Russian Bandy Supreme League


Russian Bandy Supreme League or the Vysshaya Liga is the second tier of Russian bandy, below Russian Bandy Super League.
In the 2016–17 season, 23 teams competed in three groups.
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.
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:
TeamLocationStadiumCapacity
Kuzbass-2KeremovoKhimik Stadium17,000
Sibselmash-2NovosibirskSibselmash Stadium8,000
Baykal-Energiya-2IrkutskRekord Stadium5,300
SKA-Neftyanik-2KhabarovskArena Yerofey10,000
Yenisey-2KrasnoyarskYenisey Stadium5,000
Start-2Nizhny NovgorodStart Stadium6,200
Dynamo Kazan-2KazanRaketa Stadium7,500
SayanyAbakanSayany Stadium21,000
VostokArsenyevEast Stadium
StroitelSyktyvkarRespublikansky Stadium15,000
Volga-2UlyanovskTrud Stadium8,309
Dynamo KrylatskoyeMoscowKrylatskoye Stadium8,000
Rodina-2KirovRodina Stadium7,500
SKA-SverdlovskYekaterinburgUralskiy Trubnik Stadium6,000
Vodnik-2ArkhangelskTrud Stadium10,000
MayakKrasnoturinskMayak Stadium5,000
Zorky KrasnogorskKrasnogorskZorky8,000
MonchegorskMonchegorskDYuSSh-35,000
Znamya-UdmurtiyaVotkinskZnamya5,000
Nikelshchik Verkhny UfaleyVerkhny UfaleyNikelshchik5,000
LokomotivOrenburgOrenburg7,900
AkzhayikUralskYunost Stadium3,200

Previous teams &; seasons

Teams for the 2017–18 season.

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3