User:PAVA11/Ice hockey leagues

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This page is part of Ice Hockey WikiProject and is intended to serve as a supplement to WP:NHOCKEY, a guideline to be used to help evaluate whether an ice hockey player or coach is presumed to be notable. Points 1 through 4 of NHOCKEY refer to specific leagues (professional, minor, and amateur) in evaluating whether or not a player is likely to be notable. Listed below (and under each of the first four points of NHOCKEY) are leagues that are considered to be relevant to each point.

NHOCKEY #1[edit]

Played one or more games in an existing or defunct top professional league such as the National Hockey League, World Hockey Association, Elitserien, SM-liiga, or Kontinental Hockey League;

Defunct international leagues at a top-level of competition[edit]


Top-level leagues (national and international)[edit]

Note: The leagues ranked #2 through #23 are according to the IIHF's ranking of European leagues [1]. After that, the order was derived using the 2010 IIHF World Ranking for the country of the respective leagues [2]. International leagues are roughly placed.

  1. National Hockey League
  2. Kontinental Hockey League
  3.  Finland – SM-liiga
  4.  Czech Republic – Czech Extraliga
  5.  Sweden – Elitserien
  6.  Slovakia – Slovak Extraliga
  7.   Switzerland – National League A
  8.  Germany – Deutsche Eishockey Liga
  9. Belarusian Extraliga
  10.  Latvia – Latvian Hockey League
  11.  Denmark – AL-Bank Ligaen
  12. Austrian Hockey League
  13.  Kazakhstan – Kazakhstani Championship
  14.  Norway – GET-ligaen
  15.  France – Ligue Magnus
  16.  Slovenia – Slovenian Ice Hockey Championship
  17.  Italy – Serie A
  18.  Hungary – OB I bajnokság, MOL Liga
  19.  Poland – Polska Liga Hokejowa
  20.  Netherlands – Eredivisie
  21.  Ukraine – Ukranian Hockey League
  22.  United Kingdom – Elite Ice Hockey League
  23.  Romania – Romanian Hockey League
  24. Asia League Ice Hockey (Japan is home to four of the seven ALIH teams, and is ranked higher in the IIHF ranking than Poland, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Romania, already listed above. Therefore, it could roughly be inferred that the Asia League is somewhere in this area of a league ranking)
  25.  Lithuania – Lithuania Hockey League (Lithuania is ranked higher than the Netherlands by the IIHF)
  26.  Croatia – Croatian Ice Hockey Championship
  27.  Estonia – Meistriliiga
  28.  Serbia – Serbian Hockey League
  29.  Spain – Superliga Española de Hockey Hielo
  30.  Bulgaria – Bulgarian Hockey League
  31.  Mexico – Mexican Hockey League
  32.  Australia – Australian Ice Hockey League
  33.  Turkey – Turkish Ice Hockey Super League
  34.  Belgium – Belgian Hockey League
  35.  Iceland – Icelandic Hockey League
  36.  Israel – Israel Ice Hockey Federation
  37.  New Zealand – New Zealand Ice Hockey League
  38.  Ireland – Irish Ice Hockey League
  39.  South Africa – South African Ice Hockey Association (league?)
  40.  North Korea – North Korea Championship
  41.  Luxembourg – league?
  42.  Greece – Greek Ice Hockey Championship
  43.  Mongolia – Mongolia Hockey League
  44.  United Arab Emirates – Emirates Ice Hockey League
  45.  Bosnia and Herzegovina – BiH Hockey League
  46.  Armenia – Armenian Hockey League

Leagues of additional countries countries that are members of the IIHF (not ranked):

Additional leagues of countries that are not members of the IIHF (not ranked):

Defunct top-level national leagues[edit]

NHOCKEY #2[edit]

Played one or more games in an amateur league considered, through lack of a professional league, the highest level of competition extant, such as the 19th century Amateur Hockey Association or the Soviet League;

Amateur leagues that served as the highest level of competition[edit]

NHOCKEY #3[edit]

Played at least 100 games in fully professional minor leagues such as the American Hockey League, the International Hockey League, the ECHL, the Mestis, the HockeyAllsvenskan or other such league;

Fully professional minor leagues[edit]

NHOCKEY #4[edit]

Achieved preeminent honours (all-time top ten career scorer, won a major award given by the league, first team all-star, All-American) in a lower minor league such as the Central Hockey League or the United Hockey League, in a major junior league such as those of the Canadian Hockey League, or in a major collegiate hockey league (Note: merely playing in a major junior league or major collegiate hockey is not enough to satisfy inclusion requirements);

Low-level minor leagues[edit]

Major junior leagues[edit]

(of the Canadian Hockey League)

Major collegiate leagues[edit]

(of NCAA Division I)

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ The Czechoslovak League was the highest-level in Czechoslovakia until the country split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, with each country starting a new league.
  2. ^ The Bundesliga was the highest-level in West Germany from 1957. After German reunification it served as the top league in unified Germany until 1994.
  3. ^ The Oberliga was the highest-level in Germany from 1948 to 1958; it is currently the third-level of the German ice hockey tier.
  4. ^ The Yugoslav League operated from 1939 until SFRY Yugoslavia was dissolved in 1991; that same year, new countries Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia began their own leagues.
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