The Continental Cup (), also known as the Kontinental Cup, is the trophy presented to the winner of the regular season of the
Kontinental Hockey League
The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL; ) is an international professional ice hockey league founded in 2008. It comprises member clubs based in Russia (20), Belarus (1), Kazakhstan (1), and China (1) for a total of 23 clubs.
It was considered in ...
, i.e. the team with the most points at the end of the regular season.
The name and trophy were introduced during the
second season of the competition. In the
first season it was simply named the regular season winner.
During the history of KHL, the winner of Continental Cup had never won
Gagarin Cup in the same season before
2018–19, when
CSKA Moscow
CSKA Moscow () is a Russian sports club based in Moscow. It was created in 1911 in the Russian Empire on base of OLLS (Skiing Society, founded 1901). Later, during the Soviet Union, Soviet era, it was the central part of the Armed Forces (sports ...
became the first team to win both trophies.
Cup winners
Bold Team with the most points ever accumulated in a season during the trophy's existence.
See also
*
Gagarin Cup, awarded to the winner of the KHL play-offs
*
Presidents' Trophy
The Presidents' Trophy () is an award presented by the National Hockey League (NHL) to the team that finishes with the most points (i.e., best overall record) during the regular season. If two teams are tied for the most points, then the Trophy ...
, an
NHL
The National Hockey League (NHL; , ''LNH'') is a professional ice hockey league in North America composed of 32 teams25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. The NHL is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Cana ...
trophy having the same function as the Continental Cup
Notes
References
External links
an article on the official website of
Traktor Chelyabinsk with a picture of
Mikhail Yurevich
Mikhail Valeriyevich Yurevich (; born 13 February 1969) is a Russian businessman and politician, who was the Governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast, governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast between 2010 and 2014. He was also a deputy of the 3rd and 4th State Dum ...
receiving the trophy from
Alexander Medvedev
Alexander Ivanovich Medvedev (, ; born 14 August 1955) is the current Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee of Russian energy company Gazprom and since February 2019 he is the director general and president of the football club FC Zenit Sa ...
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Kontinental Hockey League trophies and awards
Regular season trophies and awards