Binokor Tashkent


HK Binokor Tashkent, is an ice hockey team based in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. They played in the lower level Soviet leagues from 1971-1988. The club was re-founded in 2012 and joined the newly-created Uzbekistan Hockey League.

History

The club was founded in 1971 as Spartak Tashkent, and made their debut in 1971-72 in the Klass A group 2. The team finished in fourth place in the Eastern Zone in their first season. Tashkent never finished lower than fifth place in their first four seasons. In 1974, the team was renamed Binokor Tashkent. In 1975-76, Binokor Tashkent was promoted to the Pervaya Liga, by virtue of winning the Eastern Zone of the Vtoraya Liga in 1974-75.
The team played eight years in the Pervaya Liga, and had relatively good finishes from 1976-1983. They were relegated for the 1984-85 season, following a disastrous 1983-84 season, where they won only five games and finished with 157 goals for, and 348 goals against.
Tashkent's return to the Vtoraya Liga however only lasted one season, as the team finished first in the Eastern Zone with a 40-10-4 record and promoted back to the Pervaya Liga. They had a terrible record in the Pervaya Liga in 1986-87, finishing 3-33, and were thus relegated again. The team folded after finishing 12-18-6 in the Vtoraya Liga in 1987-88.
Binokor was revived in 2012 to play in the Uzbekistan Hockey League. In October 2013, they took part in the Shymkent Tournament along with teams from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

KHL ambition

It was reported that Binokor Tashkent can appear in the Kontinental Hockey League in either 2018/19 or 2019/20. It is planned that after the opening of the Humo Arena, it will host home matches for Binokor in the KHL. The terms of the club's admission into the league directly depend on the date of putting the arena into operation.
In March 2019, during the opening of Humo Arena, Binokor reportedly had a pathway of entering KHL via competing in second tier league VHL by 2020 at the earliest. The possible time for getting into KHL will be 2022 with training adequate players and sufficient preparations. On 31 May, 2019 it was announced that Humo would be joining the VHL for the 2019-20 season and not Binokor Tashkent as originally assumed.

Season-by-season record

SeasonLeagueGPWLTPtsGFGADiff.Place
1971/72Klass A Group 25267219163+564th place in Vostok Zona
1972/73Klass A Group 2482415957175140+355th place in Vostok Zona
1973/74Klass A Group 2482718357202164+384th place in Vostok Zona
1974/75Klass A Group 2442313854170130+404th place in Vostok Zona
1975/76Klass A Group 2523710579248126+1221st place in Vostok Zona ↑
1976/77Klass A Group 1521727842159216-5710th Place
1977/78Klass A Group 1523016666235185+504th Place
1978/79Klass A Group 16031191072262227+355th Place
1979/80Klass A Group 1602530555228233-510th Place
1980/81Pervaya Liga603222670286221+657th Place
1981/82Pervaya Liga6028191369244196+487th Place
1982/83Pervaya Liga602427957324247+779th Place
1983/84Pervaya Liga60551414157348-19116th place↓
1984/85Vtoraya Liga544010484284183+1011st place' in Vostok Zona ↑
1985/86Pervaya Liga642236650204262-585th place in Vostok Zona
1986/87Pervaya Liga 361023323125170-458th place in Vostok Zona
1986/87Pervaya Liga 363330698202-10410th place in Vostok Zona ↓
1987/88Vtoraya Liga361218630122154-3218th place
1987/88Vtoraya Liga361218630122154-3218th place
2013Uzbekistan Hockey League21103109+12nd place

Notable players