HC Lada Togliatti () is a professional

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club based in

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, Russia. It is a member of the

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in 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 ...

(KHL). Togliatti were participants in the inaugural season of the KHL in 2008–09. Due to a lack of a satisfactory arena, the KHL expelled the team and the team dropped one level to the

Supreme Hockey League The All-Russian Hockey League (VHL) (, ''Vserossiyskaya hokkeinaya liga (VHL)''), also known as the Major Hockey League or Higher Hockey League (HHL), is a professional ice hockey league in Eurasia, and the second highest level of Russian hocke ...

(VHL) for the 2010–11 season. They were allowed to rejoin the KHL for the 2014–15 season after the opening of the

Lada Arena The Lada Arena is a 6,122-seat multi-purpose arena in Tolyatti, Russia. It opened in 2013, and replaced Volgar Sports Palace as the home of KHL ice hockey team, HC Lada Togliatti. The sponsor of the arena is the car manufacturer AvtoVAZ, that ...

. However, the team was expelled again following the end of the 2017–18 season, and returned to the VHL. The team once again rejoined the KHL for the 2023–24 season.

History

*July 1976 - team was founded as Torpedo Togliatti. *August 31, 1976 - first exhibition game against

Dizelist Penza Dizel Penza is an ice hockey team in Penza, Russia. They play in the VHL, the second level of Russian ice hockey. The club used to be affiliated with Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk of the KHL. History The club was founded as Burevestnik Penza in 1955. ...

(final score was 3:3) * 1991 - Lada enters the ''Highest division'' of the

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. * April 1994 - Lada wins the International Hockey League's Russian Championship, becoming the first-ever team with non-Moscow origin to win the then-IHL Cup * December 1994 -

European Cup The UEFA Champions League (UCL) is an annual club association football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) that is contested by top-division European clubs. The competition begins with a round robi ...

debut; silver medals won. * December 1995 - Lada becomes a vice-champion of

Spengler Cup The Spengler Cup is an annual invitational ice hockey tournament held in Davos, Switzerland. First held in 1923, the Spengler Cup is often cited as the oldest invitational ice hockey tournament in the world. The event is hosted by the Swiss team ...

after a loss in Final game to Canadian national team. * December 30, 1996 - Lada wins

. * July 18, 2001 - Valeriy Postnikov quits team after having "attacks aimed at me by the media." * November 2005 - due to financial troubles, 16 players leave the team. To continue regular season, Lada management uses the players from reserve team. * January 2006 - Lada becomes first ever Russian team to win the

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Honors

Champions

IHL Championship ''(2)'': 1994, 1996
IHL Cup ''(1)'': 1994

''(1)'': 2006

''(1)'': 1996

Runners-up

Russian Superleague The Russian Superleague (, ''Russian Championship Superleague''), commonly abbreviated as RSL, was the highest division of the main professional ice hockey league in Russia. It was considered the second-best league in the world, after the Nation ...

''(2)'': 1997, 2005

''(2)'': 2003, 2004
IHL Championship ''(2)'': 1993, 1995
IHL Cup ''(2)'': 1993, 1995

''(1)'': 1994

''(1)'': 1995

Season-by-season record

2008–2018 seasons

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

2023– seasons

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

Players

Current roster

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lada Togliatti Ice hockey teams in Russia Ice hockey clubs established in 1976 Sport in Tolyatti Former Kontinental Hockey League teams