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Russian Bandy Supreme League

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Russian Bandy Supreme League
SportBandy
CountryRussia
Kazakhstan
Most recent
champion(s)
Sayany
Promotion toRussian Bandy Super League
Official websitehttp://www.rusbandy.ru/season/

Russian Bandy Supreme League or the Vysshaya Liga (Russian: Всероссийские соревнования Высшая лига) is the second tier of Russian bandy, below Russian Bandy Super League.

In the 2016–17 season, 23 teams competed in three groups.[1]

In the 2022/23 season, 22 teams competed in four groups. The teams play around 24 games and move to a Group A & Group B play-off section. From here the quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals are all single elimination games. The seasons generally runs from December to the finals in March.[2]

The league is mainly a development league as can be seen by the number of affiliated clubs, named Rodina-2 for example, although a few independent clubs are present.

Current teams

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The teams playing in the Russian Vysshaya Liga for the 2022–23 season are below:[3]

Team Location Stadium Capacity
Kuzbass-2 Keremovo Khimik Stadium 17,000
Sibselmash-2 Novosibirsk Sibselmash Stadium 8,000
Baykal-Energiya-2 Irkutsk Rekord Stadium 5,300
SKA-Neftyanik-2 Khabarovsk Arena Yerofey 10,000
Yenisey-2 Krasnoyarsk Yenisey Stadium 5,000
Start-2 Nizhny Novgorod Start Stadium 6,200
Dynamo Kazan-2 Kazan Raketa Stadium 7,500
Sayany Abakan Sayany Stadium 21,000
Vostok Arsenyev East Stadium
Stroitel Syktyvkar Respublikansky Stadium 15,000
Volga-2 Ulyanovsk Trud Stadium 8,309
Dynamo Krylatskoye Moscow Krylatskoye Stadium 8,000
Rodina-2 Kirov Rodina Stadium 7,500
SKA-Sverdlovsk Yekaterinburg Uralskiy Trubnik Stadium 6,000
Vodnik-2 Arkhangelsk Trud Stadium 10,000
Mayak Krasnoturinsk Mayak Stadium 5,000
Zorky Krasnogorsk Krasnogorsk Zorky 8,000
Monchegorsk Monchegorsk DYuSSh-3 5,000
Znamya-Udmurtiya Votkinsk Znamya 5,000
Nikelshchik Verkhny Ufaley Verkhny Ufaley Nikelshchik 5,000
Lokomotiv Orenburg Orenburg 7,900
Akzhayik Uralsk(Kazakhstan) Yunost Stadium 3,200

Previous teams & seasons

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Teams for the 2017–18 season.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "Всероссийские соревнования команд Высшей лиги - 2016-2017 - Соревнования - Федерация хоккея с мячом России". rusbandy.ru. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  2. ^ "Official Season Calendar". rusbandy.ru.
  3. ^ "Official Team & Roster list for 2022-23 season". rusbandy.ru.
  4. ^ "Всероссийские соревнования команд Высшей лиги - 2017-2018 - Соревнования - Федерация хоккея с мячом России". rusbandy.ru. Retrieved 2018-03-19.