2011 Russian Professional Rugby League season
The 2011 Russian Professional Rugby League season will be the seventh edition of the competition since its transition from the Super League.
| 2011 Russian Professional Rugby League season | |
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The reigning champions, VVA Monino will be attempting to secure a recording breaking ninth championship and overtake Krasny Yar as the most successful Russian rugby union side in the professional era.
There have again been a number of changes and events taking place behind the scenes at the Russian Rugby Union. At the start of the season, rumours spread that the league would again expand, possibly to as many as fifteen (15) teams. Of the potential new entrants, the most likely entrant was a team based in the city of Kazan, a former "stronghold" of rugby league in Russia.
However, due to the commitments of the national team at the World Cup, it was decided that there would be no new teams added to the competition. To compensate, a lower division was created, called the First Division, wherein seven (7) teams will compete for the chance to be promoted to the "Super League".
Competition format
Details of this season's competition format have not yet been decided.
Teams
- VVA-Podmoskovye Monino, from Monino, Moscow Oblast.
- Yenisy-STM Krasnoyarsk, from Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk Oblast.
- Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk, from Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk Oblast.
- Slava Moscow, from Moscow, Moscow Oblast.
- Imperia-Dynamo Penza, from Penza.
- RC Novokuznetsk, from Novokuznesk
- Fili Moscow, from Moscow, Moscow Oblast.
- Spartak Moscow, from Moscow, Moscow Oblast.
Warm-up fixtures and results
| 21 February 2011 | Farul Constanţa  |
7 – 31 | |
Turkey | ||
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| 27 February 2011 | Lazio Roma Rugby  |
14 – 37 | |
Italy | ||
| 1 March 2011 | Ludom Avezzano Rugby |
12 – 74 | |
Italy | ||
| 5 March 2011 | L'Aquila |
12 – 24 | |
Stadio Tommaso Fattori, L'Aquila | ||
| Try: Maurizio Zaffiri, Marco Di Massimo Con: Stefano Paolucci (1) |
Try: Victor Arhip , Yulris Baranovs, Vitaly Orlov, Yaroslav Rechnev Con: Igor Kurashov (2) |
| 13 March 2011 | Burnside Rugby Football Club  |
7 – 32 | |
Canterbury, New Zealand | ||
| 16 March 2011 | Lincoln University |
15 – 56 | |
Canterbury, New Zealand | ||
| 26 March 2011 | Kazan |
0 – 40 | |
Turkey | ||
| 20 March 2011 | Oxford RFC |
28 – 40 | |
Canterbury, New Zealand | ||
| 23 March 2011 | Canterbury Academy |
58 – 5 | |
Canterbury, New Zealand | ||
| RC Novokuznetsk |
10 – 5 | |
Russia | |||
| 27 March 2011 | Shirley |
14 – 39 | |
Canterbury, New Zealand | ||
| 14 April 2011 | Rainbow |
5 – 78 | |
Russia | ||
| 17 April 2011 | Slava Moscow |
6 – 29 | |
Russia | ||
| 22 April 2011 | VVA-Podmoskovye Monino |
45 – 40 |  |
Russia | ||
| Try: Mikhail Babaev, Kirill Kushnarev, Alexei Cotruta, Yevgeny Matveev, Vasily Artemiev, scrum. |
Try: Marvin O'Connor, Benjamin Terchi, Wylie Human, Alexis Driollet, Rida Jaouher, Alten Hulme |
Table
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yenisey-STM Krasnoyarsk | 12 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 513 | 75 | +438 | 45 |
| 2 | VVA-Podmoskovye Monino | 13 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 451 | 196 | +255 | 44 |
| 3 | Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 409 | 131 | +278 | 37 |
| 4 | RC Novokuznetsk | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 269 | 331 | −62 | 32 |
| 5 | Slava Moscow | 13 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 235 | 327 | −92 | 26 |
| 6 | Imperia-Dynamo Penza | 11 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 244 | 229 | +15 | 26 |
| 7 | Fili Moscow | 14 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 167 | 619 | −452 | 20 |
| 8 | Spartak Moscow | 12 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 121 | 448 | −327 | 18 |
Schedule and results
References
External links
- Official website (in Russian)
- Information rugby portal (in Russian)
- Russian rugby statistics (in Russian)
- Heavensgame (in Russian)
- (in Russian)