Mestis

Mestis

Current season, competition or edition: 2017–18 Mestis season
Formerly	I-Divisioona
Sport	Ice hockey
Founded	2000
No. of teams	12
Countries	Finland
Most recent champion(s)	KeuPa HT
Most titles	Jukurit (7)
TV partner(s)	Fanseat Elisa Viihde VeikkausTV
Related competitions	Liiga, Suomi-sarja
Official website	mestis.fi

Mestis (from 'Mestaruussarja', 'Championship series'), is the second-highest ice hockey league in Finland.

The league was established in 2000 to replace the first division. Since 2000, Mestis has been the highest hockey league in Finland that can be reached with playing merits only; the SM-liiga was closed (to teams being relegated or promoted) in 2000. After the 2004–05 season, KalPa was promoted to the SM-liiga, and the league was re-opened in the 2008–09 season. Vaasan-Sport was promoted 2014–15, KooKoo was promoted 2015–16 and Jukurit was 2016–17.

Clubs

Hermes

IPK

Imatran Ketterä

Espoo United

Jokipojat

KeuPa HT

Kiekko-Vantaa

LeKi

Peliitat

RoKi

SaPKo

TuTo

Mestis team map

Team	City	Home arena, capacity	Founded	Head coach
Espoo United	Espoo	Espoo Metro Areena, 6,982	2016	Timo Hirvonen
Hermes	Kokkola	Kokkolan jäähalli, 4,200	1953	Antti Karhula
Iisalmen Peli-Karhut	Iisalmi	Kankaan jäähalli, -	1966	Jukka Niiranen
Jokipojat	Joensuu	Mehtimäki Ice Hall, 4,800	1953	Ari Aaltonen
JYP-Akatemia	Jyväskylä	Synergia-areena, 4,365	1974	Jukka Ahvenjärvi
Kiekko-Vantaa	Vantaa	Trio Areena, 3,700	1994	Simo Mälkiä
KeuPa HT	Keuruu	Keuruun Jäähalli, 1,100	1995	Mikko Heiskanen
LeKi	Lempäälä	Masku Areena, 800	1904	Miikka Kuusela
Peliitat	Heinola	Versowood Areena, 2,975	1984	Marko Tuomainen
Rovaniemen Kiekko	Rovaniemi	Lappi Areena, 3,500	1979	Petteri Hirvonen
SaPKo	Savonlinna	Winter Salon rink, 2,833	1929	Pasi Räsänen
TUTO Hockey	Turku	Marli Areena, 3,000	1929	Miika Elomo

Winners

Medaltable:

previously played teams

• Jää-Kotkat fell into the Suomi-Sarja in 2003.
• Hyvinkään Ahmat fell into the Suomi-Sarja in 2004.
• KalPa was raised to the SM-Liiga in 2005.
• Haukat resigned from standings without qualifying in 2006.
• FPS (ice hockey) and KOOVEE (ice hockey) fell into the Suomi-Sarja in 2007.
• HC Salamat fell into the Suomi-Sarja in 2008.
• Kotkan Titaanit fell into the Suomi-Sarja in 2009.
• Kiekko-Laser went bankrupt in 2011.
• Vaasan Sport was raised to the SM-Liiga in 2014.
• HC Keski-Uusimaa was abandoned serial place in 2014.
• KooKoo (Liiga) was raised to the SM-Liiga in 2015.
• Jukurit was raised to the SM-Liiga in 2016.
• JYP-Akatemia fell into the Suomi-Sarja and was terminated in 2017.
• Hokki went bankrupt in 2017.
• Espoo United went bankrupt in 2018.

External links

• Mestis Official website, in Finnish

References