Hockey Club Yugra (russian: Хоккейный клуб Югра), is a professional

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...

team based in

Khanty-Mansiysk Khanty-Mansiysk ( rus, Ха́нты-Манси́йск, Khánty-Mansíysk, lit. ''Khanty-Mansi Town''; Khanty language, Khanty: , ''Jomvoćś''; Mansi language, Mansi: , ''Abga'') is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the admini ...

Yugra Yugra or Iuhra (Old Russian Югра ''Jugra''; Byzantine Greek Οὔγγροι ''Oὔggroi''; la, Ongariae Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

. They currently play in the

Supreme Hockey League The Supreme Hockey League (SHL) (russian: Высшая хоккейная лига (ВХЛ), links=no, ''Vysshaya hokkeinaya liga (VHL)''), also known as the Major Hockey League or Higher Hockey League (HHL), is a professional ice hockey league ...

, the second-highest league in Russia, and played in the

Kontinental Hockey League The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL; russian: Континентальная хоккейная лига (КХЛ), Kontinental'naya khokkeynaya liga) is an international professional ice hockey league founded in 2008. It comprises member clubs ba ...

from 2010 until 2018.

History

After their first club season, Yugra was granted professional status and moved from the

Vtoraya Liga The Second League (russian: Вторая лига, translit. ''Vtoraya Liga'', also seen as RUS-4) was an ice hockey league in Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and ...

into the Pervaya Liga. Their stay in the third level also lasted just one season, as Yugra won the championship for 2007-08. Another promotion followed, to the Russia's second-tier

Russian Major League The Supreme Hockey League (SHL) (russian: Высшая хоккейная лига (ВХЛ), links=no, ''Vysshaya hokkeinaya liga (VHL)''), also known as the Major Hockey League or Higher Hockey League (HHL), is a professional ice hockey league i ...

, where they won the league's championship in both seasons played. In 2010, Yugra was granted admission in the

. On March 28, 2018, KHL announced that two teams were going to drop out from the league, Yugra was one of the teams announced along with

HC Lada Togliatti HC Lada Togliatti (russian: ХК Лада) is a Russian professional ice hockey team based in Tolyatti, Russia. They play in the Supreme Hockey League (VHL). Due to a lack of a satisfactory arena, the KHL expelled the team. The team dropped one ...

, Yugra was to compete in the second tiered VHL.

Honors

Champions

Vysshaya Liga ''(3)'': 2009, 2010, 2021
Pervaya Liga ''(1)'': 2008

Season-by-season KHL record

''Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, OTW = Overtime/shootout wins, OTL = Overtime/shootout losses, L = Losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against''

References

External links

Official site of HC Yugra
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Yugra Ice hockey teams in Russia Kontinental Hockey League teams Sport in Khanty-Mansiysk Ice hockey clubs established in 2006 2006 establishments in Russia