Hockey Club Donbass (Ukrainian: Хокейний Клуб Донбас; tr. Hokeinyi Klub Donbas) was a Ukrainian professional ice hockey team based in Druzhkivka, that played in the Ukrainian Hockey League and briefly the KHL which saw the club fold in 2021.
HC Donbass is six times Ukrainian champion (2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018). The team was a member of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) during the 2012–13 and 2013–14 seasons,[1] and was the sole representative from Ukraine competing at the elite international level. Due to the war in Donbas, the team did not compete in the 2014–15 KHL season.
Borys Kolesnikov, a prominent Ukrainian politician and businessman, purchased the team in 2010,[2] and from then until 2014 it was the most successful hockey club in Ukraine. The team takes its name from its geographic location in the heart of the Donets Basin (Donbas).
The club was founded in 2005 as Hockey Club Kolbiko-Donetsk and took part in the XIV Ukrainian Championship by competing in the First League. After three years of competing only in tournament play, the club returned to the Ukrainian Hockey Championship, and ascended to the Ukrainian Major League. In its fourth seasons of national competition beginning in 2008, the franchise won its first national title in 2011, before joining the Supreme Hockey League (VHL). The team also won the 2012–13 IIHF Continental Cup, becoming the first team from Ukraine to do so.[3] Following the 2010–11 season, Donbass split into two teams with their affiliate, Donbass-2, representing the organization in the Professional Hockey League of Ukraine. Donbass-2 won its first title in 2012 during the inaugural PHL season, and its second title the following season for the organization. In 2013, Bilyi Bars began acting as HC Donbass's PHL affiliate, dissolving Donbass-2.[4]
Their second arena, in Druzhkivka, was bombed by Russia on 2 January 2023.
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HCDonbass is a professional ice hockey team based in Donetsk, a city in the Donets Basin region of Ukraine. The only Ukrainian club playing outside of...
season Dadonov helped Donbass reach the Conference Semifinals. With HCDonbass suspending operations due to the outbreak of War in Donbass Dadonov signed a...
October 2013, Anisin was contracted by HCDonbass for a 4th round selection in the 2014 KHL draft while playing for HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk . In November...
final) and the Metalurh Stadium. Donetsk is home to the ice hockey club HCDonbass, playing at the Druzhba Arena since 2011 (but discontinuing operations...
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by HC CSKA Moscow in the first round. In 2013–14, they finished 3rd in the West, then they swept KHL Medveščak Zagreb in four, outlasted HCDonbass in...
Kontinental Hockey League's HCDonbass. Following the 2012–13 NHL season, Fedotenko signed a three-year, $9 million contract with Donbass. On 20 January 2015...
previously played in the league), and newly created team HC Sochi joined the league. However, HCDonbass did not play in the league for the 2014–15 season,...
IIHF World Ranking), as well as teams from Super Six leagues, which included HC Dynamo Moscow and HKm Zvolen. Note: Great Britain's medal total includes three...
Slovan opened the 2012–13 season with a home game against Ukrainian HCDonbass on 6 September 2012, losing 2–4 in front of a capacity crowd. The first...
Bobrov Division. In exchange, HC Vityaz, HCDonbass and Dynamo Moscow were moved from Bobrov to Tarasov Division. HCDonbass had to withdraw prior to the...
Man, for playing more games than any other player in the last 3 years. "HCDonbass' 2013-14 Roster". hockeydb.com. 2014-10-03. Retrieved 2014-10-03. "Yakutsenya...
the fighting, Druzhba Arena, home of the Kontinental Hockey League team HCDonbass, was ransacked by pro-Russian insurgents, who looted the building, destroyed...
played with HCDonbass in the 2019–20 season of the Ukrainian Hockey League (UHL). Belukin made his Kontinental Hockey League debut with HC Lada Togliatti...
Republic, Slovakia and the United States. 2011–12 (winner: HCDonbass-2) 2012–13 (winner: HCDonbass-2) Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, subsequent...
Retrieved 1 July 2011. "HCDonbass reach agreement on contract with Ruslan Fedotenko, Alexei Ponikarovsky" (in Russian). HCDonbass. 16 September 2012. Archived...
safety concerns regarding potential instability in Kharkiv Oblast. Three HCDonbass home KHL playoff games were moved from Donetsk's Druzhba Arena to Slovnaft...
debut Most saves in an AHL game: 98 HCDonbass franchise record for most regular season shutouts in a season: 6 HCDonbass franchise record for most career...
Championship. After only one season, the league was disbanded. 2015–16 (winner: HCDonbass) "www.hel.net.ua". Archived from the original on 18 September 2015. Retrieved...
a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He last played for HCDonbass of the Kontinental Hockey League. Robitaille has previously played for...
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Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine. He is the owner and president of the HCDonbass ice hockey club. Born on 25 October 1962 in Zhdanov, Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian...
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Borys Kolesnikov