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Current season, competition or edition: 2023–24 Mestis season | |
Formerly | I-Divisioona |
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Sport | Ice hockey |
Founded | 2000 |
Founder | Finnish Ice Hockey Association |
First season | 2000–01 |
Motto | Suomen viihdyttävintä lätkää (Finland’s most entertaining hockey) |
No. of teams | 13 |
Country | Finland |
Most recent champion(s) |
IPK (2023–24) |
Most titles | Jukurit (7) |
TV partner(s) | C More |
Level on pyramid | Level 2 |
Promotion to | SM-liiga (closed until 2025) |
Relegation to | Suomi-sarja |
Domestic cup(s) | Finnish Cup |
Related competitions | SM-liiga, Suomi-sarja |
Official website | Mestis.fi |
Mestis (from Finnish: Mestaruussarja, meaning 'Championship series', stylized as MEST1S) is the second-highest men's ice hockey league in Finland. The league was established by the Finnish Ice Hockey Association in 2000 to replace the I-divisioona ('First Division').
Mestis is the highest league that can be reached through playing merits alone. Being promoted to SM-liiga is only possible if a team's Liiga license application is accepted. Mestis, however, is an open league where relegation and promotion are possible with the 3rd league, Suomi-sarja.
Mestis is also the highest league governed by the FIHA.
In the years 2000–2008, it was not practically possible for Mestis teams to get promoted to the SM-liiga, which was closed in 2000, but it was possible to drop down to the Suomi-sarja instead. However, KalPa was promoted to the SM-liiga in the spring of 2005, when the number of teams in the league was increased from 13 to 14 teams. For the 2008–2009 season, the SM-liiga qualifiers were brought back for a few seasons, but in the 2013–2014 season, the qualifiers were removed again. After the elimination of the qualifiers, Sport, KooKoo and Jukurit have been promoted to the SM-liiga through the license system. [1]
Mestis got a new team, HK Zemgale/LLU, from Latvia for the 2022–23 season. [1] HK Zemgale had never played in a Finnish league before and was added to Mestis to bring more entertainment and internationalization to Finnish ice hockey. [2]
According to Mestis themselves, they are talking with other international clubs about joining the Mestis league. [2] [3]
Team | City | Home arena, capacity | Founded | Head coach |
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KOOVEE | Tampere | Tampere Ice Stadium, 7,300 | 1929 | Miikka Kuusela |
Hermes | Kokkola | Kokkolan jäähalli, 4,200 | 1953 | Tuukka Poikonen |
Hokki | Kajaani | Kajaanin jäähalli, 2,372 | 1968 | Antti Halonen |
IPK | Iisalmi | Kankaan jäähalli, - | 1966 | Marko Tuomainen |
Jokerit | Helsinki |
Keravan jäähalli, 2,000
Helsinki Ice Hall, 8,200 |
1967 | Tero Määttä |
JoKP | Joensuu | Mehtimäki Ice Hall, 4,800 | 1953 | Simo Karjalainen |
Ketterä | Imatra | Imatra Spa Areena, 1,300 | 1957 | Kari Martikainen |
Kiekko-Espoo | Espoo | Espoo Metro Areena, 6,982 | 2018 | Tomas Westerlund |
Kiekko-Vantaa | Vantaa | Trio Areena, 3,700 | 1994 | Jani Manninen |
KeuPa HT | Keuruu | Keuruun Jäähalli, 1,100 | 1995 | Niko Raiskio |
FPS | Forssa | Forssa Ice Hall, 3,000 | 1931 | Asko Rantanen |
RoKi | Rovaniemi | Lappi Areena, 3,500 | 1979 | Sakari Salmela |
TUTO Hockey | Turku | Rajupaja Areena, 3,000 | 1929 | Jonne Virtanen |
2000–01 | 2001–02 | 2002–03 | 2003–04 | 2004–05 | 2005–06 | 2006–07 | 2007–08 | 2008–09 | 2009–10 | 2010–11 | 2011–12 | 2012–13 | 2013–14 | 2014–15 | 2015–16 | 2016–17 | 2017–18 | 2018–19 | 2019–20 | 2020–21 | 2021–22 | 2022–23 | 2023-24 |
K-Vantaa | |||||||||||||||||||||||
TuTo | TUTO Hockey | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Jukurit | |||||||||||||||||||||||
KooKoo | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||||
FPS | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Hermes | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Haukat | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Ahmat | |||||||||||||||||||||||
UJK | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Diskos | D Team | JYP-Akatemia | |||||||||||||||||||||
Jokipojat | JoKP | ||||||||||||||||||||||
KalPa | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Hokki | Hokki | ||||||||||||||||||||||
HCK Salamat | |||||||||||||||||||||||
HeKi | Peliitat | ||||||||||||||||||||||
SaPKo | |||||||||||||||||||||||
KOOVEE | |||||||||||||||||||||||
LeKi | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Titaanit | |||||||||||||||||||||||
RoKi | |||||||||||||||||||||||
K-Laser | |||||||||||||||||||||||
HCK | |||||||||||||||||||||||
KeuPa HT | |||||||||||||||||||||||
IPK | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Espoo United | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Ketterä | |||||||||||||||||||||||
K-Espoo | |||||||||||||||||||||||
HK Zemgale | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Jokerit |
Year | Champion | Silver | Bronze | Regular Season Winner |
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2001 | Jukurit | TuTo | Hermes | TuTo |
2002 | Jukurit | KooKoo | KalPa | Jukurit |
2003 | Jukurit | K-Vantaa | KooKoo | Jukurit |
2004 | KalPa | Jukurit | Hermes | Jukurit |
2005 | KalPa | Sport | TuTo | KalPa |
2006 | Jukurit | Sport | TuTo | Jukurit |
2007 | Hokki | Jukurit | Sport | Sport |
2008 | TuTo | Hokki | Jukurit | TuTo |
2009 | Sport | Jokipojat | Hokki | Jokipojat |
2010 | Jokipojat | D-Team | KooKoo | KooKoo |
2011 | Sport | Jukurit | D-Team | Jukurit |
2012 | Sport | Jokipojat | KooKoo | Jukurit |
2013 | Jukurit | KooKoo | TUTO Hockey | Jukurit |
2014 | KooKoo | Jukurit | TUTO Hockey | TUTO Hockey |
2015 | Jukurit | KooKoo | Hokki | Jukurit |
2016 | Jukurit | Hokki | Jokipojat | Jukurit |
2017 | SaPKo | K-Vantaa | Espoo-United | SaPKo |
2018 | KeuPa HT | TUTO Hockey | SaPKo | KeuPa HT |
2019 | Ketterä | KeuPa HT | TUTO Hockey | Hermes |
2020 | Season did not finish due to the COVID-19 pandemic. No medals were awarded. | Ketterä | ||
2021 | Ketterä | Hermes | IPK | Kiekko-Espoo |
2022 | Ketterä | Kiekko-Espoo | RoKi | Ketterä |
2023 | Kiekko-Espoo | Ketterä | RoKi | Kiekko-Espoo |
2024 | IPK | Ketterä | Kiekko-Espoo | IPK |
Medaltable:
team | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Jukurit | 7 | 4 | 1 |
Sport | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Ketterä | 3 | 2 | 0 |
KalPa | 2 | 0 | 1 |
KooKoo | 1 | 3 | 3 |
TUTO Hockey | 1 | 2 | 5 |
Hokki | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Jokipojat | 1 | 2 | 1 |
K-Espoo | 1 | 1 | 1 |
KeuPa HT | 1 | 1 | 0 |
IPK | 1 | 0 | 1 |
SaPKo | 1 | 0 | 1 |
K-Vantaa | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Hermes | 0 | 1 | 2 |
JYP-Akatemia | 0 | 1 | 1 |
RoKi | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Espoo United | 0 | 0 | 1 |