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Team photo of the 1956–57 Kärpät squad, which was close to being promoted to the SM-sarja.
Porin Kärpät established its place in the Suomen sarja, the 2nd level of ice hockey, in the 1950s. In the 1956–57 season, Kärpät won their group and advanced to the SM-sarja qualifiers. Kärpät's opponents were IFK Helsingfors, Kotkan Reipas and Kalevan Pallo. Kärpät lost its first game to IFK 5–4, but beat Reipas 5–1. The deciding match was against KalPa. Kärpät already had a 3–0 lead, but the game ended in a 4–4 tie. Kärpät was tied with IFK and KalPa, but fell to 3rd place with goal difference and thus did not get promoted to the SM-sarja.[4]
Porin Kärpät and Porin Palloilijat merged their operations in 1960 and formed Porin Karhut, which later merged with RU-38 to form Porin Ässät that still plays ice hockey at the top level of Finland.
Kärpät's ice hockey team was disestablished in 1960 after the merger with PoPa, but a women's team was established in 2007 but the team was disestablished already in 2010.[5]
Rinkball
After the merger with PoPa, Kärpät still never stopped existing as a registered club, so they made a comeback in 1990 when rinkball players from Pori joined the I-division with Kärpät's name. Kärpät were promoted to the Kaukalopalloliiga in 1998 and it won the Finnish rinkball championship 4 times (2004, 2005, 2006, 2009).[6][7]
Honors
Finnish rinkball championships
Champion (4): 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009
Runner-up: (4): 2003, 2007, 2010, 2011
First in the regular season (4): 2004, 2005, 2010, 2011
