SKA-Neva

SKA-Neva
СКА-Нева
SKA-Neva; СКА-Нева
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City	Saint Petersburg, Russia
League	VHL 2010-present Vysshaya Liga; 2008-2010;
Conference	Western
Home arena	Yubileyny Sports Palace; (capacity: 7,000)
Colours
Head coach	Yevgeni Popikhin
Affiliates	SKA Saint Petersburg (KHL); SKA-1946 (MHL); SKA-Serebryanye Lvy (MHL); SKA-Varyagi (NMHL)
Website	www.neva.ska.ru
Franchise history
2008-2013	VMF St. Petersburg
2013-2014	VMF Karelia
2014-2015	SKA-Karelia
2015–present	SKA-Neva

HC SKA-Neva (Russian: Хоккейный Клуб СКА-Нева) is a Russian professional ice hockey team playing in the VHL, the second level of Russian ice hockey. The club was founded as VMF St. Petersburg in 2008 in Saint Petersburg as a farm club of the KHL team SKA Saint Petersburg. After failing to attract the audience in Petersburg, the franchise was relocated to Kondopoga, Karelia during the 2012-2013 VHL season. Starting with the 2013-14 season, the team officially changed the name to VMF Karelia, VMF standing for the Russian Navy. The next season, it was changed to SKA-Karelia. In May 2015, the club returned to Saint Petersburg and was renamed SKA-Neva^[1]