Japan Ice Hockey League

League status: Not active
Year of start: 1966

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History

2003-2004: Kokudo Ice Hockey Club
2002-2003: Kokudo Ice Hockey Club
2001-2002: Kokudo Ice Hockey Club
2000-2001: Kokudo Ice Hockey Club
1999-2000: Seibu Tokyo
1998-1999: Kokudo Ice Hockey Club
1997-1998: Kokudo Ice Hockey Club
1996-1997: Seibu Tokyo
1995-1996: Seibu Tokyo
1994-1995: Kokudo Ice Hockey Club
1993-1994: Oji Eagles
1992-1993: Kokudo Ice Hockey Club
1991-1992: Kokudo Ice Hockey Club
1990-1991: Oji Eagles
1989-1990: Oji Eagles
1988-1989: Kokudo Keikaku Ice Hockey Club
1987-1988: Oji Eagles
1986-1987: Oji Eagles
1985-1986: Kokudo Keikaku Ice Hockey Club
1984-1985: Oji Eagles
1983-1984: Oji Eagles
1982-1983: Oji Eagles
1981-1982: Oji Eagles
1980-1981: Seibu Tokyo
1979-1980: Oji Eagles
1978-1979: Seibu Tokyo
1977-1978: Kokudo Keikaku Ice Hockey Club
1976-1977: Seibu Tokyo
1975-1976: Seibu Tokyo
1974-1975: Kokudo Keikaku Ice Hockey Club
1973-1974: Oji Eagles
1972-1973: Seibu Tokyo
1971-1972: Seibu Tokyo
1970-1971: Seibu Tokyo
1969-1970: Oji Eagles
1968-1969: Oji Eagles
1967-1968: Iwakura Tomakomai
1966-1967: Iwakura Tomakomai

The Japan Ice Hockey League was an annual ice hockey league, for Japanese teams, which began in 1966 and ended in 2004, when it was replaced by the Asia League Ice Hockey.

Pro hockey arrived in 1966 with the start of the Japan Ice Hockey League. Originally a five-team league, the JIHL expanded to six teams in 1974 and stayed that way until tough economic times led to budget cutbacks and eventually the demise of the league early in the new millennium.

Organizers decided the sport could only prosper in Asia if teams in Japan, China and South Korea formed a multinational league, and in 2004 the plug was pulled on the 38-year-old JIHL to make way for the Asia League Ice Hockey.

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