Winston-Salem’s new professional hockey team will announce its name and other details at a news conference Wednesday in the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds Annex.

The city, the fairgrounds, the team and the city’s Public Assembly Facilities Commission will be part of the press conference, which will begin at 11:30 a.m.

Officials said the news conference would include information on the ownership of the team, a fan participation contest, team goals and league information as well as more about the team president and general manager.

The facilities commission announced on Aug. 19 that it had reached an agreement with an ownership group to field a team here with the Federal Hockey League.

The team was said to be looking at playing its first games in the 2017-18 season.

The last professional hockey team to operate here was the Twin City Cyclones, which folded in 2009, three days after the team’s final game of the season. In 2014, there was talk of another ownership group affiliated with the FHL making a move here, but it never materialized.

Winston-Salem will be joining Raleigh, Charlotte and Fayetteville among North Carolina cities with professional hockey.