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Chelmet Chelyabinsk
City	Chelyabinsk, Russia
League	VHL 2010–present Vysshaya Liga 1992–1997, 2003–2010 RSL 1997–2003 Soviet League Class A2 1977–1981, 1985–1992 Soviet League Class A3 1969–1971, 1975–1977, 1981–1985 Soviet League Class B 1956–1969
Founded	1948
Home arena	Yunost Sport Palace (3,500 seats)
Colours
Head coach	Maxim Smelnitsky
Affiliate	Traktor Chelyabinsk (KHL)
Website	https://hctraktor.org/chelmet/

Chelmet Chelyabinsk (Russian: «Челмет») is a professional ice hockey team in the VHL. Based in Chelyabinsk, Russia, and affiliated with the Kontinental Hockey League's Traktor Chelyabinsk, Chelmet plays its home games at Yunost Sports Palace.

History

The team was founded by the Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant in 1948 as Metallurg Chelyabinsk and competed in third rate Soviet division since 1957 subsequently getting relegated to the second division (Class A2) since the 70s seasons. Since the 1985–86 Soviet League season was the main ice hockey team in Chelyabinsk replacing downgraded Traktor Chelyabinsk.

In 1990 after its parent Metallurgical Plant became a core of the Mechel metallurgical company the team was renamed Mechel Chelyabinsk. During the 90s Mechel became one of the founding clubs of the IHL and the Russian Superleague. But since 2003 it was moved to the second rate Supreme League later becoming the constituent member of the VHL. Since 2012 when Mechel withdrew its support of the team it got its current name. Current team logo based on NHL franchise Washington Capitals

References

External links

• Website
• Сhelmet on vhlru.ru/en

v t e Supreme Hockey League
Conference 1 Conference 2 Division A Dynamo MO Dinamo Saint Petersburg Humo Tashkent Khimik KRS-BSU ORG Beijing SKA-Neva Tsen Tou Jilin City Zvezda Chekhov Division B Bars Kazan Buran Voronezh Dizel Penza Lada Togliatti HC Rostov Torpedo-Gorky Nizhny Novgorod HC Ryazan HC Tambov CSK VVS Samara Division C Chelmet Chelyabinsk Gornyak Miner Uchaly Izhstal Izhevsk Molot-Prikamye Perm Neftyanik Almetyevsk Toros Neftekamsk Yuzhny Ural Orsk Zauralie Kurgan   Division D Metallurg Novokuznetsk Nomad Nur-Sultan Rubin Tyumen Saryarka Karagandy Sokol Krasnoyarsk Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk HC Yugra Yermak Angarsk
Former teams	Ariada Volzhsk Dynamo Balashikha HC Donbass HC Kuban HC Lipetsk Kristall Saratov Krylya Sovetov Lokomotiv Yaroslavl HC Sarov Sputnik Nizhny Tagil THK Tver Titan Klin Yunost Minsk Zvezda-VDV Dmitrov
VL seasons	1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10
VHL seasons	2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24
Related articles	Russian Superleague (top-level, 1996–2008) Kontinental Hockey League (top-level, from 2008) Petrov Cup (trophy for the winner)

• Ice hockey teams in Russia
• Sport in Chelyabinsk
• Ice hockey clubs established in 1948