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The Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL; French: Ligue professionnelle de hockey féminin, LPHF) is a women's professional ice hockey league in North America, wholly owned and operated by the Mark Walter Group. It consists of six teams, three each from Canada and the United States.
Prior to the league's formation, the only choice for top level women's hockey in North America was the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL), which at the time paid bonuses and incentives but not salaries. [14] The league's inaugural season ran on a salary cap of US $270,000 maximum per team and a $10,000 minimum per player. [15]
Australian Women's Ice Hockey League (AWIHL), founded in 2005; Bulgarian Women's Hockey League; European Women's Hockey League (EWHL), formerly called Elite Women's Hockey League, founded 2004; German Women's Ice Hockey League (DFEL) Icelandic Women's Hockey League; Italian Hockey League Women; Liga Nacional de Hockey Hielo Femenino (LNHHF; lit.
The Premier Hockey Federation (PHF) was a women's professional ice hockey league in the United States and Canada that operated from March 2015 until June 2023. The league was established in 2015 as the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL), comprising four league-owned teams.
The Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL; French: Ligue canadienne de hockey féminin ‒ LCHF) was a women's ice hockey league. Established in 2007 as a Canadian women's senior league in the Greater Toronto Area, Montreal, and Ottawa, the league expanded into Alberta (2011) and internationally in the United States (2010) and China (2017) throughout its tenure.
The women's tournament began as an eight-team tournament featuring Canada, the US, the top five from the 1989 European Championships, and one Asian qualifier.The same formula was used for 1992, 1994, and 1997, but changed following the first Olympic women's ice hockey tournament at the 1998 Nagano Olympics.
The Women's League, also known as the PostFinance Women's League (PFWL) [1] for sponsorship reasons, is the premier ice hockey league in the Swiss Women's Hockey League (SWHL) system. [2] The league was founded in 1986 as the Leistungsklasse A , abbreviated LKA , and was also officially known as the Ligue nationale A in French and the Lega ...
The European Women's Hockey League, abbreviated EWHL, is an international ice hockey league. Created as the Elite Women's Hockey League in 2004 by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), the EWHL comprises clubs from several countries in Central Europe and one team from Kazakhstan, and is played in parallel to national championships.