MOSCOW, Jul 17 Avangard Omsk will play its first home match in Season 2022/23 October 1, according to the official page of the Continental Hockey League (KHL) in the social network «VKontakte». Omsk will compete with the Novosibirsk «Siberia». «Avangard» is waiting for the completion of the construction of a new home arena in Omsk. Earlier it was reported that the arena should be commissioned by September 1. For the last four seasons, the club has been based in Balashikha, near Moscow. Earlier it became known that the KHL regular season in the 2022/23 season starts on September 1. In the match for the Opening Cup, the current winner of the Gagarin Cup CSKA Moscow and the finalist of last season Metallurg Magnitogorsk will play in Moscow. The full calendar of the season will be published on Monday. Star (Beijing) — Admiral (Vladivostok), Spartak (Moscow) — Amur (Khabarovsk), Avtomobilist (Yekaterinburg) — Lokomotiv (Yaroslavl), Sochi — Siberia ( Novosibirsk), Traktor (Chelyabinsk) — Severstal (Cherepovets); September 3: Vityaz (Balashikha) — Avangard (Omsk), Dynamo (Minsk) — Barys (Nur-Sultan), SKA (St. Petersburg) — Salavat Yulaev (Ufa), Torpedo (Nizhny Novgorod) — Metallurg (Magnitogorsk), Dynamo (Moscow) — Ak Bars (Kazan); September 6: Metallurg — Severstal; September 7: Lokomotiv — Neftekhimik (Nizhnekamsk); September 8: Ak Bars — Admiral; September 9: Siberia — Kunlun, Salavat Yulaev — Tractor «, «Severstal» — CSKA; September 10: «Neftekhimik» — «Dynamo» (Minsk); September 11: «Admiral» — «Kunlun Red Star»; September 13: «Amur» — «Kunlun», «Barys» — «Tractor».
