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{{Infobox sports league
| title          = Kontinental Hockey League
| current_season = 2015–16 KHL season
| logo           = KHL logo shield 2016.png
| pixels         = 200px
| caption        =
| formerly       = [[Russian Superleague]]
| sport          = Ice hockey
| founded        = 2008
| fame           =
| motto          = Хоккей – наша игра! ''Khokkey - nasha igra!'' (''Hockey is our game!'')<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.khl.ru/video/1295/ |title=Новый игровой ролик КХЛ "Пробка" |publisher=khl.ru |accessdate=2010-08-16 |language=Russian}}</ref>
| inaugural      =
| teams          = 28
| country        = {{Flagicon|BLR}} [[Belarus]] (1 team)<br />{{Flagicon|CRO}} [[Croatia]] (1 team)<br/><!--{{CZE}} (1 team)<br/>-->{{FIN}} (1 team)<br/>{{KAZ}} (1 team)<br /> {{Flagicon|LAT}} [[Latvia]] (1 team) <br />{{RUS}} (22 teams) <br />{{SVK}} (1 team) <!-- {{UKR}} (1 team) -->
| champion       = {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Metallurg Mednogorsk]] (2nd title)
| most_champs    = {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Ak Bars Kazan]] (2)<br /> {{flagicon|RUS}} [[HC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]] (2)<br>{{flagicon|RUS}} [[Metallurg Mednogorsk]] (2)
| qualification  =
| folded         =
| website        = [http://en.khl.ru en.KHL.ru] 
| singles        =
| ceo            = Alexander Medvedev
| director       =
| tv             =
| related_comps  =[[Supreme Hockey League]] (VHL)<br/>[[Junior Hockey League]] (MHL)
| founder        =
}}
[[File:KHL logo shield.png|thumb|250px|Original logo until 2016]]
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. It is commonly considered to be the strongest hockey league in Europe, and the second-best in the world.

The league was formed in 2008, from a predecessor organization, the [[Russian Superleague]] (RSL). The KHL began its operations with 24 teams. After minor changes in the composition of the Russian teams and even a reduction to 23 teams for two seasons, the league expanded to 26 teams for the 2012–13 season: Lokomotiv Yaroslavl returned after missing last season due to the air disaster in 2011, Slovan Bratislava from Slovakia and HC Donbass from Donetsk, Ukraine joined the league, while Lev Poprad were replaced by Lev Praha, a team with the same name, but based in Prague, Czech Republic. Thus, for the first time, the league consists of 26 teams, of which 20 are based in [[Russia]] and 6 more are located in [[Belarus]], [[Croatia]], [[Finland]], [[Latvia]], [[Kazakhstan]], and [[Slovakia]].

The winner of the 16-team playoff after the end of the regular season is awarded the [[Gagarin Cup]], named after the first man to reach space and orbit the Earth, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The title of Champion of Russia is given to the highest ranked Russian team.

Russians constitute a large majority of the players in the KHL because of its origins as the Soviet and Russian national league. Players not from Russia represent a minority of 33% of the KHL players, and are mostly Eastern European (17.0%), Scandinavian (7.7%), and North American (4.6%). In 2011–12, there were 701 players in the league.

Despite the word "Continental" traditionally being spelled with a C and not a K in the English language, the KHL transliterates the word with a K to distinguish it from numerous leagues that are abbreviated as CHL, such as the Canadian Hockey League and the Central Hockey League, and so that its abbreviation can look similar in both the Cyrillic and Roman alphabets.

==Team changes==
In season 2009-10 joined team [[Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg]] and [[Khimik Voskresensk (2005)|Khimik Voskresensk]] was transferred to a lower league. Next season joined [[HC Yugra]].

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. [[HC Lev Poprad|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, [[HC Lev Praha|Lev Praha]], from [[Prague]], [[Czech Republic]], while [[HC Slovan Bratislava|Slovan Bratislava]] from [[Slovakia]] and [[Ukraine]]'s [[HC Donbass|Donbass]] joined the KHL as expansion teams.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iihf.com/en/home-of-hockey/news/news-singleview/recap/6557.html|title=Lev from Slovakia to Prague|publisher=IIHF.com|date=2012-03-30}}</ref> Lev and Slovan managed to draw considerable public interest and qualified for the play-offs in their first KHL season.

In 2013 [[KHL Medveščak|Medveščak]] from [[Croatia]] and Russian [[Admiral Vladivostok]] joined the league, thus expanding the league even further.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.khl.ru/news/2013/04/29/128623.html|title=Medveščak to join the league from 2013-14 season|publisher=khl.ru|date=2013-04-29}}</ref> The league comprised 28 teams during the [[2013–14 KHL season|2013-14]] season, of which 21 are based in [[Russia]] and 7 more are located in the other countries.

In 2014 [[Finland|Finnish]] team [[Jokerit]] from [[Helsinki]], [[HC Lada Togliatti|Lada Togliatti]] (which previously played in the league), and a newly created team named [[HC Sochi]] have joined the league.<ref name="Welcome, Jokerit and Sochi; welcome back, Lada">{{cite web|url=http://en.khl.ru/news/2014/04/30/27837.html|title=Welcome, Jokerit and Sochi; welcome back, Lada |date=2014-04-30|accessdate=2014-05-03}}</ref> However, HC Donbass do not play in the league this season, due to the political instability in Ukraine, but intend to rejoin for the 2015–16 season.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.khl.ru/news/2014/06/19/27872.html|title=Donbass to miss 2014-15 season|date=2014-06-19|accessdate=2014-06-19}}</ref> Two other teams, Lev Praha and [[HK Spartak Moscow|Spartak Moscow]], also withdrew from the 2014-2015 season due to financial problems.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sport.aktualne.cz/nadeje-vyhasla-lev-praha-definitivne-konci-v-khl/r~d296cb2a011e11e4a60c0025900fea04/|title=Naděje vyhasla. Lev Praha definitivně končí v KHL|date=2014-07-01|accessdate=2014-07-01}}</ref><ref name=" ">{{cite news |title=У министра конструктивная позиция по легионерам |url=http://www.championat.com/hockey/article-195235-prezident-kkhl--o-ska-spartake-limite-fkhr.html |date=2014-04-22 |accessdate=2014-05-10 }}</ref>

Prior to the [[2015–16 KHL season|2015–16 season]], [[Atlant Moscow Oblast]] withdrew from the KHL and on the contrary [[HC Spartak Moscow|Spartak Moscow]] is returning to the league.<ref>[http://en.khl.ru/news/2015/06/17/235081.html League confirms format for 2015-16 season]</ref>

The Chinese club [[HC Kunlun Red Star]] were admitted for the [[2016–17 KHL season|2016–17 season]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.khl.ru/news/2016/06/25/308626.html|title=It's Official! Kunlun Red Star joins the KHL|author=KHL|date=2016-06-25|publisher=en.KHL.ru|accessdate=2016-06-26}}</ref>

==Season structure==
Since 2009, the league is divided into East and West conferences. In the current season, each conference includes 14 teams divided into two divisions, 7 teams per division. During the regular season, each team plays 60 games: four games against each team in their own division, two games against each of the remaining teams in the same conference, one game against each team of the other conference and 8 extra games against selected opponents.

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.[16] In the playoffs, overtime periods last 20 minutes (or until a goal is scored). The number of overtime periods is not limited.

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 Championship.

==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 country. Foreign goaltenders on Russian teams have a limit regarding total seasonal ice time.

Prior to the inaugural season, several KHL teams signed several players from the NHL.[19] A dispute between the two leagues over some of these signings was supposed to have been resolved by an agreement signed on July 10, 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),[20] leading to an investigation by the International Ice Hockey Federation.[21] On October 4, 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.

==History==
===Founding (2008)===
The KHL was founded in 2008 with 24 teams, the 20 teams from the [[2007–08 Russian Superleague season|last season]] of the [[Russian Superleague]] as well as the champion of the [[2007–08 Vysshaya Liga season|2007–08 season]] of the [[Russian Major League|second division]]. In addition, one team each from [[Latvia]], [[Belarus]] and [[Kazakhstan]] were included. The teams were divided into 4 divisions, based on the performance in previous seasons. The [[2008–09 KHL season|first season]] got under way on 2 September 2008 and ended in April 2009 with Ak Bars Kazan becoming the first ever winner of the [[Gagarin Cup]].

===Introduction of conferences (2009)===
In an effort to reduce the large travel distances for the teams, the second season saw the introduction of two conferences (East and West) and the re-alignment of the divisions according to geographical criteria. Despite efforts to expand the league to Central and Western Europe, only minor changes in the compositions of the Russian teams happened in the first three seasons. In the Gagarin Cup finals, teams from the East dominated with Ak Bars Kazan winning twice and Salavat Yulaev Ufa once.

===Yaroslavl air disaster (2011)===
The start of the fourth season was overshadowed by the Yaroslavl air disaster on 7 September 2011 in which almost the entire team of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl was killed shortly after take-off for their flight to their season opening game in Minsk. The [[Lokomotiv Cup|Opening Cup]] game in Ufa, which was already under way when news of the disaster arrived, was abandoned and the start of the season postponed by five days. Lokomotiv Yaroslavl was forced to withdraw from the KHL season, but later played part of the [[Russian Major League|VHL]] season and returned to the KHL in 2012.

===Expansion to Central Europe (2011 and 2012)===
After several failed attempts of 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. Lev failed to reach the play-offs, but managed to draw considerable interest and sold out many of their home matches. For the 2012–13 season, Lev is replaced by a team of the same name, Lev Praha, from Prague, [[Czech Republic]], while  Slovan Bratislava from Slovakia and [[Ukraine]]'s HC Donbass join the KHL.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iihf.com/en/home-of-hockey/news/news-singleview/recap/6557.html|title=Lev from Slovakia to Prague|publisher=IIHF.com|date=2012-03-30}}</ref>

===Seasons overview===
{|class="wikitable"
!Season||[[Gagarin Cup]] Winner|| Gagarin Cup finalist|| [[Continental Cup (KHL)|Continental Cup]] Winner|| Top scorer
|-
|[[2008–09 KHL season|2008–09]]||{{flagicon|RUS}} '''[[Ak Bars Kazan]]'''||{{flagicon|RUS}} [[Lokomotiv Yaroslavl]]||{{flagicon|RUS}} [[Salavat Yulaev Ufa]]* <small>(129 points)</small>||{{flagicon|RUS}} Sergei Mozyakin <small>(76 points: 34 G, 42 A) </small>
|-
|[[2009–10 KHL season|2009–10]]|| {{flagicon|RUS}} '''[[Ak Bars Kazan]]'''||{{flagicon|RUS}} [[HC MVD]]||{{flagicon|RUS}} [[Salavat Yulaev Ufa]] <small>(129 points)</small>||{{flagicon|RUS}} Sergei Mozyakin <small>(66 points: 27 G, 39 A) </small>
|-
|[[2010–11 KHL season|2010–11]]||{{flagicon|RUS}} '''[[Salavat Yulaev Ufa]]'''||{{flagicon|RUS}} [[Atlant Moscow Oblast]] ||{{flagicon|RUS}} [[Avangard Omsk]] <small>(118 points)</small> ||{{flagicon|RUS}} Alexander Radulov <small>(80 points: 20 G, 60 A) </small>
|-
|[[2011–12 KHL season|2011–12]]||{{flagicon|RUS}} '''[[HC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]]'''||{{flagicon|RUS}} [[Avangard Omsk]]||{{flagicon|RUS}} [[Traktor Chelyabinsk]] <small>(114 points)</small>||{{flagicon|RUS}} Alexander Radulov <small>(63 points: 25 G, 38 A) </small>
|-
|[[2012–13 KHL season|2012–13]]||{{flagicon|RUS}} '''[[HC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]]'''||{{flagicon|RUS}} [[Traktor Chelyabinsk]]||{{flagicon|RUS}} [[SKA Saint Petersburg]] <small>(115 points)</small>||{{flagicon|RUS}} Sergei Mozyakin <small>(76 points: 35 G, 41 A) </small>
|-
|[[2013–14 KHL season|2013–14]]|| {{flagicon|RUS}} '''[[Metallurg Magnitogorsk]]''' ||{{flagicon|CZE}} [[HC Lev Praha]]  ||{{flagicon|RUS}} [[HC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]] <small>(115 points)</small>|| {{flagicon|RUS}} Sergei Mozyakin <small>(73 points: 34 G, 39 A) </small>
|-
|[[2014–15 KHL season|2014–15]]|| '''[[SKA Saint Petersburg]]'''  || [[Ak Bars Kazan]] || [[HC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]] <small>(139 points)</small> || Alexander Radulov <small>(71 points: 24 G, 47 A) </small>
|-
|[[2015–16 KHL season|2015–16]]|| '''[[Metallurg Magnitogorsk]]''' || [[HC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]] || [[HC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]] <small>(127 points)</small>|| Sergei Mozyakin <small>(67 points: 32 G, 35 A) </small> 
|}

<small>*: In the [[2008–09 KHL season|first season]], [[Salavat Yulaev Ufa]] was the winner of the regular season, but the [[Continental Cup (KHL)|Continental Cup]] was not yet awarded.</small>

==Trophies and awards==
[[File:Gagarincup.gif|right|thumb|200px|Gagarin Cup]]
The winner of the playoff is awarded the [[Gagarin Cup]], the KHL Champion title and the [[List of Soviet and Russian ice hockey champions|Russian Champion]] title, regardless of the country the club represents. The team ranked first in the standings after the regular season, i.e. the winner of the regular season, is awarded the [[Continental Cup (KHL)|Continental Cup]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://en.khl.ru/news/2010/3/5/23808.html |title=Ufa’s first trophy  |publisher=khl.ru |accessdate=5 March 2010}}</ref> ({{lang-ru|Кубок Континента, Kubok Kontinenta}}). The winners of the [[KHL Conference Finals|conference finals]] are awarded the Eastern Conference Champion Cup ({{lang-ru|Кубок Победителю конференции Восток, Kubok Pobeditelyu konferentsii Vostok}}) and the Western Conference Champion Cup ({{lang-ru|Кубок Победителю конференции Запад, Kubok Pobeditelyu konferentsii Zapad}}).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.khl.ru/news/2010/3/4/26511.html |title=Новые трофеи Лиги |publisher=khl.ru |accessdate=4 March 2010}}</ref>

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 September 10, 2011, three days after the [[2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster]], the KHL head office decided to honor the deceased in the 2011 Opening Cup.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.khl.ru/news/2012/09/05/43922.html|title=Официальное заявление КХЛ : Континентальная Хоккейная Лига (КХЛ)|publisher=|accessdate=13 May 2015}}</ref>

{|class="wikitable"
!Season || [[Opening Cup]] Winner || [[Nadezhda Cup]] Winner || Gold Stick Award (MVP)
|-
|[[2008–09 KHL season|2008–09]] || {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Salavat Yulaev Ufa]] 
| rowspan=4 style="text-align: center;" | ''not contested'' || {{flagicon|RUS}} Danis Zaripov
|-
|[[2009–10 KHL season|2009–10]] || {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Ak Bars Kazan]] || {{flagicon|RUS}} Alexander Radulov
|-
|[[2010–11 KHL season|2010–11]] || {{flagicon|RUS}} [[HC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]] || {{flagicon|RUS}} Alexander Radulov
|-
|[[2011–12 KHL season|2011–12]] || {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Salavat Yulaev Ufa]] || {{flagicon|RUS}} Alexander Radulov
|-
|[[2012–13 KHL season|2012–13]] || {{flagicon|RUS}} [[HC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]] || {{flagicon|LAT}} [[Dinamo Riga]]  || {{flagicon|RUS}} Sergei Mozyakin
|-
|[[2013–14 KHL season|2013–14]] || {{flagicon|RUS}} [[HC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]] || {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Avangard Omsk]]  || Sergei Mozyakin
|-
|[[2014–15 KHL season|2014–15]] || [[Metallurg Magnitogorsk]] || "rowspan=1 style="text-align: center;" | '''''Cancelled''' due to economic reasons'' || Alexander Radulov
|-
|[[2015–16 KHL season|2015–16]] ||  [[HC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]] || ''Not contested'' || Sergei Mozyakin
|}

==All-time team records==
Since its foundation in 2008, 34 different clubs have played in the KHL, and 30 of them have at least once qualified for the playoffs. Of the current 28 teams, only two have not yet played in the playoffs. The table gives the final regular-season ranks for all teams, with the playoff performance encoded in colors. The teams are ordered by their championship results.

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{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 80%;"
|-
! colspan=2 | Club
! [[2008–09 KHL season|2009]]
! [[2009–10 KHL season|2010]]
! [[2010–11 KHL season|2011]]
! [[2011–12 KHL season|2012]]
! [[2012–13 KHL season|2013]]
! [[2013–14 KHL season|2014]]
! [[2014–15 KHL season|2015]]
! [[2015–16 KHL season|2016]]
! [[2016–17 KHL season|2017]]
|- align="center"
| rowspan=5 bgcolor="#ffcfcf" |
|align="left"| [[Ak Bars Kazan]]
| bgcolor="#ffcfcf" | 2
| bgcolor="#ffcfcf" | 8
| bgcolor="#cff8ff" | 4
| bgcolor="#cff8ff" | 6
| bgcolor="#b0ffb0" | 2
| bgcolor="#80b8ff" | 4
| bgcolor="#ffffbf" | 4
| bgcolor="#80b8ff" | 12
| bgcolor="#e7e7e7" | 
|- align="center"
|align="left"| [[Metallurg Magnitogorsk]]
| bgcolor="#b0ffb0" | 6
| bgcolor="#cff8ff" | 3
| bgcolor="#b0ffb0" | 5
| bgcolor="#cff8ff" | 4
| bgcolor="#80b8ff" | 7
| bgcolor="#ffcfcf" | 2
| bgcolor="#cff8ff" | 6
| bgcolor="#ffcfcf" | 8
| bgcolor="#e7e7e7" | 
|- align="center"
|align="left"| [[HC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]]<sup>[a]</sup>
| bgcolor="#b0ffb0" | 7
| bgcolor="#80b8ff" | 5
| bgcolor="#80b8ff" | 6
| bgcolor="#ffcfcf" | 3
| bgcolor="#ffcfcf" | 4
| bgcolor="#80b8ff" | 1
| bgcolor="#cff8ff" | 3
| bgcolor="#cff8ff" | 6
| bgcolor="#e7e7e7" | 
|- align="center"
|align="left"| [[Salavat Yulaev Ufa]]
| bgcolor="#80b8ff" | 1
| bgcolor="#b0ffb0" | 1
| bgcolor="#ffcfcf" | 2
| bgcolor="#80b8ff" | 8
| bgcolor="#cff8ff" | 9
| bgcolor="#b0ffb0" | 8
| bgcolor="#80b8ff" | 14
| bgcolor="#b0ffb0" | 9
| bgcolor="#e7e7e7" | 
|- align="center"
|align="left"| [[SKA Saint Petersburg]]
| bgcolor="#80b8ff" | 8
| bgcolor="#80b8ff" | 2
| bgcolor="#cff8ff" | 7
| bgcolor="#b0ffb0" | 2
| bgcolor="#b0ffb0" | 1
| bgcolor="#cff8ff" | 3
| bgcolor="#ffcfcf" | 2
| bgcolor="#b0ffb0" | 10
| bgcolor="#e7e7e7" | 
|- align="center"
| rowspan=7 bgcolor="#ffffbf" |
|align="left"| [[Lokomotiv Yaroslavl]]<sup>[b]</sup>
| bgcolor="#ffffbf" | 3
| bgcolor="#b0ffb0" | 7
| bgcolor="#b0ffb0" | 3
| bgcolor="#d0d0d0" |
| bgcolor="#80b8ff" | 8
| bgcolor="#b0ffb0" | 15
| bgcolor="#80b8ff" | 10
| bgcolor="#80b8ff" | 2
| bgcolor="#e7e7e7" | 
|- align="center"
|align="left"| [[HC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]]
| bgcolor="#cff8ff" | 4
| bgcolor="#80b8ff" | 12
| bgcolor="#e7e7e7" | 19
| bgcolor="#80b8ff" | 18
| bgcolor="#cff8ff" | 6
| bgcolor="#80b8ff" | 12
| bgcolor="#b0ffb0" | 1
| bgcolor="#ffffbf" | 1
| bgcolor="#e7e7e7" | 
|- align="center"
|align="left"| [[Traktor Chelyabinsk]]
| bgcolor="#80b8ff" | 12
| bgcolor="#80b8ff" | 18
| bgcolor="#e7e7e7" | 18
| bgcolor="#b0ffb0" | 1
| bgcolor="#ffffbf" | 5
| bgcolor="#e7e7e7" | 19
| bgcolor="#80b8ff" | 15
| bgcolor="#e7e7e7" | 19
| bgcolor="#e7e7e7" | 
|- align="center"
|align="left"| [[Avangard Omsk]]
| bgcolor="#cff8ff" | 16
| bgcolor="#80b8ff" | 11
| bgcolor="#cff8ff" | 1
| bgcolor="#ffffbf" | 5
| bgcolor="#cff8ff" | 3
| bgcolor="#d1b6e6" | 20
| bgcolor="#cff8ff" | 8
| bgcolor="#cff8ff" | 5
| bgcolor="#e7e7e7" | 
|- align="center"
|align="left"| [[Atlant Moscow Oblast]]
| bgcolor="#cff8ff" | 5
| bgcolor="#80b8ff" | 6
| bgcolor="#ffffbf" | 8
| bgcolor="#cff8ff" | 9
| bgcolor="#80b8ff" | 17
| bgcolor="#e7e7e7" | 17
| bgcolor="#e7e7e7" | 16
| bgcolor="#d0d0d0" | 
| bgcolor="#d0d0d0" | 
|- align="center"
|align="left" | [[HC Lev Praha|Lev Praha]]
| bgcolor="#d0d0d0" |
| bgcolor="#d0d0d0" |
| bgcolor="#d0d0d0" |
| bgcolor="#d0d0d0" |
| bgcolor="#80b8ff" | 15
| bgcolor="#ffffbf" | 5
| bgcolor="#d0d0d0" | 
| bgcolor="#d0d0d0" | 
| bgcolor="#d0d0d0" | 
|- align="center"
|align="left"| [[HC MVD|HC MVD Balashikha]]
| bgcolor="#e7e7e7" | 18
| bgcolor="#ffffbf" | 4
| bgcolor="#d0d0d0" |
| bgcolor="#d0d0d0" |
| bgcolor="#d0d0d0" |
| bgcolor="#d0d0d0" |
| bgcolor="#d0d0d0" | 
| bgcolor="#d0d0d0" | 
| bgcolor="#d0d0d0" | 
|- align="center"
| rowspan=1 bgcolor="#b0ffb0" |
|align="left"| [[HC Sibir Novosibirsk|Sibir Novosibirsk]]
| bgcolor="#e7e7e7" | 19
| bgcolor="#e7e7e7" | 20
| bgcolor="#80b8ff" | 11
| bgcolor="#e7e7e7" | 20
| bgcolor="#80b8ff" | 12
| bgcolor="#cff8ff" | 13
| bgcolor="#b0ffb0" | 7
| bgcolor="#cff8ff" | 7
| bgcolor="#e7e7e7" | 
|- align="center"
| rowspan=8 bgcolor="#cff8ff" |
|align="left"| [[Jokerit|Jokerit Helsinki]]
| bgcolor="#d0d0d0" |
| bgcolor="#d0d0d0" |
| bgcolor="#d0d0d0" |
| bgcolor="#d0d0d0" |
| bgcolor="#d0d0d0" |
| bgcolor="#d0d0d0" |
| bgcolor="#cff8ff" | 5
| bgcolor="#80b8ff" | 3
| bgcolor="#e7e7e7" | 
|- align="center"
|align="left"| [[HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk|Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk]]
| bgcolor="#80b8ff" | 14
| bgcolor="#cff8ff" | 9
| bgcolor="#80b8ff" | 15
| bgcolor="#e7e7e7" | 17
| bgcolor="#80b8ff" | 14
| bgcolor="#e7e7e7" | 25
| bgcolor="#e7e7e7" | 22
| bgcolor="#80b8ff" | 16
| bgcolor="#e7e7e7" | 
|- align="center"
|align="left" | [[HC Donbass|Donbass Donetsk]]
| bgcolor="#d0d0d0" |
| bgcolor="#d0d0d0" |
| bgcolor="#d0d0d0" |
| bgcolor="#d0d0d0" |
| bgcolor="#e7e7e7" | 18
| bgcolor="#cff8ff" | 6
| bgcolor="#d0d0d0" | 
| bgcolor="#d0d0d0" | 
| bgcolor="#d0d0d0" | 
|- align="center"
|align="left"| [[HC Spartak Moscow|Spartak Moscow]]
| bgcolor="#cff8ff" | 9
| bgcolor="#cff8ff" | 10
| bgcolor="#80b8ff" | 12
| bgcolor="#e7e7e7" | 19
| bgcolor="#e7e7e7" | 23
| bgcolor="#e7e7e7" | 23
| bgcolor="#d0d0d0" | 
| bgcolor="#e7e7e7" | 21
| bgcolor="#e7e7e7" | 
|- align="center"
|align="left"| [[Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod]]
| bgcolor="#80b8ff" | 11
| bgcolor="#e7e7e7" | 15
| bgcolor="#e7e7e7" | 17
| bgcolor="#cff8ff" | 7
| bgcolor="#e7e7e7" | 20
| bgcolor="#80b8ff" | 9
| bgcolor="#80b8ff" | 12
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|align="left"| [[HC Sochi|Sochi]]
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|align="left" | [[HC Ugra|Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk]]
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|align="left"| [[Amur Khabarovsk]]
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|align="left" | [[HC Slovan Bratislava|Slovan Bratislava]]
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|align="left" | [[Admiral Vladivostok]]
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|align="left"| [[Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg]]
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|align="left"| [[HC Lada Togliatti|Lada Togliatti]]
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|align="left"| [[HC Vityaz|Vityaz Chekhov]]
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|align="left" | [[HC Lev Poprad|Lev Poprad]]
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|align="left"| [[Khimik Voskresensk (2005)|Khimik Voskresensk]]
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|align="left"| [[HC Kunlun Red Star|Kunlun Red Star Beijing]]
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{|class="wikitable" style="font-size: 80%;"
! Color !! Result
|- bgcolor="#ffcfcf"
| Red || [[Gagarin Cup]] Winner
|- bgcolor="#ffffbf"
| Yellow || Runner-up
|- bgcolor="#b0ffb0"
| Green || Conference finalist
|- bgcolor="#cff8ff"
| Light Blue || Conference semifinalist
|- bgcolor="#80b8ff"
| Blue || Qualified for playoffs
|- bgcolor="#d1b6e6"
| Purple || [[Nadezhda Cup]] Winner
|- bgcolor="#e7e7e7"
| Light Gray || Not qualified for playoffs
|- bgcolor="#d0d0d0"
| Gray || Did not play in the season
|}
{{col-end}}
&nbsp;<small><sup>[a]</sup>: Includes record of [[HC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]] before the merger with [[HC MVD]] in 2010''</small>

&nbsp;<small><sup>[b]</sup>: Did not participate in the 2011-12 season due to [[2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster|the deadly air disaster on September 7, 2011]], that killed the entire team''</small>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* [http://www.khl.ru/ www.khl.ru] - Official homepage. (Russian language)
* [http://en.khl.ru/ en.khl.ru] - Official homepage. (English language)
* [http://store.khl.ru/ Official KHL Store]
* [http://www.khlallstars.ru/en/ KHL All Stars Game]
* [http://www.khlnhl.ru/en/ KHL vs NHL exhibition games official homepage]
* [http://eurohockey.com/league/395-khl.html KHL news and stats from Eurohockey]
* [http://www.khlptu.ru/ Kontinental Hockey League Players' Trade Union]

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