Latvijas Berzs Riga is an ice hockey team in

Riga Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Ba ...

Latvia Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...

. They play in the

Latvian Hockey League The Latvian Hockey Higher League ( lv, Latvijas Virslīgas hokeja čempionāts), also known as the Optibet Hockey League ( lv, Optibet hokeja līga) since 2017 due to sponsor (commercial), sponsorship by Optibet, is the top tier Sports league, lea ...

, and formerly played in the

Pervaya Liga The All-Russian Hockey League B or VHL-B (russian: Первенство Всероссийской хоккейной лиги (ВХЛ-Б), ''Pervenstvo Vserossiyskoy hokkeynoy ligi'') is an ice hockey league in Russia. It stands at the third-ti ...

History

In the early 1960s was in the furniture manufacturing company, Latvijas Bērzs (today Latvijas Finieris), founded an ice hockey team. They participated first participated the Latvian SSR Championship in 1962. They won the Latvian Championship ten times in the 1970s and 1980s The club played in the Vtoraya Liga from 1974-1978, but were promoted to the

for two years (1979 and 1980) before they were again relegated to the Vtoraya Liga. After the Soviet Union broke up, the club participated in the now professional

. They won the league title in 1997.

Achievements

*Latvian SSR champion 1974, 1975, 1977-1980, 1983-1985internationalhockey.net
Latvian championships - All Time Results
*Vtoraya Liga champion 1978 *Latvian champion 1997

Season-by-season record

Notable players

Artūrs Irbe Artūrs Irbe (born 2 February 1967) is a Latvian professional ice hockey coach and former goaltender. Born during the Soviet era, Irbe played for various Soviet league teams and the Soviet Union national team before moving to North America in 199 ...

Miķelis Rēdlihs Miķelis Rēdlihs (born July 1, 1984) is a Latvian professional ice hockey forward, currently playing for HK Olimp of Latvian Hockey League (LAT). He has played for Latvian national team in the 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 World C ...

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Oskars Bārtulis Oskars Bārtulis (russian: Оскарс Бартулис; born January 21, 1987) is a retired Latvian professional ice hockey defenceman. He has previously played parts of two seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Philadelphia Flye ...

Ģirts Ankipāns Ģirts Ankipāns (born November 29, 1975) is a retired Latvian ice hockey player and coach. Currently he serves as the head coach of Dinamo Riga in KHL. Career Playing career He started his professional ice hockey career in Latvia, where he p ...

Jānis Andersons Jānis Andersons (born October 7, 1986) is a Latvian ice hockey defenceman Defence or defense (in American English) in ice hockey is a player position that is primarily responsible for preventing the opposing team from scoring. They are ofte ...

Guntis Galviņš Guntis Galviņš (born January 25, 1986) is a Latvian former professional ice-hockey defenceman, who played in the European leagues. Galviņš made a return to Dinamo Riga of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), on July 8, 2015, signing a one- ...

Andris Džeriņš Andris Džeriņš (born February 14, 1988 in Jēkabpils) is a Latvian professional ice hockey player, who currently plays for Steinbach Black Wings 1992 in the ICE Hockey League (ICEHL). He previously played two seasons of North American junior h ...

References

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