie resulted in an increase in the number of First Team all-stars, the Second Team will be reduced in numbers accordingly (as happened in 1974–75 and 2010–11). Players may only appear once per year on any of the first or second teams but freshman may appear on both the rookie team and one of the other all-conference teams.