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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 ...
For the 2023–2024 season, Telia had transferred the television rights of the SM-liiga to MTV, which it owns. Telia had acquired the broadcast rights starting from the 2018–2019 season , and with the new agreement MTV has the rights until the end of the 2026–2027 season.
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. [3] [4] The winner of the Liiga playoffs is awarded the Kanada-malja at the end of each ...
The 2024–25 Auroraliiga season is the 42nd ice hockey season of the Auroraliiga. It is the first season since the league re-branded from Naisten Liiga, the name that had been in use since 2017, to Auroraliiga. IFK Helsinki (HIFK) are the reigning 2024 Aurora Borealis Cup champions. Kiekko-Espoo hold the 2023–24 regular season title.
The 2024–25 Mestis season is the 25th season of Mestis, the second level of ice hockey in Finland. 10 teams participates in the league and each will play 49 games during the regular season. The regular season is followed by playoffs, promotion and relegation series.
Ultimately, the akatemia teams of HIFK, Kiekko-Espoo, and KalPa finished the season at the top of league standings and no Naisten Liiga qualifiers were held in the 2024 postseason. [ 5 ] ^ Under normal circumstances, the bottom-two teams from the Naisten Liiga and top-two teams from the Naisten Mestis would participate in the qualifiers.
The top pot also contained the reigning champions of four of the top five founding leagues according to the league rankings (Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, Finland and Czechia). Pot D contained 2023–24 ICE Hockey League regular season runners-up Fehérvár AV19 and champions of five challenger leagues.
The 2024–25 KHL season is the 17th season of the Kontinental Hockey League. There are 23 teams that will compete in 68 regular season games, with a record-breaking 187 playing days, having begun on 3 September 2024 until through 23 March 2025.