Russian KHL

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Established
2008 (17 years old)

First Recorded Event
2008-09-02

Current Season
2025-2026

Current Round

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Ice Hockey

Location
Russia

Gender
Male

TV Rights
US - Next Level Sports [2020-2021]

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Upcoming
05 Dec	Salavat Y	2:00pm	Ak Bars K
05 Dec	Traktor C	2:00pm	CSKA Mosc
05 Dec	Avtomobil	2:00pm	Severstal
05 Dec	Barys Nur	2:30pm	Spartak M
05 Dec	HC Lada T	3:00pm	Dynamo Mo
05 Dec	Neftekhim	4:30pm	Metallurg
05 Dec	Shanghai	4:30pm	Torpedo N
06 Dec	Amur Khab	7:00am	SKA Saint
06 Dec	Admiral V	7:00am	Lokomotiv
07 Dec	Avangard	11:00am	Spartak M
Results
04 Dec	Avangard	5 - 2	HC Sochi
04 Dec	Admiral V	1 - 3	SKA Saint
04 Dec	Amur Khab	0 - 3	Lokomotiv
03 Dec	Shanghai	3 - 2	Salavat Y
03 Dec	CSKA Mosc	4 - 5	Torpedo N
03 Dec	Severstal	0 - 1	Dynamo Mo
03 Dec	Ak Bars K	5 - 3	Traktor C
03 Dec	Avtomobil	5 - 6	Metallurg
03 Dec	Sibir Nov	6 - 7	Spartak M
02 Dec	Lokomotiv	3 - 4	SKA Saint

Description

The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL; Russian: Континентальная хоккейная лига (КХЛ), romanized: Kontinental'naya khokkeynaya liga) is an international professional ice hockey league founded in 2008. It comprises member clubs based in Russia (20), Belarus (1), Kazakhstan (1), and China (1) for a total of 23 clubs.

It was considered in 2015 to be the strongest professional ice hockey league in Europe and Asia, and the second-strongest in the world behind North America's National Hockey League. The KHL had in 2017 the highest total attendance in Europe with 15.32 million spectators in the regular season and third-highest average attendance in Europe with 26,121 spectators per game in the regular season. The Gagarin Cup is awarded annually to the league's playoff champion at the end of each season. The title of Champion of Russia is given to the highest-ranked Russian team.

Seasons

2025-2026	2024-2025	2023-2024	2022-2023
2021-2022	2020-2021	2019-2020	2018-2019
2017-2018	2016-2017	2015-2016	2014-2015
2013-2014	2012-2013	2011-2012	2010-2011
2009-2010	2008-2009

Teams

Admiral Vladivost	Ak Bars Kazan	Amur Khabarovsk	Avangard Omsk
Avtomobilist Yeka	Barys Nur-Sultan	CSKA Moscow	Dinamo Minsk
Dynamo Moscow	HC Lada Togliat	HC Sochi	Lokomotiv Yarosla
Metallurg Magnito	Neftekhimik Nizhn	Salavat Yulaev Uf	Severstal Cherepo
Shanghai Dragons	Sibir Novosibirsk	SKA Saint Petersb	Spartak Moscow
Torpedo Nizhny No	Traktor Chelyabin