Viru Sputnik is a professional

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...

team in

Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...

playing in the

Meistriliiga Meistriliiga (), officially known as A. Le Coq Premium Liiga for sponsorship reasons, and commonly known as the Premium Liiga, is the highest division of the Estonian Football Association annual football championship. The league was founded i ...

. The club is based in

Kohtla-Järve Kohtla-Järve () is a city and Municipalities of Estonia, municipality in northeastern Estonia, founded in 1924 and incorporated as a town in 1946. The city is highly industrial, and is both a processor of oil shales and is a large producer of ...

and the home arena is Kohtla-Järve Ice Hall.

Estonian Championship (Meistriliiga) history

The team regularly participated in the

hockey league from its inception until the 2016-2017 season. It won the title once, in the 2010 season. The team returned to Meistriliiga competition for the 2021-2022 season.

References

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* Ice hockey teams in Estonia Sport in Kohtla-Järve {{Europe-icehockey-team-stub