Krasnaya Armiya
| CSKA Moscow ЦСКА Москва |
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| Nickname | Red Army, Central Red Army |
| City | Moscow |
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KHL 2008–present
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| Conference | Western |
| Division | Tarasov |
| Founded | 22 December 1946 as CDKA |
| Home arena |
CSKA Ice Palace (capacity: 5,600) |
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| Owner(s) | Rosneft |
| General manager | Sergei Fedorov |
| Head coach | Igor Nikitin |
| Captain | Sergey Andronov |
| Affiliate(s) | Zvezda Chekhov (VHL) Krasnaya Armiya (MHL) |
| Website | www.cska-hockey.ru |
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HC CSKA Moscow 1960–present
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KHL 2008–present
HC CSKA Moscow 1960–present
HC CSKA Moscow (Russian: ЦСКА Москва. Центральный Спортивный Клуб Армии, Central Sports Club of the Army, Moscow) is a Russian ice hockey club that plays in the Kontinental Hockey League. It is referred to in the West as "Central Red Army" or the "Red Army Team" for its past affiliation with the Soviet Army, popularly known as the Red Army. HC CSKA Moscow won more Soviet championships and European cups than any other team in history. It is owned by Russia's largest oil company, Rosneft, which is in turn majority-owned by the Russian government.
The club was founded in 1946 as CDKA (Centralnyy Dom Krasnoy Armii – Central House of the Red Army, referring to the Army community centre in Moscow). It was known as CDSA (with Red Army changed to Soviet Army) from 1952 – 1954, as CSK MO (Central Sports Club of the Moscow Military District) from 1955 – 1959, and acquired its current name in 1960.
CSKA won 32 Soviet regular season championships during the Soviet League's 46-year existence, far and away the most in the league's history; no other team won more than five. This included all but six from 1955 to 1989 and 13 in a row from 1977 to 1989. By comparison, no NHL team has won more than five Stanley Cups in a row since the NHL took de facto control of the trophy in 1926.
CSKA was just as dominant in the European Cup. They won all but two titles from 1969 to 1990, including 13 in a row from 1978 to 1990. The team's first coach was Anatoli Tarasov, who would later become famous as the coach of the Soviet national team. Tarasov coached the Red Army Team, either alone or with co-coaches, for most of the time from 1946 to 1975. The team's greatest run came under Viktor Tikhonov, who was coach from 1977 to 1996—serving for most of that time as coach of the national team.
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