Russian Bandy Super League

The Russian Bandy Super League, is a men's professional bandy league in Russia, the top division of Russian bandy.
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. 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. Still Zorky also got promoted. 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 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.
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.

Season structure

The Russian Cup is played between the months of August & 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.
The Super Cup is hosted before the regular season begins, typically in October.
The regular season comprises fourteen teams. The first eight teams qualify for the second round, which is played as the best of 3 rounds with quarter-finals & 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 26 games and runs from November to February, with the finals taking place in March.

Current teams

The teams playing in the Russian Super League for the 2024–25 season are the following:

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Baykal-Energiya	Irkutsk	Rekord Stadium	5,300
Dynamo [Moscow Bandy Club\|Dynamo]	Moscow	Ice Palace Krylatskoye	8,000
Dynamo [Kazan Bandy Club\|Dynamo-Kazan]	Kazan	Raketa Stadium	7,500
Kuzbass [Kemerovo (bandy club)\|Kuzbass]	Kemerovo	Khimik Stadium	17,000
Murman	Murmansk	Stroitel Stadium	5,000
Rodina	Kirov Oblast\|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 Bandy Club\|Volga]	Ulyanovsk	Volga-Sport-Arena	5,000
Yenisey [Krasnoyarsk Bandy Club\|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)