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The Liiga, colloquially called the Finnish Elite League in English or FM-ligan in Swedish, [1] [2] is the top professional ice hockey league in Finland. The league comprises 16 teams from all around Finland with relegation and promotion between the Mestis .
The 2024–25 Liiga season is the 50th season of the Liiga, the top level of Finnish ice hockey since 1975. The Liiga expanded to 16 teams for the season with the addition of Kiekko-Espoo . The league also brought back the relegation to the Mestis and a reformed playoff system and new divisions that decide the number of games teams play against ...
Ässät celebrating a regular season victory against Jukurit on 15 October 2022. Top six advanced straight to the quarter-finals, while teams between 7th and 10th positions played a wild card round for the final two spots.
Top six advanced straight to the quarter-finals, while teams between 7th and 10th positions played a wild card round for the final two spots. The Liiga is a closed series and thus there is no relegation. The top 3 teams of the regular season qualified for the Champions Hockey League and the 4th team to the Spengler Cup.
The 2020–21 SM-liiga season was the 46th season of the SM-liiga, the top level of ice hockey in Finland, since the league's formation in 1975.Due to the COVID-19 pandemic all the games had to be played to a very limited audience or no audience at all. [1]
Puhakka played one season professionally for the Espoo Blues in Finland’s top Liiga hockey league before joining France's top-level Ligue Magnus league in 2017 and later retiring from the sport ...
Ice hockey leagues were first established in Finland in the 1920s. [6] SM-sarja was established as the first national men's ice hockey league in 1928. Viipurin Reipas were champions in the inaugural year and remain one of the oldest ice hockey teams in Finland, still competing today under the name Lahti Pelicans.