KHL - Bobrov Division - Dinamo Riga

The club was re-founded on 7 April 2008 and among the founders of the club were Guntis Ulmanis, Kirovs Lipmans, Aigars Kalvītis, Juris Savickis, Viesturs Koziols and others. However, on 27 May Latvian ice hockey federation president Kirovs Lipmans stepped out of the project, because of a possible clash of interests. After the first season, also Viesturs Koziols left the project. In the first season of the franchise team was led by players like Masaļskis, Prusek, Westcott, Ņiživijs, Hossa and others. After 2008-09 forward Aigars Cipruss decided to retire and instantly became the manager of Dinamo Riga farm club Dinamo-Juniors Riga. Team finished the regular season in tenth position, higher than anyone would have predicted before the start of the season. However, in the first round of league playoffs Dinamo lost to Dynamo Moscow, which later advanced to Gagarin Cup semifinals. Following the first season, Dinamo managed to sign legendary Sandis Ozoliņš, as well as Jānis Sprukts, Mārtiņš Karsums and others. The team finished regular season in the eighth place of Western Conference, which qualified them for the playoffs. In the first round of the playoffs Dinamo faced SKA Saint Petersburg with players like Zubov, Cajanek, Sushinsky and Yashin on the roster. Still, Dinamo managed to beat SKA and advance to Western Conference semifinals. In the semifinals, Dinamo was defeated by later Gagarin Cup finalist HC MVD 1-4.

In December 2009, it was announced that 15 players from Dinamo Riga would be on the 2010 Olympic roster for Latvia's Ice Hockey team. Mārtiņš Karsums was then added to Dinamo Riga in January 2010; along with Marcel Hossa representing Slovakia, 17 players in all from the club played in the Olympics.

After his league-leading performance, Marcel Hossa signed a 2-year contract with the current KHL champions Ak Bars Kazan. Martin Kariya signed a 2-year contract with Swiss NLA's HC Ambri-Piotta. New players signed during the off-season include Tomáš Surový, Brock Trotter, Mikael Tellqvist and the returning Mark Hartigan. Július Šupler resumed his post as the head coach. Team finished season in seventh place in Western Conference and thirteenth in league, as the team qualified to the playoffs. In first round their opponents were Dynamo Moscow. Dinamo won the series 2-4, advancing to next round and facing Lokomotiv Yaroslavl. Dinamo lost series 1-4. As of the end of third season, head coach Július Šupler left the team to be the coach of CSKA Moscow. On April 27, 2011 Dinamo signed Pekka Rautakallio for the head coach position. Also, all the foreign players with no active contracts left the team to play somewhere else. Brock Trotter also left using chance to play in NHL, Montreal Canadiens.
Dinamo signed numerous new players for the upcoming season, from Latvia: Mārtiņš Cipulis, Māris Jučers and for probationary period: Kristiāns Pelšs, Armands Bērziņš and foreign players: Jamie Lundmark, Niclas Lucenius, Björn Melin, Fredrik Warg. Soon, however, Melin was fired. During the season team added also Jakub Šindel, Ville Nieminen and Marcel Hossa to its roster, but Jakub Šindel and Ville Nieminen also got fired.
Apart from Itera, which is one of the owners of the team, Dinamo Riga sponsors include companies such as Aldaris, LDZ Cargo, Skonto Būve among others.
Record
USSR 
Runners-up – 1988.
KHL 
2008-09 - 11th
2009-10 - 8th
2010-11 - 8th
2011-12 - 15th
2012-13 - 24th
2013-14 - 12th
2014-15 - 21st


Roster

96	forward	Bicevskis Maris	03.08.1991	Latvia
71	forward	Bukarts Roberts	27.06.1990	Latvia	30.04.2016
44	defense	Cibulskis Oskars	09.04.1988	Latvia
10	forward	Darzins Lauris	28.01.1985	Latvia	30.04.2017
25	forward	Dzerins Andris	14.02.1988	Latvia
-	goaltender	Eriksson Joacim	08.09.1990	Sweden
5	defense	Galvins Guntis	25.01.1986	Latvia
23	defense	Jerofejevs Aleksandrs	12.04.1984	Latvia
-	defense	Kundratek Tomas	16.12.1989	Czech Republic
18	forward	Leino Ville	06.10.1983	Finland
87	forward	Meija Gints	04.09.1987	Latvia
-	forward	Rask Victor	01.03.1993	Sweden
9	defense	Redlihs Krisjanis	15.01.1981	Latvia	30.04.2016
19	forward	Redlihs Mikelis	01.07.1984	Latvia
17	forward	Saulietis Kaspars	12.06.1987	Latvia
55	forward	Schutz Felix	03.11.1987	Germany
36	goaltender	Sedlacek Jakub	05.04.1990	Czech Republic	30.04.2016
-	defense	Seigo Steven	01.08.1990	Canada
-	forward	Sestito Tim	28.08.1984	USA
-	defense	Sevcenko Eriks	28.04.1991	Latvia
13	forward	Skvorcovs Gunars	13.01.1990	Latvia
11	defense	Sotnieks Kristaps	29.01.1987	Latvia

Arena
Arena Riga - Skanstes 50, Riga, Latvia, LV-1013