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| Organization | Swedish Ice Hockey Association |
| Joined IIHF | March 23, 1912 |
| President | Anders Larsson |
| IIHF Men's Ranking | 3 |
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| IIHF Women's Ranking | 3 |
| Website | http://www.swehockey.se |
The Swedish Ice Hockey Association (SIHA) or Svenska Ishockeyförbundet in Swedish, is an association of Swedish sports clubs with ice hockey activities.
SIHA was part of the Swedish Football Association but became an association of its own in November 17, 1922. In 1920 SIHA became a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation. Apart from ice hockey, inline hockey is also under the SIHA.
The association's current general secretary currently is Anders Larsson.
Leagues and levels[]
In Sweden ice hockey is played nation wide in the following levels:
- Elitserien
- HockeyAllsvenskan
- League I
- League II
- League III
- League IV
- League V
- Veteran Ice Hockey
- Women Ice Hockey
- Junior under 20
- Junior under 18
- Junior under 17
- Junior under 16
- Junior under 15
- Junior under 14
- Junior under 13
- Junior under 12
- Junior under 11
- Junior under 10
- Girl league
- School league
National teams[]
Sweden has seven national ice hockey teams:
- Team Sweden
- Women's National Team
- Team U20
- Team U19
- Team U18
- Team U17
- Team U16
- National inline team
External links[]
- Svenska Ishockeyförbundet (Official site both in Swedish and English.)
References[]
- GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT SWEDISH ICE HOCKEY. The Swedish Ice Hockey Association. Archived from the original on 2007-02-02. Retrieved on May 24, 2006.
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