Ilya Vorobyov will be the new head coach of HC CSKA in the 2024/2025 season. This was reported by “Championship”.
The contract of the current head coach of the Army team, Sergei Fedorov, expires on April 30, 2024. This season, under his leadership, the team could not reach the quarter-finals of the Gagarin Cup and lost 1:4 to Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the series. CSKA won the first match with a score of 4:0. In the regular championship of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), the army team took fourth place.
Fedorov has been at the helm of CSKA since 2021. Under his leadership, the team won the Gagarin Cup twice, in 2022 and 2023.
Ilya Vorobyov has been unemployed since 2023 after leaving Metallurg. In the 2021/22 season, his team lost to CSKA in the Gagarin Cup final. He led Metallurg to the championship in the 2015/16 season. He led the Russian team at the World Championships in 2018 and 2019. First, the Russians lost in the play-offs and won the bronze medal for the second time. Vorobiev played for SKA St. Petersburg in the 2018/19 season. He coached St. Petersburg and reached the semi-finals of the Gagarin Cup.
Former coach of the Russian national team in the name I feel sorry for the KHL referees.