HC Lada Togliatti
- European Cup 1996/97
- IIHF Continental Cup Winner 2005 /06
- IHL Champion 1994, 1996
- IHL Cup Winners 1994
- IHL runner-up 1993, 1995
- Russian Vice- Champion 1997, 2005
The HK Lada Togliatti (Russian ХК Лада Тольятти ) is an ice hockey club established in 1976 the Russian city of Tolyatti. The club plays in the Wysschaja Hockey League. The club colors are blue, white and red.
History
The club was founded in 1976 as Torpedo Togliatti and played in the next five years in the Wtoraja League, the third division of the Soviet Union. This Torpedo won the respective regional Season 1979 and 1982 and rose by 1982 in the second-class Perwaja league.
More titles with the team winning the East Season 1986 and the promotion round 1991 Perwaja League celebrated. In 1989, the present corporation took over AvtoVAZ the patronage of the club and led as an identifier the name of the car brand Lada. In addition, a new head coach was adjusted with Gennadi Zygurow, with the first team in 1991 in the top flight of the Soviet Union, the League Wysschaja climb. From there they established in the first season with a ninth place in the standings.
1992 Wysschaja League was transformed into the International Hockey League and Lada won the main round of the Eastern Conference. In the play-offs, the team reached the final, where it was defeated by HK Dynamo Moscow and so won the vice-championship.
As a result, the team in the years 1994 and 1996, twice the champion of the Commonwealth of Independent States won. The greatest successes were the victory in Hockey European Cup in 1996 and winning the IIHF Continental Cup 2005/06. In addition, Lada Tolyatti 1995, 1997 and 2005 runner-up of the CIS and Russia was.
Prior to the 2009/10 season the team was facing bankruptcy. The new main sponsor Rostechnologii funding could be secured for the time being. After the guaranteed payments stayed away for the time being, Lada was rescued by an injection of 17 million rubles from the KHL before the dissolution of the association. In the 2010/11 season, the club plays in the Wysschaja league.
Venues
By 2013 Lada Togliatti wore its home games in obsolete, 2,900 -seat Sports Palace Wolgar.
According to the regulations of the Russian Championship, each participant would have to present a venue with a capacity of at least 5,500 spectators for the 2007 /08 season. Therefore, there have been various plans to build a new ice rink to comply with these conditions. The lack of a suitable venue was one of the reasons why the club was excluded in 2010 from the Continental Hockey League.
On 9 August 2013 were the Lada Arena, the new home of the club opened. The modern arena offers 6,122 spectators a place.
Achievements
Player
Champion squad
Goalkeeper Andrei Bolsunowski, Alexei Marjin, Gennady Ushakov
Defender Oleg Burluzki Victor Dronow, Rafik Yakubov, Oleg Koftun, Mikhail Milechin, Igor Nikitin, Yuri Panov, Sergei Pereschogin, Dmitri Schulakow, Pavel Zubov, Vladimir Tarasov, Oleg Volkov
Attacker: Vyacheslav Besukladnikow, Pawel Desjatkow, Eduard Gorbachev, Pyotr Gorjunow, Alexander Ivanov, Anatoli Jemelin, Konstantin Kusmitschow, Sergei Martschkow, Alexander Nesterov, Stanislaw Panfilenkow, Andrei Razin, Vadim Schaidullin, Sergei Scherebzow, Yuri Slow, Ivan Swinzizki, Igor Truchatschew
Head Coach: Gennadi Zygurow assistant coach Alexander Tytschkin, Sergei Michaljow
Goalkeeper Andrei Bolsunowski, Sergei Nikolayev
Defender: Andrei Busch Chan, Aleh Chmyl, Oleg Davydov, Oleg Koftun, Alyaksandr Makryzki, Igor Nikitin, Aleh Ramanau, Alexei Tesikow, Oleg Volkov, Vladimir Tarasov
Attacker: Oleg Belkin, Vyacheslav Besukladinkow, Pawel Desjatkow, Eduard Gorbachev, Alexander Ivanov, Anatoly Jemelin, Pavel Lazarev, Oleg Maltsev, Denis Metljuk, Alexander Nesterov, Vasil Pankou, Konstantin Peregudov, Vadim Podresow, Yuri Slow, Ivan Swinzizki, Konstantin Tatarinzew
Head Coach: Gennadi Zygurow assistant coach Alexander Tytschkin, Sergei Michaljow
Goalkeepers: Vasily Koschetschkin, Alexei Semenov
Defender: Denis Bodrov, Mikhail Buturlin, Artur Garipov, Māris Jass, Alexei Jemelin, Marat Kalimulin, Andrei Krutschinin, Dmitri Vorobiev, Pavel Woroschnin
Attacker: Denis Abdullin, Yevgeny Bodrov, Alexander Bumagin, Alexander Buturlin, Ilya Dokschin, Vadim Golubtsov, Yevgeny Ketow, Anton Kryssanow, Andrij Michnow, Yakov Ratschinski, Stanislaw Schmakin
Head Coach: Pyotr Vorobyov Assistant Coach: Valeri Shaposhnikov, Anatoly Jemelin
Well-known former players
- Andrei Kovalenko
- Alexei Kovalev
- Viktor Kozlov
Trainer since 1990
- Gennadi Zygurow (1990-1999)
- Valery Postnikov (1999-2001)
- Pyotr Vorobyov (2001-2006)
- Anatoli Jemelin (2006-2007)
- Yuri Novikov (2007)
- Nikolai Kazakov (2007-2008)
- Pyotr Vorobyov (2008-2010)
- Nikolai Kazakov (2010-2011)
- Gennadi Zygurow ( since 2011 )