Dinar Ramilevich Chafisullin

Dinar Chafisullin
Date of birth	5th January 1989
place of birth	Kazan , Soviet Union
size	174 cm
Weight	74 kg
position	defender
number	# 3
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 2007	Ak Bars Kazan
2007-2010	Neftjanik Almetyevsk
2010-2014	Vityaz Chekhov
since 2014	SKA Saint Petersburg

Dinar Ramilewitsch Chafisullin ( Russian Динар Рамилевич Хафизуллин , English dinars Khafizullin , Tatar Динар Рамил улы Хәфизуллин * 1. May 1989 in Kazan , Tatar ASSR , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union ) is a Russian hockey player of Tatar nationality , who since January 2014 when SKA Saint Petersburg is under contract in the Continental Hockey League .

Career

Dinar Chafisullin began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of Ak Bars Kazan , for whose professional team he made his debut in the super league in the 2006/07 season . In his only mission he remained unpunished and punished. The entire rest of the season he spent with the second team of Ak Bars in the third-class Pervaya League . From 2007 to 2010 the defender played for Neftjanik Almetyevsk in the Vysschaja Liga , the second Russian division. There he managed to establish himself permanently in professional ice hockey. In a total of 125 second division games, he scored four goals and made 16 assists for Almetyevsk.

For the 2010/11 season Chafisullin received a contract with Vitjas Chekhov from the Continental Hockey League . At Vitjas he was able to fight for a regular place in the KHL and scored twelve points scorer in 44 games, including three goals. In January 2011, Chafisullin was given to his ex-club Ak Bars Kazan after Vitjas could no longer reach the playoffs. For Kazan, however, Chafisullin was only used in three games and returned to Vitjas at the end of the season. At Vitjas he was one of the strongest defenders offensively in the following years, which made him interesting for other clubs. In January 2014 Vitjas exchanged him for Georgi Berdyukov from SKA Saint Petersburg , where Vitjas also received financial compensation.

International

With the Russian U20 selection , Chafisullin took part in the U20 Junior World Championship 2009 , where he won the bronze medal with his team. In the course of the tournament he came to two missions in which he remained pointless and punished. He made his debut in the country's men's selection at the Euro Hockey Tour 2014/15, where he was used.

Achievements and Awards

• 2010 KHL - Rookie of the Month for November
• 2015 Gagarin Cup win with SKA Saint Petersburg
• 2017 Gagarin Cup and Russian champion with SKA Saint Petersburg

International

• 2009 bronze medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
• 2019 bronze medal at the world championship

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
KHL main round	9	411	29	90	119	218
KHL playoffs	6th	83	6th	13	19th	55
Super League main round	1	1	0	0	0	0
Super League Playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-
Wysschaja Liga main round	3	115	4th	15th	19th	168
Vysschaya League playoffs	1	10	0	1	1	33

(Status: end of the 2018/19 season)

Web links

• Dinar Chafisullin at hockeydb.com (English)
• Dinar Chafisullin at eliteprospects.com (English)