2012–13 KHL season

2012–13 KHL season
LeagueKontinental Hockey League
SportIce hockey
Duration4 September 2012
– 17 April 2013
Teams26
Total attendance4,126,720 (Regular season)
Regular season
Continental Cup winner SKA Saint Petersburg
Season MVP Sergei Mozyakin
Top scorer Sergei Mozyakin
Playoffs
Western champions Dynamo Moscow
  Western runners-up SKA Saint Petersburg
Eastern champions Traktor Chelyabinsk
  Eastern runners-up Ak Bars Kazan
Gagarin Cup
Champions Dynamo Moscow
  Runners-up Traktor Chelyabinsk
Finals MVP Alexander Eremenko
Dynamo Moscow

The 2012–13 KHL season was the fifth season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The regular season began on 4 September with the Lokomotiv Cup between last year's finalists Dynamo Moscow and Avangard Omsk. The league consisted of 26 teams from 7 countries for the first time. Dynamo Moscow successfully defended their title after beating Traktor Chelyabinsk in the Gagarin Cup finals.