Chimik-SKA Navapolatsk

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Chimik-SKA
Navapolatsk Химик-СКА Новополоцк
Chimik-SKA Navapolatsk Химик-СКА Новополоцк
Greatest successes
Club information
history Neftjanik Nawapolazk (1964–1974)
Chimik Nawapolazk (1974–1994)
Polimir Nawapolazk (1994–2003)
Chimik Nawapolazk (2003–2004)
Chimik-SKA Nawapolazk (since 2004)
Location Navapolatsk , Belarus
league Belarusian extra league
Venue Navapolatsk Ice and Culture Palace
capacity 1,400 seats
2014/15 7th place (main round), playoff quarter-finals

Chimik-SKA Navapolazk ( Russian Химик-СКА Новополоцк ) is a Belarusian ice hockey club from Navapolazk , which plays in the Belarusian extra league. The club was founded in 1993 and plays its home games in the Ice and Culture Palace Nawapolazk , which seats 1,400 people.

history

The first ice hockey game in Nawapolazk was played in February 1960, with a team from Borowucha and Nawapolazk faced each other. It was not until four years later that Neftjanik Navapolazk took part for the first time in the fourth division of the Belarusian SSR . The team was sponsored and named after the local refinery . A year later, they were promoted to the third division.

From 1974 the team played under the name Chimik and became champions of the Belarusian SSR in 1990. In the same year the team won the union cup and was allowed to participate in the second division of the Soviet Union, today's Wysschaja Liga . The Ice and Culture Palace was opened in Nawapolazk in August 1994 and has been the club's home ground since then. Between 1994 and 2003 the club played under the name Polimir Navapolazk . The namesake and main sponsor was the local Polymir group.

For several years the team also took part in the East European Hockey League . Both in 1996 and 1997, the club's first team won the Belarusian championship and therefore took part in the IIHF Continental Cup in the following years .

In the 2003/04 season, the club returned to its old name Chimik , before playing under its current name Chimik-SKA since 2004 .

successes

The club has so far won the Belarusian championship twice - in 1996 and 1997.

Well-known former players

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hchimik.com, Club History (Russian)

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