User:PAVA11/Ice hockey leagues

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

 * 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

 * Alpenliga (defunct) – Austria, Italy, Slovenia
 * Eastern European Hockey League (defunct) – Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Ukraine
 * International Professional Hockey League (defunct) – Canada, United States
 * Interliga (defunct) – Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Serbia and Slovenia
 * World Hockey Association (defunct) – Canada, United States
 * Pacific Coast Hockey Association (defunct) – Canada, United States

Top-level leagues (national and international)
'''Note: The leagues ranked #2 through #23 are according to the IIHF's ranking of European leagues. After that, the order was derived using the 2010 IIHF World Ranking for the country of the respective leagues. 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):
 * Chinese Taipei – Chinese Taipei Ice Hockey League
 * 🇲🇾 Malaysia – Subang Jaya Ice Hockey League (associate member)
 * 🇸🇬 Singapore – Singapore National Ice Hockey League (associate member)
 * 🇹🇭 Thailand – Thai World Hockey League

Additional leagues of countries that are not members of the IIHF (not ranked):
 * 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan – Kyrgyzstan Championship

Defunct top-level national leagues

 * 🇨🇦 Canada - Western Canada Hockey League
 * 🇨🇦 Canada - National Hockey Association
 * Czechoslovakia – Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League
 * East Germany – DDR-Oberliga
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England – English League (ice hockey)
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England – English National League
 * 🇫🇮 Finland – SM-sarja
 * 🇩🇪 Germany – Ice hockey Bundesliga
 * 🇩🇪 Germany – Oberliga (ice hockey)
 * 🇯🇵 Japan – Japan Ice Hockey League
 * 🇷🇺 Russia – Russian Superleague
 * 🇷🇺 Russia – International Hockey League
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland – Scottish National League (1932–1954)
 * Soviet Union – Soviet Championship League
 * 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – British Hockey League
 * 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – British National League (1954–1960)
 * 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Ice Hockey Superleague
 * 🇺🇸 United States - Western Pennsylvania Hockey League
 * Yugoslavia – Yugoslav Ice Hockey League

NHOCKEY #2

 * 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

 * 🇨🇦 Canada – Montreal Winter Carnival ice hockey tournaments
 * 🇨🇦 Canada – Amateur Hockey Association of Canada
 * 🇨🇦 Canada – Canadian Amateur Hockey League
 * 🇨🇦 Canada – Federal Amateur Hockey League
 * 🇨🇦 Canada – Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association

NHOCKEY #3

 * 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

 * 🇨🇦 Canada – American Hockey League, ECHL, International Hockey League (1929–1936) (defunct), International Hockey League (1945–2001) (defunct)
 * 🇫🇮 Finland – Mestis
 * 🇸🇪 Sweden – HockeyAllsvenskan
 * 🇺🇸 USA – American Hockey League, ECHL, International Hockey League (1929–1936) (defunct), International Hockey League (1945–2001) (defunct)

NHOCKEY #4

 * 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

 * Central Hockey League
 * United Hockey League

Major junior leagues
(of the Canadian Hockey League)
 * Ontario Hockey League
 * Quebec Major Junior Hockey League
 * Western Hockey League

Major collegiate leagues
(of NCAA Division I)
 * Atlantic Hockey
 * Central Collegiate Hockey Association
 * College Hockey America
 * ECAC Hockey
 * Hockey East
 * Western Collegiate Hockey Association
 * Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (defunct)