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Piteå HC

ice hockey club in Piteå, Sweden

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ127625 ↗
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Piteå Hockey Club, usually abbreviated Piteå HC, is a Swedish ice hockey club based in Piteå in Norrbotten, Sweden's northernmost county. The club played six seasons, from 1999 to 2005, in Sweden's second-tier league, Allsvenskan. As of the 2013–14 season, the team competes in the "Norra" (north) group of Division 1, the third tier of ice hockey in Sweden.

Piteå HC was founded in 1986 as a merger of the hockey sections of Piteå IF, Munksund/Skuthamns SK, and Öjebyns IF.

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The public source identifies “Piteå HC” as ice hockey club in Piteå, Sweden. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Piteå, hockey and club.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999, 2005, 2013, 1986—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1986-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Piteå, hockey and club providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q127625. VIAF identifies the subject as 313532679. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1999, 2005, 2013 and 1986.

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This entry incorporates text from “Piteå HC” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.