Porin Ässät (women)

Porin Ässät (; Finnish for Pori Aces) is an ice hockey team based in Pori, Satakunta, Finland. They have had a women's hockey team in the Naisten SM-sarja from 1982 to 1995 but now they only have a hockey school for women called Ässät Gold Stars. They play in the Astora Areena.
Porin Ässät was formed in 1967 but women's hockey was introduced to the club in 1982. Ässät was one of the ten founders of the Naisten SM-sarja (now Naisten Liiga). Ässät folded in 2004, but in 2020 it re-started as an ice hockey school for women.
==History==
Porin Ässät had a team in the Naisten SM-sarja in 1982–1995. Ässät got to the bronze game in 1991 but lost. The team dropped out of the league in the spring of 1995 and then took a break. The next time the Ässät women's team played in the I. divisioona in the 1998–99 season. The following season, it got to try to rise back to the SM-sarja, however, remaining sixth in the eight-team qualifiers. All four SM-sarja teams retained their spots. After the qualifiers, the team played three more seasons in Divisions I and II with no significant success and then quit in the spring of 2003. The brightest star and statistically the best player on the Ässät Women team was Sari Fisk.
Ässät has had a hockey school for women called Ässät Gold Stars since 2020 and a team for girls called Ässät Red Stars. Other girl's teams have existed before.
==Notable alumni==
* Sari Marjamäki (née Fisk) (four-time European champion and six-time World Championship bronze medallist)
* Sofianna Sundelin (Olympic bronze medallist and a World Championship bronze medallist)
* Anne Haanpää (née Bäckman) (4-time European champion)
* Sanna Kanerva (1995 European champion)
* Tatyana Tsaryova (first-time World Championship bronze medallist)
===International players===
* Lena Kofod 1999-2000
* Violetta Simanova 1999-2000
* Tatjana Tikhonov 1999-2000
* Sandra Toon 1999-2000
* Tatyana Tsaryova 1999-2000
==Franchise records==
These are the top-five-point-scorers in franchise history. Figures are updated after each completed Liiga season.
* – current Ässät player
Note: Pos = Position; GP = Games Played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points
Points
Player 	Pos	GP 	G 	A 	Pts
Sari Marjamäki 	F 	107	82	47	121
Katri Javanainen	F 	100	71	38	109
Sanna Sainio 	F 	96 	51	32	83
Sanna Kanerva 	F 	87 	56	25	81
Anne Haanpää 	D 	21 	52	21	73
==Honours==
===Awards named after Ässät players===
*Sari Fisk Award, named after Sari Fisk
===Awards won by players===
*Marianne Ihalainen Award (1): Anne Haanpää, 1982–83 -
*Tiia Reima Award (1): Anne Haanpää, 1982–83 - Sari Marjamäki, 1992–93 -
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Ice hockey teams in Finland
Category:Ice hockey clubs established in 1982
Category:Ice hockey clubs established in 2020