Salibandyliiga

Salibandyliiga
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2017-18
Formerly Miesten Mestaruussarja
(1986-1994)
Sport Floorball
Founded 1986
CEO JP Lehtonen
No. of teams 14
Country Finland
Continent Europe
Most recent
champion(s)		 Happee
(1st title)
Most titles SSV
(11 titles)
TV partner(s) YLE TV2
Domestic cup(s) Suomen Cup
Official website http://www.salibandyliiga.fi

The Salibandyliiga is the top floorball league in Finland.

History

Regular season game between Classic and SPV in the 2009-10 season.

The league was founded in 1986, but has only been referred to as Salibandyliiga since 1994. Salibandyliiga is organized by the company SSBL Salibandy Oy which is owned by the Finnish Floorball Federation (SSBL).

Format

Regular season

In the regular season, the league is played like a typical Round-robin tournament, for a total of 26 games per team. The total number of regular season games is 182. If a team finishes in the top 8, they will qualify for the playoffs in the spring.

Playoffs

The playoffs are played every spring. The top 8 teams from the regular season play for the national championship. The first placed team of the regular season picks their opponent from the teams placed between 5th and 8th place. The second placed team picks their opponent from the remaining three and after that the third placed team makes its pick of the 2 remaining teams. The last playoff pair is made of two remaining team. The playoffs are played in Best-of-five format.

Playout

The playout round was first introduced for 2014-15 season. The teams placed 11th to 14th continue to a playout phase after the regular season. The 11th placed team picks their opponent between the 13th and 14th placed teams. The winners of the first round of playout get to keep their spots in Salibandyliiga, but the losing teams face each other in the second round. The winner of the second round of playout faces the 2nd placed team of Divari (English: First Division). The winner of this match-up wins a place in the Salibandyliiga and losing team is relegated. The loser of the second round of playout is also relegated to Divari. The winner of Divari is directly promoted to Salibandyliiga. [1]

Current teams

TPS come close to scoring against FBT Pori in the 2005-06 season.

Recent champions

Season Champions Runner-up Third Placed
2013-14 Happee Classic SSV
2012-13 SPV SSV Classic
2011-12 SPV SSV Koovee
2010-11 SSV SPV Oilers
2009-10 SSV Erä SPV
2008-09 SSV Erä SPV
2007-08 SSV Classic Erä
2006-07 SSV Classic Erä
2005-06 Oilers SSV Josba
2004-05 SSV Happee Classic

All records updated as of season 2013-14.[2]

List of champions

Team Titles Season
SSV 11 1992-93, 1994-95, 1995-96, 2000-01, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11
Oilers 4 1998-99, 2001-02, 2002-03, 2005-06
ManU 2 1986-87, 1987-88
SC Dalmac 2 1988-90, 1990-91
Josba 2 1991-92, 1993-94
SPV 2 2011-12, 2012-13
BET 1 1988-89
VFT 1 1993-94
Viikingit 1 1997-98
HIFK 1 1999-00
Happee 1 2013-14

All records updated as of season 2013-14.[2]

Records

Regular season

Game records

  • Highest attendance : 3214
  • Biggest home win: 21-6
    • Gunners vs. OLS (21-6), 10-22-2006
  • Biggest away win: 1-17
    • Pirkat vs. SSV (1-17), 03-03-2007
    • HIFK vs. SSV (1-17), 12-12-2007
  • Highest scoring game: 34
    • Classic vs. OLS (18-12), 09-29-2009

Individual records

Career
  • Most games played: 450
    • Finland Mikael Järvi
  • Most goals: 415
    • Finland Mikko Kohonen
  • Most assists: 327
    • Finland Mikael Järvi
  • Most points: 667
    • Finland Mikael Järvi
Season

Playoffs

Game records

  • Highest attendance : 5580
    • Josba vs. Oilers (4-7), 07-04-2002
  • Biggest win: 14-2
    • SSV vs. Classic (14-2), 04-03-2008
  • Highest scoring game: 24
    • SSV vs. OLS (17-7), 10-03-2006

Individual records

Career
  • Most games played: 169
    • Finland Mikael Järvi
  • Most goals: 138
    • Finland Mikael Järvi
  • Most assists: 116
    • Finland Mikael Järvi
  • Most points: 254
    • Finland Mikael Järvi
Season
  • Most goals: 20
    • Finland Santtu Manner (SSV), 2004-05
  • Most assists: 21
  • Most points: 32


All records updated as of season 2013-14. [3]

References

  1. ↑ "Sarjan esittely". floorball.fi (in Finnish). Finnish Floorball Federation. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Mitallijoukkueet kautta aikain". floorball.fi (in Finnish). Finnish Floorball Federation. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
  3. ↑ "Salibandyliigan ennätykset". floorball.fi (in Finnish). Finnish Floorball Federation. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
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