Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey/League assessment

This page is part of the WikiProject on Ice Hockey and provides a list of defunct ice hockey leagues considered by the WikiProject to meet various criteria of the WP:NHOCKEY guideline, as noted below.

Criterion #1
The following historical leagues are considered to satisfy Criterion #1:


 * East Germany – DDR-Oberliga
 * 🇨🇦 Canada / 🇺🇸 USA – Canadian-American Hockey League
 * 🇨🇦 Canada / 🇺🇸 USA – International Hockey League (1929–36)
 * 🇨🇦 Canada / 🇺🇸 USA – International Hockey League (1945–2001) (starting in the 1979–1980 season)
 * 🇺🇸 USA – Western Hockey League (1952–74) (known before the 1953 season as the Pacific Coast Hockey League)
 * West Germany – Eishockey-Bundesliga

Criterion #2
The following historical leagues are considered to satisfy Criterion #2.


 * 🇩🇪 Germany – 2nd Bundesliga
 * 🇺🇸 USA – Central Hockey League (1963–1984)
 * 🇨🇦 Canada / 🇺🇸 USA – Central Hockey League (1992–2014)
 * 🇨🇦 Canada / 🇺🇸 USA – International Hockey League (1945–2001) (prior to the 1979–1980 season)
 * 🇨🇦 Canada / 🇺🇸 USA – United Hockey League (known as Colonial Hockey League before 1997 and International Hockey League after 2007)
 * 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – British Hockey League
 * 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – British Ice Hockey Superleague

Other – Alpenliga, Interliga (1999–2007)

Criterion #3
The following historical leagues are considered to satisfy Criterion #3.


 * 🇺🇸 USA – College Hockey America
 * 🇺🇸 USA – Great West Hockey Conference
 * 🇺🇸 USA – Intercollegiate Hockey Association
 * 🇺🇸 USA – Intercollegiate Hockey League
 * 🇺🇸 USA – Ivy League
 * 🇺🇸 USA – Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference
 * 🇺🇸 USA – Pentagonal League
 * 🇺🇸 USA – Tri-State League
 * 🇺🇸 USA – Triangular Hockey League
 * 🇺🇸 USA – Western Collegiate Hockey Association

Those leagues not otherwise listed are considered to confer no presumptive notability to players, coaches, officials or executives, and articles about the same must explicitly demonstrate notability under the provisions of WP:GNG, WP:BIO or other valid notability criteria.