Kontinental Hockey League

Kontinental Hockey League
Current season, competition or edition:; 2025–26 KHL season
Formerly	Russian Superleague (RSL)
Game	Hockey
Founded	2008
President	Alexei Morozov
Motto	Хоккей – наша игра! (Hockey is our game!); Хакей – наша гульня! ; Хоккей – біздің ойын! ; 冰球，就是我们的生活！
No. of teams	22
Country	Russia (19 teams); Belarus (1 team); Kazakhstan (1 team); China (1 team);
Most recent; champions	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl; (1st title)
Most titles	HC CSKA Moscow; Ak Bars Kazan; Metallurg Magnitogorsk; (3 titles each)
Broadcasters	KHL TV, KHL Prime (Russia (as part of the NTV Plus package), Russia and international through KHL's website) ; Match TV (Russia) ; Belarus 5 (Belarus) ; Qazsport (Kazakhstan) ; CCTV-5+ (China) ; Kinopoisk (streaming partner) ; Regional broadcasters (local team games only) ; TNV Tatarstan (Ak Bars Kazan) ; BST (Salavat Yulaev Ufa) ; Channel 12 (Avangard Omsk) ; TV-IN (Metallurg Magnitogorsk) ; Channel 78 (SKA Saint-Petersburg) ; Pervy Yaroslavsky (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl) ; NN 24 (Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod) ; Guberniya (Amur Khabarovsk) ; OTV (Traktor Chelyabinsk) ; OTV Primorye (Admiral Vladivostok) ; OTS (Sibir Novosibirsk)
Sponsor	Fonbet
Related; competitions	Supreme Hockey League (VHL); Junior Hockey League (MHL);
Official website	KHL.ru

The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL; Russian: Континентальная хоккейная лига (КХЛ), romanized: Kontinental'naya khokkeynaya liga) is an international professional ice hockey league founded in 2008. It comprises member clubs based in Russia (19), Belarus (1), Kazakhstan (1), and China (1) for a total of 22 clubs.

The KHL had in 2025 total attendance of 5,706,785 spectators in the regular season and the average attendance of 7,256 spectators per game in the regular season. The Gagarin Cup is awarded annually to the league's playoff champion at the end of each season.