| SKA Saint Petersburg | |||
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| City | Saint Petersburg,Russia | ||
| League | KHL | ||
| Conference | Western | ||
| Division | Bobrov | ||
| Founded | 1946 | ||
| Home arena | Ice Palace (capacity: 12,300) | ||
| Colours | Red, blue | ||
| Owner(s) | Gazprom Export | ||
| President | Gennady Timchenko | ||
| General manager | Dmitry Konstantinov[1] | ||
| Head coach | Igor Larionov | ||
| Captain | Vacant | ||
| Affiliates | SKA-VMF (VHL) SKA-1946 (MHL) Akademiya SKA St. Petersburg (MHL) MHK Dynamo-Kareliya Kondopoga (MHL) | ||
| Website | ska.ru | ||
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| Franchise history | |||
| Kirov LDO 1946–1953 ODO Leningrad 1953–1957 SKVO Leningrad 1957–1959 SKA Leningrad 1959–1991 SKA Saint Petersburg 1991–present | |||
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Hockey Club SKA (Russian:Хоккейный клуб СКА), often referred to asSKA Saint Petersburg and literally as theSports Club of the Army, is a professionalice hockey club based inSaint Petersburg, Russia. It is a member of theBobrov Division in theKontinental Hockey League (KHL). The club never competed in a league final until the2014–15 KHL season, where they defeatedAk Bars Kazan winning theGagarin Cup. They won their second Gagarin Cup in2017, defeatingMetallurg Magnitogorsk. In 2012, with an average of 10,126 spectators, the SKA became the first Russian club ever to average a five-digit attendance.[2]
SKA is owned by Russian state-controlled energy giantGazprom. The club used its immense wealth to gather almost all elite Russian KHL players under its umbrella to prepare them for the2018 Winter Olympics. The success ofRussian team in winning gold at the first Olympics since 1994 that did not feature any active NHL players were attributed to players' chemistry developed in SKA.[3]
In 2023,Roman Rotenberg, the General Manager of the Russian team, thanked Russian state-ownedGazprom for their contribution to Russia's victory at the 2018 Winter Olympics.[4]
The club was established in 1946 as a top-level club of theSoviet Championship League to participate in its first season. The original name of the club wasKirov LDO (Kirov Leningrad Officers' Club). It was subsequently changed toODO (District Officers' Club) in 1953,SKVO (Sports Club of the Military District) in 1957 and finally Sportivnyi Klub Armii (Sport Club of the Army) in 1959. During theSoviet era, the SKA (along withCSKA Moscow) belonged to theMinistry of Defense sports club system.[citation needed]
After finishing last in their group during thefirst season, LDO skipped thenext season and was downgraded to the second level of the championship in 1948. The club returned to the Soviet Class A in1950–51 and remained in the top division of the Soviet league until1991. The highest achievements of the club during that time were the 1968 and 1971Soviet Cup Finals (the former was lost toCSKA Moscow 7–1, the latter toSpartak Moscow 5–1) as well as the bronze medals of the1970–71 and1986–87 Soviet Championships.[citation needed]
Afterone season in the second level division of the Soviet League (the first and the onlyCIS Championship), the SKA joined theInternational Ice Hockey League established by the top ice hockey teams of the formerSoviet Union. During its1993–94 season, the SKA managed to advance to the IHL Cup semi-finals but lost to that year's championLada Togliatti. The club was less successful in theRussian Superleague, which replaced theIHL as the main Russian championship since 1996, failing to get further than the first playoff rounds.[citation needed]
The formation of theKontinental Hockey League in 2008 marked the beginning of a new era for the team. HC SKA got into their first Conference finals during the2011–12 season and finishing first during the regular season the next year winning the2012–13Continental Cup.[citation needed]
In the2015 Gagarin Cup playoffs, after defeating bothTorpedo Nizhny Novgorod andDynamo Moscow in five games in the first two rounds, HC SKA were in theWesternConference finals for the third time in four years this time facingCSKA Moscow. HC SKA were already down 0–3 after the first three games, but managed to rebound and win the next four straight clinching the series 4–3. This made them the first team inKHL history to win a playoff series after being down three games to none. The team would go on to defeatAk Bars Kazan 4–1 to win theGagarin Cup and become theKHL champions, the first nationwide championship in club history. But they could not manage to retain the Gagarin Cup in thefollowing season, as they were swept by2015–16Continental Cup winnersCSKA Moscow in the conference finals and finished in 3rd place.[citation needed]
In the2016–17 KHL season, SKA drew an average home attendance of 11,735.[5]
President of the Republic of Kazakhstan's Cup
Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, OTW = Overtime/shootout wins, OTL = Overtime/shootout losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against
| Season | GP | W | OTW | L | OTL | Pts | GF | GA | Finish | Top Scorer | Playoffs |
| 2008–09 | 56 | 26 | 9 | 17 | 4 | 100 | 143 | 105 | 3rd, Tarasov | Maxim Sushinsky(45 points: 18 G, 27 A; 48 GP) | Lost in preliminary round, 0–3 (Spartak Moscow) |
| 2009–10 | 56 | 36 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 122 | 192 | 118 | 1st, Bobrov | Maxim Sushinsky(65 points: 27 G, 38 A; 56 GP) | Lost in Conference quarterfinals, 1–3 (Dinamo Riga) |
| 2010–11 | 54 | 23 | 9 | 13 | 9 | 96 | 171 | 144 | 2nd, Bobrov | Mattias Weinhandl(49 points: 21 G, 28 A; 54 GP) | Lost in Conference semifinals, 3–4 (Atlant Moscow Oblast) |
| 2011–12 | 54 | 32 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 113 | 205 | 130 | 1st, Bobrov | Tony Mårtensson(61 points: 23 G, 38 A; 54 GP) | Lost in Conference finals, 0–4 (Dynamo Moscow) |
| 2012–13 | 52 | 36 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 115 | 182 | 116 | 1st, Bobrov | Patrick Thoresen(51 points: 21 G, 30 A; 52 GP) | Lost in Conference finals, 2–4 (Dynamo Moscow) |
| 2013–14 | 53 | 33 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 105 | 174 | 113 | 2nd, Bobrov | Artemi Panarin(40 points: 20 G, 20 A; 51 GP) | Lost in Conference semifinals, 2–4 (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl) |
| 2014–15 | 60 | 36 | 2 | 14 | 2 | 123 | 210 | 136 | 2nd, Bobrov | Artemi Panarin(62 points: 26 G, 36 A; 54 GP) | Gagarin Cup Champions,4–1(Ak Bars Kazan) |
| 2015–16 | 60 | 29 | 2 | 21 | 2 | 100 | 163 | 197 | 2nd, Bobrov | Vadim Shipachyov(60 points: 17 G, 43 A; 54 GP) | Lost in Conference finals, 0–4 (CSKA Moscow) |
| 2016–17 | 60 | 39 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 137 | 249 | 114 | 1st, Bobrov | Ilya Kovalchuk(78 points: 32 G, 46 A; 60 GP) | Gagarin Cup Champions,4–1(Metallurg Magnitogorsk) |
| 2017–18 | 56 | 40 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 138 | 227 | 97 | 1st, Bobrov | Ilya Kovalchuk(64 points: 17 G, 43 A; 54 GP) | Lost in Conference finals, 2–4 (CSKA Moscow) |
| 2018–19 | 62 | 45 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 103 | 209 | 80 | 1st, Bobrov | Nikita Gusev(82 points: 17 G, 65 A; 62 GP) | Lost in Conference finals, 3–4 (CSKA Moscow) |
| 2019–20 | 62 | 30 | 14 | 13 | 5 | 93 | 179 | 118 | 1st, Bobrov | Vladimir Tkachev(42 points: 14 G, 28 A; 55 GP) | Won in Conference quarterfinals, 4–0 (HC Vityaz) Playoffs cancelled due toCOVID-19 |
| 2020–21 | 60 | 33 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 82 | 178 | 126 | 1st, Bobrov | Vladimir Tkachev(38 points: 11 G, 27 A; 45 GP) | Lost in Conference finals, 2–4 (CSKA Moscow) |
| 2021–22 | 48 | 25 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 68 | 146 | 98 | 1st, Bobrov | Andrei Kuzmenko(53 points: 20 G, 33 A; 45 GP) | Lost in Conference finals, 3–4 (CSKA Moscow) |
| 2022–23 | 68 | 40 | 10 | 5 | 13 | 105 | 243 | 150 | 1st, Bobrov | Dmitrij Jaškin(62 points: 40 G, 22 A; 67 GP) | Lost in Conference finals, 2–4 (CSKA Moscow) |
| 2023–24 | 68 | 40 | 6 | 19 | 3 | 95 | 220 | 139 | 1st, Bobrov | Alexander Nikishin(56 points: 17 G, 39 A; 67 GP) | Lost in Quarterfinals, 1–4 (Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg) |
| 2024–25 | 68 | 28 | 10 | 24 | 6 | 82 | 236 | 205 | 2nd, Bobrov | Ivan Demidov(49 points: 19 G, 30 A; 65 GP) | Lost in Conference Quarterfinals, 2–4 (Dynamo Moscow) |
Updated 4 September 2025.[6][7]
These are the top-ten point-scorers in franchise history. Figures are updated after each completed KHL regular season.[8]
Note: Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; P/G = Points per game; = current SKA player
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Gennady Dmitriev (1946–47) A. Semenov (1950—1951) Belyay Bekyashev (1951—1952) Georgy Lasin (1952—1953) Anatoly Viktorov (1953—1956–57)
Evgeny Voronin (1957—1958)Aleksander Komarov (1958—1962)Yevgeni Babich (1962–1963)Nikolai Puchkov (1963—1973)Veniamin Alexandrov (1973—1974)Nikolai Puchkov (1974—1977) Oleg Sivkov (1977–78)Nikolai Puchkov (1978) Valeri Shilov (1978—1979)Igor Romishevsky (1979—1981)Boris Mikhailov (1981—1984) Valeri Shilov (1984—1989)Gennadiy Tsygankov (1989–90—1990–91)/
Igor Shurkov (1990–91—1991–92)
Boris Mikhailov (1992–93—1998) Nikolai Maslov (1998–99) Alexander Zhukov (1999) Rafael Ishmatov (1999—2001–02)Nikolai Puchkov (2002)Boris Mikhailov (2002—2005) Nikolai Solovyev (2005–06) Sergei Cherkas (2006)Boris Mikhailov (2006) Yuri Leonov (2006—2007)
Barry Smith (2007—2010)
Ivan Zanatta (2010)
Václav Sýkora (2010—11) Miloš Říha (2011—2012)Mikhail Kravets (2012)
Jukka Jalonen (2012—2014)Vyacheslav Bykov (2014—2015)Andrei Nazarov (2015)Sergei Zubov (2015–16)
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Oļegs Znaroks (2016—2018)Ilya Vorobiev (2018—2019)Alexei Kudashov (2019—2020)Valeri Bragin (2020—2022)Roman Rotenberg (2022—)
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