The 2015–16 Liiga season was the 41st season of the Liiga (formerly SM-liiga), the top level of ice hockey in Finland, since the league's formation in 1975.
Regular season[]
Top six advanced straight to quarter-finals, while teams between 7th and 10th positions played wild card round for the final two spots. The Liiga is a closed series and thus there is no relegation.
| Pl. | GP | W | OTW | OTL | L | Goals | Diff. | Pts | |
| 1. | HIFK | 60 | 37 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 186:131 | +55 | 127 |
| 2. | Kärpät | 60 | 33 | 6 | 8 | 13 | 178:126 | +52 | 119 |
| 3. | Tappara | 60 | 26 | 12 | 8 | 14 | 177:136 | +41 | 110 |
| 4. | JYP | 60 | 29 | 7 | 5 | 19 | 156:139 | +17 | 106 |
| 5. | SaiPa | 60 | 27 | 5 | 8 | 20 | 178:146 | +32 | 99 |
| 6. | Lukko | 60 | 24 | 9 | 4 | 23 | 154:132 | +22 | 94 |
| 7. | TPS | 60 | 23 | 6 | 9 | 22 | 150:152 | –2 | 90 |
| 8. | KalPa | 60 | 21 | 10 | 7 | 22 | 129:127 | +2 | 90 |
| 9. | Pelicans | 60 | 24 | 4 | 7 | 25 | 145:171 | –26 | 87 |
| 10. | Sport | 60 | 20 | 7 | 9 | 24 | 153:156 | –3 | 83 |
| 11. | KooKoo | 60 | 16 | 10 | 10 | 24 | 129:159 | –30 | 78 |
| 12. | Ässät | 60 | 20 | 5 | 7 | 28 | 143:162 | –19 | 77 |
| 13. | HPK | 60 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 33 | 125:168 | –43 | 68 |
| 14. | Ilves | 60 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 34 | 124:163 | –39 | 63 |
| 15. | Blues | 60 | 13 | 6 | 8 | 33 | 108:168 | –60 | 59 |
Playoffs[]
Bracket[]
| Wild-card round (best-of-3) | Quarter-finals (best-of-7) | Semi-finals (best-of-7) | Finals (best-of-7) | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | HIFK | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| 7 | TPS | 2 | 9 | Pelicans | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 1 | HIFK | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| 10 | Sport | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| 4 | JYP | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Kärpät | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| 7 | TPS | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | HIFK | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Tappara | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Tappara | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Lukko | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Kärpät | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| 8 | KalPa | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Tappara | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| 9 | Pelicans | 2 | 4 | JYP | 4 | |||||||||||||
| 5 | SaiPa | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
- 3rd place game
- Karpat - JYP 3:2 (0:1, 0:1, 3:0)