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Salary budgets and bonuses of Western clubs. Who spends and how much.

With the Eastern Conference club budgets released, we move on to Western Conference, where the two main oligarchs of the KHL are located. The given payrolls are approximate and rounded. Throughout the season, the numbers are constantly changing due to trades, terminations of contracts and transfers of players to farm clubs.

Dynamo (Riga)

Contract amounts: 293,000,000 rubles
Bonuses: 34,000,000 rubles
Total amount: 327,000,000 rubles
Place in standings West: 13

The Latvian club exists thanks to the connections of the former KGB officer Yuri Savitsky. A member of the Board of Directors of the KHL raises funds through Gazprom and Rosneft. However, it is not entirely correct to think that the residents of Riga are chic for Russian money. Dynamo is the most economical club not only in the West, but in the entire league. No one except residents of Riga spends less than 300 million rubles on salaries. However, to achieve any results with such a budget is unrealistic. The last place of the Girts Ankipans team in the conference is quite natural.

Slovan (Bratislava)

Contract amounts: 415,000,000 rubles
Bonuses: 46,000,000 rubles
Total amount: 461,000,000 rubles
Place in the standings of the West: 12

By European standards, 6 million euros is a more than solid budget. Even in the Finnish or Swedish championship, Slovan could fight for the championship. In Slovakia, the club from Bratislava is an irritant like SKA. However, this is clearly not enough for a successful performance in the KHL. Slovan lives quite modestly, sometimes even delaying players' salaries. Almost every off-season raises the question of the further participation of the Slovaks in our championship.

Severstal (Cherepovets)

Contract amounts: 396,000,000 rubles
Bonuses: 74,000,000 rubles
Total amount: 470,000,000 rubles
Place in the standings of the West: 8

Considering that one of the key points in the KHL rating is the salary fund, it becomes clear why Severstal is predicted to be excluded from the league. Among Russian clubs only Admiral and Lada spend less, while Neftekhimik and Yugra have similar budgets. But what is bad for the rating, in combination with sports results, causes genuine respect. The team of Alexander Gulyavtsev is desperately fighting for a place in the top eight, having only one expensive player in the face of captain Dmitry Kagarlitsky. The possibilities of Severstal would be on a completely different level if the owner of the club Alexei Mordashov (2nd place in the Russian Forbes) was a hockey fan just like Viktor Rashnikov.

"Vityaz" (Podolsk)

Contract amounts: 528,000,000 rubles
Bonuses: 96,000,000 rubles
Total amount: 624,000,000 rubles
Place in the standings of the West: 11

The team from Podolsk, which is patronized by the former president KHL Alexander Medvedev, does not live in poverty, but do not say that he lives on wide leg. We will not deceive if we say that she goes exactly in the place that she deserves based on the payroll. Star veteran Maxim Afinogenov and legionnaires should be attributed to the highest paid players of Vityaz. True, the updated foreign team frankly failed this season, which left the Moscow Region team without a playoff.

HC Sochi (Sochi)

Contract amounts: 482,000,000 rubles
Bonuses: 163,000,000 rubles
Total amount: 645,000,000 rubles
Place in the standings of the West: 6

The frontman of the southern team here and now is just right to consider Pavel Padakin. A smiling guy in the image of Sochimen conquered Astana, where he came for a stellar weekend. but current contract The 23-year-old forward, expiring this spring, no longer matches his level. He will receive the first big money very soon. From Sochi or another club - the second question. In the meantime, southerners, who often use their climate as an argument in negotiations, spend less on salaries than Vityaz. Above in the table, they are located only thanks to quite impressive bonuses.

"Torpedo" (Nizhny Novgorod)

Contract amounts: 644,000,000 rubles
Bonuses: 63,000,000 rubles
Total amount: 707,000,000 rubles
Place in the standings of the West: 5

In the case of Torpedo, quite modest bonuses are surprising. Apparently, the self-preservation instinct acts as a motivation for the players of the Nizhny Novgorod club. Nobody wants to fall under the hot hand of Peteris Skudra. With such an emotional coach, who is able to raise even the dead from the trenches, financial incentives are useless. There are no big stars in Nizhny Novgorod, but Parshin, Stolyarov, Galuzin and Grigoriev receive very good money by the standards of the KHL. But the main thing is that the payroll does not indicate how much Torpedo spends annually on terminating contracts with players. The rule “the best is the enemy of the good”, which Skudra regularly violates, costs the “car factory” a pretty penny. Yes, only with the departure of Valery Shantsev from the post of governor, "fat" times can remain in the past.

Dynamo (Minsk)

Contract amounts: 582,000,000 rubles
Bonuses: 144,000,000 rubles
Total amount: 726,000,000 rubles
Place in the standings of the West: 10

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko loves to smash hockey players to smithereens, talking about their salaries in the tone of an ordinary fan. “Snickering” - this word is repeated in almost every of the numerous speeches of the Belarusian leader, who himself often goes on skates. Scolding the players, the president nevertheless continues to allocate money for the participation of the country's main club in the KHL championship. Before this season, there were speeches about the rejection of legionnaires, but it is the foreigners recruited anew in Dynamo who “eat up” the lion's share of the budget. The leaders of the Belarusian national team either receive rather modest money in the Minsk club, or go to work in Russia.

Jokerit (Helsinki)

Contract amounts: 650,000,000 rubles
Bonuses: 120,000,000 rubles
Total amount: 770,000,000 rubles
Place in the standings of the West: 3

In November, the main Finnish business publication Kauppalehti.fi published the financial results of Jokerita. According to these data, their Helsinki club suffered losses of 47.7 million euros in four years in the KHL! Enormous money, if you don’t think about what a minus our clubs go to every year. Through sponsorship, the Jesters earn more than any team in the Finnish league, but suffer greatly due to the lack of a major television contract in the KHL. So it turns out that, by Russian standards, Jokerit is one of the leaders in terms of price-quality ratio, but among European clubs, “jesters” look like real spenders.

"Spartak Moscow)

Contract amounts: 690,000,000 rubles
Bonuses: 280,000,000 rubles
Total amount: 970,000,000 rubles
Place in the standings of the West: 7

The first team in the West that does not fit into the current salary cap is Spartak. In recent years, the club has been known as an outsider, but only in terms of results. The financial capabilities of Muscovites are quite at the level of the eight. The fact that the red-whites only this season seriously claim to get into the playoffs is a stone in the garden of management. The powerful financial support of Spartak should not be surprising. Gennady Timchenko himself had a hand in the revival of the club, which ensures close relations with the leadership of SKA. “Humanitarian aid” comes from St. Petersburg to Moscow every now and then. Khokhlachev, Kalinin, Yudin, Dergachev - all of them recently walked along the Neva embankment, having heavy contracts by the standards of an average club. The same Khokhlachev in Spartak receives about 70 million rubles, but, unlike the time spent by SKA, he works them out to the fullest.

Dynamo (Moscow)

Contract amounts: 828,000,000 rubles
Bonuses: 145,000,000 rubles
Total amount: 973,000,000 rubles
Place in the standings of the West: 9

Back in the championship time, the fans and leaders of Dynamo liked to show off, presenting themselves as such a team of workhorses. It was true that there were almost no big names in blue and white uniforms, but the depth of the roster and the abundance of players from the “above average” category were not cheap at all. The difference with other teams that took the Gagarin Cup was only in the distribution of the budget between the players. However, it is one thing to spend a billion on a title, and quite another to fight for the playoffs. The leaders of Dynamo in the person of Nikulin, Tereshchenko, Eremenko, Varnakov, Boyd and Hietanen receive as much as if there was no bankruptcy of the club at all. Looking at the place of Muscovites in the standings, you understand why Alexei Badyukov replaced Ruben Begunets as the chief breeder.

Lokomotiv (Yaroslavl)

Contract amounts: 930,000,000 rubles
Bonuses: 272,000,000 rubles
Total amount: 1,202,000,000 rubles
Place in the standings of the West: 4

The Yaroslavl Club is synonymous with stability. For many years, Lokomotiv has been among the leaders of our hockey, but does not get involved in an arms race. Yuri Yakovlev enlisted the support of such a serious sponsor as Russian Railways, but he still cannot compete with Gazprom and Rosneft. That is why they move along the route Yaroslavl - St. Petersburg one "railwayman" after another. The latest example was Vladislav Gavrikov. In the current composition of Lokomotiv, there is not a single player with a contract of more than 90 million rubles. Legionnaires, who are the main striking force of Dmitry Kvartalnov's team, crept close to this amount. Not offended in Yaroslavl by the ruble and youth, but the club retains a clear financial gradation.

CSKA (Moscow)

Contract amounts: 1,658,000,000 rubles
Bonuses: 600,000,000 rubles
Total amount: 2,258,000,000 rubles
Place in the standings of the West: 2

Second in the conference, second in the league, second in the payroll. CSKA is where it should be, but this is unlikely to suit the high-ranking patrons of the capital's club. Concluding three-year contracts with players, on Leningradsky Prospekt they expected to win not even one, but two Gagarin Cups during this time. After the departure of Alexander Radulov to the NHL, the club solved the problem of bias towards one player, but Shalunov and Shumakov, Nesterov and Marchenko, Grigorenko and Kaprizov went to the “army team” far from free. And if you remember that CSKA paid Sibir about 400 million rubles only for the transfer of the Novosibirsk trio, the total expenses for the squad only increase. Separately, we note that CSKA is the champion in terms of bonuses. Powerful financial motivation is spelled out in the contracts of the players, mainly those who joined the club last summer. Given the active rotation of Igor Nikitin, not everyone will be able to fulfill the required norm, but the amount of 600 million is still impressive.

SKA (St. Petersburg)

Contract amounts: 2,247,000,000 rubles
Bonuses: 342,000,000 rubles
Total amount: 2,589,000,000 rubles
Place in the standings of the West: 1

Surprised? We are not at all. The fact that the budget of SKA only for the salaries of players has long flown into the stratosphere, having exceeded 2 billion rubles, has been talked about on the sidelines for a long time. Let's say right away that this amount includes the contracts of Ilya Kovalchuk and Pavel Datsyuk, the two highest paid players in the KHL. At the same time, which is curious, they do not have any bonuses. Officially. We can only guess whether the main stars of hockey in St. Petersburg are entitled to other preferences. However, not only Datsyuk and Kovalchuk keep the SKA budget. The bar of 100 million rubles is overcome by Koskinen, Voinov, Belov and Gusev. Approaching this mark, for example, is not a star defender Dinar Khafizullin. The “soldiers” have the highest average salary in the league: even fourth-tier players get as much as the leaders in the province. SKA is stuck somewhere between the KHL and the NHL. Against the backdrop of the distressed Russian clubs, the Petersburgers look like aliens, but $ 38 million is not even enough to reach the impoverished Arizona. Yes, just consider SKA spending unique for Russian hockey not right. "Salavat Yulaev" in the championship seasons spent a little less, allowing you to calculate the budget after the fact, when the fireworks died down and all the champagne was drunk.

Club	Contract amounts	Bonuses	Total
SKA	2 247 000 000	342 000 000	2 589 000 000
CSKA	1 658 000 000	600 000 000	2 258 000 000
"Locomotive"	930 000 000	272 000 000	1 202 000 000
"Dynamo" M	828 000 000	145 000 000	973 000 000
"Spartacus"	690 000 000	280 000 000	970 000 000
"Jokerite"	650 000 000	120 000 000	770 000 000
"Dynamo" Minsk	582 000 000	144 000 000	726 000 000
"Torpedo"	644 000 000	63 000 000	707 000 000
HC Sochi	482 000 000	163 000 000	645 000 000
"Knight"	528 000 000	96 000 000	624 000 000
Severstal	396 000 000	74 000 000	470 000 000
"Slovan"	415 000 000	46 000 000	461 000 000
Dynamo R	293 000 000	34 000 000	327 000 000

Salary budgets and bonuses of Western clubs. Who spends and how much

Don't swoon over how much it costs SKA to be the base club of the national team.

With the Eastern Conference club budgets revealed, we move on to the Western Conference, where two of the KHL's top oligarchs are based. The given payrolls are approximate and rounded. Throughout the season, the numbers are constantly changing due to trades, terminations of contracts and transfers of players to farm clubs.

Salary budgets and bonuses of clubs of the East. Who spends and how much

Compare who spends how much and who is in what place in the standings.

Dynamo (Riga)

Contract amounts: 293,000,000 rubles
Bonuses: 34,000,000 rubles
Total amount: 327,000,000 rubles
Place in the standings of the West: 13

Slovan (Bratislava)

Contract amounts: 415,000,000 rubles
Bonuses: 46,000,000 rubles
Total amount: 461,000,000 rubles
Place in the standings of the West: 12

Severstal (Cherepovets)

Contract amounts: 396,000,000 rubles
Bonuses: 74,000,000 rubles
Total amount: 470,000,000 rubles
Place in the standings of the West: 8

Given that one of the key points in the KHL rating is the salary fund, it becomes clear why Severstal is predicted to be excluded from the league. Among Russian clubs, only Admiral and Lada spend less, while Neftekhimik and Yugra have similar budgets. But what is bad for the rating, in combination with sports results, causes genuine respect. The team of Alexander Gulyavtsev is desperately fighting for a place in the top eight, having only one expensive player in the person of captain Dmitry Kagarlitsky. The possibilities of Severstal would be on a completely different level if the owner of the club Alexei Mordashov (2nd place in the Russian Forbes) was a hockey fan just like Viktor Rashnikov.

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"Vityaz" (Podolsk)

Contract amounts: 528,000,000 rubles
Bonuses: 96,000,000 rubles
Total amount: 624,000,000 rubles
Place in the standings of the West: 11

The team from Podolsk, which is patronized by the former president of the KHL Alexander Medvedev, does not live in poverty, but it’s not to say that they live in a big way. We will not deceive if we say that she goes exactly in the place that she deserves based on the payroll. Star veteran Maxim Afinogenov and legionnaires should be attributed to the highest paid players of Vityaz. True, the updated foreign team frankly failed this season, which left the Moscow Region team without a playoff.

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HC Sochi (Sochi)

Contract amounts: 482,000,000 rubles
Bonuses: 163,000,000 rubles
Total amount: 645,000,000 rubles
Place in the standings of the West: 6

The frontman of the southern team here and now is just right to consider Pavel Padakin. A smiling guy in the image of Sochimen conquered Astana, where he came for a stellar weekend. However, the 23-year-old striker's current contract, expiring this spring, no longer matches his level. He will receive the first big money very soon. From Sochi or another club - the second question. In the meantime, southerners, who often use their climate as an argument in negotiations, are spending less on salaries than Vityaz. Above in the table, they are located only thanks to quite impressive bonuses.

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"Torpedo" (Nizhny Novgorod)

Contract amounts: 644,000,000 rubles
Bonuses: 63,000,000 rubles
Total amount: 707,000,000 rubles
Place in the standings of the West: 5

Dynamo (Minsk)

Contract amounts: 582,000,000 rubles
Bonuses: 144,000,000 rubles
Total amount: 726,000,000 rubles
Place in the standings of the West: 10

Jokerit (Helsinki)

Contract amounts: 650,000,000 rubles
Bonuses: 120,000,000 rubles
Total amount: 770,000,000 rubles
Place in the standings of the West: 3

"Spartak Moscow)

Contract amounts: 690,000,000 rubles
Bonuses: 280,000,000 rubles
Total amount: 970,000,000 rubles
Place in the standings of the West: 7

Dynamo (Moscow)

Contract amounts: 828,000,000 rubles
Bonuses: 145,000,000 rubles
Total amount: 973,000,000 rubles
Place in the standings of the West: 9

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Lokomotiv (Yaroslavl)

Contract amounts: 930,000,000 rubles
Bonuses: 272,000,000 rubles
Total amount: 1,202,000,000 rubles
Place in the standings of the West: 4

CSKA (Moscow)

Contract amounts: 1,658,000,000 rubles
Bonuses: 600,000,000 rubles
Total amount: 2,258,000,000 rubles
Place in the standings of the West: 2

SKA (St. Petersburg)

Contract amounts: 2,247,000,000 rubles
Bonuses: 342,000,000 rubles
Total amount: 2,589,000,000 rubles
Place in the standings of the West: 1

Surprised? We are not at all. The fact that the budget of SKA only for the salaries of players has long flown into the stratosphere, having exceeded 2 billion rubles, has been talked about on the sidelines for a long time. Let's say right away that this amount includes the contracts of Ilya Kovalchuk and Pavel Datsyuk, the two highest paid players in the KHL. At the same time, which is curious, they do not have any bonuses. Officially. We can only guess whether the main stars of hockey in St. Petersburg are entitled to other preferences. However, not only Datsyuk and Kovalchuk keep the SKA budget. The bar of 100 million rubles is overcome by Koskinen, Voinov, Belov and Gusev. Approaching this mark, for example, is not a star defender Dinar Khafizullin. The “soldiers” have the highest average salary in the league: even fourth-tier players get as much as the leaders in the province. SKA is stuck somewhere between the KHL and the NHL. Against the backdrop of the distressed Russian clubs, the Petersburgers look like aliens, but $ 38 million is not even enough to reach the impoverished Arizona. Yes, but it is wrong to consider SKA spending as unique for Russian hockey. "Salavat Yulaev" in the championship seasons spent a little less, allowing you to calculate the budget after the fact, when the fireworks died down and all the champagne was drunk.

In the KHL, league clubs' budgets, payrolls, and player contract sizes are classified as "Secret," but each time journalists get their hands on some numbers that make it possible to understand the financial capabilities of the teams. Last season, "Championship" cited salary budgets, which included the amount of contracts and bonuses, in the new season, interesting information leaks from other sources. So, Sport-Express recently published the top 54 highest paid players in the KHL, and today colleagues from RBC-Sport, citing their own sources, named the payrolls of all the clubs in the Western Conference.

Based on this data, we understand how efficiently the funds of the Western team are spent. We also note that this amount does not include the bonus part of the salaries of hockey players, which in size can sometimes be almost a third of the salary fund.

Salary budget in the 2018/19 season: 260,000,000 rubles Current position in the conference: 12th Dynamo Riga has always been one of the most economical teams in the KHL, and over the years, the salary budget of the Latvians continues to fall. The head of Riga residents, Juris Savickis, does not hide the fact that the club lives on extremely limited means, cannot compete with other clubs in contract offers to players, and does not even reach half the salaries. However, in the summer it seemed that Riga would be an ideal example in terms of price-quality ratio. In Dynamo, despite a modest budget, good legionnaires came (Ullström, Ashton, Berglund, Marshall) and the Rigans managed to win two pre-season tournaments quite confidently. But the fairy tale about the team, which, despite the small budget, is capable of being a serious force, ended with the start of the regular season. Dynamo sank to the bottom of the West, which, however, fully corresponds to the financial arms race at the conference. True, in recent matches, the inhabitants of Riga have seen a positive trend, but we can recall that even the unfortunate Slovan had a successful segment in October last season, so no conclusions should be drawn. Paying all players less than 300 million rubles, you can hope to reach the playoffs, but not in the KHL. And here's another topical question: if a hard salary floor is introduced in the league along with the ceiling, will we have to say goodbye to Dynamo Riga?

Severstal

Salary budget in the 2018/19 season: 350,000,000 rubles Current place in the conference: 8th In the summer, Severstal relied on the coaching skills of Andrei Razin and young people hungry for victories, but it is clear that this did not happen from a good life. The budget of the Cherepovites has been stable for many years, but very low, we have to put up with this. And in Severstal, as experience shows, they did everything right. They didn’t spend half of the salary fund on legionnaires, who are not sure that they will shoot, but distributed the money evenly and got a close-knit, daring team that is right now in the playoff zone. Of course, one cannot count on more than getting into the top eight of Severstal, but so far the plan of the leadership of Cherepovets is working. And then you see, if the team reaches some stability in terms of performance or suddenly surprises in the spring, then Alexey Mordashov, the owner of Severstal PJSC, one of the largest steel mills in Russia, will change his views on financing the local hockey team.

Dynamo (Minsk)

Salary budget in the 2018/19 season: 370,000,000 rubles Current place in the conference: 10th In May, Minsk CEO Dmitry Baskov was sure that the budget of his club would be the smallest in the KHL, but, as we can see, he miscalculated a little. However, for two last season Dynamo's salary fund really sank significantly and before this season nothing good was expected from the Belarusians. We predicted that the "bison" would lag behind at the bottom of the West table, and even Craig Woodcroft, under whom the playoffs were last seen in Minsk, would not help them. But then the budget was different! Dynamo at the beginning of the season even rather pleasantly surprised, but now everything is falling into place. Minskers suffered five defeats in a row, including a failure in the last home match with Torpedo, and slipped to tenth place in the table. But what did you want from the "bison"? Tenth budget - tenth place, everything is logical. That's just the example of Severstal suggests that little funding is not a sentence at all.

"Torpedo"

Salary budget in the 2018/19 season: 470,000,000 rubles Current place in the conference: 4th Torpedo should be satisfied with the efficiency of spending money on player contracts. Yes, the budget of Nizhny Novgorod is not so modest (with bonuses of more than half a billion rubles), but Torpedo is, of course, far from the oligarchs, and the team, meanwhile, after a month and a half from the start of the regular season, goes to the top 4 of the West. Compared to last season, the club got rid of the rather big contracts of Parshin, Galuzin and all legionnaires, carried out a selection that did not inspire much optimism, but so far everything is fine with Torpedo. The main merit in this belongs to David Nemirovsky, who created a strong team with character from inexpensive material in Nizhny Novgorod, and also, we hope, took into account his mistakes from the last championship.

HC Sochi

Salary budget in the 2018/19 season: 490,000,000 rubles Current place in the conference: 11th In the off-season, the Sochi team lost a number of leaders, but the club's budget, which had been at the same level for quite a long time, still made it possible to reassemble a strong team that must go out in the playoffs and try to surprise in the first round. In the summer it seemed that everything was going according to plan for the southerners. Sergey Zubov is at the helm with his boring but working style, Stromvall, Krikunov and Ellis signed to replace the departed O'Dell, Bocharov and Jokipakke. Everything was supposed to work, but Sochi suddenly swam. Sergey Zubov was appointed the main culprit, but it seems that the leadership was also slightly underdeveloped - the available money could have been better managed. As a result, now Sochi has no game, new coach, the penultimate place in the West and the real prospects of being left without a playoff at all this season.

"Knight"

Salary budget in the 2018/19 season: 630,000,000 rubles Current position in the conference: 3rd in the table. Of course, this is the main sensation of the season, although one should not underestimate the composition of Vityaz and the financial capabilities of the Moscow Region club. The budget of the residents of Podolsk has only been growing lately, and it probably includes a decent bonus part. So the success of Vityaz can be explained not only by the coaching genius of Mikhail Kravets. However, if all the teams managed their money so effectively, then the KHL would be much more interesting. This season, the Vityaz can only express admiration and hope that the Podolsk residents will not lose their courage until the end of the regular season and will seriously stir up the dreary swamp of the western playoffs.

Salary budget in the 2018/19 season: 720,000,000 rubles Current place in the conference: 7th was supposed to take Spartak to a new level. But the immediate effect did not happen - red and white are only seventh in the West, Severstal is pressing them from below, spending half as much on contracts, and Oleg Znarok is constantly missing someone.

It is known that Znarok played a significant role in the recruitment of Spartak, so now questions arise for him not only about the game. Surely one of the people of Oleg Valeryevich was seriously overpaid, but the result is not yet visible.

"Jokerite"

Salary budget in the 2018/19 season: 730,000,000 rubles Current place in the conference: 6th Everything is in order with Jokerit's budget, colleagues from RBC-Sport even note that it has slightly increased compared to last season , and in the summer we emphasized that in terms of the level of recruitment, the "jesters" are among the leaders in the KHL. The beginning of the season in the performance of Jokerit was disappointing, but now the Finnish club has come to its senses and are in fourth place in the West in terms of lost points. Actually, this position in the conference was usually booked by the club from Helsinki in previous years. The “jesters” should get into the playoffs without any problems, and then everything will depend on Lauri Maryamäki. Interestingly, in past seasons, Jokerit had the smallest bonus part of the payment among clubs with a decent budget. Maybe the lack of financial motivation in the playoffs is the reason for the failures of the Finns in the Gagarin Cup?

Salary budget in the 2018/19 season: 850,000,000 rubles Current place in the conference: 9th If Vityaz is the main opening of the season in the light of the publication of payrolls, then Lokomotiv is absolutely the worst in the West in this context. Considering the bonus part, Yaroslavl probably continue to be a billionaire club, and in the summer it seemed that Lokomotiv finally decided to spend money on top players. But Lander and Da Costa “ate” only about 150 million for two (according to Sport-Express), and there was no continuation. At the same time, Lokomotiv continues to pay a lot to those who have seriously passed Yegor Averin and Staffan Kronwall. Lokomotiv, where there is a bunch of talented, but due to the age of low-paid youth, could put together a cool and balanced squad, but Yaroslavl fans can only dream of this. Now the conference's fourth budget club is dragging its feet outside the playoff zone, and Yuri Yakovlev is primarily to blame for this, who seems to have missed the very essence of Lokomotiv's existence in the KHL. But apparently there is no one to ask the permanent head of the club.

Dynamo (Moscow)

Salary budget in the 2018/19 season: 1,000,000,000 rubles Current position in the conference: 5th Dynamo went through another portion of structural changes in the summer, but in the end the club was left with one of the highest budgets, at least in the Western Conference. And here, first of all, it is strange that the blue-and-whites themselves abandoned Dmitry Kagarlitsky in the summer, although there are enough incomprehensible things in the Dynamo kingdom without it.

Is money spent rationally in Dynamo? It’s unlikely: the white-and-blues are consistently in the top five, although they should think at least about the top 3 and impose competition on the “army team”, and the matches are mainly pulled out by the efforts of two or three hockey players, although with such a budget you can afford the variability and depth of the composition. It is not very clear where this billion is spent. Yes, there is a highly paid Shipachev (120 million rubles according to Sport-Express), Petersson, Hietanen and, say, Yashkin earn a lot. But where does the rest of the money go? It seems that many millions in Dynamo are going down the drain.

Salary budget in the 2018/19 season: 1,750,000,000 rubles Current place in the conference: 1st In the case of CSKA, everything is very clear and simple. The biggest budget in the league, the most highly paid players and the most return. The Army Men spend a lot, but in return they get complete dominance in the entire championship and ideal chances for the second Gagarin Cup in a row. In a year, CSKA will live differently. We'll have to fit under a hard salary ceiling, some leaders will leave. But for now, the “army team” successfully live in a big way and try to catch the buzz from the moment to the maximum.

Salary budget in the 2018/19 season: 1,750,000,000 rubles Current place in the conference: 2nd For a long time, there was an opinion that SKA was much better prepared for the introduction of a hard salary cap than CSKA. They say that St. Petersburg no longer pay sky-high money to the stars, they get used to living within their means, and that is why they have ceased to be a powerful club that everyone was afraid of. It turned out that everything is not quite right. Of course, SKA began to scatter money less, but the salary budget has exactly the same as CSKA. There are no SKA representatives in the top 30 ranking of the highest paid hockey players, but as it turned out now, this only means that in St. Petersburg the incomes of all players were roughly equalized. It turns out that while CSKA generously pays its leaders and completely dominates the KHL championship, SKA, having the same salary budget, “spreads” the entire payment on its long bench. Does this bring happiness to the "soldiers"? I do not think. The constant rotation only strains the players, and the team as a whole this season is not performing at all as one would expect. So far, SKA has the second place in the West, but the St. Petersburg team has five defeats in seven matches. It is clear that the key difference in the budgets of the “army” giants may be in the bonus part of the contracts, but the fact remains that SKA and CSKA are equally ready (or not ready) for the impending ceiling. That's just going through this process, Muscovites and St. Petersburg, apparently, will be in a completely different mood.

Getting to the bottom of the true budgets of hockey clubs is almost impossible. Everything related to the monetary component is kept in the strictest confidence, and the leakage of such information is equated to an emergency. However, this week the KHL officially published the salary budgets of the clubs for the upcoming season, and in early September, the "surfaced" information about the annual budgets of the teams made a fuss. They were brought to the general court by journalists, although it turned out to be difficult to speak about the reliability of the figures given. "SB" decided to conduct a small investigation: to compare salary funds (official information) with the total budget (unofficial). Thus the table that you can see was born. After its careful study and comparison of funds for salaries with the general budget, a rather "funny arithmetic" was revealed

KHL President Alexander Medvedev commented on the disclosure of budgets: "I will explain the situation with the clubs marked with an asterisk. Their budget does not include players who had offers from the NHL. I will not list the entire list. But Jagr is definitely not included in the Avangard budget. I can say the same about Radulov ("Salavat Yulaev") and Emery ("Atlant"). According to the rules of the KHL, the minimum salary budget of the club must be at least 250 million rubles. We have 11 clubs that do not reach this figure. This season we have made a number of exceptions for this paragraph. Therefore, we will not apply any sanctions to those who violate this paragraph of the regulations."

For most clubs, salary funds, as can be seen from the table, take up from a third to a half of the total budget. It is clear that each team distributes money in its own way, depending, for example, on the number and distance of flights or food preferences, on the choice of hotel class. As you can see, our Dynamo quite responsibly and economically approached the conclusion of contracts. The payroll of the Minsk club is less than a third of the total budget. Now it has become obvious that the claims of many fans to the leadership of the Minsk club, they say, brought mediocre foreign players for a lot of money, were unfounded. Call Dynamo. “These numbers were born like this: they took contracts and summed them up,” says a recent CEO Dynamo Vladimir Goncharov. - As for us, the announced amount of funds for contracts is true. The distribution of the general budget is still in the process of approval, because it is not necessary that we have to spend all the money this year. It is clear that the main part goes to the salaries of the players. The cost of flights, accommodation at times less. Dynamo has now created a good reserve for signing contracts with new strong hockey players. So as players are released from the NHL, we can try to bring them to our club ... "

The conversion into dollars was made at the exchange rate of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation on October 1, which was equal to 25.37 rubles per 1 dollar.
* Hockey clubs in which the salary budget, based on the KHL regulations, does not include the income of hockey players who have contract offers from NHL clubs.

But if you pay attention to "Severstal", "Lada" and "Barys", you can not believe your eyes. Their salary fund exceeds the total budget of the club! Why do hockey players then fly to matches, eat? Or is there a "black box office"? To clarify the situation, we turn to the KHL employees, who, by the way, were also very surprised by such a discrepancy in numbers. After an emergency background check, league officials reported the following. It turns out that the sums of the total budgets of the clubs, which were posted at the beginning of September on many Internet sites (they are given in our table) are far from the truth and, roughly speaking, taken from the ceiling. Real budgets, the size of which is known only to the clubs and the KHL, differ from those published. In addition, the league itself has never disclosed information about the overall budgets to anyone. Although the question of who is the richest and who is the poor can be answered based on the published salary fund

During the course of the season, key team rosters may change as a result of transfers and exchanges of hockey players, and therefore club salary budgets may change. However, the total income of hockey players at the end of the season cannot exceed the ceiling - the limit is set by the KHL regulations in the amount of 620 million rubles (at the current exchange rate, approximately 24.5 million dollars).

KHL club payrolls

Club	The total salary of hockey players*	Place in the KHL**
1. LOCOMOTIVE	19,0	7
2. VANGUARD	17,5	2
3. ATLANT	17,3	1
4. SEVERSTAL	16,6	15
5. METALLURG Mg	16,0	13
6. SALAVAT YULAYEV	15,7	5
7. SKA	15,7	18
8. AK BARS	15,7	3
9. CSKA	14,8	4
10. LADA	13,1	16
11. TORPEDO	13,0	17
12. BARYS	12,4	11
13. DYNAMO M	11,5	10
14. SPARTAK	9,6	12
15. SIBERIA	8,8	21
16. PETROCHEMIST	8,5	14
17. METALLURG Nk	8,4	8
18. VITYAZ	8,2	24
19. TRACTOR	7,8	9
20. HC MVD	7,6	22
21. AMUR	7,6	19
22. DYNAMO R	5,9	6
23. DYNAMO Mn	4,4	20
24. CHEMIST	4,4	23

Lots of scary numbers.

Championship.com published the salary budgets of the Continental League teams. Last time The financial statements of the clubs were opened in the 2013/14 season, when the KHL itself posted them on the official website. Over the past four years, the amounts have increased markedly.

The main observations that can be drawn from this ranking are:

CSKA has the biggest bonuses in the league, Avtomobilist is the most cunning in terms of bonuses in the East

No one doubted the huge salaries of the army (1.658 billion) and the corresponding bonuses (600 million), but it is surprising that CSKA spends almost twice as much on additional incentives as SKA (342 million).

Avtomobilist turned out to be the most financially sensible club in the KHL: almost 464 million rubles for bonuses with contracts for 777 million - and the team, assembled from non-top players and Tryamkin with Golyshev, is fighting for first place in the East.

Ak Bars is the third in terms of payments in the KHL

There was no intrigue in the first two positions. The third place of Kazan is also not shocking - five years ago it was the leader of the official rating. Under contracts without bonuses, Ak Bars lags behind CSKA by only 172 million rubles.

Dynamo Riga is the poorest team in the league

Billionaire club could miss playoffs

While the Avangard players are taking off their coaches and fighting at corporate parties, the team is going down in the table. Omsk is already seventh in the East, with three points before being eliminated from the playoff zone, while Amur, which is ninth, has two games in hand. If Avangard does not get into the Gagarin Cup, such a budget for salaries (1.270 billion - contracts + bonuses, 6th in the league) in Omsk may no longer exist.

SKA spends almost three times the current salary cap

The salary cap this season is 900 million rubles, but SKA spends 2.247 billion rubles on players without bonuses (with them - 2.590) and simply pays a luxury tax - somewhere around 280-320 million should go to the league. For some clubs, this is half, or even the entire salary budget.

The leadership of the KHL promises a hard ceiling of 600 million rubles by 2020, but given that SKA is the base club of the national team, everything can change.

SKA pays hockey players 8 times more than Dynamo Riga

SKA's salary budget with bonuses is 900 million rubles less than that of the poorest NHL club

We have already tried to send SKA to the NHL, but against the background of other overseas teams, the army team would look poor and did not reach the lower salary cap. Even the modest Arizona spends 3.492 billion rubles on its players.

All Moscow clubs in the top 10 in terms of generosity

The presence of CSKA among the leaders in spending on players is expected, but the appearance of Spartak and Dynamo is a surprise. Red and white, taking into account bonuses, pay 970 million to hockey players for the season (10th place in the ranking), white and blue - 973 (9th place).

On average, one KHL club spends 757 million rubles on player salaries, 194 million rubles on bonuses

Jokerit is the most efficient club in the KHL

The Finns show what good management is: they are 15th in the ranking (sums of contracts + bonuses), but at the same time they are third in points in the entire league. Many are worth learning.

Western Conference payrolls

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KHL club budgets

Russia's richest hockey team will spend $65-70 million for the season

Continental hockey league was originally created in the image and likeness of the commercially successful overseas project of the NHL, which has been proving its worth for decades. However, unlike the North American counterpart, the budgets of clubs and the salaries of hockey players in the KHL are hidden from the eyes of curious fans. What this is connected with is unknown, but such mystery cannot but be alarming.

The league made only one attempt to work on the Western model by publishing club budgets in the 2008/09 season. Then, for the fourth year in a row, the League and clubs prefer not to talk about their spending, following the example of their football colleagues.

KHL club budgets

But such measures not only do not reduce interest in the financial component of the League, but even increase it. AiF.ru tried, based on data from past seasons, comments from club representatives and rumors, to compile a table of approximate budgets for KHL teams in the 2012/13 season.

The richest are two army teams: Moscow CSKA and St. Petersburg SKA. This information is probably not a secret for anyone. According to AiF.ru, CSKA's annual budget is about $65-70 million. In SKA this figure is no more modest - 60-70 million dollars. Moreover, Vladimir Putin also hinted at this figure. The budget of SKA can only be judged by unofficial information in the press, but judging by the composition, it should not differ much from the budget of their metropolitan teammates.

The budget of Kazan "Ak Bars" can only be judged by rumors in the press. Judging by the composition and spending of the club in previous years, it is at least 60-65 million dollars. And according to the head coach of "Cupid" (budget 20-26 million dollars) this season the team from Kazan will spend ten or maybe twenty times more than the club from Khabarovsk.

On the fourth line with the same figures as "Ak Bars" is the Ufa "Salavat Yulaev" - 60-65 million dollars. The budget of the club from Bashkortostan can be judged more or less accurately, because according to the president of the republic, about two billion rubles are spent annually on the team.

Metallurg Magnitogorsk closes the top five richest clubs in the KHL. It is difficult to judge the budget of Magnitogorsk residents for this season. However, even in the distant crisis year of 2008, financing hockey club was according to official KHL data 45 million dollars. Judging by the composition and coaching staff, the team's well-being at the beginning of the season could not have decreased, and with the signing of highly paid NHL stars Malkin and Gonchar, it should even have increased. Therefore, AiF.ru's forecast is $50–60 million.

According to AiF.ru, the “poorest” teams are Metallurg from Novokuznetsk (15-17 million dollars), Dynamo Riga (14-17 million dollars) and Chelyabinsk Traktor (12-14 million dollars). Close to this trio is the Moscow "Spartak" with a budget of approximately 15 - 17 million dollars.

Stepan Chaushyan, Vasily Borshchov

P.S. In fact, the budget of HC "Tractor" is 50-60 million dollars ...

KHL Western Conference club budgets for the 2018/19 season

The “Championship” once again, like a year earlier, has the approximate budget amounts (contracts + bonuses) of all KHL clubs in the Western Conference for the 2018/19 season. Comparing the numbers, it turned out to learn a lot of interesting details. The management of some teams works effectively, and someone's place in the standings does not correspond to the invested funds.

The main thing that I want to note right away. Budgets for all but three Western Conference clubs have been slashed.

Salary budgets and bonuses of Western clubs. Who spends and how much Do not faint from how much it costs SKA to be the base club of the national team.

Dynamo (Riga)

Last season: 327 million rubles
Total budget for the 2018/19 season: RUB 267 million
Place in the standings of the West in the season 2018/19: 9
The Rigans have the lowest budget in the Western Conference. IN this season the team can be put in four, even despite missing the playoffs. Riga unequivocally guessed right with the legionnaires, gave jobs to several Russian hockey players(Bilyalov, Shulenin, Gimaev, Pedan), fought to the last to get into the top eight. Dynamo residents know how to live within their means, which is only welcome in the current economic situation. Let's see if Dynamo manages to keep all its leaders for next season.

"Slovan"

Last season: 461 million rubles
Total budget for the 2018/19 season: RUB 348 million
Place in the standings of the West in the season 2018/19: 12
Slovan are the worst team in the Western Conference and the entire league. Just compare the budgets and results of Dynamo Riga and Bratislava. Riga spent less, but did not dishonor KHL game in three fives and did not undress the striker for matches as a goalkeeper. Slovan, on the other hand, became an exact copy of Medvescak, who got rid of his presence in the KHL. The management of the Eagles has clearly not coped with the tasks for the season, the club does not work well, and at the end of the regular season they arrange sales, which should be banned at the level of regulations.

Severstal

Last season: 470 million rubles
Total budget for the 2018/19 season: RUB 439 million
Place in the standings of the West in the season 2018/19: 10
Severstal is supported by the private money of one of the richest people in the country, Alexei Mordashov, which already adds a lot of whists to the club. There are never salary delays in Cherepovets, hockey players do not serve their number on the ice. Everyone on the team understands the established rules and requirements. But to solve more global problems than the tenth place in the West, serious cash injections are needed. The current amount is not enough, although the budget of the Cherepovets club will be increased next year.

Dynamo (Minsk)

Last season: 726 million rubles
Total budget for the 2018/19 season: RUB 464 million
Place in the standings of the West in the season 2018/19: 11
Dynamo Minsk has seriously reduced the cost estimate. It is understandable, because the team does not show results year after year. At the father, as they say in such cases, you will not spoil. Initially, it seems that the composition of the "bison" is not bad, but no luck with the coach. Neither Gordie Dwyer nor Andrey Sidorenko were able to solve the tasks assigned to them. At the end of the regular season, Dynamo, like Slovan, is perceived as a supplier of easy points. Such things seriously hit the image of the KHL.

HC Sochi

Last season: 645 million rubles
Total budget for the 2018/19 season: RUB 693 million
Place in the standings of the West in the season 2018/19: 6
The main problem of Sochi residents is periodic delays in salaries, although in the end all debts are paid off to the players anyway. Interestingly, compared to last year, the payment of “leopards”, though not significantly, has increased. HC Sochi is a typical middle peasant in the KHL. The southerners do not claim much, but they have achieved their main goal (getting into the playoffs). Going beyond the first round will be almost impossible. Only theoretically, on paper.

Salary budgets of the clubs of the East. Who and how much spends in the KHL They began to count other people's money.

"Jokerite"

Last season: 770 million rubles
Total budget for the 2018/19 season: RUB 704 million
Place in the standings of the West in the season 2018/19: 4
"Jokerit" is a vivid example of what should be foreign club playing in the KHL. The Finns have cut the budget (sixth from the end in the West), but are still competitive and set the tone in the league. The team of Lauri Maryamaki became the fourth in the conference and began (albeit with two defeats) a playoff series with Dynamo Moscow at home. In Jokerit, there are qualified hockey players who receive moderate money. There are no sales, no disregard in the KHL. No one in the Finnish team is overwhelmed with huge sums. Meticulous Finns carefully treat the financial issue. In addition, Jokerit is at the top of the league rankings.

"Knight"

Last season: 624 million rubles
Total budget for the 2018/19 season: RUB 859 million
Place in the standings of the West in the season 2018/19: 8

Compared to last year, Vityaz's budget has grown the most in the West. Apparently, the players were motivated by possible bonuses. Valery Belov's team has strong hockey players, and Alexander Semin replaced Maxim Afinogenov, who left for Dynamo Moscow, as his veteran uncle. Obviously, Finnish forward Miro Aaltonen returned to the team from overseas for a lot of money. Not getting into the playoffs would be an unsatisfactory result for Vityaz, but now the task for the season has been completed.

"Spartacus"

Last season: 970 million rubles
Total budget for the 2018/19 season: RUB 937 million
Place in the standings of the West in the season 2018/19: 7
Spartak had a weak end to the regular season, as a result of which it slipped to seventh place, getting into the playoffs at SKA. The total payment of the red-whites decreased slightly compared to last year, the team made it to the playoffs, albeit with a scratch, but it got there, but last year everything was the same. Unless the opponent was different then - CSKA. Spartacus flew out of the Gagarin Cup with a whistle, losing the series outright. Now there is no need to wait for a similar result, because one match in the series with SKA has already been won. In terms of composition, Spartak is far from the worst club in the KHL. And the possibilities too.

"Locomotive"

Last season: 1 billion 202 million rubles
Total budget for the 2018/19 season: 1 billion 55 million rubles
Place in the standings of the West in the season 2018/19: 3
There is an interesting situation in Lokomotiv. On the one hand, the club is following a strategy of lowering the salary cap. But Yaroslavl can spend much less! The “railroaders” have great youth, one of the best in the league. But there are highly paid legionnaires who play little. Crystal Finn Kontiola, goalkeeper Salak receiving huge money. Swedish defender Kronwall, who lost a lot this season in terms of performance. Yaroslavl residents, we repeat, can save much more. In terms of the result, there are no questions for them yet, but it will be difficult to get to the final of the West.

Dynamo (Moscow)

Last season: 973 million rubles
Total budget for the 2018/19 season: 1 billion 109 million rubles
Place in the standings of the West in the season 2018/19: 5
The budget of Dynamo Moscow, as well as Vityaz and HC Sochi, has increased compared to last season. Super-expensive players appeared - Shipachev, Kagarlitsky. But these people do the result, there are no complaints against them. But the Swede Zakrisson, who receives a lot of money, did not live up to expectations and the funds invested in him. Dynamo definitely don't need such transfers. Do not forget about last year's debts of the Moscow club, which the new leadership preferred to forget. Judging by the amount that Dynamo has pledged for salaries and bonuses to hockey players, there is definitely money to close debts. In the playoffs "Dynamo" after the invitation of Vladimir Krikunov hit. Let's see how it goes.

SKA

Last season: 2 billion 589 million rubles
Total budget for the 2018/19 season: 2 billion 108 million rubles
Place in the standings of the West in the season 2018/19: 2
SKA management has set the task of reducing the club's budget. However, this task has been set not only in the SKA, but throughout the league. The gap between rich and poor must be reduced as much as possible. Now in St. Petersburg there is no Ilya Kovalchuk, Vyacheslav Voynov, Mikko Koskinen, Yegor Yakovlev, Patrick Thoresen, Vadim Shipachyov. All these people received big, and Kovalchuk and Voynov - huge money. Only Pavel Datsyuk remained, but he will soon leave the city on the Neva. The SKA pay is still huge, the team is inflated, but tournament tasks are being solved. It seems that this season we will again see the final of the West with the participation of two "army" teams.

CSKA

Last season: 2 billion 258 million rubles
Total budget for the 2018/19 season: 2 billion 172 million rubles
Place in the standings of the West in the season 2018/19: 1
If last season the first place in terms of budgets was occupied by SKA, now the St. Petersburg "armymen" outdid CSKA. True, the payment of the team of Igor Nikitin nevertheless decreased a little (Kiselevich, Ozhiganov, Nichushkin, Petrov left), but salaries at CSKA are still breathtaking. With the introduction of a hard ceiling in the KHL, the "soldiers" will have the most headaches. What do we have to do? Do not inflate composition. Employ those who do not qualify. Do not forget that CSKA still does not have the Gagarin Cup. The Red-Blues have become the champions of the current regular season, but it's time to aim for more.

KHL Eastern Conference club budgets for the 2018/19 season

The “Championship” once again, like a year ago, has the approximate budget amounts (contracts + bonuses) of all KHL clubs in the Eastern Conference for the 2018/19 season. Comparing the numbers, we were able to learn a lot of interesting details. The management of some teams works effectively, and someone's place in the standings does not correspond to the invested funds.

The cost of coaching staffs, accommodation and flights are separate items of expenditure. Below are the amounts pledged to the players. It is far from a fact that everything has been spent to the last penny; savings are in the order of things these days. For example, in order for a hockey player to receive a bonus, you need to fulfill a number of conditions prescribed in the contract.

The main thing that I want to note right away. The budgets of the four leading clubs have grown, and have seriously reduced their payments in the Far East and China.

Salary budgets and bonuses of clubs of the East. Who spends and how much Compare who spends how much and who is in what place in the standings.

"Admiral"

Last season: 460 million rubles
Total budget for the 2018/19 season: RUB 199 million
Place in the standings of the East in the season 2018/19: 12

After the arrival of the new leadership in Vladivostok, they seriously reduced costs and wage arrears disappeared, with the exception of past debts. For example, the highest paid player in the current "Admiral" receives 12 million rubles a year. All current payments and bonuses are made on time. The Vladivostok team has the last budget in the entire league, even the penultimate Dynamo Riga has one and a half times more. This season I liked the Admiral: the team fought, even despite the far from stellar line-up. No wonder head coach Sergei Svetlov is going to be offered a new contract.

"Neftekhimik"

Last season: 472 million rubles
Total budget for the 2018/19 season: RUB 511 million
Place in the standings of the East in the season 2018/19: 10

In Neftekhimik, a few seasons ago, they headed for a serious cost reduction. Previously, money was practically not counted in Nizhnekamsk, but now everything is different. However, the demand from coaches should be different. What could the same Andrey Nazarov do, in whose disposition there were solid youth or hockey players whose careers had long since declined? It is extremely difficult to squeeze something out of such a team. Last year we managed to get into the playoffs, this year we didn't. Let's see how the new Main coach Vyacheslav Butsaev.

"Torpedo"

Last season: 707 million rubles
Total budget for the 2018/19 season: RUB 613 million
Place in the standings of the East in the season 2018/19: 7

The budget was also reduced in Torpedo. Many believed that David Nemirovsky would fail with Nizhny Novgorod, but the team managed to get into the playoffs, which is already important. “Avtozavodtsy” do not have large funds, they are the third from the end in the East in terms of financial capabilities, so for now the team can be put a solid four in terms of the “price / quality” ratio. If Nizhny Novgorod also makes some noise in the playoffs, then it will qualify for the top five at the end of the season.

"Barys"

Last season: 596 million rubles
Total budget for the 2018/19 season: RUB 631 million
Place in the standings of the East in the season 2018/19: 2

I would like to praise Barys. With the arrival of Andriy Skabelka, the team was put in order, and the new managers did a good job. We remember the recent times when there was discord and misunderstanding in the club. Now it's the other way around - hence the result. Astana, with modest opportunities by the standards of the KHL, managed to win their division and take second place in the Eastern Conference. It is these foreign teams that are needed in Continental League, not "Slovans" and "Kunluns".

"Kunlun Red Star"

Last season: 772.5 million rubles
Total budget for the 2018/19 season: RUB 665 million
Place in the standings of the East in the season 2018/19: 11

"Kunlun" was again left without a playoff, tritely finishing the current regular season. In China, they can not decide on the head coach. The best among all was Vladimir Yurzinov, Jr., and after his departure, the team began to mess. The times of Keenan, Carpenter, Tapola and Frazier are remembered with horror. Weak performance, vague transfer policy and no motivation. With the money that the Chinese team has, you can build a much more efficient team. "Kunlun" scored the same points as "Admiral", beating Vladivostok only in additional indicators. But the possibilities for the teams are completely different.

"Amur"

Last season: 775 million rubles
Total budget for the 2018/19 season: RUB 698 million
Place in the standings of the East in the season 2018/19: 13

A good overall payment for "Amur" (including bonuses), although decently reduced compared to last year. Alas, Khabarovsk residents have disappointed their fans this season. On top of that, the Tigers lost the last Far East derby of the season, ending up in 13th place in the Eastern Conference as a result. The reason here lies on the surface: the club initially made a mistake with the head coach, appointing Nikolai Borshchevsky for some reason. As soon as Borshchevsky left the post of head coach, and Alexander Gulyavtsev took his place, the team's affairs immediately went smoothly. But there was not enough time to get out of the hole.

"Siberia"

Last season: 773 million rubles
Total budget for the 2018/19 season: RUB 729 million
Place in the standings of the East in the season 2018/19: 9

Novosibirsk, one of the most hockey cities in the country, was left without a playoff for the third year in a row. There are more and more questions for the general manager of Siberia, Kirill Fastovsky. The selection in the offseason turned out to be a failure, only Jukka Peltola remained of the legionnaires, with all the rest the contracts were terminated. The task for the season has not been completed, which is why the current head coach of Novosibirsk Alexander Andrievsky is also disappointed. His team did not have enough quite a bit, although the "Tractor" could well be bypassed.

"Tractor"

Last season: 948 million rubles
Total budget for the 2018/19 season: 1 billion 15 million rubles
Place in the standings of the East in the season 2018/19: 8

Chelyabinsk residents were also far from impressed. Having initially made a mistake with the appointment of German Titov, the Ural club tried to rectify the situation by raising Alexei Tertyshny, who was inexperienced by coaching standards, from Chelmet. Yes, Traktor crawled into the playoffs, but if Sibir had not allowed so many misfires at the finish line, it would have been in the top eight of the strongest, and not Chelyabinsk. Although, in terms of financial capabilities, Traktor has a decent advantage over its rival. Before the season, the expensive Swede Bergström was invited, who revealed himself just in Siberia. Already in the course of the current championship, Chelyabinsk was strengthened by Enlund and Thomas.

"Salavat Yulaev"

Last season: 1 billion 370 million rubles
Total budget for the 2018/19 season: 1 billion 484 million rubles
Place in the standings of the East in the season 2018/19: 6

In Ufa, they do not spare money for their leaders - Linus Omark and Anton Burdasov receive very decent salaries. And in general, Salavat has never had any problems with financing. As you can see, the total amount of the budget has increased slightly. Hockey is loved in Ufa, and the tasks for the team are always maximum. Yulaev finished the regular season in sixth place, now they have to show that they are fully prepared for the playoffs. The opponent is more than serious - Metallurg Magnitogorsk.

"Motorist"

Last season: 1 billion 241.5 million rubles
Total budget for the 2018/19 season: 1 billion 508 million rubles
Place in the standings of the East in the season 2018/19: 1

The payment at Avtomobilist has grown, but this is the case when we can safely say that the managers worked well. The coaching staff headed by Andrey Martemyanov is doing a great job, and the most expensive Avtomobilist hockey player, Nigel Dawes, is definitely earning his salary. Other legionnaires of the club from Yekaterinburg also look strong. Dan Sexton, Jakub Kovarzh, Stefan Da Costa have big salaries. As a result, the Urals won the division and the conference for the first time in their history. The team is seriously focused on the Gagarin Cup, for which she can only applaud.

"Vanguard"

Last season: 1 billion 270 million rubles
Total budget for the 2018/19 season: 1 billion 608 million rubles
Place in the standings of the East in the season 2018/19: 4

The composition of the "Vanguard" is impressive. Omsk has, perhaps, the coolest roster among the clubs in the East. All this is backed up by powerful coaching staff led by Bob Hartley. The Canadian won the Stanley Cup, worked with many world hockey stars. With finances in Avangard, there is a complete order, the result is also there. At least for now. The Avangard budget has grown, but this is not surprising. The Hawks invested a lot: in Pokka, Franson, Emelin, Shumakov. The managerial connection between Krylov and Sushinsky is moving towards the goal - winning the Gagarin Cup. In addition, Omsk has grown a lot in terms of media and marketing. And this is considering the fact that the team plays in Balashikha, and not in their hometown.

"Metallurgist"

Last season: 1 billion 569 million rubles
Total budget for the 2018/19 season: 1 billion 776 million rubles
Place in the standings of the East in the season 2018/19: 3

Metallurg has gathered several hockey players at once, who are among the highest paid in the KHL. This is Sergey Mozyakin (the most expensive KHL player), with whom they signed a new contract on improved terms in February 2018. In the summer Victor Antipin and Nikolai Kulemin returned from overseas. It is not surprising that the budget of Magnitogorsk is so large. Here it is worth highlighting the owner and president of Metallurgists Viktor Rashnikov, who does not spare money and invests in Metallurg to the maximum. Ural club- two-time winner of the Gagarin Cup, the result is, hence the serious financial injections.

"AK Bars"

Last season: 1 billion 672 million rubles
Total budget for the 2018/19 season: 1 billion 926 million rubles
Place in the standings of the East in the season 2018/19: 5

In the leaders of the budgets of the East, as well as last year, "Ak Bars". The three-time winner of the Gagarin Cup boasts stable funding, good player contracts, and most importantly, the result. It is the result that allows Kazan citizens to count on the growth of payments. After all, champion players have to be re-signed under new conditions, and strong newcomers, like Paul Postma, have appeared. The team of Zinetula Bilyaletdinov is consistently reaching the playoffs, solving the highest tasks. Other tasks, except for the championship, are not set before Kazan. In the series with Avangard, as it became clear from the very beginning, it will be difficult, but Kazan did not get out of such troubles.

Tournament format and participants of KHL-2019/20

24 teams will take part in the new KHL season. There were fewer only in the 2010/11 and 2011/12 seasons - 23 clubs each. Starting from the 2012/13 championship, an active expansion of the list of participants began, but this trend did not last so long. Starting from the season before last, the number of clubs began to be reduced. This is due to the strategy of the leadership of the KHL, which decided to send teams below the division that do not meet the various criteria of the country's major league.

The season will open on September 1, 2019, the regular season, where each team will play 62 matches, will end on February 27, 2020. Playoff games will be held from March 1 to April 30, 2020.

Western Conference

Jokerit (Finland);
Lokomotiv (Yaroslavl, Russia);
SKA (St. Petersburg, Russia);
Dynamo (Riga, Latvia);
"Vityaz" (Moscow region, Russia);
CSKA (Moscow, Russia);
HC "Sochi" (Russia);
Severstal (Cherepovets, Russia);
Spartak (Moscow, Russia);
"Torpedo" (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia);
Dynamo (Moscow, Russia);
Dynamo (Minsk, Belarus).

Eastern Conference

Avtomobilist (Yekaterinburg, Russia);
Avangard (Omsk, Russia);
"Salavat Yulaev" (Ufa, Russia);
Metallurg (Magnitogorsk, Russia);
Ak Bars (Kazan, Russia);
"Barys" (Astana, Kazakhstan);
Neftekhimik (Nizhnekamsk, Russia);
"Tractor" (Chelyabinsk, Russia);
"Admiral" (Vladivostok, Russia);
Kunlun Red Star (China);
Amur (Khabarovsk, Russia);
"Siberia" (Novosibirsk, Russia).

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The Board of Directors approved the list of participants in the 2019/2020 KHL Championship

On March 27, a meeting of the KHL Board of Directors was held, at which the structure of the Championship was presented and the list of participants in the 2019/2020 season was approved.

Season calendar 2019/2020

In the 2019/2020 season, the calendar structure will remain the same, the teams will play 62 matches each. Pauses for the Eurotour will be 6 days for each stage, and before the World Cup 2020 - 7 days. The use of calendar days for the KHL Championship, including pauses, will be maximum - 155 days, which is five more than in the 2018/2019 season.

The start of the 2019/2020 season is scheduled for September 1, the regular season will last until February 27. The playoffs are scheduled for the period from March 1 to April 30. The KHL All-Star Game will take place on January 18-19, 2020. In the new season, the KHL World Games project will continue, more details will be announced on July 4 at the presentation of the calendar.

The Committee of the Board of Directors for monitoring the activities of KHL clubs continues to work and conducted inspections in the clubs Spartak, SKA, Jokerit, Sibir, Torpedo, Traktor and Ak Bars are next in line. As a result of the inspections, a number of general and individual club problems were identified and systematized. For solutions general issues clubs, the League will develop a number of unified recommendations. In the future, they will be integrated into work with clubs. The League will continue inspections and control activities - soon they will be held in HC Sochi, CSKA, HC Dynamo Moscow.

"Hidden" rent

The inspections revealed contracts that can be attributed to the types of hidden leases. The Board of Directors instructed the League to deal with this issue. To do this, a working group will be created on the issue of regulating the lease of hockey players (temporary transition while maintaining the rights to the player). The Working Group will include representatives of the KHL clubs and senior officials of the League. Either hidden rent will be banned as an institution, or it will be legalized according to certain rules. The working group must submit a report no later than October 31, 2019.

Dynamics of wages

Thanks to the tougher position of the KHL regarding delays in the payment of wages and the introduction of additional sanctions, there was a positive dynamics in wages for hockey players compared to previous seasons. For the current season, Slovan and Torpedo have wage arrears, and Sibir has arrears in contract termination. For comparison, in the 2017/2018 season, 6 clubs had debt, in the 2016/2017 season, 11 clubs. The total debt of clubs compared to the same period last season decreased by 25%.

Work on the control of wage payments will continue. A number of clubs have unresolved wage issues from previous seasons. As for Admiral, the club has reserved the necessary funds to pay off the debt to the maximum extent possible in order to fulfill obligations after the court decision. For the current season, Admiral had no debts and delays in paying salaries.

Financial guarantees

The clubs had to fulfill the requirements of the Regulations regarding the provision of supporting documents, namely the club's budget and financial guarantees for financing and the absence of wage arrears to hockey players and coaches. Financial guarantees were provided by 23 clubs, two clubs - Dynamo Riga and Slovan - requested a delay in the provision of financial guarantees, the Board of Directors approved the deadline until April 30, 2019.

Slovan and Dynamo have requested a delay - these are technical things related to the financial years of their partners and the peculiarities of international law. There is no intrigue, otherwise they would not agree with this postponement. If they do not provide guarantees, they will not play. Yesterday I met with the owner of Slovan, they provided a plan that, if implemented, will lead to the fact that the club will play and show good results,” said KHL President Dmitry Chernyshenko.

Club Performance Evaluation Parameters

The meeting participants were presented with the parameters for evaluating clubs based on the results of the regular season. Comprehensive assessment is an auxiliary tool of the Board of Directors for deciding on the composition of the Championship participants, and not an automatic screening system.

Dynamo Riga showed the highest growth, moving up seven positions. The Finnish "Jokerit" has risen to the first place, ahead of CSKA and SKA. Sibir and Sochi have the biggest drop, six and five places respectively. Final data and detailed information on the change of each of the parameters of the assessment will be given on May 28 during the Meeting of the leaders of the clubs.

The composition of the participants of the season 2019/2020

Having considered all the materials from the League, the Board of Directors decided to approve the number of participants in the KHL Championship for the 2019/2020 season - 25 clubs. The Board of Directors considered that the exclusion of clubs located at the extreme points of the KHL geography could negatively affect the formation of divisions and the further development of the League. As a result, the Board of Directors instructed to create a Working Group, which will study the issues of the structure of divisions while expanding the geography of the KHL.

“The League has serious plans to develop, first of all, the Far East region, to expand to the West. There are many options in negotiations, both in the East and in the West. Haven't heard of two Korean club, we hoped that after the Olympics they could create a club, but we do not see the initiative. Unlike the Chinese, who, despite temporary difficulties with the arena, are planning to create a second level club in the KHL. Japan is showing interest, a hockey arena has appeared in Uzbekistan, next year they will have a team in the VHL.

Of the European countries, France and Germany are the most “live”. You should not expect that somewhere everyone will be happy about it. This is a matter of priorities, if the participation of a club from some country works for the development of hockey, then the resistance will be determined,” Chernyshenko added.

“We are witnessing the leveling of the budgets of the clubs, the difference between the top 5 and low 5 clubs in terms of the payroll of hockey players has fallen by 15%. We will continue to take steps to equalize competition in the League. IN this moment 17 clubs do not exceed the salary cap, 8 clubs are in the risk zone, of which four can handle it painlessly, and it will be more difficult for the top four clubs. The excess is due to the fact that the second-fourth fives are overpaid compared to other clubs. This is the source of the optimization.

The League has a clear intention to implement the decision, there will be a hard ceiling! The working groups had an option with a ceiling of 600 million rubles and the withdrawal of two stars, but then they decided in favor of 900 million. Players under 21 will not be counted, which is 20% of those playing in the League, I see an incentive for clubs to bring in young players. A hard salary cap makes it possible to softly distribute top players between clubs. We are still 2.5 times more attractive in terms of money than other European leagues,” Chernyshenko concluded.

Whether new teams will enter the 2018-2019 KHL is a settled question. As much as fans would like expansion, for the next few years the number of clubs will be strictly regulated. According to the League President Dmitry Chernyshenko, the number of participants in the regular season by the 2019-2020 season will be 24. This will ensure the most effective competitive level while maintaining the spectator audience and sponsorship tournament.

League contenders

The list of the most clear candidates for league expansion includes:

HC Ilves (Tallinn, Estonia);
HC "Malmo" (Malmo, Sweden);
HC Crowns (Stockholm, Sweden);
hockey team from the UK;
hockey team from Southeast Asia or Japan.

Given the desire of the leadership of the KHL to replenish with new clubs from Europe, it is likely that in the near future several hockey teams from the Old World will try their hand at the draw. It is unlikely that fans will see two hockey teams from the Baltics, but the option of excluding the Riga Dynamo and replacing it with the Estonian Ilves is by no means excluded.

A separate topic is the promotion of the KHL in Scandinavia. In the strong championships of Norway and Sweden, on the one hand, there are enough teams that are ready to fight on equal terms with the league's flagships, and on the other hand, they do not need to change their usual schedule and infrastructure to meet the requirements of the KHL. The epic with the inclusion of at least one Scandinavian team has been dragging on for many years, so talk about the participation of a particular team in the league will never subside.

If in the near future the KHL joins a club from the UK or Asia, it will become a real sensation. The point is that the level English hockey so low that the incoming team will have to be staffed almost entirely with foreign players, and this is contrary to the rules of the league. In Asia, even those who expressed a desire to play in the championship now only shrug their shoulders. The sad experience of the Chinese "Kun Lun" has shown that hockey in Asia is unattractive, primarily from a commercial point of view.

Team from Uzbekistan: joke or reality?

Recently, curious information has flashed on the topic of new clubs in the KHL for the 2018-2019 season. Right now, a modern Ice Palace"Humo Arena", the capacity of which is estimated at 14 thousand spectators. In order for the grandiose construction not to stand idle and make a profit, the country's authorities decided to acquire a local hockey team. It is planned that the team will join the ranks of the KHL in the near future.

At first glance, this sounds absurd, because it is impossible to create a club in such a short period of time. On the other hand, there has been a trend of including new teams in the leagues after certain political events. For example, "Kun Lun" appeared shortly after the strengthening of Russian-Chinese relations, and HC "Admiral" was created to the accompaniment of speeches about the development of the Far East. Uzbekistan is a strategic partner of the Russian Federation both in the international arena (together they are members of the SCO) and in the field of interaction between the oil and gas industry (construction of the Power of Siberia pipeline). Due to these facts, the prospect of the inclusion of the Uzbek team in the league should be taken quite seriously.

Summing up, we note that there will be no new clubs in the KHL in 2018-2019, but in subsequent seasons it is possible that the rotation will begin to take place more intensively, and Asian and European teams will appear among the participants.

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Dynamo (Riga)

Slovan (Bratislava)

Severstal (Cherepovets)

"Vityaz" (Podolsk)

HC Sochi (Sochi)

"Torpedo" (Nizhny Novgorod)

Dynamo (Minsk)

Jokerit (Helsinki)

"Spartak Moscow)

Dynamo (Moscow)

Lokomotiv (Yaroslavl)

CSKA (Moscow)

SKA (St. Petersburg)

Dynamo (Riga)

Slovan (Bratislava)

Severstal (Cherepovets)

"Vityaz" (Podolsk)

HC Sochi (Sochi)

"Torpedo" (Nizhny Novgorod)

Dynamo (Minsk)

Jokerit (Helsinki)

"Spartak Moscow)

Dynamo (Moscow)

Lokomotiv (Yaroslavl)

CSKA (Moscow)

SKA (St. Petersburg)

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Dynamo Riga is the poorest team in the league

Billionaire club could miss playoffs

SKA spends almost three times the current salary cap

SKA pays hockey players 8 times more than Dynamo Riga

SKA's salary budget with bonuses is 900 million rubles less than that of the poorest NHL club

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Western Conference payrolls

KHL club budgets

KHL Western Conference club budgets for the 2018/19 season

Dynamo (Riga)

"Slovan"

Severstal

Dynamo (Minsk)

HC Sochi

"Jokerite"

"Knight"

"Spartacus"

"Locomotive"

Dynamo (Moscow)

SKA

CSKA

KHL Eastern Conference club budgets for the 2018/19 season

"Admiral"

"Neftekhimik"

"Torpedo"

"Barys"

"Kunlun Red Star"

"Amur"

"Siberia"

"Tractor"

"Salavat Yulaev"

"Motorist"

"Vanguard"

"Metallurgist"

"AK Bars"

Tournament format and participants of KHL-2019/20

Western Conference

Eastern Conference

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The Board of Directors approved the list of participants in the 2019/2020 KHL Championship

On March 27, a meeting of the KHL Board of Directors was held, at which the structure of the Championship was presented and the list of participants in the 2019/2020 season was approved.

Season calendar 2019/2020

"Hidden" rent

Dynamics of wages

Financial guarantees

Club Performance Evaluation Parameters

The composition of the participants of the season 2019/2020

League contenders

Team from Uzbekistan: joke or reality?