Kontinental Hockey League

The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) () is an international professional ice hockey league founded in 2008. It comprises member clubs based in Belarus (1), China (1), Finland (1), Latvia (1), Kazakhstan (1), and Russia (18) for a total of 23. It is widely considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in Europe and Asia, and second in the world behind North America's National Hockey League. The KHL has the third-highest average attendance in Europe with 6,121 spectators per game in the regular season, and the highest total attendance in Europe with 5.32 million spectators 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.
==History==
===Establishment===
The league formed from the Russian Superleague (RSL) and the champion of the 2007–08 season of the second division, with 24 teams: 21 from Russia and one each from Belarus, Latvia, and Kazakhstan. The teams were divided into four divisions, based on the performance in previous seasons.
The start of the fourth season was overshadowed by the Yaroslavl air disaster on 7 September 2011 in which almost all members of the team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl lost their lives shortly after take-off for their flight to their season opening game in Minsk. The Opening Cup game in Ufa, which was already under way when news of the disaster arrived, was suspended. In memory of the disaster, 7 September remained a day of mourning on which no KHL regular season games took place, until after the 2017–18 KHL season.
Journalist Vsevolod Kukushkin acted as the first press secretary for the league, after it evolved from the Superleague.
===Team changes===
In the 2009–10 season, Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg joined the KHL and Khimik Voskresensk was transferred to a lower league. Next season, Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk joined the league.
After several attempts by teams from Central Europe and Scandinavia to join the KHL, expansion beyond the borders of the former Soviet Union was finally realized in 2011. Lev Poprad, a newly founded team based in Poprad, Slovakia was admitted to the league. But after only one season, Lev was replaced by a team of the same name, Lev Praha, from Prague, Czech Republic, while Slovan Bratislava from Bratislava, Slovakia and Ukraine's Donbass from Donetsk joined the KHL as expansion teams for the 2012–13 season. Lev and Slovan qualified for the playoffs in their first KHL season.
In 2013, Medveščak from Zagreb, Croatia, previously playing in the Austrian Hockey League, and Russian expansion team Admiral Vladivostok joined the league, thus expanding the league even further. The league comprised 28 teams during the 2013–14 season, of which 21 were based in Russia and 7 located in the other countries.
In 2014, Finnish team Jokerit from Helsinki, Lada Togliatti (which previously played in the league), and newly created team HC Sochi joined the league. However, HC Donbass did not play in the league for the 2014–15 season, due to the political instability in Ukraine, but had intended to rejoin later. Two other teams, Lev Praha and Spartak Moscow, also withdrew from the 2014–15 season due to financial problems.
Prior to the 2015–16 season, Atlant Moscow Oblast withdrew from the KHL due to financial issues, while Spartak Moscow returned after a one-year hiatus.League confirms format for 2015–16 season
The newly created Chinese club HC Kunlun Red Star from Beijing was admitted for the 2016–17 season.
Prior to the 2017–18 season, Medveščak Zagreb withdrew from the league to rejoin the Austrian league and Metallurg Novokuznetsk was sent down to the VHL.
After the end of the 2018–19 season, HC Slovan Bratislava withdrew from the KHL due to financial issues to rejoin the Slovak Tipsport Liga.
==Season structure==
Since 2009, the league has been divided into East and West conferences. In the current season, both conferences include 12 teams divided into two divisions of 6 teams. Each team plays four games against each division opponent (20), three games against each non-division conference opponent (18), and two games against each non-conference opponent (24) for a total of 62 games.
The eight top-ranked teams in each conference receive playoff berths. Within each conference quarterfinals, semifinals and finals are played before the conference winners play against each other for the Gagarin Cup. The division winners are seeded first and second in their conference, based on their regular season record. All playoff rounds are played as best-of-seven series. In each round, the top seeded remaining team is paired with the lowest seeded team etc.
In the 2012–13 season, the Nadezhda Cup (Cup of Hope) was introduced, a consolation tournament for the teams who did not qualify for the playoffs. The winning team in the tournament wins the first overall pick in the KHL Junior Draft. The tournament is intended to extend the season and help maintain interest in hockey in the cities of these teams, and help players of national teams prepare for upcoming World Championships.
==Teams==
Division 	Team 	City 	Arena 	Capacity	Founded	Joined	Head Coach 	Captain
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Bobrov 	Jokerit Helsinki 	Helsinki 	Hartwall Arena 	13,349 	1967 	2014 	Lauri Marjamäki 	Marko Anttila
Bobrov 	Severstal Cherepovets 	Cherepovets 	Ice Palace 	5,583 	1956 	2008 	Andrei Razin 	Yuri Trubachyov
Bobrov 	SKA Saint Petersburg 	Saint Petersburg 	Ice Palace 	12,300 	1946 	2008 	Valeri Bragin 	Evgeny Ketov
Bobrov 	HC Sochi 	Sochi 	Bolshoy Ice Dome 	12,000 	2014 	2014 	Yevgeni Stavrovsky	Yuri Alexandrov
Bobrov 	Spartak Moscow 	Moscow 	CSKA Arena 	12,100 	1946 	2008 	Boris Mironov 	Vacant
Bobrov 	Vityaz Moscow Oblast 	Podolsk 	Vityaz Ice Palace 	5,500 	1996 	2008 	Yuri Babenko 	Vacant
Tarasov 	CSKA Moscow 	Moscow 	CSKA Arena 	12,100 	1946 	2008 	Igor Nikitin 	Sergei Andronov
Tarasov 	Dinamo Minsk 	Minsk 	Minsk-Arena 	15,086 	2004 	2008 	Craig Woodcroft 	Rob Klinkhammer
Tarasov 	Dinamo Riga 	Riga 	Arēna Rīga 	10,300 	2008 	2008 	Sergei Zubov 	Lauris Dārziņš
Tarasov 	Dynamo Moscow 	Moscow 	VTB Arena 	10,495 	1946 	2008 	Alexei Kudashov 	Vadim Shipachyov
Tarasov 	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 	Yaroslavl 	Arena 2000 	9,070 	1959 	2008 	Andrei Skabelka 	Vacant
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Kharlamov 	Ak Bars Kazan 	Kazan 	TatNeft Arena 	8,895 	1956 	2008 	Dmitri Kvartalnov 	Danis Zaripov
Kharlamov 	Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg	Yekaterinburg 	KRK Uralets 	5,545 	2006 	2009 	Bill Peters 	Pavel Datsyuk
Kharlamov 	Metallurg Magnitogorsk 	Magnitogorsk 	Arena Metallurg 	7,704 	1950 	2008 	Ilya Vorobiev 	Sergei Mozyakin
Kharlamov 	Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk 	Nizhnekamsk 	SCC Arena 	5,500 	1968 	2008 	Oleg Leontyev 	Aleksandr Osipov
Kharlamov 	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod 	Nizhny Novgorod 	Trade Union Sport Palace 	5,500 	1947 	2008 	David Nemirovsky 	Anton Shenfeld
Kharlamov 	Traktor Chelyabinsk 	Chelyabinsk 	Traktor Ice Arena 	7,500 	1947 	2008 	Anvar Gatiyatulin 	Sergey Kalinin
Chernyshev	Amur Khabarovsk 	Khabarovsk 	Platinum Arena 	7,100 	1966 	2008 	Vladimir Vorobyov 	Vacant
Chernyshev	Avangard Omsk 	Omsk 	Balashikha Arena (temporary) 	5,678 	1950 	2008 	Bob Hartley 	Alexei Emelin
Chernyshev	Barys Nur-Sultan 	Nur-Sultan 	Barys Arena 	11,502 	1999 	2008 	Yuri Mikhailis 	Darren Dietz
Chernyshev	Red Star Kunlun 	Beijing ( Mytishchi)	Mytishchi ArenaDue to the on-going travel restrictions against the COVID-19 pandemic, Kunlun Red Star determined that they would be unable to play in Cadillac Arena situated in Beijing, China for the 2020–21 season. In August, the club signed a contract to play out of Mytishchi Arena located on the outskirts of Moscow.	7,000 	2016 	2016 	Alexei Kovalev 	Vacant
Chernyshev	Salavat Yulaev Ufa 	Ufa 	Ufa Arena 	8,070 	1957 	2008 	Tomi Lämsä 	Grigori Panin
Chernyshev	Sibir Novosibirsk 	Novosibirsk 	Ice Sports Palace Sibir 	7,420 	1962 	2008 	Andrei Martemyanov	Yevgeni Chesalin
*Kontinental Hockey League on Google Maps
An asterisk (*) denotes a franchise relocation. See the respective team articles for more information.
==Players==
Though now not as restrictive in maintaining an exclusively Russian composition of players and teams, Russian teams are still not allowed to sign more than five foreign players, while non-Russian teams must have at least five players from their respective countries. Foreign goaltenders on Russian teams are subject to a limit regarding their total seasonal ice time.
Prior to the inaugural season, several KHL teams signed several players from the NHL. A dispute between the two leagues over some of these signings was supposed to have been resolved by an agreement signed on 10 July 2008, whereby each league would honor the contracts of the other, but the signing of Alexander Radulov was made public one day after the agreement (though it was actually signed two days prior to the agreement taking effect), leading to an investigation by the International Ice Hockey Federation.Predator inks debatable deal – iihf.com On 4 October 2010, the conflict between the leagues was settled when both signed a new agreement to honor one another's contracts.
The league set up rules for the NHL lockout which lasted from 16 September 2012 to 12 January 2013. According to the special regulations, each KHL team was allowed to add up to three NHL players to its roster, among them at most one foreign player. More than 40 NHL players, the majority of them Russians, played in the KHL during the lockout.
KHL players are represented by the Kontinental Hockey League Players' Trade Union.
===Nationalities of players===
During the current season, players representing 16 nations have played at least one game in the KHL. A player's nationality is for various reasons sometimes ambiguous. For the table presented below, the nationality "is determined based on the last country that the player represented in international competition. If a player has never played for a national team, usually the country of birth is chosen as the player nationality, unless there is strong evidence indicating otherwise". For players born in former Soviet republics, the situation is often more complex due to dual citizenship and naturalization. Therefore, a list of players born in Ukraine gives case-by-case details for some of those players. In some cases, players can change their nationality registration with the league on a year-by-year basis, and their nationality with the league may not match that of their International Ice Hockey Federation registration. Non-Russians represent about 30-35% of the KHL players, and are mostly Central European, Nordic, and North American. In 2015–16, more than 950 players played in the league (see table below). Russian teams are limited to a maximum of 5 foreign players per squad. limit on foreigners in the KHL
Country (current number of teams)	Players active(2012–13)2012–13 KHL season, Quanthockey, Retrieved 24 April 2015	Players active(2013–14)2013–14 KHL season, Quanthockey, Retrieved 24 April 2015	Players active(2014–15)2014–15 KHL season, Quanthockey, Retrieved 24 April 2015	Players active(2015–16)2015–16 KHL season, Quanthockey, Retrieved 28 April 2016	Players active(2016–17)2016–17 KHL season, Quanthockey, Retrieved 5 March 2019	Players active(2017–18)2017–18 KHL season, Quanthockey, Retrieved 5 March 2019	Players active(2018–19)2018–19 KHL season, Quanthockey, Retrieved 5 March 2019
Belgium 	– 	– 	– 	– 	1 	– 	–
Canada 	36 	69 	56 	41 	52 	53 	61
China (1 team) 	– 	– 	– 	– 	3 	– 	2
Croatia 	– 	3 	2 	2 	7 	1 	1
Czech Republic 	46 	47 	29 	35 	35 	33 	28
Denmark 	– 	1 	2 	4 	3 	5 	6
Finland (1 team) 	40 	37 	50 	47 	51 	42 	45
France 	– 	– 	1 	1 	2 	– 	3
Germany 	1 	3 	3 	1 	– 	– 	–
Italy 	– 	– 	– 	1 	2 	– 	–
Israel 	– 	– 	– 	– 	– 	1 	–
Kazakhstan (1 team) 	30 	29 	28 	36 	40 	38 	34
Latvia (1 team) 	35 	34 	29 	34 	33 	34 	34
Lithuania 	– 	– 	– 	– 	– 	2 	1
Norway 	3 	3 	3 	1 	– 	1 	–
Russia (19 teams) 	540 	573 	594 	634 	679 	663 	605
Slovakia 	51 	43 	32 	27 	28 	24 	24
Slovenia 	– 	2 	4 	4 	4 	4 	3
Sweden 	24 	22 	28 	27 	23 	25 	25
Switzerland 	– 	– 	– 	– 	1 	– 	–
Ukrainea 	11 	12 	3 	3 	3 	1 	–
United States 	13 	20 	27 	21 	23 	20 	20
Total 	863 	938 	936 	957 	1,027 	913 	918
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
* a – For further information, see: List of Ukrainians in the KHL
== Trophies and awards ==
The winner of the playoff is awarded the Gagarin Cup. The highest placed Russian team is awarded the title of the Russian champion. The team ranked first in the standings after the regular season, i.e. the winner of the regular season, is awarded the Continental Cup (). The winners of the conference finals are awarded the Eastern Conference Champion Cup () and the Western Conference Champion Cup ().
The KHL presents annual awards to its most successful players. The KHL also awards the Opening Cup annually to the winner of the first game between the Gagarin Cup winner and the runner-up of the previous season. On 10 September 2011, three days after the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash, the KHL head office decided to honor the deceased in the 2011 Opening Cup. The League gives the Andrey Starovoytov Award annually to its referees of the year, also called the "Golden Whistle".
===Seasons overview===
Season 	Teams	Gagarin Cup Winner 	Gagarin Cup finalist 	Final score 	Continental Cup Winner 	Top scorer
2008–09	24 	Ak Bars Kazan 	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 	4–3 	Salavat Yulaev Ufa* (129 points) 	Sergei Mozyakin (76 points: 34 G, 42 A)
2009–10	24 	Ak Bars Kazan 	HC MVD 	4–3 	Salavat Yulaev Ufa (129 points) 	Sergei Mozyakin (66 points: 27 G, 39 A)
2010–11	23 	Salavat Yulaev Ufa 	Atlant Moscow Oblast 	4–1 	Avangard Omsk (118 points) 	Alexander Radulov (80 points: 20 G, 60 A)
2011–12	23 	Dynamo Moscow 	Avangard Omsk 	4–3 	Traktor Chelyabinsk (114 points) 	Alexander Radulov (63 points: 25 G, 38 A)
2012–13	26 	Dynamo Moscow 	Traktor Chelyabinsk 	4–2 	SKA Saint Petersburg (115 points)	Sergei Mozyakin (76 points: 35 G, 41 A)
2013–14	28 	Metallurg Magnitogorsk 	HC Lev Praha 	4–3 	Dynamo Moscow (115 points) 	Sergei Mozyakin (73 points: 34 G, 39 A)
2014–15	28 	SKA Saint Petersburg 	Ak Bars Kazan 	4–1 	CSKA Moscow (139 points) 	Alexander Radulov (71 points: 24 G, 47 A)
2015–16	28 	Metallurg Magnitogorsk 	CSKA Moscow 	4–3 	CSKA Moscow (127 points) 	Sergei Mozyakin (67 points: 32 G, 35 A)
2016–17	29 	SKA Saint Petersburg 	Metallurg Magnitogorsk 	4–1 	CSKA Moscow (137 points) 	Sergei Mozyakin (85 points: 48 G, 37 A)
2017–18	27 	Ak Bars Kazan 	CSKA Moscow 	4–1 	SKA Saint Petersburg (138 points)	Ilya Kovalchuk (63 points: 31 G, 32 A)
2018–19	25 	CSKA Moscow 	Avangard Omsk 	4–0 	CSKA Moscow (106 points) 	Nikita Gusev (82 points: 17 G, 65 A)
2019–20	24 	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic	CSKA Moscow (94 points) 	Vadim Shipachyov (65 points: 17 G, 48 A)
2020–21	23 	Avangard Omsk 	CSKA Moscow 	4–2 	CSKA Moscow (91 points) 	Vadim Shipachyov (66 points; 20 G, 46 A)
*: In the first season, Salavat Yulaev Ufa was the winner of the regular season, but the Continental Cup was not yet awarded.
Season 	Opening Cup Winner 	Nadezhda Cup Winner 	Priceless Player (MVP)
2008–09	Salavat Yulaev Ufa 	Nadezhda Cup not yet introduced 	Danis Zaripov
2009–10	Ak Bars Kazan 	Nadezhda Cup not yet introduced 	Alexander Radulov
2010–11	Dynamo Moscow 	Nadezhda Cup not yet introduced 	Alexander Radulov
2011–12	Salavat Yulaev Ufa 	Nadezhda Cup not yet introduced 	Alexander Radulov
2012–13	Dynamo Moscow 	Dinamo Riga 	Sergei Mozyakin
2013–14	Dynamo Moscow 	Avangard Omsk 	Sergei Mozyakin
2014–15	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	Cancelled due to economic reasons	Alexander Radulov
2015–16	CSKA Moscow 	Not contested 	Sergei Mozyakin
2016–17	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	Not contested 	Sergei Mozyakin
2017–18	SKA Saint Petersburg 	Not contested 	Nikita Gusev
2018–19	SKA Saint Petersburg 	Not contested 	Kirill Kaprizov
2019–20	Avangard Omsk 	Not contested 	TBD
==Statistics==
===Single season records===
====Regular season====
Record 	 	Name 	Season
Points 	85 	Sergei Mozyakin (Magnitogorsk)	2016–17
Goals 	48 	Sergei Mozyakin (Magnitogorsk)	2016–17
Assists 	65 	Nikita Gusev (SKA) 	2018–19
Shots on goal 	253	Darren Dietz (Barys) 	2018–19
Plus/minus 	+48	Vladislav Gavrikov (SKA) 	2018–19
Penalty minutes	374	Darcy Verot (Chekhov) 	2009–10
Wins 	38 	Jakub Kovář (Avtomobilist) 	2018–19
Shutouts 	13 	Alexei Murygin (Yaroslavl) 	2015–16
====Playoffs====
Record 	 	Name 	Season
Points 	33 	Sergei Mozyakin (Magnitogorsk) 	2013–14
Goals 	15 	Evgenii Dadonov (SKA) 	2014–15
Goals 	15 	Danis Zaripov (Magnitogorsk) 	2016–17
Assists 	20 	Sergei Mozyakin (Magnitogorsk) 	2013–14
Assists 	20 	Chris Lee (Magnitogorsk) 	2016–17
Shots on goal 	82 	Evgeny Kuznetsov (Chelyabinsk) 	2012–13
Plus/minus 	+16	Dominik Graňák (Dynamo Moscow) 	2012–13
Plus/minus 	+16	Chris Lee (Magnitogorsk) 	2016–17
Penalty minutes	69 	Maxim Goncharov (Ufa) 	2015–16
Wins 	16 	Alexander Yeryomenko (Dynamo Moscow)	2011–12, 2012–13
Wins 	16 	Vasily Koshechkin (Magnitogorsk) 	2013–14
Wins 	16 	Mikko Koskinen (SKA) 	2014–15
Wins 	16 	Emil Garipov (Kazan) 	2017–18
Wins 	16 	Ilya Sorokin (CSKA Moscow) 	2018–19
Shutouts 	7 	Lars Johansson (CSKA Moscow) 	2020–21
===Career records===
====Regular season====
Record 	 	Name 	Years
Points 	755 	Sergei Mozyakin (Atlant, Magnitogorsk) 	2008–2021
Goals 	350 	Sergei Mozyakin (Atlant, Magnitogorsk) 	2008–2021
Assists 	433 	Vadim Shipachyov (Cherepovets, SKA, Dynamo Moscow) 	2008–2021
Games played 	684 	Sergei Mozyakin (Atlant, Magnitogorsk) 	2008–2021
Plus/minus 	+194	Alexander Radulov (Ufa, CSKA Moscow) 	2008–2016
Penalty minutes	1050	Evgeny Artyukhin (SKA, Atlant, CSKA Moscow, Sibir, Dynamo Moscow, Vityaz)	2010–2021
Wins 	271 	Vasily Koshechkin (Togliatti, Magnitogorsk, Cherepovets) 	2008–2021
Shutouts 	71 	Vasily Koshechkin (Togliatti, Magnitogorsk, Cherepovets) 	2008–2021
====Playoffs====
Record 	 	Name 	Years
Points 	172	Sergei Mozyakin (Atlant, Magnitogorsk) 	2009–2021
Goals 	68 	Sergei Mozyakin (Atlant, Magnitogorsk) 	2009–2021
Assists 	104	Sergei Mozyakin (Atlant, Magnitogorsk) 	2009–2021
Games played 	161	Yevgeny Biryukov (Magnitogorsk, Ufa) 	2009–2021
Plus/minus 	+52	Danis Zaripov (Kazan, Magnitogorsk) 	2009–2021
Penalty minutes	312	Grigori Panin (Kazan, CSKA Moscow, Ufa) 	2009–2021
Wins 	71 	Vasily Koshechkin (Togliatti, Magnitogorsk, Cherepovets)	2009–2021
Shutouts 	16 	Ilya Sorokin (CSKA Moscow) 	2015–2020
==KHL's longest match==
Match time 	Date 	Match 	Home	Visitor	Result	Overtime goal scorer
142:09 mins	22 March 2018	5. Conference Semi-Finals	CSKA	Jokerit	1-2 	Mika Niemi
===All-time team records===
Since its foundation in 2008, 35 different clubs have played in the KHL, and 32 of them have at least once qualified for the playoffs. Of the 24 founding teams, only Metallurg Novokuznetsk and Khimik Voskresensk had never qualified for the playoffs (both are no longer in the league). The table gives the final regular-season ranks for all teams, with the playoff performance encoded in colors. The teams are ordered by their best championship results.
Club	Club 	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020[c]	2021
 	Ak Bars Kazan 	2 	8 	4 	6 	2 	4 	4 	12 	7 	4 	8 	2 	2
 	Metallurg Magnitogorsk 	6 	3 	5 	4 	7 	2 	6 	8 	3 	8 	6 	13 	7
 	SKA Saint Petersburg 	8 	2 	7 	2 	1 	3 	2 	10 	2 	1 	2 	3 	6
 	Dynamo Moscow[a] 	7 	5 	6 	3 	4 	1 	3 	6 	4 	18 	10 	7 	3
 	CSKA Moscow 	4 	12 	19 	18 	6 	12 	1 	1 	1 	2 	1 	1 	1
 	Avangard Omsk 	16 	11 	1 	5 	3 	20 	8 	5 	6 	12 	7 	6 	4
 	Salavat Yulaev Ufa 	1 	1 	2 	8 	9 	8 	14 	9 	15 	10 	11 	12 	8
 	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl[b] 	3 	7 	3 	 	8 	15 	10 	2 	5 	5 	4 	11 	5
 	Traktor Chelyabinsk 	12 	18 	18 	1 	5 	19 	15 	19 	10 	6 	17 	21 	9
 	Atlant Moscow Oblast 	5 	6 	8 	9 	17 	17 	16 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	Lev Praha 	 	 	 	 	15 	5 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	HC MVD Balashikha 	18 	4 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	Sibir Novosibirsk 	19 	20 	11 	20 	12 	13 	7 	7 	19 	14 	18 	10 	18
 	Barys Nur-Sultan 	15 	14 	14 	10 	10 	7 	11 	17 	13 	19 	5 	4 	11
 	Jokerit Helsinki 	 	 	 	 	 	 	5 	3 	12 	3 	9 	5 	10
 	Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk 	14 	9 	15 	17 	14 	25 	22 	16 	20 	9 	19 	16 	20
 	Donbass Donetsk 	 	 	 	 	18 	6 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	Spartak Moscow 	9 	10 	12 	19 	23 	23 	 	21 	26 	16 	13 	9 	16
 	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod 	11 	15 	17 	7 	20 	9 	12 	11 	9 	11 	14 	15 	14
 	Dinamo Riga 	10 	13 	13 	15 	24 	10 	21 	22 	28 	26 	16 	23 	23
 	Severstal Cherepovets 	17 	16 	9 	11 	11 	18 	17 	27 	23 	17 	22 	20 	13
 	Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg	 	19 	20 	22 	26 	14 	18 	14 	21 	7 	3 	8 	12
 	Dinamo Minsk 	22 	17 	16 	13 	19 	26 	9 	18 	8 	20 	24 	24 	15
 	Sochi 	 	 	 	 	 	 	13 	4 	14 	15 	12 	19 	21
 	Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk 	 	 	10 	14 	16 	22 	25 	23 	25 	27 	 	 	
 	Amur Khabarovsk 	20 	21 	22 	12 	25 	28 	28 	25 	22 	13 	23 	17 	19
 	Vityaz Podolsk 	23 	23 	21 	23 	22 	24 	20 	24 	11 	21 	15 	14 	17
 	Admiral Vladivostok 	 	 	 	 	 	16 	19 	13 	16 	22 	21 	22 	
 	Slovan Bratislava 	 	 	 	 	13 	21 	26 	15 	17 	24 	25 	 	
 	Medveščak Zagreb 	 	 	 	 	 	11 	23 	20 	24 	 	 	 	
 	Lada Togliatti 	13 	22 	 	 	 	 	24 	26 	27 	25 	 	 	
 	Kunlun Red Star Beijing 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	18 	23 	20 	18 	22
 	Metallurg Novokuznetsk 	21 	24 	23 	16 	21 	27 	27 	28 	29 	 	 	 	
 	Lev Poprad 	 	 	 	21 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	Khimik Voskresensk 	24 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Color 	Result
Red 	Gagarin Cup Winner
Yellow 	Runner-up
Green 	Conference finalist
Light Blue	Conference semifinalist
Blue 	Qualified for playoffs
Purple 	Nadezhda Cup Winner
Light Gray	Not qualified for playoffs
Gray 	Did not play in the season
 [a]: Includes record of Dynamo Moscow before the merger with HC MVD in 2010
 [b]: Did not participate in the 2011–12 season due to the deadly air disaster on 7 September 2011, that killed the entire team
 [c]: Conference semifinals cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
===Attendance statistics===
Total and average attendance by season, including play-offs:
Season 	Total Attendance	Average Attendance
2008–09	3,886,948 	6,233
2009–10	4,223,698 	6,264
2010–11	4,293,271 	6,944
2011–12	4,320,908 	6,861
2012–13	4,775,086 	6,912
2013–14	5,190,133 	6,614
2014–15	6,066,093 	7,405
2015–16	5,875,645 	7,065
2016–17	5,892,889 	7,210
2017–18	5,318,175 	7,005
2018–19	5,644,804 	7,544
2019–20	5,118,949 	6,854
==All-Star Game==
 
The Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game is an exhibition game held annually at the midway point (usually January or February) of the season, with the league's star players playing against each other. Previously played in a Russian players versus the "rest of the world" format, now it is Eastern versus Western Conference.
==See also==
* Ice Hockey Federation of Russia
* List of Soviet and Russian ice hockey champions
* List of Soviet and Russian ice hockey scoring champions
* List of Soviet and Russian ice hockey goal scoring champions
* List of current KHL team rosters
== References ==
== External links ==
;Official KHL
* Kontinental Hockey League official website 
* Kontinental Hockey League official website 
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;Third party
* KHL vs NHL exhibition games official homepage
* KHL news and stats from Eurohockey
* Kontinental Hockey League Players' Trade Union 
 
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