Samarkand Seagulls

At a glance

Samarkand, Uzbekistan—plays at The Silk Road Pavilion, capacity 14,200. A Season 3 arrival, sorted into La Conférence du Givre.

The ancient crossroads of the world now has ice. The Almighty Ice did not find this surprising—it knows where everything passes through. The Seagulls are far from any sea. They do not care. They arrived here too.

Identity

• City: Samarkand, Uzbekistan
• Arena: The Silk Road Pavilion
• Capacity: 14,200
• Colors: #2A8A8A / #D4A840
• Conference: La Conférence du Givre
• Joined: Season 3 expansion

Arena modifier—Toll

Visiting team skating stats are reduced. You pay to cross the Silk Road. Samarkand takes a cut of everything that passes through.

See all arena modifiers for cross-comparison.

The arena—lore

The ancient crossroads of the world was given ice, and the assessment team reports that The Almighty Ice treated the location as self-evident—it knows, the team concluded, where everything passes through. The ice is of the givre form. Under the Toll designation, visiting skating stats are reduced: you pay to cross the Silk Road, and Samarkand takes its cut of everything in transit. The Seagulls are landlocked by a thousand miles in every direction. They are named Seagulls regardless. Le Council did not name them and declines to explain them, and has asked that correspondence on the subject be directed to the Office of Naming Conventions, which no longer opens it.

The arena—building

Tilework in cobalt and turquoise across every exterior surface, in geometry that resolves at a distance and refuses to at close range. Three iwan portals face the square; only the eastern one is used, and the other two are open to the concourse and lead nowhere in particular. Inside, a ribbed dome carries the roof over 14,200 seats in a single steep bowl, and the ribs are picked out in gold that catches the light off The Almighty Ice and puts it back on the ceiling. The concourse is a covered bazaar and is trading throughout the fixture. Every visiting player passes beneath the eastern portal on the way in. Le Council notes, without conclusion, that the portal is the only entrance and that there is no other route to the ice.

S.H.I.F.T. movements

Season 03 window · 12–17 October 2026

• Signing. Signed Brodie McFadyen (LW) from the unattached pool for the third line. Released Otabek Nazarov (LW) to the pool, round one.
• Signing. Signed Zofia Kowalczyk (D) from the unattached pool for the second defence pair. Released Sevara Ibragimova (D) to the pool, round one.
• Signing. Signed Ruslan Abenov (C) from the unattached pool for the third line. Released Zarina Abdullaeva (C) to the pool, round one.

See the S.H.I.F.T. for how a movement is filed, voted, and registered.

See also

• Teams overview—all 48 franchises.
• The conferences—how the Verglas and the Givre were sorted.
• Arena modifiers—the mechanic behind Toll.
• Glossary—every term, A–Z.