MOSCOW, Oct. 24 The Club of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) «Sochi» in the Telegram channel announced the departure of Andrey Nazarov from the post of head coach of the team.» Due to unsatisfactory results, Andrey Nazarov is retiring as the head coach of HC Sochi. The management of the hockey club Sochi has reached an agreement to sign a contract with Sergei Svetlov. Detailed information about the changes in the coaching staff of Sochi will be published after legal registration in the KHL contractual obligations,» the message says. After 20 matches of the regular season, Sochi, which scored nine points, takes the last, 11th place in the standings of the Western Conference. The team suffered seven defeats in a row.
Nazarov headed Sochi in September 2021. Throughout his career, he was the head coach of Traktor Chelyabinsk, Vityaz near Moscow, Severstal Cherepovets, Barys Kazakhstan, SKA Petersburg and Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk, as well as the national teams of Kazakhstan and Ukraine and the Ukrainian Donbass.