Auroraliiga
Sign in to saveAlso known as Naisten Liiga (ice hockey), Naisten SM-sarja, Naisten SM-liiga, NSML, Liiga (women's ice hockey), SM-sarja, Women's Liiga, Naisten Liiga
Auroraliiga is the national premier league for women's ice hockey in Finland. Founded by the Finnish Ice Hockey Association as the Naisten SM-sarja (NSMs; ) in 1982, it was known as the Naisten Liiga (NSML;) from 2017 until being rebranded as Auroraliiga in 2024. The league comprises approximately 225 players across nine teams.
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Encyclopedic overview
21 sectionsContents
- Format
- Season
- Game format
- Teams
- 2025–26 season
- Past participants
- 1980s
- 1990s
- 2000s
- Champions
- All-time medal count
- Finnish Champions by season
- League records
- Single-season records
- Single-playoff records
- Career records
- Career playoff records
- All-time scoring leaders
- See also
- References
- External links
Auroraliiga is the national premier league for women's ice hockey in Finland. Founded by the Finnish Ice Hockey Association as the Naisten SM-sarja (NSMs; ) in 1982, it was known as the Naisten Liiga (NSML;) from 2017 until being rebranded as Auroraliiga in 2024. The league comprises approximately 225 players across nine teams.
Kiekko-Espoo has been the dominating force of the Auroraliiga in the 21st century, winning seventeen Finnish Championships from 1999 to 2025. Tampereen Ilves is the second most successful club in the league's history, with ten championship titles. Ilves are the only organization to have iced a team in every season since the league's inception.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Auroraliiga” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.