Lada Togliatti
- Leagues Played
- KHL 308 Rusia - VHL 290 Meciuri amicale (Doar timpul regulamentar) 95
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- Related Teams
- Lada Togliatti U20
Wikipedia - HC Lada Togliatti
HC Lada Togliatti (Russian: ХК Лада) is a Russian professional ice hockey team based in Tolyatti, Russia. They play in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).
Togliatti were participants in the inaugural season of the KHL in 2008–09. Due to a lack of a satisfactory arena, the KHL expelled the team and the team dropped one level to the Supreme Hockey League (VHL) for the 2010–11 season. They were allowed to rejoin the KHL for the 2014–15 season after the opening of the Lada Arena. However, the team was expelled again following the end of the 2017–18 season, and returned to the VHL. The team once again rejoined the KHL for the 2023–24 season.
History
- July 1976 - team was founded as Torpedo Togliatti.
- August 31, 1976 - first exhibition game against Dizelist Penza (final score was 3:3)
- 1991 - Lada enters the Highest division of the Soviet Championship League.
- April 1994 - Lada wins the International Hockey League's Russian Championship, becoming the first-ever team with non-Moscow origin to win the then-IHL Cup
- December 1994 - European Cup debut; silver medals won.
- December 1995 - Lada becomes a vice-champion of Spengler Cup after a loss in Final game to Canadian national team.
- December 30, 1996 - Lada wins European Cup.
- July 18, 2001 - Valeriy Postnikov quits team after having "attacks aimed at me by the media."
- November 2005 - due to financial troubles, 16 players leave the team. To continue regular season, Lada management uses the players from reserve team.
- January 2006 - Lada becomes first ever Russian team to win the IIHF Continental Cup.