2009 Russian Professional Rugby League season

2010 Professional Rugby League season
Countries	Russia
Champions	VVA-Podmoskovye Monino (8th title)
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The 2009 Russian Professional Rugby League season was the fifth season of the Russian Professional Rugby League.

This season saw yet another change in structure for the competition. The two-stage competition was retained, whereby the championship was still split into East and West. The somewhat complicated structure was as follows:

Stage One:

• The professional teams divided into two groups based on geography, East (6) and West (5).
• The top three teams from each group qualified for the Super League (Pos 1 - 6).
• The bottom two clubs from the West entered a play-off stage against qualifying teams from the Federal Leagues to qualify for Stage Two (Pos 7 - 12).
• The fourth (4th) ranked club in the East qualified automatically for Stage Two (Pos 7 - 12).

Stage Two:

• Super League (Pos 1 - 6)
• Play-offs (Pos 7 - 12)

Stage One East Division

East Division Standings

1. Yenisey-STM Krasnoyarsk
2. Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk
3. RC Novokuznetsk
4. Kosmos Krasnoyarsk
5. Rugby Academy Krasnoyarsk
6. Siberian Federal University

East Division Fixtures

Stage One West Division

West Division Standings

1. VVA-Podmoskovye Monino
2. Imperia-Dynamo Penza
3. Slava Moscow
4. Spartak-GM Moscow
5. Fili Moscow

West Division Fixtures

Stage Two Qualifiers

At this stage the two non-qualified West Division teams, Fili Moscow and Spartak-GM Moscow, entered a round-robin stage against teams that qualified from the Federal District Leagues, which were:

• South Krasnodar
• Narva Zastava (St Petersberg)
• Air Force Academy Monino
• Nalchik

The six teams were divided into two groups of three. The top three ranked sides then entered a final stage in which they were joined by Rugby Academy Krasnoyarsk (after Kosmos Krasnoyarsk pulled out).

Group A Standings

Group A Fixtures

Group B Standings

Group B Fixutres

Final Standings (Pos 7 - 12)

Final Fixtures (Pos 7 - 12)

Super League (Places 1-6)

	Nation	Games				Points			Table points
		Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Difference
1	VVA-Podmoskovye Monino	10	9	0	1	399	128	+271	37
2	Yenisey-STM Krasnoyarsk	10	9	0	1	331	140	+191	37
3	Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk	10	6	0	4	247	198	+49	28
4	Slava Moscow	10	3	0	7	126	267	-141	19
5	Imperia-Dynamo Penza	10	2	0	8	130	284	-154	16
6	RC Novokuznetsk	10	1	0	9	120	336	-216	13

Final Stage Fixtures^[1]

Round One

	15 July 2009	Imperia-Dynamo Penza	26 – 17	RC Novokuznetsk	Russia

	17 July 2009	VVA Moino	23 – 9	Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk	Russia

	17 July 2009	Slava Moscow	17 – 35	Yenisey-STM Krasnoyarsk	Russia

Round Two

	21 July 2009	Imperia-Dynamo Penza	3 – 36	Yenisey-STM Krasnoyarsk	Russia

	23 July 2009	Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk	67 – 3	RC Novokuznetsk	Russia

	23 July 2009	VVA Monino	33 – 0	Slava Moscow	Russia

Round Three

	29 July 2009	Imperia-Dynamo Penza	12 – 16	Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk	Russia

	29 July 2009	RC Novokuznetsk	17 – 22	Slava Moscow	Russia

	30 July 2009	Yenisey-STM Krasnoyarsk	30 – 19	VVA Monino	Russia

Round Four

	4 August 2009	VVA Monino	31 – 6	Imperia-Dynamo Penza	Russia

	10 August 2009	Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk	10 – 12	Yenisey-STM Krasnoyarsk	Russia

	11 August 2009	Slava Moscow	18 – 13	Imperia-Dynamo Penza	Russia

Round Five

	11 August 2009	RC Novokuznetsk	10 – 50	VVA Monino	Russia

	16 August 2009	Yenisey-STM Krasnoyarsk	30 – 7	RC Novokuznetsk	Russia

	17 August 2009	Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk	35 – 10	Slava Moscow	Russia

Round Six

	20 August 2009	Yenisey-STM Krasnoyarsk	47 – 10	Slava Moscow	Russia

	24 August 2009	RC Novokuznetsk	32 – 22	Imperia-Dynamo Penza	Russia

	24 August 2009	Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk	20 – 48	VVA Monino	Russia

Round Seven

	30 August 2009	Yenisey-STM Krasnoyarsk	47 – 9	Imperia-Dynamo Penza	Russia

	30 August 2009	RC Novokuznetsk	7 – 30	Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk	Russia

	31 August 2009	Slava Moscow	20 – 48	VVA Monino	Russia

Round Eight

	3 September 2009	Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk	37 – 21	Imperia-Dynamo Penza	Russia

	6 September 2009	VVA Monino	48 – 21	Yenisey-STM Krasnoyarsk	Russia

	8 September 2009	Slava Moscow	12 – 10	RC Novokuznetsk	Russia

Round Nine

	11 September 2009	VVA Monino	55 – 7	RC Novokuznetsk	Russia

	14 September 2009	Imperia-Dynamo Penza	13 – 6	Slava Moscow	Russia

	15 September 2009	Yenisey-STM Krasnoyarsk	42 – 7	Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk	Russia

Round Ten

	21 September 2009	Imperia-Dynamo Penza	5 – 44	VVA Monino	Russia

	21 September 2009	RC Novokuznetsk	10 – 22	Yenisey-STM Krasnoyarsk	Russia

	21 September 2009	Slava Moscow	11 – 16	Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk	Russia

Play-offs

2009 Russian Professional League Play-offs
Home	Score	Away
Semi-Finals (Best of 3 Match Series)
VVA-Podmoskovye Monino	2-0	Slava Moscow
Yenisy-STM Krasnoyarsk	2-1	Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk
Finals (Best of 3 Match Series)
3rd Place Play-off Final
Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk	2-0	Slava Moscow
Championship Final
VVA-Podmoskovye Monino	2-1	Yenisy-STM Krasnoyarsk

References

1. "Professional Rugby League Website".