Finnish Ice Hockey Association

Suomen Jääkiekkoliitto is the Finnish Ice Hockey Association and the governing body of Finnish ice hockey, which is the most popular sport in the country with approximately 200,000 assets. In association itself have over 67,000 players who come from 428 clubs and 2976 teams a license. At the international level, the Finnish national ice hockey team of men and women express the association whose current President Kalervo Kummola is ..

Suomen Jääkiekkoliitto was taken on January 20, 1929 from a merger of 17 Finnish clubs. A year earlier, Finland on 10 February 1928 in the International Ice Hockey Federation ( IIHF ) was added.

The Association was the organizer of numerous Ice Hockey World Championships Men: 1965 in Tampere, 1974 in Helsinki, 1982, 1991, 1997 and 2003 Ice Hockey World Championship of Men 2012 and 2013, organized jointly with the Swedish Ice Hockey Association. . For women, Finland hosted the A- WM 1992, 1999 and 2009.