Finnish SM Liiga Predictions
Hockey for the Finnish SM Liiga will be available during both regular and post-season, which means tips will be available from September through to the playoffs in May.
When hockey predictions for this league are available, they will be listed above with each game list along with the outcome which have received the most predictions.
We cover the three main markets across all hockey games, which are:
- SM Liiga Moneyline Tips: Predicting which team will win the match
- SM Liiga Game Totals Tips: Whether the total number of goals will be over or under the set line.
- SM Liiga Puck Line Tips: The same as Asian Handicap in football, one team is given a head start, the other a deficit to make up.
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Past Finnish Hockey Champions
Sixteen teams compete in the Finnish Liiga during a regular season, where each team plays sixty games to decide the final league positions.
The top four teams head straight to the quarter-finals of the playoffs, whilst those in 5th to 12th compete to make up the other four teams.
The bottom two teams have to compete in a playout to decide which team remains in the league and which team is relegated to the Mestis.
Tappara are the most successful Finnish hockey team, having won a total of twenty championships.
Last Ten Finnish Hockey Champions:
| Season | Champion | Runner-Up |
|---|---|---|
| 2024–25 | KalPa | SaiPa |
| 2023–24 | Tappara | Pelicans |
| 2022–23 | Tappara | Pelicans |
| 2021–22 | Tappara | TPS |
| 2020–21 | Lukko | TPS |
| 2019–20 | No competition | |
| 2018–19 | HPK | Kärpät |
| 2017–18 | Kärpät | Tappara |
| 2016–17 | Tappara | KalPa |
| 2015–16 | Tappara | HIFK |
SM Liiga Statistics
Below are statistics for winning favourites and goal statistics for the SM Liiga over the last five seasons.
| 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home Favs | 63.74% | 63.64% | 65.18% | 60.98% | 59.02% |
| Away Favs | 64.44% | 62.43% | 54.43% | 58.50% | 55.17% |
| Overall Favs | 64.02% | 63.21% | 61.74% | 60.24% | 57.78% |
| Under 5.5 | 59.56% | 59.19% | 64.44% | 58.99% | 55.60% |
| Over 5.5 | 40.44% | 40.81% | 35.56% | 41.01% | 44.40% |
| Game Average | 5.31 | 5.11 | 5.11 | 5.40 | 5.67 |
SM Liiga Favourites Correct Scores
Here are the top five winning scores for the SM Liiga for teams going into matches as favourites:
- 3 - 2 = 219 (9% or 10/1)
- 2 - 1 = 178 (7% or 13/1)
- 4 - 1 = 135 (5% or 19/1)
- 4 - 3 = 135 (5% or 19/1)
- 3 - 1 = 101 (4% or 24/1)
SM Liiga Correct Scores
The top 5 most occurring Correct Scores in the SM Liiga over the past five seasons:
- 3 - 2 = 205 (8% or 11/1)
- 2 - 3 = 181 (7% or 13/1)
- 2 - 1 = 171 (7% or 13/1)
- 1 - 2 = 155 (6% or 15/1)
- 3 - 4 = 133 (5% or 19/1)
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