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The Club Hockey Hielo Txuri Urdin Izotz Hockey Taldea or CHH Txuri Urdin IHT ( + ) is a Basque ice hockey club based in Donostia (San Sebastián) in the Basque Country of northeastern Spain. The men's representative team plays in the Liga Nacional de Hockey Hielo, where they have won twelve Spanish Championships. The club’s home arena is Txuri Urdin Izotz Jauregia (Palacio del Hielo Txuri Urdin)

It was founded in 1972 as the reserve team for Real Sociedad HH,  They play their home games at in Donostia (San Sebastián) in the Basque Country of northern Spain.

The team was founded as the reserve team of Real Sociedad, one of the six founding clubs of the Superliga Española, the predecessor of the Liga Nacional de Hockey Hielo.

History
In 1972, the Superliga Española de Hockey Hielo was established with six teams. , which created a reserve team called, CHH Txuri Urdin IHT.One of the Founding teams Real Sociedad HH  the highest Spanish ice hockey league. After the city rival Real Sociedad HH the double of championship and cup victory in the first three years, the Txuri Urdin (Basque for "blue and white") succeeded in 1976 as the first team to dethrone Real Sociedad. In the same year, the ice hockey department of the Real Sociedad sports club dissolved, so that Txuri Urdin was from then on the only ice hockey first division in the city. Txuri Urdin has won the championship eleven times and the cup seven times (most recently there was a double from the championship and cup in 2000). The club also won the Basque Cup (1993).

Achievements

 * Spanish Hockey League:
 * Champions (12) : 1976, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2017, 2018, 2019
 * Copa del Rey (Ice Hockey):
 * Winners (8) : 1979, 1980, 1990, 1991, 1994, 2000, 2016, 2018
 * Euskal Herriko Kopa (Basque Cup):
 * Winners (1): 1993