What does VHL stand for?

VHL stands for Vserossiyskaya Hokkeynaya Liga.

How many teams play in the VHL?

The VHL currently consists of 30 teams.

Who won the most recent VHL championship?

Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk won the most recent VHL championship in 2026.

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2026-2027 Season

Neftyanik Almetievsk lead the 2026-27 VHL standings with 24 points. AKM Tula Region (23 points) and HK Kaluga (23 points) follow.

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2026-2027 VHL Standings

#	Team	GP	W	T	L	OTW	OTL	GF	GA	+/-	TP	PPG	Postseason
1.	Neftyanik Almetievsk	16	7	-	4	5	0	46	31	15	24	1.50	-
2.	AKM Tula Region	16	10	-	3	0	3	51	35	16	23	1.44	-
3.	HK Kaluga	15	9	-	2	1	3	37	21	16	23	1.53	-
4.	Buran Voronezh	14	7	-	2	3	2	31	22	9	22	1.57	-
5.	Metallurg Novokuznetsk	15	7	-	3	2	3	30	18	12	21	1.40	-
6.	HK Norilsk	15	8	-	4	1	2	35	33	2	20	1.33	-
7.	Omskie Krylia	13	8	-	3	2	0	37	19	18	20	1.54	-
8.	Yuzhny Ural Orsk	12	5	-	1	3	3	35	22	13	19	1.58	-
9.	SKA-VMF St. Petersburg	14	7	-	4	2	1	37	23	14	19	1.36	-
10.	Molot Perm	13	7	-	4	2	0	36	23	13	18	1.38	-
11.	Khimik Voskresensk	14	6	-	4	2	2	46	28	18	18	1.29	-
12.	Kristall Saratov	13	6	-	4	2	1	35	43	-8	17	1.31	-
13.	Bars Kazan	16	8	-	7	0	1	39	50	-11	17	1.06	-
14.	Ryazan-VDV	16	3	-	6	3	4	35	35	0	16	1.00	-
15.	HK Tambov	14	6	-	5	1	2	35	40	-5	16	1.14	-
16.	Toros Neftekamsk	14	6	-	5	0	3	32	34	-2	15	1.07	-
17.	Gornyak-UGMK	12	5	-	4	2	1	33	27	6	15	1.25	-
18.	Rubin Tyumen	13	2	-	5	5	1	31	35	-4	15	1.15	-
19.	Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk	13	5	-	6	2	0	26	19	7	14	1.08	-
20.	Magnitka Magnitogorsk	12	5	-	3	0	4	25	23	2	14	1.17	-
21.	Dizel Penza	14	3	-	6	3	2	32	33	-1	14	1.00	-
22.	Dynamo St. Petersburg	14	5	-	7	1	1	39	46	-7	13	0.93	-
23.	Dynamo-Altay Barnaul	13	5	-	6	0	2	25	33	-8	12	0.92	-
24.	Olimpiya Kirovo-Chepetsk	14	4	-	8	1	1	37	42	-5	11	0.79	-
25.	Zvezda Moskva	14	3	-	8	2	1	33	45	-12	11	0.79	-
26.	Izhstal Izhevsk	14	2	-	8	2	2	32	40	-8	10	0.71	-
27.	Zauralie Kurgan	13	1	-	6	2	4	21	37	-16	10	0.77	-
28.	CSK VVS Samara	16	3	-	11	1	1	31	56	-25	9	0.56	-
29.	Sokol Krasnoyarsk	15	3	-	11	1	0	23	42	-19	8	0.53	-
30.	Chelmet Chelyabinsk	13	2	-	8	1	2	23	53	-30	8	0.62	-

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2026-2027 VHL Player Stats

#	Player	GP	G	A	TP	PIM
1.	Alexander Gorshkov (F)	13	9	6	15	7
2.	Nikita Chervontsev (F)	13	7	6	13	4
3.	Daniil Lapin (F)	13	5	8	13	31
4.	Alexander Suvorov (F)	16	5	8	13	4
5.	Ildar Shiksatdarov (F)	16	5	8	13	16

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2026-2027 VHL Goalie Stats

#	Player	GP	GAA	SVP
1.	Mikhail Nikishin (G)	1	0.00	1.000
2.	Ivan Levashev (G)	1	0.00	1.000
3.	Semyon Kokaulin (G)	3	0.53	.980
4.	Mikhail Fudymovsky (G)	7	0.69	.971
5.	Dmitri Lozebnikov (G)	11	0.80	.961

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VHL Games

date	home	visiting	score
10/17/2026 06:00 AM UTC	Metallurg Novokuznetsk	Molot Perm	-
10/16/2026 04:00 PM UTC	HK Kaluga	Chelmet Chelyabinsk	5 - 1
10/16/2026 04:00 PM UTC	AKM Tula Region	Gornyak-UGMK	4 - 1
10/16/2026 03:30 PM UTC	Bars Kazan	SKA-VMF St. Petersburg	0 - 4
10/15/2026 02:00 PM UTC	Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk	HK Tambov	6 - 1

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VHL Transactions

VHL — Transactions
Date	Status	Player	From	To	Source
10/16/2026	Confirmed	Gleb Semyonov (D)	HK Chelny	Ryazan-VDV	Details
10/16/2026	Confirmed	Alexander Khovanov (F)	Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk	Unknown	Details
10/16/2026	Confirmed	Nikita Bryutov (F)	Shakhter Soligorsk	Zvezda Moskva	Details
10/16/2026	Confirmed	Dmitri Braginsky (G)	Olimpiya Kirovo-Chepetsk	Sokol Krasnoyarsk	Details
10/15/2026	Confirmed	Alexei Fursa (F)	Sokol Krasnoyarsk	Neman Grodno	Details

2026-2027 VHL Free Agents

Team	Player
Olimpiya Kirovo-Chepetsk	Ivan Fishchenko (F)
Yuzhny Ural Orsk	Semyon Rubtsov (F)
AKM Tula Region	Yeremei Shumilin (F)
Sokol Krasnoyarsk	Pavel Yelizarov (D)
Buran Voronezh	Yevgeni Shakurov (D)

2027-2028 VHL Free Agents

Team	Player
Kristall Saratov	Nikita Chervontsev (F)
Bars Kazan	Ildar Shiksatdarov (F)
HK Norilsk	Mikhail Shalagin (F)
Kristall Saratov	Ivan Krasnov (F)
Toros Neftekamsk	Dmitri Sidlyarov (F)

VHL League Injury List

Player / Team	Information
Ruslan Aglamzyanov (F)Chelmet Chelyabinsk	Undisclosed Injury
Dmitri Kulikov (G)Dynamo St. Petersburg	Undisclosed Injury
Andrei Gorbunov (D)Gornyak-UGMK	Undisclosed Injury
Roman Makarov (F)Gornyak-UGMK	Until October 16 (5 matches)
Vladislav Lukin (F)Izhstal Izhevsk	Undisclosed Injury
Mark Yanchevsky (D)Izhstal Izhevsk	Undisclosed Injury
Ivan Gavrilov (F)Khimik Voskresensk	Undisclosed Injury
Artur Boltanov (F)Magnitka Magnitogorsk	Undisclosed Injury
Andrei Krutov (F)Metallurg Novokuznetsk	Undisclosed Injury
Alexei Elblaus (F)Molot Perm	Undisclosed Injury
Pavel Leuka (F)Omskie Krylia	Undisclosed Injury
Pavel Meshkov (F)Rubin Tyumen	Undisclosed Injury
Denis Piliya (F)Rubin Tyumen	Undisclosed Injury
Kondrat Reshetnikov (F)Ryazan-VDV	Undisclosed Injury
Yegor Yuzlenko (D)Ryazan-VDV	Undisclosed Injury
Ivan Krylov (D)Sokol Krasnoyarsk	Undisclosed Injury
Alexei Tsyplakov (F)Sokol Krasnoyarsk	Undisclosed Injury
Nikita Bogdanov (G)Toros Neftekamsk	Undisclosed Injury
Ruslan Gimbatov (F)Toros Neftekamsk	Undisclosed Injury
Gleb Kuzmin (F)Toros Neftekamsk	Undisclosed Injury
Maxim Petrov (F)Yuzhny Ural Orsk	Undisclosed Injury
Artyom Barabosha (D)Zvezda Moskva	Undisclosed Injury
Yegor Bryutov (D)Zvezda Moskva	Undisclosed Injury
Gleb Lagoda (F)Zvezda Moskva	Undisclosed Injury
Mikhail Sidorov (D)Zvezda Moskva	Undisclosed Injury

Player Nationalities Throughout History

VHL Team Comparison (Averages)

#	Team	Players	Experience	Height	Weight	Age
1.	AKM Tula Region	35	4 637	6'0"	183 lbs	25.14
2.	Bars Kazan	39	4 381	6'0"	181 lbs	23.56
3.	Buran Voronezh	30	4 812	6'0"	181 lbs	24.63
4.	CSK VVS Samara	29	2 150	6'0"	176 lbs	22.31
5.	Chelmet Chelyabinsk	33	2 683	6'0"	172 lbs	21.76
6.	Dizel Penza	28	5 392	5'11"	181 lbs	24.46
7.	Dynamo St. Petersburg	30	4 499	6'0"	187 lbs	24.23
8.	Dynamo-Altay Barnaul	32	5 615	6'0"	181 lbs	24.59
9.	Gornyak-UGMK	34	3 483	6'1"	176 lbs	22.62
10.	HK Kaluga	30	5 468	6'0"	179 lbs	25.77
11.	HK Norilsk	28	5 642	6'0"	183 lbs	25.68
12.	HK Tambov	32	3 690	6'0"	181 lbs	24.06
13.	Izhstal Izhevsk	30	6 027	5'11"	176 lbs	25.90
14.	Khimik Voskresensk	36	2 296	6'1"	190 lbs	22.33
15.	Kristall Saratov	30	3 391	6'0"	179 lbs	23.30
16.	Magnitka Magnitogorsk	32	3 413	6'0"	179 lbs	22.78
17.	Metallurg Novokuznetsk	30	4 689	6'0"	185 lbs	24.63
18.	Molot Perm	31	5 126	6'0"	179 lbs	25.16
19.	Neftyanik Almetievsk	31	5 714	6'0"	179 lbs	25.03
20.	Olimpiya Kirovo-Chepetsk	30	6 210	6'0"	187 lbs	25.17
21.	Omskie Krylia	30	5 909	6'0"	179 lbs	24.13
22.	Rubin Tyumen	29	5 271	6'1"	183 lbs	24.31
23.	Ryazan-VDV	35	6 026	6'0"	181 lbs	24.83
24.	SKA-VMF St. Petersburg	35	5 339	6'0"	181 lbs	23.89
25.	Sokol Krasnoyarsk	31	5 297	6'0"	174 lbs	25.03
26.	Toros Neftekamsk	36	3 237	6'1"	181 lbs	22.75
27.	Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk	28	4 182	6'0"	181 lbs	24.18
28.	Yuzhny Ural Orsk	28	5 489	6'0"	183 lbs	25.39
29.	Zauralie Kurgan	35	4 423	6'0"	174 lbs	24.03
30.	Zvezda Moskva	31	2 971	6'0"	179 lbs	22.61

Team Comparison History

VHL Interesting Facts

Oldest
1.	Dmitri Lyutov	37 yrs
2.	Alexander Ugolnikov	37 yrs
3.	Vitali Kamenev	37 yrs
4.	Alexander Komaristy	37 yrs
5.	Ilya Bochkov	36 yrs

Tallest
1.	Igor Chibrikov	6'8"
2.	Vyacheslav Bugrov	6'7"
3.	Stepan Frolov	6'7"
4.	Vladislav Fyodorov	6'7"
5.	Kirill Steklov	6'7"

Heaviest
1.	Ivan Maslennikov	234 lbs
2.	Yegor Yegorov	231 lbs
3.	Stepan Frolov	227 lbs
4.	Dmitri Lozebnikov	227 lbs
5.	Maxim Berezin	225 lbs

Youngest
1.	Dmitri Paklinov	16 yrs
2.	Ivan Ananyev	17 yrs
3.	Roman Kozhevnikov	17 yrs
4.	Zakhar Meshkantsov	17 yrs
5.	Artyom Uvaletov	17 yrs

Shortest
1.	Igor Zenchikov	5'7"
2.	Artyom Manukyan	5'7"
3.	Nikita Mytnik	5'7"
4.	Andrei Perfilyev	5'7"
5.	Alexander Shilov	5'7"

Lightest
1.	Danil Mosharov	134 lbs
2.	Alexander Shilov	134 lbs
3.	Dmitri Pykhtin	137 lbs
4.	Andrei Zavadsky	137 lbs
5.	Igor Zenchikov	137 lbs

Where Are They Now?

Played in the league during season

#	player	season	team	league	GP	G	A	PTS	PIM
1.	Valeri Gurin (F)	2026-2027	Gornyak Rudny	Kazakhstan	18	9	21	30	4
2.	Vyacheslav Korotin (F)	2026-2027	Arlan Kokshetau	Kazakhstan	20	8	22	30	14
3.	Pavel Zhirnov (F)	2026-2027	Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk	Kazakhstan	19	17	12	29	6
4.	Stepan Sannikov (F)	2026-2027	Arlan Kokshetau	Kazakhstan	17	12	15	27	38
5.	Timur Shingareyev (F)	2026-2027	Gornyak Rudny	Kazakhstan	17	14	11	25	4
6.	Yevgeni Rymarev (F)	2026-2027	HK Almaty	Kazakhstan	17	12	13	25	2
7.	Vyacheslav Litovchenko (F)	2026-2027	HK Almaty	Kazakhstan	20	8	17	25	6
8.	Vladislav Nikulin (F)	2026-2027	Saryarka Karaganda	Kazakhstan	20	9	15	24	6
9.	Danila Karaban (F)	2026-2027	Saryarka Karaganda	Kazakhstan	20	16	7	23	2
10.	Yegor Anisimov (F)	2026-2027	Kulager Petropavlovsk	Kazakhstan	19	8	15	23	8

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Regular Season

VHL All-Time Points

VHL All-Time Points
#	Player	GP	G	A	TP
1.	Daniil Yerdakov (F)	644	194	283	477
2.	Yevgeni Rymarev (F)	539	179	239	418
3.	Mikhail Mokin (F)	588	156	252	408
4.	Vitali Kamenev (F)	788	141	240	381
5.	Denis Davydov (F)	671	166	203	369

VHL All-Time Goals

VHL All-Time Goals
#	Player	GP	G	A	TP
1.	Daniil Yerdakov (F)	644	194	283	477
2.	Maxim Kitsyn (F)	475	193	175	368
3.	Alexei Knyazev (F)	676	186	181	367
4.	Yevgeni Rymarev (F)	539	179	239	418
5.	Oleg Lomako (F)	539	179	169	348

VHL All-Time Assists

VHL All-Time Assists
#	Player	GP	G	A	TP
1.	Daniil Yerdakov (F)	644	194	283	477
2.	Mikhail Mokin (F)	588	156	252	408
3.	Vitali Kamenev (F)	788	141	240	381
4.	Yevgeni Rymarev (F)	539	179	239	418
5.	Valeri Polyakov (F)	497	127	223	350

VHL All-Time Penalty Min.

VHL All-Time Penalty Min.
#	Player	GP	G	TP	PIM
1.	Stanislav Tunkhuzin (D)	420	50	145	704
2.	Ilya Bochkov (D)	752	45	201	680
3.	Maxim Yushkov (F)	453	99	243	664
4.	Andrei Demidov (F)	490	116	261	526
5.	Maxim Sergeyev (D)	478	35	149	506

VHL All-Time Games Played

VHL All-Time Games Played
#	Player	GP	G	A	TP
1.	Vitali Kamenev (F)	788	141	240	381
2.	Ilya Bochkov (D)	752	45	156	201
3.	Dmitri Lyutov (D)	735	30	152	182
4.	Alexander Sumin (D)	733	35	165	200
5.	Grigori Glebov (D)	709	70	141	210

VHL All-Time Points Per Game

VHL All-Time Points Per Game
#	Player	GP	G	TP	PPG
1.	Robert Nilsson (F)	2	1	4	2.00
2.	Yegor Milovzorov (F)	1	1	2	2.00
3.	Egor Chinakhov (F)	2	2	3	1.50
4.	Maxim Sushinsky (F)	2	1	3	1.50
5.	Alexei Ionov (F)	2	1	3	1.50

VHL All-Time Points Per Season

VHL All-Time Points Per Season
#	Player	Season	League	GP	G	A	TP	PPG	PIM
1.	Mikhail Shalagin (F)	2025-2026	VHL	59	32	39	71	1.20	32
2.	Maxim Kitsyn (F)	2019-2020	VHL	53	39	30	69	1.30	32
3.	Maxim Kitsyn (F)	2021-2022	VHL	52	32	36	68	1.31	32
4.	Alexander Timiryov (F)	2018-2019	VHL	55	32	29	61	1.11	20
5.	Daniil Yerdakov (F)	2021-2022	VHL	51	19	42	61	1.20	16

VHL All-Time Goals Per Season

VHL All-Time Goals Per Season
#	Player	Season	League	GP	G	A	TP	PPG	PIM
1.	Maxim Kitsyn (F)	2019-2020	VHL	53	39	30	69	1.30	32
2.	Mikhail Shalagin (F)	2025-2026	VHL	59	32	39	71	1.20	32
3.	Maxim Kitsyn (F)	2021-2022	VHL	52	32	36	68	1.31	32
4.	Alexander Timiryov (F)	2018-2019	VHL	55	32	29	61	1.11	20
5.	Nikita Popugayev (F)	2024-2025	VHL	64	31	16	47	0.73	12

VHL All-Time Assists Per Season

VHL All-Time Assists Per Season
#	Player	Season	League	GP	G	A	TP	PPG	PIM
1.	Alexander Shibayev (F)	2012-2013	VHL	51	14	47	61	1.20	28
2.	Dmitri Sidlyarov (F)	2024-2025	VHL	63	12	45	57	0.90	24
3.	Maxim Mineyev (D)	2025-2026	VHL	49	4	45	49	1.00	14
4.	Daniil Yerdakov (F)	2021-2022	VHL	51	19	42	61	1.20	16
5.	Rasim Shakirov (F)	2025-2026	VHL	61	19	40	59	0.97	12

VHL All-Time Penalty Min. Per Season

VHL All-Time Penalty Min. Per Season
#	Player	Season	League	GP	G	A	TP	PPG	PIM
1.	Maxim Yeprev (D)	2012-2013	VHL	27	0	0	0	0.00	175
2.	Igor Knyazev (D)	2012-2013	VHL	48	3	2	5	0.10	169
3.	Igor Golovkov (D)	2010-2011	VHL	36	1	1	2	0.06	154
4.	Vladislav Dashkevich (D)	2010-2011	VHL	51	4	7	11	0.22	149
5.	Darcy Verot (F)	2012-2013	VHL	26	4	2	6	0.23	145