Salavat Yulaev Ufa

  • Champion of Russia 2008
  • Gagarin Cup winners 2011
  • IIHF Federation Cup winners 1994

Salavat Yulaev Ufa (Russian Салават Юлаев Уфа ) is an ice hockey club established in 1957 the Russian city of Ufa The team plays in the Kontinental Hockey League and wearing their home games in the 2007 opened Ufa Arena, which has a capacity of 8,500 visitors. The club colors are white, green and blue. Previously, the games were played at the Sports Palace Ufa, which offered only 4,200 spectators.

History

The team was founded in 1957 under the name Trud Ufa before was the Umebenennung in Gastello Ufa after only two years. Since 1962 the team after Salavat Yulaev, a Bashkir freedom fighter, poet and national hero is named.

Ufa was in the years 1978, 1980, 1982, 1985 and 1992, winning the championship title of the second league five times. After the last time gain, the team established in the International Hockey League. In 1994 she was the inaugural IIHF Federation Cup win. As of 1996, they played without interruption until 2008 in the Super League, which was dissolved by the introduction of the Continental Hockey League. In April 2008 the club was for the first time Russian ice hockey champions when he won the decisive fifth game of the best- of-five series against Lokomotiv Yaroslavl. In the 2008 /09 season, the team failed in the second round as group stage winner at HK Avangard Omsk, who qualified as a sixteenth team on the final day for the play- offs. In the season 2009/10, the team from Bashkiria with the new head coach Slava Bykov committed again proved to be the best team in the preliminary round and thus won the Continental Cup. In the play-off semi-finals of the adjacent club Ak Bars Kazan was after the series that went six games, the stronger team.

In the 2010/11 season the team for the first time Gagarin Cup won by four wins in the final series against Atlant Mytischtschi. In the regular season had with Alexander Radulow the first time a player of the team finished the season as the best scorer with 80 points and set a new record in the KHL.

In addition, Ufa took the Spengler Cup 2007 part in Davos, reaching behind the Team Canada in second place. 2012 took part Salawat for the second time at the Spengler Cup.

Squad of the 2013/14 season

Booth: 2013

Well-known former players

  • Martin Čech ( 2006)
  • Leos Cermak (2008-2009)
  • Andrei Sjusin (1994-1997)
  • Alexei Tereshchenko (2007-2009)
2010–11 KHL season Ufa-Arena 2012–13 KHL season International Hockey League (1992–96) 2008–09 KHL season 2009–10 KHL season Continental Cup (KHL) Penza Moscow Orsk Finland Teemu Hartikainen Kuopio Kirill Koltsov Leipzig Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai Rybinsk Elektrostal Nikita Shchitov Sergei Zinovjev Prokopyevsk Brent Sopel Calgary Alberta Alexander Stepanov (ice hockey) Andrei Zubarev Andrei Vasilevski (ice hockey, born 1994) Tyumen Aleksei Volkov (ice hockey) Andrei Zyuzin Western Conference (KHL) Eastern Conference (KHL) Barys Astana HC Slovan Bratislava Amur Khabarovsk HC Dinamo Minsk HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk Dinamo Riga HC Vityaz Admiral Vladivostok
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