Name
Finnish Liiga

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Established
1975 (49 years old)

First Recorded Event
2020-10-01

Current Season
2024-2025

Sport
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Location
Finland

Gender
Male

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Upcoming
21 Nov IFK Helsinki home team badge - Away Team Badge Assat
22 Nov SaiPa home team badge - Away Team Badge Tappara
22 Nov KooKoo home team badge - Away Team Badge TPS Turku
22 Nov Kiekko-Espoo home team badge - Away Team Badge Oulun Kärp�
23 Nov Jukurit home team badge - Away Team Badge Ilves
23 Nov JYP home team badge - Away Team Badge TPS Turku
23 Nov KalPa home team badge - Away Team Badge KooKoo
23 Nov Oulun Kärp� home team badge - Away Team Badge Hämeenlinna
23 Nov Lukko home team badge - Away Team Badge Tappara
23 Nov Pelicans home team badge - Away Team Badge Kiekko-Espoo

Results
20 Nov Oulun Kärp� home team badge 3 - 4home team badge Lukko
20 Nov Hämeenlinna home team badge 2 - 3home team badge Assat
20 Nov Jukurit home team badge 2 - 3home team badge SaiPa
20 Nov JYP home team badge 3 - 2home team badge Vaasan Sport
20 Nov TPS Turku home team badge 1 - 3home team badge KalPa
17 Nov Tappara home team badge 3 - 0home team badge Hämeenlinna
16 Nov Pelicans home team badge 4 - 1home team badge Oulun Kärp�
16 Nov KalPa home team badge 7 - 2home team badge IFK Helsinki
16 Nov Ilves home team badge 5 - 2home team badge JYP
16 Nov Lukko home team badge 4 - 0home team badge Jukurit

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The SM-liiga (marketed as just Liiga from 2013 on), colloquially called the Finnish Elite League in English, is the top professional ice hockey league in Finland. It is one of the six founding leagues of the Champions Hockey League and currently allocated five spots - the maximum number - based on success in previous editions. It was created in 1975 to replace the SM-sarja, which was fundamentally an amateur league. The SM-liiga is not directly overseen by the Finnish Ice Hockey Association, but the league and association have an agreement of cooperation. SM is a common abbreviation for Suomen mestaruus, "Finnish championship".

The SM-liiga formerly had a system of automatic promotion and relegation in place between itself and the Mestis, the second highest level of competition in Finland, but the automatic system was ended in 2000. The league was opened in 2005 and allowed KalPa to get a promotion. In 2009, a new system was introduced and it includes the last placed SM-liiga team facing the Mestis champion in a best of seven playout series. In 2013, the relegation system was abandoned again and replaced by a procedure in which successful clubs of Mestis may apply for a promotion if they fulfill definite financial criteria. Since 2013, Jokerit joined the KHL and Espoo Blues went bankrupt, but Sport, KooKoo and Jukurit were promoted. Therefore Liiga is a competition of 15 teams since the 2016–17 season.
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Seasons

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2024-2025
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2023-2024
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2022-2023
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2021-2022
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Teams
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Assat
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HIFK
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HPK
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Ilves
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Jukurit
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JYP
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KalPa
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Kärpät
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Kiekko-Espoo
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KooKoo
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Lukko
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Pelicans
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SaiPa
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Tappara
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TPS Turku
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Vaasan Sport

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(- 4) Missing 4 Players: Data and Artwork
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Last 5 winners
Tappara (2024)
Tappara (2023)
Tappara (2022)
Lukko (2021)
Hämeenlinnan (2019)

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