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Xiaomi Arena, formerly known as Arena Riga (Latvian: Arēna Rīga) is an indoor arena in Riga, Latvia. [1] It is primarily used for ice hockey, basketball and concerts. Arena Riga holds a maximum of 14,500 and was opened on 15 February 2006. [2] It was built to be used as one of the venues for the 2006 IIHF World Championship, the other being ...
While the club reached the finals in 2000, they experienced repeated disappointments in the European Hockey League, which did not live up to expectations. [ 16 ] In the subsequent season, Jokerit faced challenges despite the presence of players like Jukka Hentunen and Antti Törmänen , who were meant to bolster the team.
Ventspils was the Latvian first club who qualified for the group stage of a UEFA club competition, reaching the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League group stage. [ 14 ] Skonto reached the UEFA Champions League last qualifying stage for a number of times in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but lost to teams like Barcelona in 1997 , Inter Milan in 1998 ...
Skonto FC was a Latvian professional football club, active from 1991 until 2016. The club played at the Skonto Stadium in Riga.Skonto won the Virsliga in the first 14 seasons of the league's resumption (15 in total), and often provided the core of the Latvia national football team.
Founded in 2002 as KK SO Koš in Sombor, the club changed its name to KK Joker after the nickname of Serbian NBA All Star player Nikola Jokić who started his playing career with the club. [1] [2] In 2018, the club held the inaugural Joker Basketball Camp in Sombor. [3] In the 2019–20 Cup of Serbia quarterfinals, the club lost to Sloboda ...
After the World Ice Hockey Championships, the arena was the home of Riga basketball club BK Skonto Riga, but it is also used as a conference and congress center. Due to outstanding loan payments, the hall was taken over by asset management company Reverta in 2011. On 15 October 2013, an auction which included the stadium was planned. [4]
In 1929, Rīgas Strādnieku Sports un Sargs, a sports club of the Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party began playing the so-called "Canadian hockey" instead of Bandy. . The first official game took place one year later, on February 15, 1930, between Riga center and a team from Königsbe