Kontinental Hockey League facts for kids

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Quick facts for kids
Kontinental Hockey League

Formerly	Russian Superleague (RSL)
Sport	Ice hockey
Founded	2008; 17 years ago (2008)
President	Alexei Morozov
Motto	Хоккей – наша игра! (Hockey is our game!) Хакей – наша гульня! Хоккей – біздің ойын! 冰球，就是我们的生活！
No. of teams	23
Country	Russia (20 teams) Belarus (1 team) Kazakhstan (1 team) China (1 team)
Most recent champion(s)	Metallurg Magnitogorsk (3rd title)
Most titles	HC CSKA Moscow Ak Bars Kazan Metallurg Magnitogorsk (3 titles each)
TV partner(s)	KHL TV, KHL TV Prime (Russia (as part of the NTV Plus package), Russia and international through KHL's website) Match TV (Russia) Belarus 5 (Belarus) Qazsport (Kazakhstan) CCTV-5+ (China)
Related competitions	Supreme Hockey League (VHL) Junior Hockey League (MHL)

The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) is a big international professional ice hockey league. It started in 2008. Teams from Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and China play in it. There are 23 clubs in total.

Many people think the KHL is one of the best ice hockey leagues in the world. It is especially strong in Europe and Asia. At the end of each season, the winning team gets the Gagarin Cup. The best Russian team also earns the title of Champion of Russia.

History of the KHL

The KHL was formed from an older league called the Russian Superleague (RSL). It started with 24 teams. Most teams were from Russia, and others were from Belarus, Latvia, and Kazakhstan. The teams were put into four groups based on how well they had played before.

A sad event happened at the start of the 2011–12 KHL season. On September 7, 2011, almost all the players from the team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl lost their lives in a plane crash. Because of this, September 7 was a day of mourning for the KHL for many years. No games were played on that day.

How KHL Teams Have Changed

Over the years, the KHL has seen many teams join and leave. This has made the league grow and change.

New Teams Join and Others Leave (2009–2014)

In the 2009–10 season, Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg joined the KHL. Another team, Khimik Voskresensk, moved to a lower league. The next season, Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk became part of the KHL.

The KHL also started to include teams from outside the former Soviet Union. In 2011, Lev Poprad from Poprad, Slovakia, joined. After one season, a new team with a similar name, Lev Praha, from Prague, Czech Republic, took its place. Also, Slovan Bratislava from Bratislava, Slovakia, and Ukraine's Donbass from Donetsk joined in 2012–13. Both Lev and Slovan did well and made it to the playoffs in their first year.

In 2013, Medveščak from Zagreb, Croatia, and Admiral Vladivostok from Russia joined. This made the league even bigger, with 28 teams.

In 2014, the Finnish team Jokerit from Helsinki joined. Lada Togliatti also returned to the league, and a new team, HC Sochi, was created. However, HC Donbass did not play in the 2014–15 season. Two other teams, Lev Praha and Spartak Moscow, also had to leave that season because of money problems.

Recent Team Changes (2015–Present)

Before the 2015–16 season, Atlant Moscow Oblast left the KHL due to money issues. But Spartak Moscow came back after a year away. In 2016–17, a new Chinese club, HC Kunlun Red Star from Beijing, joined.

Before the 2017–18 season, Medveščak Zagreb left to play in the Austrian league again. Metallurg Novokuznetsk was moved to a lower league.

After the 2018–19 season, HC Slovan Bratislava left the KHL because of money problems. They rejoined the Slovak Tipsport Liga.

In February 2022, the Finnish club Jokerit and the Latvian club Dinamo Riga announced they would leave the league. This was due to international events. In the 2023–24 season, HC Lada Togliatti rejoined the KHL.

How the KHL Season Works

Original logo in Latin script and Cyrillic script until 2016

Since 2009, the KHL has been split into two main groups: the East and West conferences. Each conference has 12 teams, divided into two smaller groups of 6 teams called divisions.

Each team plays 62 games in the regular season. They play four games against teams in their own division. They play three games against other teams in their conference. Finally, they play two games against teams from the other conference.

The top eight teams from each conference get to play in the playoffs. In the playoffs, teams play against each other in rounds. The winners of each conference then play for the Gagarin Cup. All playoff rounds are best-of-seven series, meaning a team needs to win four games to move on.

In the 2012–13 season, the Nadezhda Cup (Cup of Hope) was added. This was a tournament for teams that didn't make the playoffs. It helped keep interest in hockey in those cities and helped players get ready for international games.

KHL Teams

Current KHL Teams
Conference	Division	Team	City	Arena	Capacity	Founded	Joined	Head Coach	Captain
Western Conference	Bobrov	SKA Saint Petersburg	Saint Petersburg	SKA Arena	21,542	1946	2008	Roman Rotenberg	Anton Burdasov
		HC Sochi	Sochi, Krasnodar Krai	Bolshoy Ice Dome	12,035	2014		Dmitri Kokorev	Nikita Tochitsky
		Spartak Moscow	Moscow	Megasport Arena	12,616	1946	2008	Alexei Zhamnov	Sergei Shirokov
		Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod	Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast	Trade Union Sport Palace	5,500	1947	2008	Igor Larionov	Ziyat Paigin
		HC Vityaz	Balashikha, Moscow Oblast	Balashikha Arena	5,678	1996	2008	Dmitry Ryabykin	Fyodor Malykhin
	Tarasov	CSKA Moscow	Moscow	CSKA Arena	11,880	1946	2008	Sergei Fedorov	Nikita Nesterov
		Dinamo Minsk	Minsk	Minsk-Arena	15,086	2004	2008	Dmitri Kvartalnov	Dmitry Korobov
		Dynamo Moscow	Moscow	VTB Arena	10,721	1946	2008	Alexei Kudashov	Vadim Shipachyov
		Red Star Kunlun	Beijing (Mytishchi, Moscow Oblast)	Mytishchi Arena	7,114	2016		Viktors Ignatjevs	Brandon Yip
		Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl Oblast	Arena 2000	9,070	1959	2008	Igor Nikitin	Alexei Marchenko
		Severstal Cherepovets	Cherepovets, Vologda Oblast	Ice Palace	5,583	1956	2008	Andrei Kozyrev	Yegor Morozov
Eastern Conference	Kharlamov	Ak Bars Kazan	Kazan, Tatarstan	Tatneft Arena	8,895	1956	2008	Zinetula Bilyaletdinov	Danis Zaripov
		Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg	Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast	KRK Uralets	5,545	2006	2009	Nikolai Zavarukhin	Nikita Tryamkin
		Lada Togliatti	Tolyatti, Samara Oblast	Lada Arena	6,122	1976	2023	Oleg Bratash	Mikhail Fisenko
		Metallurg Magnitogorsk	Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast	Arena Metallurg	7,704	1950	2008	Andrei Razin	Egor Yakovlev
		Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk	Nizhnekamsk, Tatarstan	SCC Arena	5,500	1968	2008	Oleg Leontyev	Marat Khairullin
		Traktor Chelyabinsk	Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast	Traktor Ice Arena	7,500	1947	2008	Alexei Zavarukhin	Sergei Kalinin
	Chernyshev	Admiral Vladivostok	Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai	Fetisov Arena	5,678	2013		Leonīds Tambijevs	Dmitry Lugin
		Amur Khabarovsk	Khabarovsk, Khabarovsk Krai	Platinum Arena	7,100	1966	2008	Andrei Martemyanov	Michal Jordan
		Avangard Omsk	Omsk, Omsk Oblast	G-Drive Arena	12,011	1950	2008	Mikhail Kravets	Alexei Emelin
		Barys Astana	Astana	Barys Arena	11,040	1999	2008	Oleg Bolyakin	Roman Starchenko
		Salavat Yulaev Ufa	Ufa, Bashkortostan	Ufa Arena	8,522	1957	2008	Viktor Kozlov	Grigori Panin
		Sibir Novosibirsk	Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Oblast	Sibir-Arena	10,634	1962	2008	Sergei Krivokrasov	Yevgeni Chesalin

Former KHL Teams
Name	City	Arena	Seasons Played
Khimik Voskressensk	Voskresensk, Moscow Oblast	Podmoskovie Ice Palace	2008–2009
HC MVD	Balashikha	Balashikha Arena, Moscow Oblast	2008–2010
Lev Poprad	Poprad	Poprad Ice Stadium	2011–2012
HC Donbass	Donetsk	Druzhba Arena	2012–2014
Lev Praha	Prague	Tipsport Arena	2012–2014
Atlant Mytichtchi	Mytishchi, Moscow Oblast	Mytishchi Arena	2008–2015
Metallurg Novokuznetsk	Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo Oblast	Kuznetsk Metallurgists Sports Palace	2008–2017
Medveščak Zagreb	Zagreb	Dom Sportova	2013–2017
Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk	Khanty-Mansiysk, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug	Arena Ugra	2010–2018
Slovan Bratislava	Bratislava	Ondrej Nepela Arena	2012–2019
Jokerit Helsinki	Helsinki	Hartwall Arena	2014–2022
Dinamo Riga	Riga	Arena Riga	2008–2022

KHL Players

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

KHL teams have rules about how many players from other countries they can sign. Russian teams can have up to five foreign players. Teams from other countries in the KHL must have at least five players from their home country.

Sometimes, players from the National Hockey League (NHL) in North America have joined KHL teams. The KHL and NHL have an agreement to respect each other's player contracts.

During the 2012–13 NHL lockout (when NHL players were not playing), more than 40 NHL players came to play in the KHL. Most of them were Russian. KHL teams were allowed to add up to three NHL players to their team during this time.

KHL players have a group that represents them, called the Kontinental Hockey League Players' Trade Union.

After some international events in 2022, some non-Russian players chose to leave their KHL teams. This meant they might not get their full salaries.

Player Nationalities in the KHL

Players from many different countries have played in the KHL. A player's nationality is usually based on the last country they played for in international games. If they haven't played for a national team, their birth country is often used.

About 30–35% of KHL players are not Russian. They often come from Central Europe, Nordic countries, and North America. In the 2015–16 season, over 950 players played in the league. Russian teams can only have a maximum of 5 foreign players on their team.

Country (current number of teams)	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)
Austria	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1
Belarus (1 team)	33	43	50	41	38	39	35	49	50
Belgium	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Canada	32	63	51	35	53	51	58	60	47
China (1 team)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	3	N/A	2	N/A	N/A
Croatia	1	4	4	4	6	2	1	N/A	N/A
Czech Republic	45	47	29	35	35	33	28	20	23
Denmark	N/A	1	2	4	3	5	6	4	3
Finland	40	37	51	48	51	42	45	46	54
France	N/A	N/A	1	1	2	N/A	3	1	1
Germany	1	2	2	1	N/A	N/A	N/A	2	3
Italy	N/A	N/A	N/A	2	2	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Israel	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1	N/A	N/A	N/A
Kazakhstan (1 team)	33	37	34	40	37	38	33	38	30
Latvia	35	34	29	34	33	33	29	35	34
Lithuania	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	2	1	1	N/A
Norway	3	3	3	1	N/A	1	N/A	N/A	N/A
Russia (19 teams)	569	599	613	657	678	661	596	586	659
Slovakia	53	44	32	28	28	24	24	6	6
Slovenia	N/A	2	4	4	4	4	3	N/A	N/A
South Korea	1	1	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Sweden	24	21	27	26	23	25	24	30	33
Switzerland	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1	N/A	N/A	1	N/A
Ukraine	12	17	2	2	4	2	N/A	N/A	N/A
United States	14	21	26	20	25	20	20	14	17
Total	896	976	960	983	1,027	983	908	893	961

KHL Trophies and Awards

Gagarin Cup

The team that wins the KHL playoffs gets the famous Gagarin Cup. The best Russian team in the league is named the Champion of Russia. The team that finishes first in the regular season standings wins the Continental Cup.

The winners of the conference finals get special trophies too. These are the Eastern Conference Champion Cup and the Western Conference Champion Cup.

The KHL also gives out awards to its best players each year. The Opening Cup is given to the winner of the very first game of the season. This game is played between the previous season's Gagarin Cup winner and the runner-up. The league also gives the Andrey Starovoytov Award to the best referees of the year, also known as the "Golden Whistle."

KHL Season Winners 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)

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		not announced	Ilya Nabokov

KHL Statistics and Records

These tables show some of the best performances by players in the KHL.

Top Single Season Records

Regular Season Records

Record		Name	Season
Points	89	Nikita Gusev (Dynamo Mo.)	2023-24
Goals	48	Sergei Mozyakin (Magnitogorsk)	2016–17
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

Playoff Records

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
		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

Top Career Records

Regular Season Career Records

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)	2008–2022
Games played	745	Yevgeny Biryukov (Ufa, Magnitogorsk)	2008–2022
Plus/minus	+201	Vadim Shipachyov (Cherepovets, Saint Petersburg, Dynamo Moscow, Ak Bars Kazan)	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

Playoff Career Records

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

KHL's Longest Match Ever

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 Performance Records

Since the KHL started in 2008, 35 different clubs have played in the league. 32 of these teams have made it to the playoffs at least once. The table below shows how teams have ranked in the regular season over the years. The colors show how well they did in the playoffs.

	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	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	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	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

KHL Attendance Statistics

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

This table shows how many people attended KHL games each season, including playoff games.

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

KHL All-Star Game

The Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game is a special game held every year in the middle of the season. The best players from the league play against each other. It used to be "Russian players versus the rest of the world." Now, it's more like the NHL All-Star Game, where the four divisions play each other in 3-on-3 matches.