2011 Russian Professional Rugby League season

2011 Russian Professional Rugby League season
Countries	Russia

The 2011 Russian Professional Rugby League season will be the seventh edition of the competition since its transition from the Super League.

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	Yenisey-STM Krasnoyarsk	Turkey
			[]

	27 February 2011	Lazio Roma Rugby	14 – 37	Yenisey-STM Krasnoyarsk	Italy
			[1]

	1 March 2011	Ludom Avezzano Rugby	12 – 74	Yenisey-STM Krasnoyarsk	Italy
			[2]

	5 March 2011	L'Aquila	12 – 24	Yenisey-STM Krasnoyarsk	Stadio Tommaso Fattori, L'Aquila
		Try: Maurizio Zaffiri, Marco Di Massimo Con: Stefano Paolucci (1)	[3]	Try: Victor Arhip , Yulris Baranovs, Vitaly Orlov, Yaroslav Rechnev Con: Igor Kurashov (2)

	13 March 2011	Burnside Rugby Football Club	7 – 32	Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk	Canterbury, New Zealand
			[4]

	16 March 2011	Lincoln University	15 – 56	Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk	Canterbury, New Zealand
			[5]

	26 March 2011	Kazan	0 – 40	Imperia-Dynamo Penza	Turkey
			[6]

	20 March 2011	Oxford RFC	28 – 40	Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk	Canterbury, New Zealand
			[7]

	23 March 2011	Canterbury Academy	58 – 5	Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk	Canterbury, New Zealand
			[8]

		RC Novokuznetsk	10 – 5	Imperia-Dynamo Penza	Russia
			[9]

	27 March 2011	Shirley	14 – 39	Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk	Canterbury, New Zealand
			[10]

	14 April 2011	Rainbow	5 – 78	Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk	Russia
			[11]

	17 April 2011	Slava Moscow	6 – 29	Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk	Russia
			[12]

	22 April 2011	VVA-Podmoskovye Monino	45 – 40	FC Grenoble	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

Source:

External links

• Official website (in Russian)
• Information rugby portal (in Russian)
• Russian rugby statistics (in Russian)
• Heavensgame (in Russian)
• [13] (in Russian)