The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) conference finals are the Eastern Conference and Western Conference championship series of the KHL. The conference finals are best-of-seven series. The two series are played after the first and second rounds of the playoffs and before the Gagarin Cup finals. The final two teams in the Eastern Conference and Western Conference face off. The series are the conference equivalents of the Gagarin Cup finals. The conferences were established during the second season of competition. In the inaugural season there were no conferences, only four divisions. The respective winners of the Eastern and Western Conference finals receive the Eastern Conference winner cup () and Western Conference winner cup.().
Eastern Conference Season East champion Series East runner-up Eventual cup winner 2009–10 Ak Bars Kazan 4–2 Salavat Yulaev Ufa 2010–11 Salavat Yulaev Ufa 4–3 Metallurg Magnitogorsk 2011–12 Avangard Omsk 4–1 Traktor Chelyabinsk 2012–13 Traktor Chelyabinsk 4–3 Ak Bars Kazan 2013–14 Metallurg Magnitogorsk 4–1 Salavat Yulaev Ufa 2014–15 Ak Bars Kazan 4–1 Sibir Novosibirsk 2015–16 Metallurg Magnitogorsk 4–1 Salavat Yulaev Ufa 2016–17 Metallurg Magnitogorsk 4–0 Ak Bars Kazan 2017–18 Ak Bars Kazan 4–0 Traktor Chelyabinsk
Western Conference Season West champion Series West runner-up Eventual cup winner 2009–10 MVD Balashikha 4–3 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 2010–11 Atlant Moscow Oblast 4–2 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 2011–12 Dynamo Moscow 4–0 SKA Saint Petersburg 2012–13 Dynamo Moscow 4–2 SKA Saint Petersburg 2013–14 Lev Prague 4–1 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 2014–15 SKA Saint Petersburg 4–3 CSKA Moscow 2015–16 CSKA Moscow 4–0 SKA Saint Petersburg 2016–17 SKA Saint Petersburg 4–0 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 2017–18 CSKA Moscow 4–2 SKA Saint Petersburg
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External links , official Eastern Conference final 2010 match 6 gallery, photo of Aleksey Morozov receiving the Eastern Conference winner cup , official Eastern Conference final 2010 match 6 gallery, photo of Ak Bars Kazan team members with the Eastern Conference winner cup , official Western Conference final 2010 match 7 gallery, photo of Vladimir Gorbunov receiving the Western Conference winner cup , official Western Conference final 2010 match 7 gallery, photo of Martin Štrbák and Filip Novák with the Western Conference winner cup