Ice Hockey League Latvia

Scorespro tracks all of the games for the current season of the latvian ice hockey leagues including leagues cups friendly matches international tournaments like the optibet hokeja liga optibet sporta bars latvian cup.

Ice hockey league latvia. The team is controlled by the latvian ice hockey federation. Their best ever finish at the world championships was 7th place in 1997 2004 and 2009. Latvia reached the quarterfinals at the 2014 winter olympics losing 2 1 to canada. We also track a variety of hockey stats from all the games taking place in latvia including first second and third.

This page requires a modern web browser to work properly please update your browser to the latest version this also increases your security during surfing. For more information about each competition please visit directly the competition page where you ll find live scores match results of the whole season complete fixtures results archive and more information. At first this organization was overlooking only bendy hockey with ball but in 1931 lwsu became a member of international ice hockey federation iihf lihg in that time. The latvian hockey higher league latvian.

Latvijas hokeja federācija commonly abbreviated as lhf is the governing body that oversees ice hockey in latvia including the latvian hockey higher league the latvia women s national ice hockey team and the latvia men s national ice hockey team. Previously it was also known as the latvian open hockey championships latvijas atklātais čempionāts hokejā and the samsung premier league samsung premjerlīga from 2006 to 2008. Latvia is one of the smaller member countries of the iihf with in 2017 a total of 6 699 registered ice hockey players including 1 888 juniors and 101 women. It was founded in 1931 and was admitted to the iihf the same year.

Latvijas virslīgas hokeja čempionāts also known as the optibet hockey league latvian. континентальная хоккейная лига кхл kontinental naya hokkeynaya liga is an international professional ice hockey league founded in 2008. The team is ranked 10th in the world by iihf as of 2019. There are also 185 registered ice hockey referees in the country.

The latvian ice hockey federation organizes amateur and professional ice hockey in the country. Latvia has 7 145 registered players. The kontinental hockey league khl russian. Latvian hockey federation first organization which task was to make and manage hockey events in latvia was latvian winter sport union lwsu established in 1923.

It is widely considered to be the premier. The latvian hockey leagueis an ice hockeyleague based in latvia. It is also known in latvian as latvijas atklātais čempionāts hokejā latvian open hockey championships and for sponsorship reasons several seasons ago it was known as samsung premjerlīga samsung premier league. The latvian men s national ice hockey team represents latvia in international ice hockey.

At the 2018 world championship the team finished 8th.