Ishstal Izhevsk

Ishstal Izhevsk ; Ижсталь Ижевск
Greatest successes
	Champion of the Vysschaya League 1975, 1979, 1981;
Club information
history	Ishstal Izhevsk (since 1959)
Location	Izhevsk , Russia
league	Vysschaya Hockey League
Venue	Ischstal Sports Palace
capacity	3,900 seats
Head coach	Alexander Smagin
Season 2018/19	26th place, no playoff participation

Ischstal Ischewsk ( Russian Ижсталь Ижевск ) is an ice hockey club founded in 1959 in the Russian city of Izhevsk . The team plays in the second-rate Vysschaya hockey league .

history

Ischstal Ice Palace (2020)

The association was founded in 1959. Until 1975 Ischstal played in the lower class Soviet leagues . In the 1974/75 season they were promoted to the second-rate league, in which the team spent a total of eleven seasons and won the championship three times in 1975, 1979 and 1981. Ischstal has competed seven times in the elite class of the Soviet Union and took 9th place as the best place in the 1981/82 and 1984/85 seasons.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union , the team could not participate in the game for two seasons in 1993/94 and 1994/95 for financial reasons. From the 1995/96 season, the club played for 15 years without interruption in the second-rate Wysschaja Liga . In 2010 he was included in their successor league Wysschaja Hockey League .

Ischtal Ischewsk acts as the farm team of the KHL participant Severstal Tscherepowez .

Well-known former players

Witali Grossmann (1987–1990)
Fyodor Tjutin (1999-2000)

Web links

Official website (russian)