Potential Kontinental Hockey League expansion

[3] The proposal of June 2012 at the International Hockey Forum in Barcelona was an updated version of this plan, that would see two conferences of 32 teams each, playing a 62-game regular schedule followed by five rounds of playoffs.

The Czech Republic's HC Energie Karlovy Vary[4][5] signed letters of intent with the KHL in 2008 and hoped to begin playing in the 2009–10 season.

Red Bull and team owner Dietrich Mateschitz, however, favours playing in the German Deutsche Eishockey Liga.

[16] The owners of Polish club Olivia, based in Gdańsk, have applied in January 2013 for a new team, Oliva Gdansk, to join the KHL and play home games at Ergo Arena.

[17] In September 2016, KHL president Dmitry Chernyshenko stated, while they were still negotiating with a new team from London, there were also requests from Milan, Dresden and Geneva.

In March 2016, information reached media about plans to form a team in Sweden-the Crowns-that intended to join the KHL for the 2016–17 season.

This made the Crowns' plan impossible, as the SIHA rejects any KHL participation from Swedish teams; the Ice Hockey Federation of Russia also did not approve.

[12][31] Of these, Yunost Minsk, along with HK Gomel (which may relocate to Babruysk due to arena complications) of the Belarusian Extraleague, are actively taking steps to join the KHL.

"[33] Also from Kiev, the expansion HC Budivelnyk had signed letters of intent and planned on joining the KHL for the 2010–11 season, but support fell through due to bureaucratic complications with the arena.

[34] Russian team Krylya Sovetov were interested to join the league for the 2010–11 season;[35] however, after 2011 they were not able to continue to operate as a professional hockey club and withdrew from the championship on all levels.

[38] In March 2019, Binokor Tashkent reportedly had a pathway of entering KHL via competing in second-tier league VHL by 2020 at the earliest.

[40] Former ice hockey player and member of the council of the Ice hockey Federation Viacheslav Fetisov, has expressed hopes of expanding the KHL into several countries in East Asia, including China, Japan, South Korea and even North Korea;[41] and the development of a Far East division in KHL was discussed in a meeting with the board in July, 2014.

In February 2019, president of the Emirates Ice Hockey League (EHL) Vladimir Burdun announced the goal of entering an UAE team in KHL by 2021.

NHL and KHL stars such as Pavel Datsyuk, Sergei Mozyakin, Alexander Ovechkin were mentioned to improve competitiveness.