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Ukrainian Championship
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2022–23 Ukrainian Hockey Championship
UHC emblem, 2009–12
SportIce Hockey
Founded1992
No. of teams6
Country Ukraine
Most titlesSokil Kyiv (14)
Current shield2024-2025: HC Kremenchuk
WebsiteFHU.com.ua

The Ukrainian Hockey Championship (Ukrainian: Чемпіонат України з хокею, romanized: Chempionat Ukrayiny z khokeiu) is an annual ice hockey award and national title, bestowed to the ice hockey organization judged to have the best performing team in Ukraine, founded in 1992. Prior to the 2015–16 season, the league playing for the title took the name Ukrainian Hockey Extra League.[1] In 2016, the new Ukrainian Hockey League was created instead, which folded in 2021.

History

First Ukrainian hockey competitions were conducting since February 1949.[2]

Prior to the formation of the Professional Hockey League (PHL), the Ice Hockey Federation of Ukraine (FHU) administered and handed out the award, allowing both amateur and professional teams to compete in an annual regular season, then playoff for the title. On July 25, 2011, the FHU transferred the rights of the event to the PHL.[3]

In 2011–12, the championship was awarded in the PHL following a 4-team playoff at the end of the 41-game regular season. The finals were determined though a best-of-seven playoff.[4] Teams that miss the finals participate in a best-of-five playoff to determine final positioning. In addition to the title, the winning team was given a cash prize by the league, US$1,000,000, shared by all of the players.[5] National finalists receive silver and bronze medals.[5]

Teams

Teams in 2024-25

Team Home city Founded Arena Capacity
Dnipro Kherson Kherson 1999 Favorit Arena 400
HC Kremenchuk Kremenchuk 2010 Aisberg Arena 900
HC Kryzhynka Kyiv Kyiv 1994 Kryzhynka Ice Stadium 500
HC Storm Odesa Odesa 2024 Palace of Sports, Odesa 5000
Kyiv Capitals Kyiv 2023 Palace of Sports, Kyiv 7000
Sokil Kyiv Kyiv 1963

(reestablished in 2020)

 Palace of Sports, Kyiv 7000

Former teams

Winners by season


Statistics by club

Club Winners Winning years
Sokil Kyiv
14
 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010,

2023, 2024

HC Donbass / HC Donbass-2
8
 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021
Berkut-Kyiv
3
 2000, 2001, 2002
HC Kremenchuk
2
 2020, 2025
ATEK Kyiv
2
 2007, 2015
HC Kompanion-Naftogaz
1
 2014
ShVSM Kyiv
1
 1994

Winners by season (Soviet period)

Soviet emblem
  • 1941: Spartak Lviv
  • 1948: DO Kyiv
  • 1949: Locomotive Kharkiv
  • 1950: Locomotive Kharkiv
  • 1951: Locomotive Kharkiv
  • 1952: Locomotive Kharkiv
  • 1953: Dynamo Kyiv
  • 1954: Zenit Kyiv
  • 1955: ODO Kyiv
  • 1956: ODO Kyiv
  • 1957: no championship due to weather
  • 1958: Torpedo-KhTZ Kharkiv
  • 1959: Dynamo Kyiv
  • 1960: Krasny Excavator Kyiv
  • 1961: Avangard Kyiv
  • 1962: Avangard Kyiv
  • 1963: ?
  • 1964: Avangard Kyiv
  • 1965: Dynamo Kyiv
  • 1966: Krasny Excavator Kyiv
  • 1967: Krasny Excavator Kyiv
  • 1968: Dynamo Kyiv
  • 1969: Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
  • 1970: Krasny Excavator Kyiv
  • 1971: Dynamo Kyiv
  • 1972: Krasny Excavator Kyiv
  • 1973: Krasny Excavator Kyiv
  • 1974: Krasny Excavator Kyiv
  • 1975: Krasny Excavator Kyiv
  • 1976: Krasny Excavator Kyiv
  • 1977: ?
  • 1978: Krasny Excavator Kyiv
  • 1979: ?
  • 1980: ?
  • 1981: Kyiv City
  • 1982: ?
  • 1983: ?
  • 1984: ?
  • 1985: ?
  • 1986: ?
  • 1987: ?
  • 1988: ?
  • 1989: ?
  • 1990: ?
  • 1991: ?

Awards

Kostiantyn Kasianchuk

Ukraine Player of the Year

See also

References