Teams with a thousand games. Who will play their 1,000th game in 2024-2025?
KHL.ru talks about the teams that will play their 1,000th game in the League during the 2024-2025 season and recalls those who have already reached this milestone.
Seven teams will celebrate a major milestone in the upcoming regular season. The first to do so will be Sibir, whose 1,000th match falls on Sep 17 when Neftekhimik visits Novosibirsk. The Wolves will reach this milestone later, on Oct 29, in a home game against Lada. Two days earlier, on Oct 27, Severstal will join the thousand-game club at home, confronting Amur.
Dinamo Minsk will celebrate its milestone match on Nov 22 in a home Dynamo derby. Vityaz and Amur will both play their 1,000th games on Feb 6, 2025, on a road trip: Vityaz against SKA, and Amur in a Far Eastern derby against Admiral. Avtomobilist will instead play its thousandth match on Feb 26, hosting Ak Bars.
Another significant milestone is likely to occur in the playoffs since Spartak will have 930 matches at the beginning of the 2024-2025 season. Therefore, their 1,000th game would be the second game of the first-round playoffs series, assuming the Red-and-Whites qualify for it.
|
Team |
Number of matches at the beginning of the 2024-2025 season |
1000th match date |
Against |
|
Sibir |
994 |
September 17, 2024 |
Neftekhimik (at home) |
|
Severstal |
981 |
October 27, 2024 |
Amur (at home) |
|
Neftekhimik |
978 |
October 29, 2024 |
Lada (at home) |
|
Dinamo Mn |
970 |
November 22, 2024 |
Dynamo M (at home) |
|
Vityaz |
947 |
February 6, 2025 |
SKA (away) |
|
Amur |
947 |
February 6, 2025 |
Admiral (away) |
|
Avtomobilist |
941 |
February 26, 2025 |
Ak Bars (at home) |
|
Spartak |
930 |
2nd match of the 1st round of the playoffs |
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After 16 KHL seasons, 11 teams have played at least 1,000 games. The first to join the club was Metallurg, whose milestone game took place on Oct 8, 2022. However, the Ural team lost to Avangard (1:5) on that day.
The second member of the club was SKA, winning a thrilling away game against Dynamo Moscow (4:3 SO) on Oct 28. Following them were Ak Bars (losing to Torpedo 4:6 on Nov 10, 2022) and CSKA (losing to Dynamo 1:2 in a derby on Dec 26, 2022). On the same day, Dec 28, 2022, milestone matches were held by Avangard, who defeated Avtomobilist (5:0), and Salavat Yulaev, who lost to Traktor (2:4). Dynamo Moscow also reached this milestone, defeating Vityaz (4:1) on Feb 22, 2023.
In the 2023-2024 season, four new members joined the thousand-game club. Lokomotiv and Traktor played their milestone game on Dec 1, 2023, although the Ural team lagged one game behind the Railwaymen at the start of the season. The Yaroslavl side won an away match against Sochi (2:0), while Chelyabinsk lost at home to Dynamo Moscow (2:4). Barys lost to SKA in a shootout (1:2 SO) on Feb 8, 2024, while Torpedo suffered a more painful defeat from Spartak on the road (3:7).
