Kokkolan Hermes is a Finnish semi-professional ice hockey club based in Kokkola that plays in the Mestis, the second-tier men's league in Finland after Liiga.
The club was founded in 1953 and plays their home games at the Kokkolan jäähalli, which has a capacity of 4,200 spectators.
The club was founded in 1953 when the ice hockey players of GBK and KPV merged their operations and formed the new club Kokkolan Hermes.
Hermes played in the second top league of Finland from 1993–2006 before being regulated to Suomi-sarja where they remained until 2015 when they were promoted back to Mestis.
[2] During the 2008-09 season, Hermes ran into financial troubles and were forced to leave the Suomi-sarja.