Fonbet KHL Championship 2025-2026: table, schedule, match results

Fonbet KHL Championship 2025-2026: all information about the 18th season in one place. Regular season standings, match schedule and Gagarin Cup results.

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Regular championship

Pl	Team	GP	PTS	W	OTW	SOW	L	OTL	SOL	Goal
1	Metallurg Mg	68	105	37	8	4	12	4	3	252-184
2	Avangard	68	99	36	6	5	16	4	1	228-159
3	Lokomotiv	68	98	34	6	6	16	4	2	185-135
4	Ak Bars	68	94	38	2	3	17	2	6	212-169
5	Dynamo Mn	68	88	33	2	4	19	5	5	247-173
6	Severstal	68	86	29	9	2	22	2	4	197-185
7	СSKA	68	84	33	3	2	22	1	7	162-144
8	Avtomobilist	68	84	32	4	4	24	4	0	206-164
9	SKA	68	81	28	7	2	24	3	4	197-170
10	Torpedo	68	81	27	6	4	24	5	2	191-191
11	Dynamo M	68	81	26	2	10	25	2	3	188-174
12	Spartak	68	79	29	3	3	24	4	5	204-201
13	Salavat Yulaev	68	78	27	4	5	26	4	2	180-171
14	Traktor	68	75	28	4	1	26	4	5	205-195
15	Neftekhimik	68	71	25	5	4	31	1	2	170-188
16	Sibir	68	69	15	3	12	29	6	3	160-195
17	Amur	68	60	22	2	2	34	4	4	157-192
18	Barys	68	54	16	4	1	35	6	6	154-208
19	Shanghai Dragons	68	54	16	4	1	35	6	6	166-238
20	Admiral	68	52	16	2	2	36	5	7	161-209
21	Lada	68	47	17	1	2	41	3	4	157-240
22	HC Sochi	68	44	16	0	2	42	8	0	139-233

Transcript of abbreviations: Pl – place; GP – number of games played; PTS – points scored by the team; W – number of wins; OTW – number of wins in overtime; SOW — number of shootout wins; L – number of losses; OTL — number of losses in overtime; SOL — number of shootout losses; Goal – goals scored and missed pucks.

Conference tables

Division tables

Play-off round (Gagarin Cup 2026)

Date and time	Match	Score
11.05, 14:30	Lokomotiv – Ak Bars	3:1
13.05, 19:00	Lokomotiv – Ak Bars	1:5
15.05, 19:00	Ak Bars – Lokomotiv	1:4
17.05, 14:30	Ak Bars – Lokomotiv	2:1
19.05, 19:00	Lokomotiv – Ak Bars	4:1

Score in a series of games

Team	Series score
Lokomotiv – Ak Bars	4 : 2

Gagarina Cup winner — Lokomotiv (2nd title)

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Fonbet KHL Championship 2025-2026 is the eighteenth season in the history of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), the main hockey league of Eurasia. The tournament will continue the tradition of fighting for the main trophy — the Gagarin Cup, which will be attended by clubs from Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and China.

The regular season starts in Yaroslavl on September 5, 2025. As part of the tournament, the teams will play 68 games over 182 days. The playoff round is scheduled for the period from March 23 to May 23, 2026.

Tournament format

Regular championship: 22 teams will be divided into two conferences — Western and Eastern — and four divisions (Tarasov, Kharlamov, Chernyshev and Bobrova). Each team will play 68 matches.

Gagarin Cup (playoffs): combined format. The first round, as always, is held within the framework of conferences. Next is the cross—format between the “West” and the “East”. This means that the pairs of the second round are formed according to the principle of “strong with weak” from different conferences (for example, the 1st number of the West against the 4th number of the East). There will be no rescheduling of teams before the semifinal series.

Pauses in the championship:

– Channel One Cup: from December 8 to December 15, 2025.

– New Year’s break: from December 31 to January 2, 2026.

– Hockey Stars Week: from February 6 to February 9, 2026.

The main feature of the schedule will be the absence of a pause for the Winter Olympic Games. This will be the first such precedent in the history of the League, when the championship will go on as usual, regardless of the performance of the national teams.

Main changes this season

Reduction to 22 teams: Vityaz (Podolsk) He withdrew from the tournament due to financial difficulties and was suspended from participation in the KHL until 2030.

Division rebalancing: To maintain parity, Lada Togliatti moved from the Eastern Conference (Kharlamov Division) to the Western Conference (Bobrov Division).

The Chinese club’s rebranding: Kunlun Red Star was renamed Shanghai Dragons after the change of ownership and symbolically “moved” from Beijing to Shanghai. The actual base of the club in St. Petersburg and its place in the Tarasov division remain unchanged.

The upcoming KHL championship is characterized by incredible competition. The list of candidates for the Gagarin Cup is as wide as ever. The favorites are traditionally well-staffed and financially stable clubs from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yaroslavl and Magnitogorsk. However, as last season showed, any team that makes the playoffs is capable of making a big splash.

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