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Liiga

League status: Active
Administered by: Jääkiekon SM-liiga Oy
Head manager: Kimmo Rannisto
Year of start: 1975
WWW: http://www.liiga.fi

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Recent

07 Apr 2025 \|	Jiri Pärssinen (D)	Ketterä Imatra	KooKoo Kouvola
06 Apr 2025 \|	Otto Salin (D)	TPS Turku	Los Angeles Kings
05 Apr 2025 \|	Damian Clara (G)	Kärpät Oulu	San Diego Gulls
04 Apr 2025 \|	Max Lindroth (D)	TPS Turku	EHC Kloten

League

leaders | season 2024-2025 all time stats

#	Player name	Pos	Team	GP	G	A	P	PIM	+/-
1.	Atro Leppänen	D	Sport Vaasa	60	21	42	63	30	8
2.	Michal Kovařčík	C	Kärpät Oulu	53	13	49	62	53	7
3.	Patrick Curry	C	KalPa Kuopio	60	29	31	60	84	12
4.	Simon Hjalmarsson	LW	Sport Vaasa	60	12	48	60	32	16
5.	Jori Lehterä	C	IFK Helsinki	51	7	52	59	14	9
6.	Jaakko Rissanen	C	KalPa Kuopio	58	16	40	56	26	21
7.	Reid Gardiner	RW	Kärpät Oulu	60	27	28	55	20	-3
8.	Matias Mäntykivi	C	Ilves Tampere	60	18	36	54	36	26
9.	Jens Lööke	RW	Ilves Tampere	56	16	38	54	10	18
10.	Jan-Mikael Järvinen	C	Porin Ässät	60	9	45	54	24	5
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League

standings stage:

#	Club	G	W	W-OT	L-OT	L	Score	P
1	Lukko Rauma	60	32	6	4	18	202:147	112
2	Ilves Tampere	60	32	4	7	17	176:145	111
3	KalPa Kuopio	60	29	7	6	18	196:149	107
4	IFK Helsinki	60	27	9	8	16	173:165	107

5	SaiPa Lappeenranta	60	30	6	4	20	178:170	106
6	KooKoo Kouvola	60	23	13	4	20	206:169	99
7	Porin Ässät	60	26	4	9	21	160:159	95
8	Kiekko-Espoo	60	20	10	11	19	160:171	91
9	Tappara Tampere	60	24	6	6	24	178:168	90
10	Sport Vaasa	60	17	9	14	20	172:177	83
11	HPK Hämeenlinna	60	21	5	10	24	154:178	83
12	TPS Turku	60	18	9	7	26	173:190	79

13	Kärpät Oulu	60	19	7	6	28	172:193	77
14	JYP Jyväskylä	60	19	6	7	28	167:197	76

15	Pelicans Lahti	60	20	4	7	29	171:179	75
16	Jukurit Mikkeli	60	12	6	1	41	134:215	49

Last updated: 09 Apr 2025, 22:33

Regular season: all teams play 60 matches, a quadruple round robin with extra local double rounds (every team plays four matches against every other team, plus two or four extra matches against defined local opponents). Each match consists of 60 minutes regulation time, and in the event of a tie, winner is decided by a four-on-four sudden death, 5-minute overtime. Ties after overtime are decided by a shootout, where each team has three shooters in the beginning. If the game is tied after three shooters, the shootout will be decided by individual shooters against one another until one scores and the other does not.

For the 2010-11 a new addition was introduced. In January 2011, each team will play 2 games (1 home, 1 away) against the same opponent. The match-ups will be decided by a system where the bottom (14th) placed team at that time chooses its opponent 1st, followed by the 13, 12th and so on. The 7th placed team is the last one to choose an opponent. The system has been criticized by many, for reasons such as "awarding" a bad position in the table and the way the match-ups are decided, since there are worries that teams will choose their opponents from the higher profile teams and their biggest rivals to achieve maximum attendance and more income through ticket sales.

Scoring: A win in regulation time is worth three points, a win by sudden death overtime two points and loss by sudden death overtime one point. Teams will be ranked by points, and teams tied by points are ranked by goal differential. Teams tied by goal differential as well are ranked by number of goals scored.

Play-offs: The six best teams at the conclusion of regular season proceed directly to quarter-finals. Teams placing between seventh and tenth (inclusive) will play preliminary play-offs best-out-of-three - the two winners take the last two slots to quarter-finals. Starting from the season 2007-2008 all series since then are best-of-seven. Losers of the semi-finals play a bronze medal match. Teams are paired up for each round according to regular season results, so that the highest-ranking team will play against the lowest-ranking, second highest against the second lowest, and so on. Higher-ranking teams play the first match at home, then by turns away, home, away, etc. Each play-off match consists of a 60-minute regulation time which in the event of a tie is followed by extra 20-minute periods of sudden death overtime, in which the first team to score wins.

from 1927 to 1975: SM-sarja
from 1975 to 2013: SM-liiga
from 2013 to present: Liiga

2023-2024: Tappara Tampere
2022-2023: Tappara Tampere
2021-2022: Tappara Tampere
2020-2021: Lukko Rauma
2018-2019: HPK Hämeenlinna
2017-2018: Kärpät Oulu
2016-2017: Tappara Tampere
2015-2016: Tappara Tampere
2014-2015: Kärpät Oulu
2013-2014: Kärpät Oulu
2012-2013: Porin Ässät
2011-2012: JYP Jyväskylä
2010-2011: IFK Helsinki
2009-2010: TPS Turku
2008-2009: JYP Jyväskylä
2007-2008: Kärpät Oulu
2006-2007: Kärpät Oulu
2005-2006: HPK Hämeenlinna
2004-2005: Kärpät Oulu
2003-2004: Kärpät Oulu
2002-2003: Tappara Tampere
2001-2002: Jokerit
2000-2001: TPS Turku
1999-2000: TPS Turku
1998-1999: TPS Turku
1997-1998: IFK Helsinki
1996-1997: Jokerit
1995-1996: Jokerit
1994-1995: TPS Turku
1993-1994: Jokerit
1992-1993: TPS Turku
1991-1992: Jokerit
1990-1991: TPS Turku
1989-1990: TPS Turku
1988-1989: TPS Turku
1987-1988: Tappara Tampere
1986-1987: Tappara Tampere
1985-1986: Tappara Tampere
1984-1985: Ilves Tampere
1983-1984: Tappara Tampere
1982-1983: IFK Helsinki
1981-1982: Tappara Tampere
1980-1981: Kärpät Oulu
1979-1980: IFK Helsinki
1978-1979: Tappara Tampere
1977-1978: Porin Ässät
1976-1977: Tappara Tampere
1975-1976: TPS Turku

The Liiga (formerly SM-liiga) is the top professional ice hockey league in Finland.
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.
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.

http://www.liiga.fi

Recent

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Liiga games between December 3 and 19 postponed (02 Dec 2020)
Tournaments finished in Finland and Russia (06 Aug 2019)
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Markus Nurmi of TPS needed only four seconds to score on Ässät's young goalie Rasmus Korhonen for the fastest goal ever in the Finnish top league.

The game was the Liiga debut for the 18-year-old goalie.

Fastest Liiga goals:

4 seconds: Markus Nurmi, TPS / TPS-Ässät November 28 2020
5 seconds: Jari Laiho, Lukko / Lukko-Jokerit December 6 1979
5 seconds: Esa Välioja, Tappara / Tappara-Jokerit January 31 1982
5 seconds: Seppo Ahokainen, Tappara / Ilves-Tappara December 6 1983

Source: Iitalehti

(29 Nov 2020)

HPK beat Kärpät 1-0 tonight in the sixth game of the Finnish Liiga finals. Valtteri Puustinen scored the lonely goal in the second period. The Finnish championship will now be decided in the seventh game on Saturday.

(02 May 2019)

Last year's Liiga top scorer Kim Hirschovits will leave Espoo Blues with immediate effect and join Kärpät Oulu. Hirschovits terminated his current contract due to unpaid salaries arising from financial problems the Blues are having and joins the champion until season's end with an option for next season. He will not be eligible for tuesday's second leg in the CHL between Kärpät and Espoo.

(02 Dec 2015)

Former player and Karhu-Kissat junior chief Jari Korpisalo has been chosen to replace Mika Toivola as Ässät Sports Director.

Korpisalo and Ässät has agreed to a 3-year deal starting in early January. Korpisalo played 575 games for Ässät between 1990 - 2005 and was the team's best scorer 6 times during that era. Since 2006 he had been working for his own junior team Karhu-Kissat as a junior chief.

Current Sporting Director Toivola will continue as usual until January and after year change they will sit down and decide how they shall split the work.

(06 Nov 2015)

MODO Hockey-IF Björklöven 2-1, Karlskrona HK-Hamburg Freezers 5-3, Brynäs IF-Leksands IF 4-1, Asplöven-Roki 6-0, Timrå IK- Frisk Asker 5-1, Tingsryd-Troja Ljungby 2-1.

(21 Aug 2015)

There's been two games played today where three Swedish SHL teams and one Finnish team were involved. Here are the results.

Frölunda HC-HV71 0-4 and Luleå HF-Kärpät 0-3.

(14 Aug 2015)

Arttu Luttinen will he new captain of the Finnish Liiga club HIFK. Juuso Puustinen and Daniel Grillfors will wear the "A" jerseys.

(14 Aug 2015)

Malmö Redhawks-Växjö Lakers 3-0, Djurgårdens IF-Skellefteå AIK 2-1, HPK-Luleå HF 3-1, Huddinge-AIK 0-4, Östersund-Timrå IK 4-3 (SO), Sparta Sarpsborg-BIK Karlskoga 1-6, Västerås-Vita Hästen 1-2 (SO), Björklöven-Asplöven 5-1.

(13 Aug 2015)

There will be three preseason games for the Swedish teams today. Some interesting meetings to keep an eye on.

Djurgårdens IF - Skellefteå AIK, Malmö Redhawks - Växjö Lakers and HPK - Luleå Hockey.

(13 Aug 2015)

There will be an outdoor game in Finnish Liiga this season. MTV reports that HIFK will play Ilves at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium December 12.

(06 Aug 2015)

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09 Apr 2025

KalPa Kuopio - Porin Ässät

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factsseason 2024-2025

Youngest player: Frantisek Poletin (16 years)
Oldest player: Marko Anttila (39 years)
Shortest player: Petr Kodýtek (168 cm)
Tallest player: Eeli Äijälä (204 cm)
Nationalities: Canada (35), Czechia (28), Denmark (4), Estonia (2), Finland (410), France (2), Germany (1), Hungary (3), Italy (1), Latvia (6), Lithuania (1), Norway (5), Slovenia (1), Slovakia (1), Sweden (55), USA (18)
Highest win: Lukko Rauma - Jukurit Mikkeli 8-0

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