Team: | Kapitan Stupino |
Colour: | Blue |
Colour Text: | White |
Logosize: | 240px |
City: | Stupino, Russia |
League: | Junior Hockey League |
Founded: | 1951 |
Arena: | Bobrova Ice Palace |
Colours: | White, Blue, Red |
Kapitan Stupino is an ice hockey team in Stupino, Russia. Since 2011, the team plays in the Russian Junior Hockey League. They have previously played in the Vysshaya Liga, the second level of Russian ice hockey.
The Captain hockey club was founded in 1949, and was called the "Sports Palace team". Until 1957, the this team was represented in two sports: football and bandy. Nikolai Makhov, the coach, should be considered the founder of hockey in Stupino. In 1949, the first hockey field appeared in Stupino. The first hockey match in Stupino took place on March 24, 1957. Since 1959, the hockey team took part for the first time in the championship of the Moscow region of the DSO "Trud", and the following season it became the champion of the region among the teams of the DSO "Trud", beating the team from the city of Dubna in the final with a score of 6:3. In 1962-1964, the team took part in the championship of the RSFSR (second group, zone 10) with the new name "Trud". Since 1964, the team has been participating in the championship of the Moscow region in the second group. It was only in 1973 that Oka Stupino players were able to win the second group and rise to the first group, but the following season they took the last place and again continued to play in the second group of the regional championship. In 1982, "Oka" again became the winner of the second group of the regional championship and was promoted to the first group, where he performed until 1991. [1]