Finnish club founded in 1932 as TBK (Tammerfors Bollklubb), between 1953 and 1955 Tappara won three championships in a row. After these titles the club decided to change its Swedish name to Finnish Tappara Tampere, which it uses up to date. During the 1970s, Tappara revolutionarised hockey coaching methods, and founded a very succesfull youth academy, whose alumni are e.g. Teppo Numminen, Pekka Marjamäki, Janne Ojanen, Ville Nieminen, Timo Jutila, or Aleskander Barkov.

After another three titles between 1986 and 1988, the era of a lack of success hit the club. From 2000 Tappara won Liiga only three more times - in 2003, 2016 and 2017.

Tappara are a regular CHL participant, however, they have one of the longest-running 'curses' in the competition: the Finnish side have never been past the Round of 16 in six attempts!