Joensuun Kiekko-Pojat is a Finnish semi-professional

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 ...

team that plays in the

Mestis Mestis (from , meaning 'Championship series', stylized as MEST1S) is the second-highest men's ice hockey league in Finland. The league was established by the Finnish Ice Hockey Association in 2000 to replace the I-divisioona ('First Division ...

, the second-highest men's ice hockey league in Finland. The club has spent three seasons in the top flight of Finnish hockey, season 1971–72 in

SM-sarja SM-Sarja was the top level of ice hockey in Finland from 1928 to 1975. SM-sarja is a common abbreviation for ''Suomen mestaruussarja'', "Finnish Championship Series". There was variable number of teams playing for the Finnish championship dur ...

and seasons 1989-90 and 1991–92 in

SM-liiga The Liiga, colloquially called the Finnish Elite League in English or FM-ligan in Swedish, is the top professional ice hockey league in Finland. The league comprises 16 teams from all around Finland with relegation and promotion between the Mest ...

Honours

Champions

''(1)'': 2009-10 *

Suomi-sarja The Suomi-sarja is Finland's third highest ice hockey league. Suomi-sarja has 14 teams. Suomi-sarja has been played since the 1999–2000 season. Prior to this, Finland's third league had been Division II since 1975 and before that the Provi ...

''(2)'': 2003–04, 2014–15 *

I-Divisioona I-Divisioona was the second tier of ice hockey in Finland from 1974 to 2000. It replaced the previous league Suomensarja that ran from 1936 to 1974. I-Divisioona was known as the Finland-liiga (1992–1994) and the Fazer liiga (1994–1996) due ...

''(3)'': 1988–89, 1990–91, 1992–93, 1996-97

Runners-up

''(2)'': 2008-09, 2011-12 * Mestis ''(1)'': 2015-16 *

''(1)'': 2003

Current team

Updated February 6, 2025

Team officials

Updated June 7, 2024 Puruskainen Sami Jokipojat 2010 1

Retired numbers

*# 1 Tapio Pohtinen *# 9 Hannu Kapanen *# 15

Lauri Mononen Lauri Ilmari Mononen (22 March 1950 – 5 August 2018) was a Finnish professional ice hockey winger. While playing for Phoenix Roadrunners in the World Hockey Association he was one of the first Finns to play professional hockey in North Americ ...

*# 25

Markku Kyllönen Markku Kyllönen (born February 15, 1962) is a retired professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League and SM-liiga. He played for Kärpät, SaiPa, and Winnipeg Jets. After spending several years in Finland, Kyllönen mov ...

Former players

* Tero Arkiomaa *

Pavel Brendl Pavel Brendl (born March 23, 1981) is a Czech former professional ice hockey forward who last played for the HKM Zvolen in the Slovak Extraliga. He played in the National Hockey League with the Philadelphia Flyers, Carolina Hurricanes and Pho ...

Jon Fontas Jon Paul Fontas (born April 16, 1955) is an American retired professional ice hockey player who played two games in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Minnesota North Stars, one each in the 1979–80 NHL season, 1979–80 and 1980–81 NHL ...

* Jocelyn Guimond *

Roberts Jekimovs Roberts Jekimovs (born November 11, 1989, in Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Latvian people, Latvian professional ice hockey forward (ice hockey), forward. He is currently a free agent having last played for Remparts de Tours of the FFHG Di ...

* Hannu Kapanen * Jari Kapanen * Lubomir Kolnik *

* Mikael Ruohomaa *

Alexander Salák Alexander Salák (born January 5, 1987) is a Czech professional ice hockey goaltender. He is currently an unrestricted free agent who most recently played for Djurgårdens IF Hockey, Djurgårdens IF of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). He played t ...

Luke Sellars Luke Sellars (born May 21, 1981) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. Biography Sellars was born in Toronto. As a youth, he played in the 1995 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from Wexfor ...

* Antonin Stavjana * Rostislav Vlach

Season by season record

Since rejoining the

in 2004–05

References

External links

www.joensuunkiekkopojat.fi
{{Liiga Mestis teams Joensuu Former Liiga teams Ice hockey clubs established in 1960 Ice hockey teams in Finland 1960 establishments in Finland Sport in North Karelia