The 2010–11 SM-liiga season was the 36th season of the

SM-liiga The SM-liiga (marketed as just Liiga from 2013 on), (Finnish for ''League'') colloquially called the Finnish Elite League in English or FM-ligan in Swedish, is the top professional ice hockey league in Finland. It is one of the six founding leagu ...

, the top level of

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, since the league's formation in 1975. The title was won by HIFK who defeated

Espoo Blues The Espoo Blues were an ice hockey team in the SM-liiga. They played in Espoo, Finland, at the Espoo Metro Areena. The club went bankrupt at the end of the 2015–16 Liiga season. History The club was established in February 1984 as Kiekko-Espoo ...

in the finals. The title was 7th in team history.

Teams

* Head coaches listed with asterisk (*) were mid-season replacements.

Regular season

Each team played four times against every other team (twice home and twice away), getting to 52 games. Additionally, the teams were divided to two groups, where teams would play one extra game. One group included Blues, HIFK, Jokerit, JYP, KalPa, Pelicans and SaiPa, while other had HPK, Ilves, Kärpät, Lukko, Tappara, TPS and Ässät. New addition to schedule was two games where teams could choose the opponents. These were played back-to-back in late January and the choices were made in December, with team with lowest point total to that date was able to choose first. These pairs were: TPS-Ilves, Pelicans-KalPa, SaiPa-Tappara, Kärpät-Blues, Jokerit-HIFK, Lukko-Ässät and HPK-JYP.

Playoffs

Wild card round (best-of-three)

HPK – Ilves 0–2 :HPK-Ilves 3–5 :Ilves-HPK 5–2 Kärpät – Blues 1–2 :Kärpät-Blues 2–3 (OT) :Blues-Kärpät 3–5 :Kärpät-Blues 1–2 (OT)

Quarterfinals (best-of-seven)

JYP – Ilves 4–0 :JYP-Ilves 7–3 :Ilves-JYP 1–2 :JYP-Ilves 4–3 :Ilves-JYP 2–3
Ässät – Blues 2–4 :Ässät-Blues 3–4 (OT) :Blues-Ässät 3–0 :Ässät-Blues 1–2 :Blues-Ässät 1–5 :Ässät-Blues 2–0 :Blues-Ässät 3–0
HIFK – Jokerit 4–3 :HIFK-Jokerit 0–1 :Jokerit-HIFK 4–2 :HIFK-Jokerit 2–1 :Jokerit-HIFK 2–3 (OT) :HIFK-Jokerit 1–3 :Jokerit-HIFK 1–2 (OT) :HIFK-Jokerit 5–1
Lukko – KalPa 4–3 :Lukko-KalPa 2–3 :KalPa-Lukko 3–0 :Lukko-KalPa 2–1 :KalPa-Lukko 2–5 :Lukko-KalPa 5–0 :KalPa-Lukko 3–2 (2OT) :Lukko-KalPa 5–1

Semifinals (best-of-seven)

JYP – Blues 1–4 :JYP-Blues 1–3 :Blues-JYP 4–3 :JYP-Blues 4–2 :Blues-JYP 2–0 :JYP-Blues 1–3
HIFK – Lukko 4–1 :HIFK-Lukko 2–3 (3OT) :Lukko-HIFK 1–3 :HIFK-Lukko 5–2 :Lukko-HIFK 0–3 :HIFK-Lukko 7–1

Bronze medal game

JYP-Lukko 2–4

Finals (best-of-seven)

HIFK-Blues 4–0 :HIFK-Blues 3–2 :Blues-HIFK 1–5 :HIFK-Blues 5–3 :Blues-HIFK 2–4 {{DEFAULTSORT:2010-11 SM-liiga season 1

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Liiga seasons