The Kontinental Hockey League (Континентальная хоккейная лига) was established in 2008, playing their debut season in 2008-09 with teams spread out across Europe and Asia but with most teams based in Russia. By their tenth season in 2017 the league had teams in seven different countries: Belarus, China, Finland, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Russia, and Slovakia. The annual playoff champion in the KHL is awarded the Gagarin Cup (Кубок Гагарина) named for Yuri Gagarin the first human to be sent to outer space.
Barys Astana 
Traktor Chelyabinsk 
Severstal Cherepovets 
Jokerit 
Ak Bars Kazan 
Amur Khabarovsk 
Kunlun Red Star 
Metallurg Magnitogorsk 
Dinamo Minsk 
HC CSKA Moscow 
HC Dynamo Moscow 
HC Spartak Moscow 
Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk 
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod 
Sibir Novosibirsk Oblast 
Avangard Omsk 
Dinamo Riga 
SKA Saint Petersburg 
HC Slovan Bratislava 
HC Sochi 
HC Lada Togliatti 
Salavat Yulaev Ufa 
HC Vityaz 
Admiral Vladivostok 
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 
Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg 
HC Yugra 
Atlant Moscow Oblast 
Donbass Donetsk 
Dynamo Moscow 
HC MVD 
Khimik Voskresensk 
Lev Poprad 
Lev Praha 
Medvescak Zagreb 
Metallurg Novokuznetsk 
HC Lada Togliatti 
KHL World Games
Kontinental Hockey League
KHL Gagarin Cup Playoffs
KHL All-Star Game
KHL Junior Draft