The 2018–19 KHL season was the 11th season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The season started on 1 September 2018 and ended on 19 April 2019. Continental Cup winners CSKA Moscow became the first team to win the Gagarin Cup finals in a series sweep,^[3] defeating Avangard Omsk in four games to win their first Gagarin Cup,^[4] after two previous Finals defeats.

For the 2018–19 season, 25 teams competed in the KHL – down from 27 in 2017–18. The two teams that were excluded from the league were HC Lada Togliatti and HC Yugra,^[5] with both teams moving to the Supreme Hockey League. As well as this, Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod were moved from the Western Conference,^[6] to the Eastern Conference; as a result, the Western Conference consisted of 12 teams and the Eastern Conference consisted of 13 teams.

The 2018–19 season featured the most games of any KHL season to date, with each team scheduled to play 62 games,^[6] up from 56 in 2017–18.

The 25 teams were split into four divisions: the Bobrov Division and the Tarasov Division as part of the Western Conference, with the Kharlamov Division and the Chernyshev Division as part of the Eastern Conference. On 24 April 2018, the KHL announced re-alignment after both Lada Togliatti and Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk left the league.^[12]

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Bobrov Division	Tarasov Division	Kharlamov Division	Chernyshev Division
Dinamo Riga	CSKA Moscow	Admiral Vladivostok	Ak Bars Kazan
Dynamo Moscow	Dinamo Minsk	Amur Khabarovsk	Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg
Jokerit	HC Sochi	Avangard Omsk	Metallurg Magnitogorsk
Severstal Cherepovets	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	Barys Astana	Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk
SKA Saint Petersburg	Slovan Bratislava	Kunlun Red Star	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
Spartak Moscow	Vityaz Podolsk	Salavat Yulaev Ufa	Traktor Chelyabinsk
		Sibir Novosibirsk

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Each team played 62 games, playing each of the other twenty-four teams twice: once on home ice, and once away from home. As well as this, each team played a further two games against each of their divisional rivals, and four games total against non-divisional teams.

Points were awarded for each game, where two points were awarded for all victories, regardless of whether it was in regulation time, in overtime or after a shootout. One point was awarded for losing in overtime or a shootout, and zero points for losing in regulation time. At the end of the regular season, the team that finished with the most points was crowned the Continental Cup winner.