The 2020–21 Mestis season was the 21st season of Mestis, the second highest level of ice hockey in Finland after Liiga. Due to promotion/relegation games being cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in the last season both semi-finalists from last seasons Suomi-sarja (K-Espoo and FPS) were promoted to Mestis. Therefore, this seasons consisted of 14 teams.

Clubs Team City Home arena, capacity Founded Head coach FPS Forssa Forssa Ice Hall, 3,000 1931 Asko Rantanen Hermes Kokkola Kokkolan jäähalli, 4,200 1953 Jere Härkälä Hokki Kajaani Kajaanin jäähalli, 2,372 1968 Niko Eronen IPK Iisalmi Kankaan jäähalli, 1,358 1966 Niko Härkönen JoKP Joensuu PKS Areena, 4,800 1953 Joni Petrell 19.1.2021 Benjamin Laurinkari Ketterä Imatra Imatra Spa Areena, 1,200 1957 Maso Lehtonen KeuPa HT Keuruu Keuruun Jäähalli, 1,100 1995 Tomas Westerlund K-Espoo Espoo Espoo Metro Areena, 6,982 2018 Janne Tuunanen K-Vantaa Vantaa Trio Areena, 2,004 1994 Mika Niskanen KOOVEE Tampere Tampere Ice Stadium, 7,300 1929 Juuso Hahl Peliitat Heinola Versowood Areena, 2,686 1984 Vesa Petäjä RoKi Rovaniemi Lappi Areena, 3,500 1979 Santeri Immonen SaPKo Savonlinna Talvisalo ice rink, 2,833 1929 Pasi Räsänen TUTO Hockey Turku Kupittaan jäähalli, 3,000 1929 Antti Virtanen

Regular season Initially the plan was to have each team play 50 games in total but due to the season being on hold from 2 December 2020 to 10 February 2021 the teams were unable to play the full season. Due to this points-per-game determines the order of the teams. SaPKo and RoKi decided not to continue the season when it resumed in February 2021.

Top six advanced straight to the quarter-finals, while teams between 7th and 10th positions played a wild card round for the final two spots. Since the highest series of Finnish hockey is a closed series no team will be promoted to Liiga.

Rules for classification: 1) Points-per-game; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Penalty minutes.

Playoffs Playoffs are being played in four stages. Each stage before the final is a best-of-3 series, with the final being a best-of-5 series. The teams are reseeded after the quarterfinals, so that the best team by regular season performance to make the semifinals faces the worst team in the semifinals.

Bracket

Wild-card round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Bronze medal game

Finals

Ketterä wins the finals 3–2.

See also 2020–21 Liiga season

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