List of ice hockey leagues: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

This is a list of ice hockey leagues from around the world.

North America

Current

Major

• National Hockey League (1917)
• World Hockey Association (2004)

AAA

• American Hockey League (1936)

AA

• Central Hockey League (1992)
• ECHL (1988)
• South East Hockey League (2003)
• Southern Professional Hockey League (2004)
• United Hockey League (1997)

A

• Canadian Professional Hockey League (2004)
• Federal Hockey League (2004)
• International Independant Hockey League (2003)
• North Eastern Hockey League (2003)

Major Junior

• Ontario Hockey League (1980)
• Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (1969)
• United States Hockey League (1979)
• Western Hockey League (1978)

Junior A

• Maritime Junior A Hockey League (1967 as the Metro Valley Junior Hockey League, became a junior A league in 1977)
• Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (1956)

Other

• National Women's Hockey League (1999)
• Ontario Hockey Association Senior A (1953)
• Quebec Semi-Pro Hockey League (1995)

Historic

• All-American Hockey League (1987-1988)
• Amateur Hockey Association (1893-1898)
• American Hockey Association (1926-1942)
• Atlantic Coast Hockey League (1981-1987, 2002-2003)
• California Hockey League (1928-1933)
• Canadian Amateur Hockey League (1899-1905)
• Canadian-American Hockey League (1926-1936)
• Canadian Hockey Association (1909-1910)
• Canadian Professional Hockey League (1926-1930)
• Central Hockey League (1969-1983)
• Central Professional Hockey League (1963-1969)
• Colonial Hockey League (1991-1997)
• Eastern Amateur Hockey League (1933-1934, 1935-1948, 1949-1953)
• Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey League (1906-1909)
• Eastern Hockey League (1934-1935, 1954-1973, 1979-1981)
• Eastern Professional Hockey League (1914-1915, 1959-1963)
• Federal Amateur Hockey League (1904-1906)
• International-American Hockey League (1929-1936)
• International Hockey League (1945-2001)
• International Pro Hockey League (1906-1907)
• Interprovincial Professional Hockey League (1910-1911)
• Manitoba Professional Hockey League (1907-1909)
• Maritime Major Hockey League (1950-1954)
• Maritime Professional Hockey League (1911-1914)
• National Hockey Association (1909-1917)
• North American Hockey League (1973-1979)
• North West Hockey League (1933-1936)
• Ontario Professional Hockey League (1907-1911, 1930-1931)
• Pacific Coast Hockey Association (1911-1924)
• Pacific Coast Hockey League (1928-1931, 1936-1941, 1945-1952)
• Pacific Hockey League (1977-1979)
• Quebec Hockey League (1952-1959)
• Quebec Senior Hockey League (1945-1952)
• Southern Hockey League (1973-1977, 1995-1996)
• Tri-State Hockey League (1932-1933)
• Tropical Hockey League (1938-1939)
• United States Hockey League (1945-1951)
• Western Canada Hockey League (1921-1926, 1932-1933)
• Western Canada Senior Hockey League (1945-1951)
• West Coast Hockey League (1995-2003)
• Western Hockey League (1952-1974)
• Western Professional Hockey League (1996-2001)
• World Hockey Association (1972-1979)
• World Hockey Association 2 (2003-2004)

• British Elite Ice Hockey League (2003)
• Czech Ice Hockey Extra League (1993)
• Deutsche Eishockey League (1994)
• Finland SM-liiga (1975)
• Russian Elite League (1962)
• Swedish Elite League (1975)
• Switzerland National League (1989)