HIFK Naiset

{{short description|Auroraliiga ice hockey team in Helsinki, Finland}}

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| current = 2024–25 Auroraliiga season

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| team = IFK Helsinki Naiset
{{small|{{Lang|fi|Stadin Gimmat}}}}

| logo = File:HIFK Stadin Gimmat logo-2023.png

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| city = Helsinki

| league = Auroraliiga

| founded = {{Start date|1982}}
Refounded 2018

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| arena = Pirkkolan jäähalli

| colours = Red, white, dark blue
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| parentclub = {{nowrap|HIFK Ishockey rf}}

| GM = Johanna Sandqvist

| coach = Saara Niemi

| captain = Athéna Locatelli

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| affiliates = HIFK Akatemia
HIFK Challenger

| website = {{Official website|https://stadingimmat.fi}}

| name1 = HIFK Naiset

| dates1 = 1982–1989

| name2 = HIFK Naiset
(Stadin Gimmat)

| dates2 = 2018–present

| reg_season_titles = 1 (2022–23)

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| championships1_type = Aurora Borealis Cup

| championships1 = 2 (2023, 2024)

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IFK Helsinki Naiset ({{langx|sv|IFK Helsingfors Dam}}), abbreviated HIFK Naiset and also known as Stadin Gimmat ({{lit|Girls of {{Lang|fi|Stadi}}}}, a nickname for Helsinki), is an ice hockey team in the Finnish Auroraliiga. They play in the Pirkkola district of Helsinki at the {{Lang|fi|Pirkkolan jäähalli|italic=no}} ({{lit|Pirkkola ice hall}}). The team is the representative women's ice hockey team of the multisport club Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna, Helsingfors and is operated by Oy HIFK-Hockey Ab, the same organization that owns the HIFK men's ice hockey team of the Liiga – HIFK Naiset are one of only two Auroraliiga teams owned directly by a Liiga team.{{Cite web|last=Foster|first=Meredith|date=2018-07-24|title=Q & A with Saara Niemi of HIFK|url=https://www.theicegarden.com/2018/7/24/17599336/q-a-with-saara-niemi-of-hifk-helsinki-finland-mestis-womens-hockey|access-date=2020-11-03|website=The Ice Garden|language=en|archive-date=24 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211024160141/https://www.theicegarden.com/2018/7/24/17599336/q-a-with-saara-niemi-of-hifk-helsinki-finland-mestis-womens-hockey|url-status=live}}

The original HIFK Naiset was one of the ten founding teams from the inaugural 1982–83 Naisten SM-sarja season but they were financially relegated in 1989 and the club chose not to pursue women's ice hockey for the following several decades. The current team was established in 2018 and gained promotion to the Auroraliiga (then called the Naisten Liiga) from the second-tier Naisten Mestis at the end of their debut season in 2018–19.{{Cite web|last=Kauhala|first=Hannu|date=2018-04-26|title=HIFK julkisti naisten joukkueen, aloittaa ensi kaudella Mestiksessä|url=https://ls24.fi/urheilu/hifk-julkisti-naisten-joukkueen-aloittaa-ensi-kaudella-mestiksessa|access-date=2020-08-29|website=Länsi-Suomi|language=fi|archive-date=19 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419192449/https://ls24.fi/urheilu/hifk-julkisti-naisten-joukkueen-aloittaa-ensi-kaudella-mestiksessa|url-status=live}}

HIFK-Stadin Gimmat has two affiliate teams, HIFK Akatemia and HIFK Challenger (known as HIFK U18 from 2018 to 2023), which are active in the Naisten Mestis and Naisten Suomi-sarja, respectively.

History

= Original team, 1982–1989 =

HIFK Naiset was one of the original ten teams to play in the inaugural season, 1982–83, of the Naisten SM-sarja ({{lit|Women's Finnish Championship Series}}; renamed Naisten Liiga in 2017 and Auroraliiga in 2024). The team struggled early on, forced to compete with fellow Helsinki-based team Helsingin Jääkiekkoklubi (HJK) for top talent. HIFK finished in the bottom half of the league in their first five seasons, ranking seventh of ten teams in 1982–83, ninth of twelve in 1983–84, eighth of thirteen in 1984–85, fifth of eight in 1985–86, and sixth of eight in 1986–87.

The team's fortunes turned in the 1987–88 season and they earned a 7-2-5 (win-tie-loss) record with a +3 goal difference and claimed third place in the Naisten SM-sarja playoffs, earning Finnish Championship bronze. With a 1988–89 roster that included three members of the newly-created Finnish women's national ice hockey team – defensemen Johanna Ikonen and Maria Turki (Novitsky), and forward Ulla Saarikko – HIFK continued their upward trajectory, posting an 8-2-4 record with a +20 goal differential and claiming Finnish Championship bronze for the second consecutive season.

Despite the marked improvement of the team, HIFK was financially relegated after the 1988–89 season and no senior women's representative team or any programs for women and girls existed in the club for the following twenty-five years.

Season-by-season results

This is a list of all seasons completed by HIFK Naiset, including the original HIFK Naiset (1982–1989) and HIFK Naiset-Stadin Gimmat (2018–present).{{Cite web |title=SM-sarja (W) - HIFK, Team History and Standings |url=https://www.eliteprospects.com/team/20378/hifk/1982-1983 |access-date=2025-02-17 |website=Elite Prospects |language=en |archive-date=18 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210818183944/https://www.eliteprospects.com/team/20378/hifk/1982-1983 |url-status=live }}

Note: Finish = Rank at end of regular season; GP = Games played, W = Wins (3 points), OTW = Overtime/shootout wins (2 points), T = Ties (1 point), OTL = Overtime/shootout losses (1 point), L = Losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, Pts = Points, Top scorer: Points (Goals+Assists)

class="wikitable" style="text-align: center; font-size: 95%" ! rowspan="2" \|Season ! rowspan="2" \|League ! colspan="11" \|Preliminaries and regular season ! rowspan="2" \|Post season results
Finish ! GP	W	OTW	T	OTL	L	GF	GA	Pts ! Top scorer
1982–83 \| Naisten SM-sarja \| 7th \| 8\|\|3\|\|{{n/a}}\|\|0\|\|{{n/a}}\|\|5\|\|43\|\|26\|\|6 \| align=left \| {{flagicon\|FIN}} S-L. Aura 17 (15+2) \| align=left \| Did not qualify
1983–84 \| Naisten SM-sarja \| 9th \| 8\|\|2\|\|{{n/a}}\|\|0\|\|{{n/a}}\|\|6\|\|27\|\|42\|\|4 \| align=left \| {{flagicon\|FIN}} M. Böckelman 10 (5+5) \| align=left \| Did not qualify
1984–85 \| Naisten SM-sarja \| 8th \| 9\|\|3\|\|{{n/a}}\|\|0\|\|{{n/a}}\|\|6\|\|26\|\|29\|\|6 \| align=left \| {{flagicon\|FIN}} A. Kaunola 8 (6+2) \| align=left \| Did not qualify
1985–86 \| Naisten SM-sarja \| 5th \| 14\|\|3\|\|{{n/a}}\|\|4\|\|{{n/a}}\|\|7\|\|36\|\|40\|\|10 \| align=left \| {{flagicon\|FIN}} H. Leppälä 11 (7+4) \| align=left \| Did not qualify
1986–87 \| Naisten SM-sarja \| 6th \| 14\|\|6\|\|{{n/a}}\|\|0\|\|{{n/a}}\|\|8\|\|33\|\|39\|\|12 \| align=left \| {{ubl\|Two players 10 (9+1)\|{{flagicon\|FIN}} S. Aksela\|{{flagicon\|FIN}} A. Kaunola}} \| align=left \| Did not qualify
1987–88 \| Naisten SM-sarja \| 3rd \| 14\|\|7\|\|{{n/a}}\|\|2\|\|{{n/a}}\|\|5\|\|35\|\|32\|\|16 \| align=left \| {{flagicon\|FIN}} A. Kaunola 13 (11+2) \| align=left style="background:#DEB887" \| Won bronze medal
1988–89 \| Naisten SM-sarja \| 3rd \| 14\|\|8\|\|{{n/a}}\|\|2\|\|{{n/a}}\|\|4\|\|53\|\|33\|\|18 \| align=left \| {{flagicon\|FIN}} A. Kaunola 22 (15+7) \| align=left style="background:#DEB887" \| Won bronze medal
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2018–19 \| Naisten Mestis \| 1st \| 26\|\|24\|\|1\|\|{{n/a}}\|\|0\|\|1\|\|159\|\|26\|\|74 \| align="left" \| {{Flagicon\|FIN}} Mi. Klemola 50 (23+27) \| align="left" \|Promoted to Naisten Liiga
2019–20 \| Naisten Liiga \| 7th\|\|30\|\|15\|\|2\|\|{{n/a}}\|\|3\|\|10\|\|124\|\|74\|\|52 \| align="left" \|{{Flagicon\|FRA}} E. Passard 47 (28+19) \| align="left" \|Lost quarterfinals to Kärpät, 0–3
2020–21 \| Naisten Liiga \| 3rd\|\|27\|\|16\|\|4\|\|{{n/a}}\|\|1\|\|6\|\|104\|\|57\|\|57 \| align="left" \|{{Flagicon\|FRA}} E. Passard 37 (19+21) \| align=left style="background:#DEB887" \| Won bronze medal, 2–1 (Ilves)
2021–22 \| Naisten Liiga \| 2nd\|\|29\|\|26\|\|0\|\|{{n/a}}\|\|0\|\|3\|\|137\|\|41\|\|78 \| align="left" \|{{Flagicon\|FIN}} M. Nilsson 55 (37+18) \| align=left style="background:#D3D3D3"\| Runner-up, 2–3 (K-Espoo)
2022–23 \| Naisten Liiga \| 1st\|\|36\|\|29\|\|3\|\|{{n/a}}\|\|0\|\|4\|\|197\|\|57\|\|93 \| align="left" \|{{Flagicon\|CZE}} M. Pejzlová 82 (32+50) \| align=left style="background:#FFEC8B" \| Won Championship, 3–0 (K-Espoo)
2023–24 \| Naisten Liiga \| 2nd \|\| 32 \|\| 27 \|\| 0 \|\| {{n/a}} \|\| 0 \|\| 5 \|\| 175 \|\| 49 \|\| 75 \| align=left\| {{Flagicon\|CZE}} M. Pejzlová 71 (30+41) \| align=left style="background:#FFEC8B"\| Won Championship, 3–1 (K-Espoo)
2024–25 \| Auroraliiga \| 4th \|\| 32 \|\| 20 \|\| 1 \|\| {{n/a}} \|\| 2 \|\| 9 \|\| 113 \|\| 81 \|\| 64 \| align=left\| {{Flagicon\|FIN}} P. Salonen 34 (16+18) \| align=left\| Lost quarterfinals to Ilves, {{nowrap\|2–3}}

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! rowspan="2" |Season

! rowspan="2" |League

! colspan="11" |Preliminaries and regular season

! rowspan="2" |Post season results

Finish

! GP

OTW

OTL

Pts

! Top scorer

1982–83

| Naisten SM-sarja

| 7th

| 8||3||{{n/a}}||0||{{n/a}}||5||43||26||6

| align=left | {{flagicon|FIN}} S-L. Aura 17 (15+2)