page_title: List of HC Donbass seasons
section_title: Season by season
hierarchical_section_title: List of HC Donbass seasons / Season by season
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Serhiï Varlamov lors de la Coupe Continentale de hockey 2012 à Rouen
context_page_description: HC Donbass is a professional ice hockey team based in Donetsk, a city in the Donets Basin region of Ukraine. The only Ukrainian club playing outside of the Professional Hockey League, Donbass plays in Kontinental Hockey League. Borys Kolesnikov, a prominent Ukrainian politician and businessman, purchased the team in 2010, and since this time the organization has become the most successful in Ukraine.
  Donbass played home games at Leader Arena from 2006 to 2010. In 2011, the team permanently moved to the Druzhba Palace of Sports after its renovations were complete.
  The club was founded in 2005 as Hockey Club Donetsk-Kolbyko and took part in the XIV Ukrainian Championship by competing in the First League. After 3 years of competing only in tournament play, the club returned to the Ukrainian Hockey Championship. In its 4 seasons of national competition beginning in 2008, the franchise won its first title in 2011, before joining the VHL. It was at this time that the organization founded a subsidiary club, Donbass-2, to compete in the Ukrainian Championship in its place. Donbass-2 won its first title in 2012 during the inaugural PHL season.
caption: Serhiy Varlamov, captain of Donbass, played on the 2011 Ukrainian Championship winning roster, and was named to the 2012 All-Ukrainian All Star Team
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