It began on September 8, 2014 in Karagandy with a match between the finalists of the previous season, Saryarka Karaganda and Rubin Tyumen with Saryarka winning the opening cup holder match.
The winner of the regular championship ahead of schedule was also a club from Kazakhstan.
In the season 2014/15 the participants of the SHL left three teams: "the Crystal" (Saratov), "Lada" (Togliatti) and "Titan" (Klin).
The foreign team must have not less than five players citizens of the state that represents this club in the SHL.
Clubs are divided into six conditional fours on sporting and geographical basis, in which glean additional six matches (three games at "home" and "away").