Suomen Jääkiekkoliitto
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Founded | January 20, 1929 |
president | Kalervo Kummola |
societies | 428 |
Members | 67,463 licensed players |
Association headquarters | Mäkelänkatu 91, Helsinki |
Official languages) | Finnish |
Homepage | www.finhockey.fi/ |
Suomen Jääkiekkoliitto is the Finnish ice hockey association and the umbrella organization for Finnish ice hockey , which is the most popular sport in the country with around 200,000 active people. More than 67,000 players from 428 clubs and 2976 teams have a license in the association itself. At the international level, the Finnish national ice hockey team for men and women represents the association of which Kalervo Kummola is the current president .
Suomen Jääkiekkoliitto was created on January 20, 1929 from a merger of 17 Finnish associations. One year earlier, Finland was accepted into the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) on February 10, 1928 .
The association has hosted numerous men's ice hockey world championships : 1965 in Tampere , 1974 in Helsinki , 1982 , 1991 , 1997 and 2003 . The men's ice hockey world championships in 2012 and 2013 were co-organized with the Swedish Ice Hockey Federation. For women, Finland hosted the A World Cup in 1992 , 1999 and 2009 .
Web links
- Official website of Suomen Jääkiekkoliitto (Finnish, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Suomen Jääkiekkoliitto: Finnish Ice Hockey Association ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on March 22, 2012 (English)
- ↑ a b IIHF: About finnish hockey , accessed on March 22, 2012 (English)
- ↑ Suomen Jääkiekkoliitto: Milestones ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on March 22, 2012 (English)
Coordinates: 60 ° 12 ′ 31.7 ″ N , 24 ° 56 ′ 44.3 ″ E