Kontinental Hockey League

Kontinental Hockey League

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 (19), Belarus (1), Kazakhstan (1), and China (1) for a total of 22 clubs.

The KHL had in 2025 total attendance of 5,706,785 spectators in the regular season and the average attendance of 7,256 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.

History

History

Ak Bars Kazan after winning the Gagarin Cup in (/wiki/2008–09KHLseason)

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 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash 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 underway 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.

After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the National Hockey League suspended operation of its Memorandum of Understanding with the KHL. An NHL memo instructed NHL teams to "immediately cease all dealings [direct or indirect] with the KHL and KHL Clubs [and all representatives of both], as well as with player agents who are based in and continue to do business in Russia."

Team changes

Finnish team Jokerit joined the league in 2014 and left in 2022

2009–2014

In the 2009–10 season, Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg joined the KHL and Khimik Voskresensk was transferred to a lower league. In the 2010–11 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 Russia's involvement in the Donbas war 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.

2015–2019

Before the 2015–16 season, Atlant Moscow Oblast withdrew from the KHL due to financial issues, while Spartak Moscow returned after a one-year hiatus. The newly created Chinese club HC Kunlun Red Star from Beijing was admitted for the 2016–17 season. Kunlun was established as part of China’s efforts to prepare a competitive national team for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

Before 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.

2020–present

On 24 February 2022, Finnish club Jokerit announced the team would withdraw from the league for the remainder of the season, including the playoffs, due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. On 27 February 2022, Latvian club Dinamo Riga announced that they too would withdraw for the same reasons. Before the 2023–24 season, HC Lada Togliatti rejoined the KHL.

Season structure

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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

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Conference	Division	Team	City	Arena	Capacity	Founded	Joined	Head Coach	Captain
Western Conference	Bobrov	SKA Saint Petersburg	Saint Petersburg	Ice Palace	12,300	1946	2008	Igor Larionov	Sergei Plotnikov
HC Sochi	Sochi, Krasnodar Krai	Bolshoy Ice Dome	12,035	2014	Dmitri Mikhailov	Pavel Dedunov
Spartak Moscow	Moscow	Megasport Arena	12,396	1946	2008	Alexei Zhamnov	Andrei Mironov
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod	Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast	Trade Union Sport Palace	5,500	1947	2008	Alexei Isakov	Alexei Kruchinin
Lada Togliatti	Tolyatti, Samara Oblast	Lada Arena	6,034	1976	2023	Pavel Desyatkov	Vladislav Syomin
Tarasov	CSKA Moscow	Moscow	CSKA Arena	12,300	1946	2008	Igor Nikitin	Pavel Karnaukhov
Dinamo Minsk	Minsk, Belarus	Minsk-Arena	15,086	2004	2008	Dmitri Kvartalnov	Andrei Stas
Dynamo Moscow	Moscow	VTB Arena	10,523	1946	2008	Vyacheslav Kozlov	Igor Ozhiganov
Shanghai Dragons	Shanghai, China (Saint Petersburg)	SKA Arena	21,520	2025	Mitch Love	Spencer Foo
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl Oblast	Arena 2000	8,653	1959	2008	Bob Hartley	Alexander Yelesin
Severstal Cherepovets	Cherepovets, Vologda Oblast	Ice Palace	5,536	1956	2008	Andrei Kozyrev	Adam Liška
Eastern Conference	Kharlamov	Ak Bars Kazan	Kazan, Tatarstan	Tatneft Arena	8,965	1956	2008	Anvar Gatiyatulin	Alexei Marchenko
Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg	Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast	UMMC Arena	12,499	2006	2009	Nikolai Zavarukhin	Nikita Tryamkin
Metallurg Magnitogorsk	Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast	Arena Metallurg	7,704	1950	2008	Andrei Razin	Alexei Maklyukov
Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk	Nizhnekamsk, Tatarstan	SCC Arena	5,500	1968	2008	Igor Grishin	Nikita Khlystov
Traktor Chelyabinsk	Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast	Traktor Ice Arena	7,500	1947	2008	Yevgeni Koreshkov	Alexander Kadeikin
Chernyshev	Admiral Vladivostok	Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai	Fetisov Arena	5,915	2013	Ilnur Gizatullin	Libor Šulák
Amur Khabarovsk	Khabarovsk, Khabarovsk Krai	Platinum Arena	7,100	1966	2008	Alexander Andrievsky	Evgeny Grachyov
Avangard Omsk	Omsk, Omsk Oblast	G-Drive Arena	12,011	1950	2008	Guy Boucher	Damir Sharipzyanov
Barys Astana	Astana, Kazakhstan	Barys Arena	11,626	1999	2008	Mikhail Kravets	Kirill Savitski
Salavat Yulaev Ufa	Ufa, Bashkortostan	Ufa Arena	8,522	1957	2008	Viktor Kozlov	Grigori Panin
Sibir Novosibirsk	Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Oblast	Sibir-Arena	11,650	1962	2008	Yaroslav Lyuzenkov	Sergei Shirokov

Name	City	Arena	Creation	Seasons
Khimik Voskresensk	Voskresensk, Moscow Oblast	Podmoskovie Ice Palace	2005	2008–2009
HC MVD	Balashikha, Moscow Oblast	Balashikha Arena	2004	2008–2010
Lev Poprad	Poprad, Slovakia	Poprad Ice Stadium	2010	2011–2012
HC Donbass	Donetsk, Ukraine	Druzhba Arena	2001	2012–2014
Lev Praha	Prague, Czech Republic	Tipsport Arena	2012	2012–2014
Atlant Mytichtchi	Mytishchi, Moscow Oblast	Mytishchi Arena	1953	2008–2015
Metallurg Novokuznetsk	Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo Oblast	Kuznetsk Metallurgists Sports Palace	1949	2008–2017
Medveščak Zagreb	Zagreb, Croatia	Dom Sportova	1961	2013–2017
Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk	Khanty-Mansiysk, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug	Arena Ugra	2006	2010–2018
Slovan Bratislava	Bratislava, Slovakia	Ondrej Nepela Arena	1921	2012–2019
Jokerit Helsinki	Helsinki, Finland	Hartwall Arena	1967	2014–2022
Dinamo Riga	Riga, Latvia	Arena Riga	2008	2008–2022
HC Vityaz	Balashikha, Moscow Oblast	Balashikha Arena	1996	2008–2025

Players

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KHL match between CSKA Moscow and Dynamo Moscow at CSKA Arena, Moscow

KHL match between HC Lev Praha and Lokomotiv Yaroslavl at O2 Arena, Prague

Before 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 by the KHL was made public one day after the agreement (though it was actually signed two days before the agreement taking effect), leading to an investigation by the International Ice Hockey Federation. 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 also set up rules for the NHL lockout which lasted from 16 September 2012 to 12 January 2013. According to these regulations, each KHL team was allowed to add up to three NHL players to its roster, with only one foreign player allowed. 40 NHL players, the majority of them Russians, played in the KHL during the lockout.

For the 2012–13 season, the KHL board limited Russian clubs to a maximum of five foreign players on their roster and required non-Russian clubs to have at least five players from their respective countries. Foreign goaltenders on Russian teams also became subject to a limit regarding their total seasonal ice time. In response to restrictions on Russian athletes following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the limit on foreign players for Russian clubs was initially reduced to three for the 2023–24 season, then restored to five for the 2024-25 season and onwards.

KHL players are represented by the Kontinental Hockey League Players' Trade Union.

After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, some non-Russian players elected to leave their teams, at the risk of forfeiting their salaries. The departing players included former NHL players Markus Granlund, Nick Shore, Geoff Platt, Kenny Agostino, Teemu Hartikainen, Philip Larsen, Sakari Manninen, Harri Säteri, Jyrki Jokipakka, Joakim Nordström, Lucas Wallmark, and Juho Olkinuora.

Nationalities of players

During the 2023–2024 season, players representing 18 nations 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. For instance, a list of players born in Ukraine gives case-by-case details for some of those players. China has also given citizenship to several hockey players without Chinese ancestry for them to compete internationally for China while allowing them to maintain their previous citizenship. 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 represented about 30–35% of KHL players and were mostly Central European, Nordic, and North American. Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, some non-Russian players elected to leave their teams and clubs Jokerit Helsinki and Dinamo Riga left the league, reducing non-Russians to about 25% of KHL players. In 2023–24, more than 800 players played at least one game in the league (see table below). Russian teams are currently limited to a maximum of three foreign players. —

Country (current number of teams)	Players active (2008-09)	Players active (2009-10)	Players active (2010–11 )	Players active (2011-12)	Players active (2012–13)	Players active (2013–14)	Players active (2014–15)	Players active (2015–16)	Players active (2016–17)	Players active (2017–18)	Players active (2018–19)	Players active (2019–20)	Players active (2020–21)	Players active (2021–22)	Players active (2022–23)	Players active (2023–24)
Austria	1	2	1	1	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	1	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a
Belarus (1 team)	32	31	24	25	35	46	50	43	40	38	34	49	50	42	44	50
Canada	34	28	29	19	31	61	50	35	54	53	59	62	48	56	62	58
China (1 team)	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	3	—N/a	2	—N/a	—N/a	10	5	—N/a
Croatia	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	3	2	2	3	1	1	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	1
Czech Republic	31	30	33	41	46	47	29	35	35	33	28	20	23	20	4	6
Denmark	1	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	1	2	4	3	5	6	4	3	2	—N/a	—N/a
Estonia	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	1	—N/a	1	2	—N/a	1
Finland	8	16	1	33	40	37	50	47	51	40	42	44	53	39	1	1
France	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	1	1	2	—N/a	3	1	1	1	2	1	1
Germany	3	2	2	2	1	3	3	1	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	2	3	2	2	2
Italy	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	2	2	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a
Israel	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	1	—N/a	—N/a	1	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a
Japan	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	1	1
Kazakhstan (1 team)	43	37	37	32	35	36	34	41	33	29	24	23	18	18	21	29
Latvia	31	26	28	27	35	32	29	33	32	31	28	35	33	25	2	1
Lithuania	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	1	3	2	2	1	2	1	1
Norway	—N/a	1	1	2	3	3	3	1	—N/a	1	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a
Russia (19 teams)	538	532	492	475	539	569	592	632	663	644	580	571	638	565	626	629
Slovakia	17	22	28	28	51	43	32	27	27	23	24	6	6	9	9	9
Slovenia	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	2	4	4	4	4	3	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	1	1
South Korea	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	1	1	1	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a
Sweden	11	12	17	20	24	22	28	27	24	26	26	32	35	39	7	4
Switzerland	—N/a	1	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	1	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a
Ukraine	12	12	8	4	10	11	2	2	5	4	2	2	1	1	1	1
United States	11	6	8	5	12	19	25	19	23	20	19	14	17	14	17	23
Total	773	758	727	715	863	936	936	956	1,006	956	884	868	933	847	806	819

Trophies and awards

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Gagarin Cup

The winner of the playoff is awarded the Gagarin Cup. The highest placed Russian team is awarded the Championship of Russia. The team ranked first in the standings after the regular season, i.e. the winner of the regular season, is awarded the Continental Cup (Russian: Кубок Континента, Kubok Kontinenta). The winners of the conference finals are awarded the Eastern Conference Champion Cup (Russian: Кубок Победителю конференции Восток, Kubok Pobeditelyu konferentsii Vostok) and the Western Conference Champion Cup (Russian: Кубок Победителю конференции Запад, Kubok Pobeditelyu konferentsii Zapad).

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 2011 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	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)
2021–22	24	CSKA Moscow	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	4–3	Not determined	Vadim Shipachyov (67 points: 24 G, 43 A)
2022–23	22	CSKA Moscow	Ak Bars Kazan	4–3	SKA Saint Petersburg (105 points)	Dmitrij Jaškin (62 points: 40 G, 22 A)
2023–24	23	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	4–0	Dynamo Moscow (98 points)	Nikita Gusev (89 points: 23 G, 66 A)
2024–25	23	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	Traktor Chelyabinsk	4–1	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl (102 points)	Josh Leivo (80 points: 49 G, 31 A)

Season	Opening Cup Winner	Nadezhda Cup Winner	Golden Stick (Regular Season MVP)	Playoff MVP
2008–09	Salavat Yulaev Ufa	Nadezhda Cup not yet introduced	Danis Zaripov	Alexei Morozov
2009–10	Ak Bars Kazan	Alexander Radulov	Ilya Nikulin
2010–11	Dynamo Moscow	Alexander Radulov	Konstantin Barulin
2011–12	Salavat Yulaev Ufa	Alexander Radulov	Alexander Yeryomenko
2012–13	Dynamo Moscow	Dinamo Riga	Sergei Mozyakin	Alexander Yeryomenko
2013–14	Dynamo Moscow	Avangard Omsk	Sergei Mozyakin	Sergei Mozyakin
2014–15	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	Cancelled due to economic reasons	Alexander Radulov	Ilya Kovalchuk
2015–16	CSKA Moscow	Not contested	Sergei Mozyakin	Sergei Mozyakin
2016–17	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	Sergei Mozyakin	Vasily Koshechkin
2017–18	SKA Saint Petersburg	Nikita Gusev	Justin Azevedo
2018–19	SKA Saint Petersburg	Kirill Kaprizov	Ilya Sorokin
2019–20	Avangard Omsk	Dmitrij Jaškin	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2020–21	Ak Bars Kazan	Vadim Shipachyov	Sergey Tolchinsky
2021–22	Avangard Omsk	Vadim Shipachyov	Aleksandr Popov
2022–23	CSKA Moscow	Dmitrij Jaškin	Mikhail Grigorenko
2023–24	Ak Bars Kazan	Nikita Gusev	Ilya Nabokov

Statistics

Regular season

Record		Name	Season
Points	89	Nikita Gusev (Dynamo Mo.)	2023-24
Goals	49	Josh Leivo (Ufa)	2024-25
Assists	66	Nikita Gusev (Dynamo Mo.)	2023-24
Shots on goal	253	Darren Dietz (Barys)	2018–19
Plus/minus	+48	Vladislav Gavrikov (SKA)	2018–19
Penalty minutes	374	Darcy Verot (Vityaz)	2009–10
Wins	38	Jakub Kovář (Avtomobilist)	2018–19
Shutouts	13	Alexei Murygin (Lokomotiv)	2015–16

Playoffs

Record		Name	Season
Points	33	Sergei Mozyakin (Magnitogorsk)	2013–14
Goals	15	Evgenii Dadonov (SKA)	2014–15
Danis Zaripov (Magnitogorsk)	2016–17
Assists	20	Sergei Mozyakin (Magnitogorsk)	2013–14
Chris Lee (Magnitogorsk)	2016–17
Shots on goal	82	Evgeny Kuznetsov (Chelyabinsk)	2012–13
Plus/minus	+16	Dominik Graňák (Dynamo Moscow)	2012–13
Chris Lee (Magnitogorsk)	2016–17
Penalty minutes	69	Maxim Goncharov (Ufa)	2015–16
Wins	16	Alexander Yeryomenko (Dynamo Moscow)	2011–12, 2012–13
Vasily Koshechkin (Magnitogorsk)	2013–14
Mikko Koskinen (SKA)	2014–15
Emil Garipov (Kazan)	2017–18
Ilya Sorokin (CSKA Moscow)	2018–19
Shutouts	7	Lars Johansson (CSKA Moscow)	2020–21

Regular season

Record		Name	Years
Points	756	Sergei Mozyakin (Atlant, Magnitogorsk)	2008–2021
Goals	351	Sergei Mozyakin (Atlant, Magnitogorsk)	2008–2021
Assists	506	Vadim Shipachyov (Cherepovets, Saint Petersburg, Dynamo Moscow, Ak Bars Kazan, Dinamo Minsk)	2008–2022
Games played	745	Yevgeny Biryukov (Ufa, Magnitogorsk)	2008–2022
Plus/minus	+201	Vadim Shipachyov (Cherepovets, Saint Petersburg, Dynamo Moscow, Ak Bars Kazan, Dinamo Minsk)	2008–2022
Penalty minutes	1088	Evgeny Artyukhin (Saint Petersburg, Atlant, CSKA Moscow, Novosibirsk, Dynamo Moscow, Vityaz, Admiral, Neftekhimik)	2008–2022
Wins	281	Vasily Koshechkin (Togliatti, Magnitogorsk, Cherepovets)	2008–2022
Shutouts	73	Vasily Koshechkin (Togliatti, Magnitogorsk, Cherepovets)	2008–2022

Playoffs

Record		Name	Years
Points	172	Sergei Mozyakin (Atlant, Magnitogorsk)	2008–2021
Goals	68	Sergei Mozyakin (Atlant, Magnitogorsk)	2008–2021
Assists	104	Sergei Mozyakin (Atlant, Magnitogorsk)	2008–2021
Games played	161	Yevgeny Biryukov (Magnitogorsk, Ufa)	2008–2021
Plus/minus	+52	Danis Zaripov (Kazan, Magnitogorsk)	2008–2021
Penalty minutes	312	Grigori Panin (Kazan, CSKA Moscow, Ufa)	2008–2021
Wins	71	Vasily Koshechkin (Togliatti, Magnitogorsk, Cherepovets)	2008–2021
Shutouts	16	Ilya Sorokin (CSKA Moscow)	2015–2020

Longest KHL game

Game duration	Date	Game	Home	Visitor	Result	Overtime goal scorer
142 min 09 sec (5 OT)	22 March 2018	Conference Semi-Finals Game 5	CSKA	Jokerit	1–2	Mika Niemi

All-time team records

Since its foundation in 2008, 35 teams have played in the KHL, with 32 having qualified for at least one postseason. 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.

Attendance statistics

Jokerit – SKA in Helsinki Ice Challenge 2017, with KHL-record attendance (17,645)

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
2020-21	1,791,346	2,329
2021-22	1,842,676	2,771
2022–23	4,792,508	5,740
2023-24	5,929,949	6,879
2024-25	6,543,257	7,530

All-Star Game

Kontinental Hockey League

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, it is now run in a similar format to the NHL All-Star Game, where the four divisions face off in 3v3 matches.