Russian Women's Football Championship

The Russian Women's Football Championship (Russian: Чемпионат России по футболу среди женщин), also known as the Top Division and the Women's Football League, is the highest professional [1] women's football league in Russia.

Founded1992
CountryRussia
ConfederationUEFA
Number of teams12
Level on pyramid1
Relegation toWomen’s 1.Division
Domestic cup(s)Russian Women's Cup
International cup(s)UEFA Women's Champions League
Current championsZenit Saint Petersburg
(2022)
Most championshipsZvezda-2005 Perm (6 titles)
Websitewfl.rfs.ru
Current: 2023 Russian Women's Football Super League

The Top Division was founded in 1992.[2] Prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union, the women's league played two seasons in 1990 and 1991.

Format

For the 2010 season the seven teams play each other four times, two times away and two games at home. In previous years the team played each other only twice. As Russia is in the top 8 leagues of Europe by UEFA Coefficient[3] the top two teams qualify for the UEFA Women's Champions League and the last team gets relegated to the Women’s 1.Division. The 2011–12 season was the first to last over the winter month. Eight teams contest the season and play each other four times for a total of 28 matches.[4] The tie-breaking rules after the season are in descending order: points, number of wins, then in matches between tied teams: points, wins, goal difference, goals scored, away goals scored, after that in all matches: goal difference, goals scored, away goal scored, better fair-play record and finally the tie is broken by drawing of a lot. One exception is, if there is a tie of points involving the first place, thus the tie-breaking would determine the champion. In this case, there is an additional match, or in case of at least a three way tie a tournament to be played.[5]

In the 2012–13 season a championship and relegation round was played after the regular season. After 14 matches each, the top four and bottom four teams played each other twice more. The winner of the championship round is the champion.

In 2013 the league returned to the spring-autumn format.[6] No championship group was played then. In 2014 a championship group followed the regular season. Points of both stages are added together.[7]

Teams in the 2022 season
Russian Women's Football Championship is located in European Russia
Moscow (4 teams)
Moscow (4 teams)
Perm
Perm
Ryazan
Ryazan
Krasnodar
Krasnodar
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
Krasnoyarsk(not on map)
Krasnoyarsk
(not on map)
Russian Women's Football Championship
Locations of the 2020 teams
TeamLocationGround
Chertanovo MoscowMoscowArena Chertanovo
Dynamo MoscowMoscowVTB Arena
WFC KrasnodarKrasnodarKrasnodar Academy Stadium
CSKA MoscowMoscowNovye Khimki Stadium
Zenit Saint PetersburgSaint PetersburgSmena Stadium
Ryazan-VDVRyazanCentral'nyj Sportivn'yj Kompleks
Lokomotiv MoscowMoscowSapsan Arena
Zvezda-2005 PermPermZvezda Stadium
Yenisey KrasnoyarskKrasnoyarskFutbol-arena Enisey

Champions and top scorers

The champions so far are:[8][9]

# Year Champion Runner-up Third place Top scorer
11992Interros MoscowCSK VVS SamaraSKIF MalakhovkaRussia Larisa Savina (CSK VVS Samara, 23 goals)
21993CSK VVS SamaraRus MoscowSKIF MalakhovkaRussia Larisa Savina (CSK VVS Samara, 19 goals)
31994CSK VVS SamaraEnergiya VoronezhKaluzhankaRussia Nadezhda Bosikova (Energiya Voronezh, 31 goals)
41995Energiya VoronezhCSK VVS SamaraSibiryachka KrasnoyarskRussia Nadezhda Bosikova (Energiya Voronezh, 37 goals)
51996CSK VVS SamaraEnergiya VoronezhLada TogliattiRussia Nadezhda Bosikova (Energiya Voronezh, 39 goals)
61997Energiya VoronezhCSK VVS SamaraVDV RyazanRussia Nadezhda Bosikova (Energiya Voronezh, 21 goals)
71998Energiya VoronezhCSK VVS SamaraVDV RyazanRussia Nadezhda Bosikova (Energiya Voronezh, 19 goals)
81999VDV RyazanEnergiya VoronezhCSK VVS Samara
92000Ryazan TNKEnergiya XXI Vek VoronezhCSK VVS SamaraRussia Nadezhda Bosikova (Energiya Voronezh, 30 goals)
Russia Olga Letyushova (Ryazan-VDV, 30 goals)
102001CSK VVS SamaraEnergiya XXI Vek VoronezhRyazan TNKRussia Olga Letyushova (Ryazan-VDV, 31 goals)
112002Energiya VoronezhLada TogliattiRyazan TNKRussia Natalia Barbashina (Lada Togliatti, 29 goals)
122003Energiya VoronezhLada TogliattiCSK VVS SamaraRussia Natalia Barbashina (Lada Togliatti, 21 goals)
132004Lada TogliattiRossiyankaEnergiya VoronezhRussia Olga Letyushova (Rossiyanka, 18 goals)
142005RossiyankaLada TogliattiNadezhda NoginskRussia Olga Letyushova (Rossiyanka, 27 goals)
152006RossiyankaSpartak MoscowNadezhda NoginskRussia Olga Letyushova (Rossiyanka, 34 goals)
162007Zvezda-2005 PermRossiyankaNadezhda NoginskRussia Olga Letyushova (Zvezda-2005 Perm, 19 goals)
172008Zvezda-2005 PermRossiyankaSKA RostovNigeria Emueje Ogbiagbevha (Rossiyanka, 16 goals)
182009Zvezda-2005 PermRossiyankaEnergiya VoronezhUkraine Daryna Apanaschenko (Zvezda-2005 Perm, 12 goals)
Russia Olesya Kurochkina (Zvezda-2005 Perm, 12 goals)
192010RossiyankaEnergiya VoronezhZvezda-2005 PermNigeria Emueje Ogbiagbevha (Rossiyanka, 23 goals)
202011–12RossiyankaZorky KrasnogorskEnergiya VoronezhNigeria Emueje Ogbiagbevha (Energiya Voronezh, 15 goals)
212012–13Zorky KrasnogorskRossiyankaRyazan-VDVRussia Olesya Kurochkina (Izmailovo Moscow, 16 goals)
222013Ryazan-VDVZvezda-2005 PermZorky KrasnogorskRussia Elena Danilova (Ryazan-VDV, 17 goals)
232014Zvezda-2005 PermZorky KrasnogorskRyazan-VDVUkraine Daryna Apanaschenko (Zvezda-2005 Perm, 8 goals)
242015Zvezda-2005 PermRossiyankaZorky KrasnogorskUkraine Daryna Apanaschenko (Zvezda-2005 Perm, 13 goals)
252016RossiyankaZvezda-2005 PermRyazan-VDVRussia Margarita Chernomyrdina (Chertanovo Moscow, 8 goals)
Russia Nadezhda Karpova (Chertanovo Moscow, 8 goals)
262017[10]Zvezda-2005 PermRyazan-VDVChertanovo MoscowRussia Elena Danilova (Ryazan-VDV, 11 goals)
272018[11]Ryazan-VDVChertanovo MoscowZvezda-2005 PermRussia Elena Danilova (Ryazan-VDV, 11 goals)
282019[12]CSKA MoscowLokomotiv MoscowKubanochka KrasnodarRussia Nelli Korovkina (Lokomotiv Moscow, 20 goals)
292020[13]CSKA MoscowLokomotiv MoscowZvezda-2005 PermRussia Olesya Kurochkina (Zvezda-2005 Perm, 9 goals)
302021Lokomotiv MoscowCSKA MoscowZenit Saint PetersburgRussia Nelli Korovkina (Lokomotiv Moscow, 20 goals)
312022Zenit Saint PetersburgCSKA MoscowLokomotiv MoscowRussia Nelli Korovkina (Lokomotiv Moscow, 17 goals)
322023

Performance by club
Club Winners Runners-up Third place Years won
Zvezda-2005 Perm6232007, 2008, 2009, 2014, 2015, 2017
Energiya Voronezh5631995, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2003
Rossiyanka5602005, 2006, 2010, 2011–12, 2016
CSK VVS Samara4431993, 1994, 1996, 2001
Ryazan-VDV4171999, 2000, 2013, 2018
CSKA Moscow2202019, 2020
Lada Togliatti1312004
Zorky Krasnogorsk1222012–13
Lokomotiv Moscow1212021
Zenit Saint Petersburg1012022
Interros Moscow1001992
Chertanovo Moscow /
SKIF Malakhovka		013
Rus Moscow010
Spartak Moscow010
Nadezhda Noginsk003
Kaluzhanka001
Sibiryachka Krasnoyarsk001
SKA Rostov001
Kubanochka Krasnodar001

See also

References
  1. "Russian Women's Championship". RFS (in Russian). Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  2. "XVIII ЧЕМПИОНАТ РОССИИ ПО ФУТБОЛУ" (in Russian). Womenfootball.ru. Retrieved 2 December 2009.
  3. UEFA Women's Cup
  4. "Chapter 4". 2011/12 regulations (DOC) (in Russian). womenfootball.ru. pp. 6–7. Retrieved 6 August 2011.
  5. "Chapter 10". 2010/11 regulations (DOC) (in Russian). womenfootball.ru. pp. 14–15. Retrieved 6 August 2011.
  6. "2013 season review" (in Russian). rfs.ru. 2 December 2013. Archived from the original on 12 December 2013. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
  7. Top Russia title 2014
  8. Stokkermans, Karel (23 April 2009). "Russia - List of Women Champions". RSSSF.
  9. "???????" (in Russian). Womenfootball.ru. Retrieved 2 December 2009.
  10. ""Звезда-2005" - чемпион России среди женщин!". Russian Football Union. 28 October 2017.
  11. "Футболистки "Рязани-ВДВ" выиграли чемпионат России". 14 October 2018.
  12. "ЖФК ЦСКА - чемпион России сезона-2019!". Russian Football Union. 20 October 2019.
  13. "ЖФК ЦСКА – победитель Суперлиги-2020!". Russian Football Union. 16 November 2020.
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