Salavat Yulaev Ufa

Hockey Club Salavat Yulaev (), commonly referred as Salavat Yulaev Ufa, is a Russian professional ice hockey team based in Ufa. They are members of the Chernyshev Division of the Kontinental Hockey League.
Established in 1961, Salavat Yulaev spent the Soviet era mainly in the lower divisions, only appearing in the top league for five seasons, though since the dissolution of the Soviet Union they have been in the top league in Russia.
They have won the Gagarin Cup as the KHL champion once, in 2011, and have won the regular season championship twice, in 2009 and 2010, winning the inaugural Continental Cup for the latter. They also won the final Russian Superleague title, in 2008.
==History==
===Soviet era===
Founded in 1961, the club is named after Salavat Yulaev, a national hero of Bashkortostan. After years of competing in the low-level divisions the team was invited to the second level of the Soviet League "Class A" in 1964, subsequently getting promotion to the elite group for the 1978-1979, 1980-81, 1982-83, 1985-1986 and 1986-1987 seasons.
===Post-Soviet era===
Salavat Yulaev was one of the founding clubs of the International Hockey League and later the Russian Superleague, and normally advanced to the playoffs at that time. The club reached its first Russian championship semifinals in 1996-97 and eventually won its first Championship title in 2007-08, beating Lokomotiv Yaroslavl by three matches to two.
===KHL era===
On July 11, 2008, Salavat signed NHL rising star Alexander Radulov.
On June 9, 2009, a press release was issued, stating that Viktor Kozlov had signed a three-year contract to return to Russia. The club has also signed Norwegian forward Patrick Thoresen for the 2009–10 and 2010–11 seasons.
Salavat Yulaev marked its first year in the KHL by winning its first two regular season titles and becoming the first club to be awarded the Continental Cup. The following season, the team advanced to the final against Atlant and won their first Gagarin Cup as champions. They remained a powerful club in the KHL over the following seasons, reaching the playoffs each year, though did not advance past the conference finals in any year.
In March 2022, all four Finnish players, including the all-time scoring leader Teemu Hartikainen, and Geoff Platt and Philip Larsen left the team due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
==Honors==
===Champions===
 Gagarin Cup (1): 2011
 KHL Regular Season / Continental Cup (2): 2009, 2010
 Opening Cup (2): 2008–09, 2011-12
 Russian Superleague (1): 2008
 Federation Cup (1): 1995
 Soviet League Class A2 (5): 1978, 1980, 1982, 1985, 1992
 Pajulahti Cup (1): 2003
 Clas Ohlson Cup (1): 2009
===Runners-up===
 KHL 2013–14, 2015–16
 Continental Cup (1): 1997
 Spengler Cup (2): 2007, 2014
 Russian Superleague (1): 1997
 IHL Championship (1): 1995
==Season-by-season KHL record==
Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, OTW = Overtime Wins, SOW = Penalty Shootout Wins, SOL = Penalty Shootout Losses, L = Losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, Pts = Points
Season 	GP	W 	L 	OTL	Pts	GF 	GA 	Finish 	Top Scorer 	Playoffs
2008–09	56	38	8 	2 	129	203	116	1st, Bobrov 	Alexei Tereshchenko (58 points: 29 G, 29 A; 55 GP) 	Lost in Preliminary Round, 1–3 (Avangard Omsk)
2009–10	56	37	8 	1 	129	215	116	1st, Chernyshev	Alexander Radulov (63 points: 24 G, 39 A; 54 GP) 	Lost in Conference Finals, 2-4 (Ak Bars Kazan)
2010–11	54	29	12	0 	109	210	144	2nd, Chernyshev	Alexander Radulov (80 points: 20 G, 60 A; 54 GP) 	Gagarin Cup Champions, 4-1 (Atlant Moscow Oblast)
2011–12	54	23	18	1 	89 	173	152	2nd, Chernyshev	Alexander Radulov (63 points: 25 G, 38 A; 50 GP) 	Lost in Conference Quarterfinals, 4-2 (Ak Bars Kazan)
2012–13	52	24	17	0 	88 	148	140	2nd, Chernyshev	Igor Mirnov (37 points: 21 G, 16 A; 49 GP) 	Lost in Conference Semifinals, 4-3 (Ak Bars Kazan)
2013–14	54	25	16	3 	94 	140	155	2nd, Chernyshev	Dmitri Makarov (40 points: 11 G, 29 A; 54 GP) 	Lost in Conference Finals, 4-1 (Metallurg Magnitogorsk)
2014–15	60	25	27	2 	86 	173	158	4th, Chernyshev	Kirill Koltsov (48 points: 18 G, 30 A; 60 GP) 	Lost in Conference Quarterfinals, 4-2 (Metallurg Magnitogorsk)
2015–16	60	29	22	3 	101	179	156	3rd, Chernyshev	Linus Omark (57 points: 18 G, 39 A; 60 GP) 	Lost in Conference Finals, 1–4 (Metallurg Magnitogorsk)
2016–17	60	27	20	13 	88 	169	174	3rd, Chernyshev	Linus Omark (56 points: 14 G, 42 A; 55 GP) 	Lost in Conference Quarterfinals, 1–4 (Ak Bars Kazan)
2017–18	56	31	20	5 	93 	151	139	1st, Chernyshev	Linus Omark (55 points: 16 G, 39 A; 55 GP) 	Lost in Conference Semifinals, 3–4 (Traktor Chelyabinsk)
2018–19	62	31	21	10 	72 	158	140	3rd, Chernyshev	Linus Omark (49 points: 10 G, 39 A; 56 GP) 	Lost in Conference Finals, 2–4 (Avangard Omsk)
2019–20	62	29	23	10 	68 	153	144	3rd, Chernyshev	Linus Omark (54 points: 12 G, 42 A; 59 GP) 	Won in Conference Quarterfinals, 4–2 (Avangard Omsk)Playoffs cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2020–21	60	28	17	5 	81 	181	151	2nd, Chernyshev	Teemu Hartikainen (64 points: 28 G, 36 A; 53 GP) 	Lost in Conference Semifinals, 0–4 (Ak Bars Kazan)
2021–22	45	28	11	6 	62 	131	96 	1st, Chernyshev	Markus Granlund (38 points: 8 G, 30 A; 41 GP) 	Lost in Conference Semifinals, 2–4 (Traktor Chelyabinsk)
2022–23	68	38	20	10 	86 	174	141	1st, Chernyshev	Sergei Shmelyov (51 points: 19 G, 32 A; 67 GP) 	Lost in Conference Quarterfinals, 2–4 (Admiral Vladivostok)
2023–24	68	42	20	6 	90 	196	143	2nd, Chernyshev	Alexander Chmelevski (56 points: 27 G, 29 A; 67 GP)	Lost in Conference Quarterfinals, 2–4 (Traktor Chelyabinsk)
==References==
==External links==
* Salavat Yulaev official website
* NHL.com article on hockey in Ufa
Category:Ice hockey teams in Russia