Russian Bandy Super League
Winter sport league
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The Russian Bandy Super League (Russian: Чемпионат России по хоккею с мячом — Суперлига, romanized: Chempionat Rossii po khokkeyu s myachom — Superliga) is a men's professional bandy league in Russia, the top division of Russian bandy. 12 teams competed in the 2025–26 season.
Current season, competition or edition: [[Super League 2025–26]] | |
| Sport | Bandy |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1992 |
| No. of teams | 12 |
| Country | Russia |
| Most recent champion | Dynamo Moscow (10) (2025–26) |
| Most titles | Dynamo Moscow (10 titles) |
| Relegation to | Supreme League |
| Domestic cups | Russian Cup (& Super Cup) |
| Official website | rusbandy.ru |
There is no definite rule which teams will be relegated or promoted. Besides results on the ice, financial resources and infrastructure also play a part in the decisions. For example, the 2016–17 Russian Bandy Super League contained twelve teams. The 2017–18 season was to have fourteen.[1] Stroitel won the Supreme League final tournament in 2017 and got promoted, while Zorky finished third in its group and did not even qualify for the final tournament.[2] Still Zorky also got promoted.[citation needed] The Russian Bandy Federation banned coach Igor Gapanovich of Vodnik Arkhangelsk and coach Evgeny Erakhtin of Baykal-Energiya each for 30 months in March 2017, and fined each club 300,000 rubles (£4,100/$5,100/€4,800) for the teams scoring an aggregate of 20 goals in their own nets rather than their opponent's to ensure they played against a convenient team in upcoming play-offs.[3]
The Russian Bandy League was established in 1992 and has been reorganized as the Bandy Super League since the 2011–12 season. The regular league is followed by a play-off, where the final decides which team will become the Russian bandy champion.[citation needed] The most recent champions are Dynamo Moscow, who beat SKA Neftyanik 8-6 to win their 10th Super League title.
Season structure
The Russian Cup is played between the months of August and September and is split into East & Western conferences consisting of 7 teams each. The top 4 teams from each conference go through to the Play-offs, which are all single elimination through the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final.[4][5]
The Super Cup is hosted before the regular season begins, typically in October.[6]
The regular season comprises twelve teams. The first eight teams qualify for the second round, which is played as the best of 3 rounds with quarter-finals and semi-finals and a single elimination final. The final is played on neutral ice. The final winner becomes Russian Champion.
The regular season consists of 22 games and runs from November to February,[7] with the finals taking place in March.[8]
Current teams
The teams playing in the Russian Super League for the 2025–26 season[9] are the following:
| Team | Location | Stadium | Capacity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dynamo | Moscow | Ice Palace Krylatskoye | 8,000 |
| Dynamo-Kazan | Kazan | Raketa Stadium | 7,500 |
| Kuzbass | Kemerovo | Khimik Stadium | 17,000 |
| Rodina | Kirov | Rodina Stadium | 7,500 |
| Sayany-Khakassia | Abakan | Sayany Stadium | 21,000 |
| Sibselmash | Novosibirsk | Sibselmash Stadium | 8,000 |
| SKA-Neftyanik | Khabarovsk | Arena Yerofey | 10,000 |
| Start | Nizhny Novgorod | Start Stadium | 6,200 |
| Uralsky Trubnik | Pervouralsk | Uralskiy Trubnik Stadium | 6,000 |
| Vodnik | Arkhangelsk | Trud Stadium | 10,000 |
| Volga | Ulyanovsk | Volga-Sport-Arena | 5,000 |
| Yenisey | Krasnoyarsk | Yenisey Stadium | 5,000 |
Champions by season
- 1992 – Zorky (Krasnogorsk)
- 1993 – Zorky (Krasnogorsk)
- 1994 – SKA-Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg)
- 1995 – Sibselmash (Novosibirsk)
- 1996 – Vodnik (Arkhangelsk)
- 1997 – Vodnik (Arkhangelsk)
- 1998 – Vodnik (Arkhangelsk)
- 1999 – Vodnik (Arkhangelsk)
- 2000 – Vodnik (Arkhangelsk)
- 2001 – Yenisey (Krasnoyarsk)
- 2002 – Vodnik (Arkhangelsk)
- 2003 – Vodnik (Arkhangelsk)
- 2004 – Vodnik (Arkhangelsk)
- 2005 – Vodnik (Arkhangelsk)
- 2006 – Dynamo (Moscow)
- 2007 – Dynamo (Moscow)
- 2008 – Dynamo (Moscow)
- 2009 – Dynamo (Moscow)
- 2010 – Dynamo (Moscow)
- 2011 – Dynamo-Kazan
- 2012 – Dynamo (Moscow)
- 2013 – Dynamo (Moscow)
- 2014 – Yenisey (Krasnoyarsk)
- 2015 – Yenisey (Krasnoyarsk)
- 2016 – Yenisey (Krasnoyarsk)
- 2017 – SKA-Neftyanik (Khabarovsk)
- 2018 – SKA-Neftyanik (Khabarovsk)
- 2019 – SKA-Neftyanik (Khabarovsk)
- 2020 – Dynamo (Moscow) / SKA-Neftyanik (Khabarovsk)
- 2021 – Yenisey (Krasnoyarsk)
- 2022 – Dynamo (Moscow)
- 2023 – SKA-Neftyanik (Khabarovsk)
- 2024 – Kuzbass (Kemerovo)
- 2025 – Kuzbass (Kemerovo)
- 2026 - Dynamo (Moscow)