Russian Bandy Supreme League

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.

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

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

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

Teams for the 2017–18 season.[4]

References
  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.
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