A new attendance record was set during the matches of the second round of the Fonbet KHL Championship playoffs, the league press service reports.
A total of 238,020 spectators attended the Gagarin Cup quarter-finals. The previous record (213,481 spectators) was established during the 2010/2011 season.
The average attendance of the second round also broke a record – 10,819 spectators (the previous record was 9,078 in the 2018/2019 season).
The KHL also recorded a record attendance during two rounds: 645,290 spectators (the previous record was 554,060 during the 2010/2011 season). The average attendance for the first two rounds was a record 9,928 spectators (the previous record was 8,517 in the 2018/2019 season).
Yaroslavl Lokomotiv, Chelyabinsk Traktor, Yekaterinburg Avtomobilist and Magnitogorsk Metallurg will compete to reach the Gagarin Cup final.
The Lokomotiv – Traktor series will begin on April 2, the next day the confrontation between Metallurg and Avtomobilist will begin.
Watch live broadcasts of the Fonbet KHL Championship playoff matches on the channel, as well as on the matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru sites.
Source : MatchTV
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