Neftjanik Almetyevsk

Neftjanik Almetjewsk Нефтяник Альметьевск
Greatest successes
Champion of the Vysschaya League 1994, 2000 Winning the Bratina Cup 2016
Club information
history	Sputnik Almetjewsk (1965–1986) Neftjanik Almetjewsk (since 1986)
Location	Almetyevsk , Russia
league	Vysschaya Hockey League
Venue	Sports Palace Jubileyny
capacity	2,200 seats
executive Director	Vladimir Levushchenko
Head coach	Rishat Gimaev
Season 2018/19	2nd place

Neftjanik Almetjewsk ( Russian: Нефтяник Альметьевск ) is an ice hockey club founded in 1965 in the Russian city ​​of Almetyevsk . The team plays in the second-rate Vysschaya hockey league .

history

Neftjanik

The association was founded in 1965 as Sputnik Almetjewsk . Until 1980, the team, which was renamed Neftjanik Almetjewsk in 1986 , played in the lower-class Soviet leagues . In the 1991/92 season they were promoted to the second-rate Wysschaya League , in which the team won the championship title twice in 1994 and 2000. Both times she refrained from climbing. Until 2010 she continued to play in the Wysschaja Liga, before she was accepted into the successor league Wysschaja Hockey-Liga in 2010 .

In 2016 Neftjanik won the championship trophy of the Vysschaya Hockey League, the Bratina Cup .

Well-known former players

• Stanislaw Galimow (2006-2008)
• Maxim Majorow (2007)
• Aleksejs Širokovs (2016-2017)

Web links

• Official website (russian)