Kontinental Hockey League

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Kontinental Hockey League
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2021–22 KHL season
FormerlyRussian Superleague
SportIce hockey
Founded2008
CEOAlexander Medvedev
MottoХоккей – наша игра! (Hockey is our game!)[1]
No. of teams22
Country Russia (19 teams)
 Kazakhstan (1 team)
 Belarus (1 team)
 China (1 team)
Most recent
champion(s)
CSKA Moscow
Most titlesAk Bars Kazan (3)
TV partner(s)KHL-TV (Russia (as part of the NTV Plus package), International (part of ViaNetTV),[2] Others through KHL's website)
Russia 2 (Russia)
Qazsport (Kazakhstan)
Belarus 5 (Belarus)
CCTV-5+ (China)
Related
competitions
Russian Championship
VHL
Minor Hockey League
Official websiteKHL.ru (English)

The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) (Russian: Континентальная Хоккейная Лига, Kontinental'naya Khokkeynaya Liga) is an international professional ice hockey league in Eurasia founded in 2008.

Teams in 2021–22[change | change source]

References[change | change source]

  1. "Новый игровой ролик КХЛ "Пробка"" (in Russian). khl.ru. Archived from the original on 2010-08-09. Retrieved 2010-08-16.
  2. "Crossing the Atlantic". khl.ru. 2010-04-20. Archived from the original on 2014-01-16. Retrieved 2010-04-20.