2018: Multan Sultans P. LEAGUE+ 2021: New Taipei Kings; Kaohsiung Steelers Expansion teams in Europe Kontinental Hockey League 2009: Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg 2010: HC Yugra 2011: Lev Poprad – This team, based in Slovakia, was purchased after its first KHL season (2011–12) by Czech interests. It was disbanded and replaced by the similarly named Lev Praha. The latter team folded at the end of the 2013–14 season. 2012: HC Donbass; Slovan Bratislava Donbass left the KHL after the 2013–14 season. The team joined what is now known as the Ukrainian Hockey League in 2015–16. 2013: Admiral Vladivostok; KHL Medveščak (from Zagreb, Croatia) Medveščak, which had joined from the Austrian Hockey League, withdrew from the KHL after the 2016–17 season to rejoin the Austrian league. 2014: Sochi; Jokerit (from Helsinki, Finland) 2016: Kunlun Red Star (from Beijing, China) United Rugby Championship Originally known as the Celtic League, and later as Pro12 and Pro14. 2010: Aironi – A team formed specifically for the competition by several existing clubs in Northern Italy, with Viadana the lead side. The team folded when the Italian Rugby Federation (FIR) revoked its professional license effective with the end of the 2011–12 Pro12 season; it was replaced by the FIR-operated Zebre. Benetton Treviso – Founded in 1932, it competed in Italian domestic leagues before joining the competition originally known as the Celtic League, later known as Pro12 and now as Pro14. 2017: Cheetahs Southern Kings These teams had played in Super Rugby before that competition's governing body, SANZAAR, axed three teams at the end of the 2017 season. Both had themselves been Super Rugby expansion teams; the Cheetahs entered in 2006 and the Kings in 2013. The Kings were liquidated prior to the 2020–21 season when a planned takeover bid collapsed in fraud; the Cheetahs left after that season. 2021: Bulls Lions Sharks Stormers South Africa's so-called "Big Four" Super Rugby sides left that competition after its reorganisation amid the COVID-19 pandemic. They joined the former Pro14, which changed its name to the United Rugby Championship. Super League 1995: Paris Saint-Germain RL (now defunct) 2006: Catalans Dragons — Although Super League used a promotion and relegation system at that time, Les Catalans, as the only French team in the otherwise all-English competition, were assured of a place in the league through 2008. Super League instituted a franchise system effective with the 2009 season, and Les Catalans retained their place