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The 2025–26 KHL season will see the debut of a new Western Conference team — the Shanghai Dragons, official successors to Kunlun Red Star. This isn’t just a rebrand but a bold transformation: a new city, name, crest, and identity, while continuing the mission to elevate Chinese hockey.

On Tuesday, July 29, the KHL Board of Directors concluded a remote vote during which several changes to the League's regulations were approved.

KHL.ru presents the regular season schedule for the 2025-2026 Fonbet KHL season. Each team will play 68 games, and the total number of game days — 182 — will be the second highest in league history. From the start of the season to the first break, teams will play on 94 consecutive game days, and the average number of games per day will be the lowest ever at 4.11. Dmitry Kvartalnov could become the first coach to reach 1,000 games in the KHL, and both Sergei Plotnikov and Andrei Stas will also have their 1,000th appearance in the League.

A total of 22 teams will take part in the upcoming Fonbet KHL season.

The Closing Ceremony for the KHL 2024/2025 season took place in Moscow’s Barvikha Village on Thursday.

Commentator for KHL TV channels and expert at KHL.ru, Anton Vasyatin, presents the finalists for the Alexei Cherepanov award. The finalists for the 2024-2025 edition are goalie Semyon Vyazovoi and forwards Ivan Demidov and Yegor Surin.

KHL.ru presents the finalists for the Best coach award – the trophy for the top head coach of the 2024-2025 Fonbet KHL season.

KHL.ru presents the finalists for the best goaltender in the 2024-2025 Fonbet KHL season.

KHL.ru presents the finalists for the Alexei Cherepanov award, whose recipient is the top rookie of the 2024-2025 season.

KHL.ru presents the finalists for the Golden Stick award – the trophy for the most valuable player of the 2024-2025 KHL regular season.

The 2025 Fonbet KHL All-Star Game finished with Team Chernyshev winning it all in Novosibirsk. Sibir defenseman Trevor Murphy’s hat-trick led the way, and Sibir captain Sergei Shirokov potted the game-winning goal. In the bronze medal game, Spartak’s junior star Sergei Lukyantsev was voted MVP after picking up four points in Team Tarasov’s thrilling win over Team Kharlamov.

Sergei Shirokov, Sibir’s popular captain, was back on home ice for the 2025 Fonbet KHL All-Star Game. And he made the most of the big occasion, scoring a hat-trick in Team Chernyshev’s semi-final win over Team Kharlamov, and winning the penalty contest in the Skill Show. Team Chernyshev will face Team Bobrov in Sunday’s final after Sochi’s Timur Khafizov scored three in a 9-6 victory over Team Tarasov.

Novosibirsk got to meet the players for the 2025 Fonbet KHL All-Star Game, which takes place on Feb. 8 and 9 at the Sibir Arena.

The Kontinental Hockey League announced the head coaches for the tournament's teams at the Fonbet 2025 KHL All-Star Game.

Changed to the teams' rosters for the all-star weekend.

The KHL’s leaders share their New Year greetings with fans, players, coaches and partners.

The Kontinental Hockey League has finalized the team rosters for the All-Star Weekend scheduled for Feb. 8-9 in Novosibirsk.

On Dec. 22, 2024, Tashkent’s Humo Arena will host Uzbekistan’s first ever KHL game when Dinamo Minsk takes on Spartak Moscow.

The voting by representatives of the media on the selection of players for the Fonbet 2025 KHL All-Star Game concluded on the KHL media portal. The event will take place in Novosibirsk.

The fan voting to choose the players for the Fonbet 2025 KHL All-Star Game has concluded. The names of the first 16 players who will participate in the All-Star weekend in Novosibirsk are now known.

The Fonbet KHL All-Star Game will take place on February 8-9, 2025, at the brand-new Sibir Arena in Novosibirsk.

Fonbet KHL international players will participate in the traditional national teams tournament.

KHL president Alexei Morozov and the league’s vice-president for hockey operations Andrei Tochitsky made a working visit to Belgrade, Serbia. During the course of that trip they signed a memorandum of strategic cooperation with the Crvena Zvezda hockey club

Sochi player Michal Kristof, who is under a valid contract with a KHL club, took to the ice for a team in Switzerland on Friday, Oct. 18.

The Kontinental Hockey League has announced that a regular season game will be held in Uzbekistan.

The KHL will distribute a record one-billion-ruble fund among its member clubs. The money, raised from league revenues during the 2023/2024 campaign, represents comfortably the biggest pay-out since the league began disbursing these funds in 2014/2015 – and the total payment of 1.175 billion rubles is almost double the 2022/2023 figure.

The KHL Board of Directors has approved changes to the League’s regulations through an absentee meeting.

KHL.ru presents the schedule for the 2024-2025 Fonbet KHL regular season. Teams will play 68 games each, and the total number of game days will be a record 187. From the Opening Cup game to the first break, teams will have 97 consecutive game days.

The KHL’s Closing Ceremony brought the 2023-2024 season to a glittering finale, celebrating an exciting campaign.

Monday’s meeting with the KHL club directors reviewed the achievements of the 2023/24 season.

KHL.ru presents the finalists for the Sergei Gimayev prize for Loyalty to Hockey for the 2023-2024 KHL season.

Commentator for KHL TV channels and expert at KHL.ru, Anton Vasyatin, presents the finalists for the Alexei Cherepanov award. The finalists for the 2023-2024 edition are goalie Ilya Nabokov, defenseman Anton Silayev, and forward Roman Kantserov.

KHL.ru presents the finalists for the Best coach award – the trophy for the top head coach of the 2023-2024 KHL season.

KHL.ru presents the finalists for the Alexei Cherepanov award, whose recipient is the top rookie of the 2023-2024 season.

KHL.ru presents the finalists for the best goaltender in the 2023-2024 season.

KHL.ru presents the finalists for the Golden Stick award – the trophy for the most valuable player of the 2023-2024 KHL regular season.

On Thursday, the KHL Board of Directors had a meeting during which decisions were made regarding changes to the championship schedule.

On Friday, Feb. 9, a special meeting of the KHL’s Board of Directors elected the league’s president. Following the votes of the members, Alexei Morozov was unanimously re-elected as KHL president.