Metallurg Magnitogorsk
| Metallurg Magnitogorsk Металлург Магнитогорск |
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| Nickname | Magnitka, Foxes |
| City | Magnitogorsk, Russia |
| League | Kontinental Hockey League |
| Conference | Eastern |
| Division | Kharlamov |
| Founded | 1955 |
| Home arena |
Arena Metallurg (Capacity: 7,500) |
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| Owner(s) | Viktor Rashnikov |
| General manager | Valery Postnikov |
| Head coach | Ilya Vorobyov |
| Captain | Sergei Mozyakin |
| Affiliate(s) |
Yuzhny Ural Orsk (VHL) Steel Foxes (MHL) |
| Website | www.metallurg.ru |
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Metallurg Magnitogorsk (Russian: Металлург Магнитогорск) is a professional ice hockey team based in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. They are members of the Kharlamov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League. They also competed in the Champions Hockey League (2008–09), losing the 2008–09 season championship round to the ZSC Lions of the Swiss ice hockey league National League A.
Metallurg Magnitogorsk won the Gagarin Cup in the 2013–14 KHL season and the 2015–16 KHL season.
Metallurg was founded in 1955 by the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works as a Class B team that competed in the Chelyabinsk Oblast and the RSFSR championships. Since the 80s it joined the Second League (third by importance) of the Soviet Class A and won its championships twice, in 1988–89 and 1989–90 seasons. After two more seasons in the second level of the USSR hockey Magnitogorsk club became one of the founders of the International Hockey League, the first Post-Soviet major pro hockey association.
During the 1990s the team worked up a reputation as one of the top Russian teams of the new era. Magnitogorsk advanced to the Russian Superleague finals six times becoming a three time champion of Russia.
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