European leagues: who won in 2026, and who is playing now.

The 2025-26 champions

KHL: the Gagarin Cup

The Kontinental Hockey League's playoff trophy is the Gagarin Cup.

2026. Lokomotiv won Game 6 3-2 in Kazan on 21 May 2026, with two goals from Yegor Surin and the winner from Maxim Shalunov; Daniil Isayev was in goal. The KHL's report says it was Lokomotiv's second straight Gagarin Cup, and that coach Bob Hartley, who had replaced Igor Nikitin in the summer of 2025, became the first Canadian to win two Gagarin Cups, the first having come with Avangard in 2021. Ak Bars forward Mitch Miller led the playoffs in scoring with 23 points.

2025. Lokomotiv beat Traktor in five games, winning Game 5 2-1 in overtime in Yaroslavl on 21 May 2025 on a Shalunov goal, under head coach Igor Nikitin. The KHL called it the club's first national title since 2003.

2026-27. In progress. The KHL says the regular season began on 5 September 2026 with six games and no Opening Cup game, runs to 20 March 2027, and that the Gagarin Cup final is due to begin on 11 May 2027.

SHL: Sweden

2026. Skelleftea AIK beat Rogle 7-3 at home in Game 5 on 2 May 2026 to win the final four games to one. Norran counts it as the club's fifth Swedish championship; Flashscore counts it as its fourth since 2013. Oscar Lindberg won the Stefan Liv Memorial Trophy as playoff MVP.

2025. Lulea Hockey won the title, its first since 1996, according to Flashscore. Wikipedia gives the final as 4-2 over Brynas.

2026-27. In progress. Flashscore reported Skelleftea opening its title defence with a win over Brynas.

Liiga: Finland

2026. Tappara beat KooKoo 2-1 in Game 7 in Tampere to win the final four games to three, after KooKoo had led the series 2-0. Ondrej Pavel and Joachim Blichfeld scored. Flashscore says it was Tappara's 14th Finnish championship and its fourth in five seasons, and KooKoo's first final. A search summary of Flashscore dated Game 7 to 13 May 2026, but the article itself, as we read it, shows no date.

2025. KalPa Kuopio beat SaiPa 4-2 in the final. Flashscore's pre-series coverage said both clubs were chasing a first Liiga title.

2026-27. We did not read a 2026-27 Liiga source, so we cannot confirm when the season started. No 2027 champion has been decided.

National League: Switzerland

2026. HC Fribourg-Gotteron won its first Swiss championship by beating HC Davos 3-2 in overtime in Game 7, in Davos on 30 April 2026. Lucas Wallmark scored the winner on the power play in the sixth minute of overtime, according to blue News. Davos, who had won the qualifying round, had reached the final by knocking out the ZSC Lions in five games in the semifinal, on a deciding overtime goal by Brendan Lemieux.

2024 and 2025. The ZSC Lions won both titles, beating Lausanne in the final each time: in seven games in 2024, according to European Hockey Clubs, and 4-1 in 2025, according to blue News. blue News noted that in 2026 they missed the chance to become the first club since Kloten in the 1990s to win three in a row.

2026-27. In progress. blue News reported Fribourg-Gotteron winning the first rematch of the final against Davos 2-1 in a shootout.

DEL: Germany

2026. Eisbaren Berlin won 4-1 at Adler Mannheim's SAP Arena in Game 5 on 3 May 2026 to take the final four games to one. Ty Ronning scored twice and Liam Kirk and Erik Mik once each. Sport1 reported it was Berlin's 12th German championship, its third in a row and its fifth in six seasons, and that Berlin had finished only sixth in the regular season before beating Straubing and top seed Cologne in six games each. Coverage summarised from ZDF and the Nordkurier says Berlin won the first three games of the final and Mannheim took Game 4 by 4-3 in double overtime.

2026-27. In progress, with October 2026 coverage referring to Berlin as the defending champions.

Champions Hockey League

The Champions Hockey League is a Europe-wide club competition.

2025-26. Frolunda beat Lulea 3-2 in overtime in an all-Swedish final at the Scandinavium in Gothenburg, Jere Innala scoring on the power play. Flashscore called it Frolunda's record fifth CHL title and its first in six years. We did not find the date of the final.

2026-27. In progress. Ice Hockey Man reported the competition began in early September 2026 with four SHL clubs taking part.

Following the European leagues

For national-team results, see the World Championships. Broadcast arrangements for European leagues were not covered by the sources we read, so watching hockey concentrates on North American leagues and international events.