The Finnish ice hockey champions is a title awarded annually to the winning team of the top-tier ice hockey league in Finland, which currently is SM-liiga since 1975. The championship's present format did not take into effect until the league was originally formed for the 1975–76 season under the name of SM-liiga (preceded by SM-sarja). A team who wins the Finnish Championship is awarded the Kanada-malja ("Canada Bowl") trophy. The winner of the regular season receives the Harry Lindbladin muistopalkinto ("Harry Lindblad Memorial Trophy").
Until 1933 the championship was played as a Cup series. From the 1933–34 season it was played as a League series. Playoffs were introduced during the 1975–76 season.
| Season | Champion | Finalist | |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIF | |||
| HPS | |||
| 1929–30 | cancelled | ||
| HJK | |||
| HJK | HPS | ||
| HJK | |||
| Season | Champion | 2nd place | 3rd place | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ilves | ||||
| Ilves | HSK | |||
| Ilves | HJK | |||
| Ilves | KIF | HJK | ||
| Ilves | HJK | KIF | ||
| KIF | HJK | Ilves | ||
| not held | ||||
| KIF | HJK | Ilves | ||
| cancelled | ||||
| KIF | Ilves | |||
| stopped | ||||
| Ilves | KIF | |||
| Ilves | Tarmo | TBK | ||
| Ilves[1] | Tarmo | TBK | ||
| Tarmo | Ilves | TBK | ||
| Tarmo | Ilves | TuPK | ||
| Ilves | Tarmo | TBK | ||
| Ilves[2] | Tarmo | TBK | ||
| Ilves[3] | Tarmo | |||
| TBK[4] | Tarmo | TPS | ||
| TBK[5] | HPK | |||
| TBK[6] | TPS | HIFK | ||
| TPS[7] | Tarmo | Tappara | ||
| Ilves[8] | TPS | Tappara | ||
| Ilves[9] | Tappara | Tarmo | ||
| Tappara | HIFK | |||
| Ilves | Tappara | Koo-Vee | ||
| Tappara | Koo-Vee | |||
| Ilves | Koo-Vee | Tappara | ||
| Lukko | Tappara | Ilves | ||
| Tappara[10] | Koo-Vee | Ilves | ||
| Karhut[11] | Ilves | Lukko | ||
| Ilves[12] | Lukko | SaiPa | ||
| RU-38 | TPS | Ilves | ||
| Koo-Vee | Ilves | TuTo | ||
| Ilves | Lukko | |||
| HIFK | Ilves | TuTo | ||
| Ässät[13] | HIFK | |||
| Ilves[14] | HJK | HIFK | ||
| Jokerit | HIFK | Tappara | ||
| HIFK | Tappara | Ilves | ||
| Tappara | HIFK | Ilves | ||
| Season | Champion | 2nd place | 3rd place | Regular season winner | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TPS | |||||
| Tappara | TPS | Tappara | |||
| Ässät | Tappara | TPS | Tappara | ||
| Tappara | Ässät | TPS | Ässät | ||
| Ässät | TPS | ||||
| Kärpät | Tappara | TPS | Tappara | ||
| Tappara | TPS | HIFK | TPS | ||
| HIFK | Jokerit | ||||
| Tappara | Ässät | Kärpät | Tappara | ||
| Ilves | TPS | Kärpät | TPS | ||
| Tappara | HIFK | Kärpät | Tappara | ||
| Tappara | Kärpät | HIFK | Kärpät | ||
| Tappara | HIFK | Ilves | |||
| TPS | Ilves | TPS | |||
| TPS | Ilves | Tappara | TPS | ||
| TPS | TPS | ||||
| Jokerit | JYP | HIFK | JYP | ||
| TPS | HPK | JYP | TPS | ||
| Jokerit | TPS | Lukko | TPS | ||
| TPS | Jokerit | Ässät | Jokerit | ||
| Jokerit | TPS | Lukko | Jokerit | ||
| Jokerit | TPS | HPK | Jokerit | ||
| HIFK | Ilves | Jokerit | TPS | ||
| TPS | HIFK | HPK | TPS | ||
| TPS | Jokerit | HPK | TPS | ||
| TPS | Tappara | Ilves | Jokerit | ||
| Jokerit | Tappara | HPK | Tappara | ||
| Tappara | Kärpät | HPK | HPK | ||
| Kärpät | TPS | HIFK | TPS | ||
| Kärpät | Jokerit | HPK | Kärpät | ||
| HPK | Ässät | Kärpät | Kärpät | ||
| Kärpät | Jokerit | HPK | Kärpät | ||
| Kärpät | Tappara | Kärpät | |||
| JYP | Kärpät | KalPa | JYP | ||
| TPS | HPK | JYP | JYP | ||
| HIFK | Blues | Lukko | JYP | ||
| JYP | Jokerit | KalPa | |||
| Ässät | Tappara | JYP | Jokerit | ||
| Kärpät | Tappara | Lukko | Kärpät | ||
| Kärpät | Tappara | JYP | Kärpät | ||
| Tappara | HIFK | Kärpät | HIFK | ||
| Tappara | KalPa | JYP | Tappara | ||
| Kärpät | Tappara | HIFK | Kärpät | ||
| HPK | Kärpät | Tappara | Kärpät | ||
| cancelled | Kärpät | ||||
| Lukko | TPS | HIFK | Lukko | ||
| Tappara | TPS | Ilves | Tappara | ||
| Tappara | Pelicans | Ilves | Tappara | ||
| Tappara | Pelicans | Kärpät | Tappara | ||
| width=40px align=center style="background-color:#FFFF99" | ^ | not in top tier | |
| width=40px align=center style="background-color:#FBCEB1" | † | not active | |
| width=40px align=center style="background-color:#add8e6" | ‡ | merged |
| Club | Total | SM-liiga | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2nd | 3rd | 2nd | 3rd | Regular 1st | |||||
| 20 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 10 | ||
| 16 | 15 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | ||
| 11 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 13 | ||
| 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 10 | ||
| 7 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 1 | ||
| Jokerit ^ | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 6 | |
| HJK ^ | 3 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | ||
| KIF † | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | |||||
| Tarmo † | 2 | 2 | 7 | 2 | |||||
| 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | ||
| 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 1 | ||
| 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | ||
| HSK † | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | |||||
| Koo-Vee ^ | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Reipas † | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| TaPa † | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Karhut ‡ | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| RU-38 ‡ | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| HPS † | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |||||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Blues / Kiekko ^ | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Karhu-Kissat ^ | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| TuTo ^ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| TuPK † | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||
| City | Total | Clubs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | TBK / Tappara (20), Ilves (16), Koo-Vee (1), TaPa (1) | ||
| 21 | HIFK (7), Jokerit (6), HJK (3), KIF (3), HSK (2) | ||
| 11 | TPS (11) | ||
| 8 | Kärpät (8) | ||
| 5 | Ässät (3), RU-38 (1), Karhut (1) | ||
| 4 | Tarmo (2), HPK (2) | ||
| 2 | JYP (2) | ||
| 2 | Lukko (2) | ||
| 1 | Reipas (1) |