Humo Hockey Club, also known as Humo Tashkent, are a professional

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team based in

Tashkent Tashkent (, uz, Toshkent, Тошкент/, ) (from russian: Ташкент), or Toshkent (; ), also historically known as Chach is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of ...

Uzbekistan Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked co ...

. Originally a member of the

Uzbekistan Ice Hockey League Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked co ...

, Humo joined the

Kazakhstan Hockey Championship The Pro Hokei Ligasy formerly known as ''Republic of Kazakhstan Open Ice Hockey Championship'' ''( kk, Шайбалық хоккей бойынша Қазақстан Республикасының ашық чемпионаты, russian: Откры ...

for the 2022–23 Season. Humo play their games at the

Humo Ice Dome The Humo Arena or Ice Dome Tashkent ( uz, «Humo Arena» muz majmuasi) is a multifunctional indoor arena located in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Humo Arena is the biggest hockey arena in Central Asia with a capacity of 12,500 and the second after the Be ...

; both the team and arena derive their name from the mythical

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, a symbol of happiness and freedom. They Formerly 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 ...

From 2019 to 2022.

History

Humo Tashkent was a member of the reformed

which began play in February 2019. The UIHL consisted of three other teams

Binokor Tashkent HK Binokor Tashkent ( uz, Xokkey klubi Binokor Toshkent), (russian: Хоккейный клуб Бинокор Ташкент) is an ice hockey team based in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. They played in the lower level Soviet leagues (Pervaya Liga and Vtor ...

HK Tashkent Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...

, & Semurg Tashkent, with all of the teams playing out of the

. Humo would finish in first place at the end of the regular season, with Forward Pavel Sedov scoring the most points throughout the season. In the play-offs however, Humo were upset by the 4th seeded Semurg Tashkent. Semurg would then go on to defeat Binokor in the final. On 31 May 2019 it was announced that Humo would be joining the VHL for the 2019–20 season. Alongside Humo,

Dynamo Tver Dynamo Balashikha was an ice hockey team in Balashikha, Russia. They played in the VHL, the second level of Russian ice hockey. The club was founded in 2010 as an affiliate of Dynamo Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League and replaced HC MVD as ...

, Torpedo-Gorky Nizhny Novgorod and Kazakhstan's

Nomad Nur-Sultan Nomad Hockey Club ( kk, Nomad Hokkej Kluby), commonly referred to as Nomad Astana, is a farm team of the Barys Astana of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Founded in 2007 as Barys Astana–2, the team changed its name to Nomad Astana in 2013. ...

would also be joining the league. Rumours of an Uzbek team in the VHL had been circulating for months, after

KHL 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 b ...

Vice-President

Vitali Prokhorov Vitali Vladimirovich Prokhorov (russian: Биталий Владимирович Прохоров); born December 25, 1966, in Moscow, Soviet Union) is a retired professional hockey player who played briefly with the St. Louis Blues in the NHL. He ...

announced that an Uzbek team could join the KHL in 2022, after having gained experience in the VHL. It was subsequently announced that a further two teams would be joining the VHL; HK Rostov and China's

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. A Humo

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playing in the

was also proposed. Initially, Binokor Tashkent was earmarked for this role, however on July 17, 2019, the

Kazakhstan Ice Hockey Federation The Kazakhstan Ice Hockey Federation ( kk, Қазақстан хоккей федерациясы, ''Qazaqstan Hokkei Federasiasy'' (''QHF''); russian: Казахстанская федерация хоккея с шайбой) is the governing bod ...

announced that a new team from

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, HC Sherdor, would be taking Binokor's place in the league. A week later it was announced that the Samarkand rink would not be completed in time, and as a result 'Humo Tashkent 2' would act as the feeder club for the VHL side. Following the completion of the 2019-20 VHL Season, and the cancellation of the playoffs as a result of the

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Humo announced that they would not be fielding a team in either the VHL or the

, citing "the absence of an unambiguous understanding of the timing of the start of pre-season preparation and the VHL itself, as well as the format in which it will be held" due to the ongoing pandemic.

Season-by-season record

''Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, PIM = Penalties in minutes''

References

External links

Official site
{{VHL Ice hockey clubs established in 2018 Ice hockey teams in Uzbekistan Sport in Uzbekistan