OK Liga

OK Liga

Current season, competition or edition: 2017–18 OK Liga
Sport	Rink hockey
Founded	1969
No. of teams	16
Country	Spain
Most recent champion(s)	Barcelona (2016–17)
Most titles	Barcelona (28 titles)
TV partner(s)	Esport3, Teledeporte, Barça TV
Level on pyramid	1
Relegation to	Primera División
Domestic cup(s)	Copa del Rey
Official website	fep.es

The OK Liga is the Spanish rink hockey league and is widely regarded as one of the best leagues in the world. Since 2008 it includes also a women's league.

History

The league was founded in 1969 as División de Honor as an expansion to all the Spanish territory of the Catalan Championship. Until 1971 teams from outside Catalonia did not join the competition.

The league changed its name to OK Liga in 2003 and in 2009 the playoffs for the title were abolished while several rules from other sports were approved.

In April 2017, a new name change for the 2017–18 season was approved and the top tier would be renamed as the OK Liga Oro while the second tier as OK Liga Plata. Also, a new nacional third tier competition OK Liga Bronce (with four interregional groups) was forseen,but due to the lack of interested teams, it wasn't created and the third tier remained at regional level.

All titles were won by Catalan teams except the editions won by Liceo. Barcelona is the most successful team.

Competition format

The championship is played through 30 matchdays in a round-robin format, a format quite common in other sports, such as football. The top team when finished to play the 30 matchdays is the champion.

Conversely, the last team qualified is relegated to Primera División.

Points are awarded as follows:

• 3 points for the winner team
• 1 point if a draw for each team
• 0 points for loser team

2017–18 teams

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Barcelona Lassa (C)	30	25	4	1	147	47	+100	79	Qualification to European League
2	Liceo	30	22	2	6	133	66	+67	68
3	Reus Deportiu	30	22	1	7	148	87	+61	67
4	Noia Freixenet	30	15	8	7	105	75	+30	53
5	ICG Software Lleida	30	16	4	10	122	92	+30	52	Qualification to CERS Cup
6	Igualada Rigat	30	15	3	12	85	73	+12	48
7	Citylift Girona	30	13	5	12	89	86	+3	44
8	Voltregà	30	12	8	10	84	89	−5	44
9	Recam Làser Caldes	30	13	5	12	74	86	−12	44
10	Vendrell	30	13	5	12	82	87	−5	44
11	Vic	30	8	9	13	68	90	−22	33
12	Lloret Vila Esportiva	30	8	7	15	69	91	−22	31
13	PAS Alcoy	30	9	4	17	81	105	−24	31
14	Arenys de Munt (R)	30	5	4	21	57	124	−67	19	Relegation to Primera División
15	Corredor Mató Palafrugell (R)	30	4	3	23	69	129	−60	15
16	Asturhockey (R)	30	3	2	25	64	150	−86	11

Source: FEP.es
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Champions by year

División de Honor

Year Champion Runner-up 1969–70 Reus Deportiu Noia 1970–71 Reus Deportiu Noia 1971–72 Reus Deportiu Barcelona 1972–73 Reus Deportiu Sentmenat 1973–74 Barcelona Voltregà 1974–75 Voltregà Barcelona 1975–76 Voltregà Vilanova 1976–77 Barcelona Reus Deportiu 1977–78 Barcelona Voltregà 1978–79 Barcelona Reus Deportiu 1979–80 Barcelona Tordera 1980–81 Barcelona Noia 1981–82 Barcelona Liceo 1982–83 Liceo Barcelona 1983–84 Barcelona Tordera 1984–85 Barcelona Liceo 1985–86 Liceo Barcelona

Year Champion Runner-up 1986–87 Liceo Barcelona 1987–88 Noia Liceo 1988–89 Igualada Liceo 1989–90 Liceo Igualada 1990–91 Liceo Igualada 1991–92 Igualada Liceo 1992–93 Liceo Igualada 1993–94 Igualada Barcelona 1994–95 Igualada Barcelona 1995–96 Barcelona Liceo 1996–97 Igualada Barcelona 1997–98 Barcelona Vic 1998–99 Barcelona Liceo 1999–00 Barcelona Liceo 2000–01 Barcelona Vic 2001–02 Barcelona Igualada

OK Liga

Year	Champion	Runner-up
2002–03	Barcelona	Noia
2003–04	Barcelona	Igualada
2004–05	Barcelona	Reus Deportiu
2005–06	Barcelona	Reus Deportiu
2006–07	Barcelona	Reus Deportiu
2007–08	Barcelona	Reus Deportiu
2008–09	Barcelona	Liceo
2009–10	Barcelona	Liceo
2010–11	Reus Deportiu	Liceo
2011–12	Barcelona	Liceo
2012–13	Liceo	Barcelona
2013–14	Barcelona	Liceo
2014–15	Barcelona	Liceo
2015–16	Barcelona	Vic
2016–17	Barcelona	Reus Deportiu

Performance by club

Club	Titles	Runners-up	Years winners
Barcelona	28	9	1974, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Liceo	7	14	1983, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1993, 2013
Reus Deportiu	5	7	1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 2011
Igualada	5	5	1989, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1997
Voltregà	2	2	1975, 1976
Noia	1	4	1988
Vic	0	3
Tordera	0	2
Sentmenat	0	1
Vilanova	0	1

Champions by Autonomous Communities

Titles	Autonomous Community
40	Catalonia
7	Galicia
47	TOTAL

See also

• Copa del Rey de Hockey Patines
• Supercopa de España de Hockey Patines

External links

• OK Liga web site
• SoloHockey World Roller Hockey