Ice Hockey team

Lada

Club · Russia · KHL

«Avtozavodtsy»

421 Matches

196 wins

225 losses

1097–1147 Goals

−50 Difference

2.6 Scored per game

Form L L L L L L

AvtoVAZ put its name on the team in 1990, having run it since the mid-1970s under the Torpedo badge. The nickname stuck regardless: Avtozavodtsy, the auto-plant workers.

The club's peak sits entirely in the 1990s. Two national championships, in 1993/94 and 1995/96, were followed by a European Cup in 1996/97. A Continental Cup arrived in 2005/06, but the Kontinental Hockey League era has given Lada nothing beyond a pair of quarterfinal runs, in 2008/09 and 2023/24, either side of two spells back in the Higher Hockey League after financial trouble cost the club its top-flight place, first in 2010 and again in 2018.

Ilya Bryzgalov came through the same academy that has fed the senior roster for decades, and left it to win a Stanley Cup and a world title elsewhere — the pattern Lada has lived with more often than not, developing players it could not keep. Lada Arena holds a little over 6,000, small even by KHL standards, and the club plays there now as one of the league's smaller operations rather than the force it was under the old IHL.

Having returned to the KHL for the 2023/24 season, Lada's task is straightforward: stay there.

Latest results

Fixtures and results

12 Oct	KHL	Khabarovsk A	0:1	L
10 Oct	KHL	Vladivostok A	3:4	L
5 Oct	KHL	Kunlun H	0:5	L
2 Oct	KHL	Avangard Omsk A	1:4	L
30 Sep	KHL	Yekaterinburg A	1:3	L
28 Sep	KHL	Dinamo Minsk A	4:5	L