SM-liiga

SM-liiga is the top professional ice hockey league in Finland. It was constituted in 1975 to replace SM-sarja, which was fundementally an amateur league. SM-liiga has an agreement of cooperation with Finnish ice hockey federation Suomen Jääkiekkoliitto. SM is a common abbreviation for suomenmestaruus, "Finnish championship".

Currently participating clubs

Team's name is usually the traditional name of the club. All clubs are commonly known by the name of their team. Oy and Ab are short for limited company, Oyj public limited company and Ry association.

Related Topics:
Limited company - Public limited company - Association

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Past participants: clubs that have been renamed or relegated

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• FoPS were relegated in 1977 and are today FPS
• JoKP were relegated in 1992 and are today Jokipojat
• JyP HT are today Jyp
• Kiekko-Espoo are today Blues
• Kiekkoreipas, Hockey-Reipas, Reipas are previous names of Pelicans
• KooKoo were relegated in 1990
• Koo-Vee were relegated 1980
• Sport were relegated in 1976
• TuTo were relegated in 1996