Elli Suoranta (born 17 June 2002) is a Finnish

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...

defenceman Defence or defense (in American English) in ice hockey is a player position that is primarily responsible for preventing the opposing team from Goal (ice hockey), scoring. They are often referred to as defencemen, D, D-men or blueliners (the l ...

for

Ilves Naiset Tampereen Ilves Naiset () are an ice hockey team in the Auroraliiga. They are the representative women's team of the multi-sport club Ilves ry, Ilves, based in Tampere, and their home arena is the in Tampere's Tesoma district. Ilves is the on ...

of the

Auroraliiga The is the national premier league for women's ice hockey in Finland. Founded by the Finnish Ice Hockey Association as the Naisten Suomen mestaruus, SM-sarja (NSMs; ) in 1982, it was known as the Naisten Liiga (NSML;) from 2017 until being rebr ...

and a member of

Finland women's national ice hockey team The Finnish women's national ice hockey team represents Finland at the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Women's World Championships, the Olympic Games, the Four Nations Cup, and other international-level w ...

. She previously played for

HPK Kiekkonaiset HPK Kiekkonaiset () or HPK Naiset are an ice hockey team in the Auroraliiga, the premier women's ice hockey league in Finland. They play in Hämeenlinna, a city in the Finnish south-central province of Kanta-Häme, at the (HML hh; ), a secondar ...

Playing career

Suoranta began her ice hockey career for

. After three seasons with Ilves, she joined

on 2 May 2020. During the 2020–21 season, she recorded eight goals and six assists in 27 regular season games. During the 2022–23 season, she recorded 13 goals and 16 assists in 34 regular season games. Following the season she was named to the Naisten Liiga Second All-Star team. During the 2023–24 season, she recorded 13 goals and 15 assists in 27 regular season games. During the 2024–25 season, she recorded four goals and 15 assists in 32 regular season games. She was named Auroraliiga player of the month in November 2024.

International play

Suoranta made her international debut for

Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...

at the 2018 IIHF U18 Women's World Championship, where she was scoreless in six games. She represented Finland at the 2019 IIHF U18 Women's World Championship where she recorded one goal in six games and won a bronze medal. She again represented Finland at the 2020 IIHF U18 Women's World Championship, where she was scoreless in six games. On 26 March 2025, she was selected to represent

at the

2025 IIHF Women's World Championship The 2025 IIHF Women's World Championship was the 24th edition of the IIHF Women's World Championship, an international ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), contested in České Budějovice, Czech Repub ...

, where she made her senior national team debut.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

Awards and honors

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Suoranta, Elli 2002 births Living people Finnish women's ice hockey defencemen Ice hockey people from Tampere HPK Kiekkonaiset players Ilves Naiset players Naisten Liiga All-Stars 21st-century Finnish sportswomen