2009 Russian Professional Rugby League season

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2010 Professional Rugby League season
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The 2009 Russian Professional Rugby League season was the fifth season of the Russian Professional Rugby League.

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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:

Stage Two:

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:

Fili Moscow is a Russian rugby union club based in the western part of Moscow. Fili Moscow are sponsored by the Khrunichev Space Centre, builders of the International Space Station. Fili have in modern times found it hard to emulate their achievements during the 1970s, when they won the Soviet title five times. Fili beat off competition from another Soviet-era power, Zelenograd, for the final RPRL place for 2010 and will, like the other new entrant Spartak Moscow, count avoiding cricket scores against some of the more established teams as a success. They play in light-blue and white.

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 Fixtures

Final Standings (Pos 7 - 12)

Final Fixtures (Pos 7 - 12)

Super League (Places 1-6)

PosTeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts
1 VVA-Podmoskovye Monino 10901399128+27137
2 Yenisey-STM Krasnoyarsk 10901331140+19137
3 Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk 10604247198+4928
4 Slava Moscow 10307126267−14119
5 Imperia-Dynamo Penza 10208130284−15416
6 RC Novokuznetsk 10109120336−21613
Source: [ citation needed ]

Final Stage Fixtures [1]

Round One

Round Two

Round Three

Round Four

Round Five

Round Six

Round Seven

Round Eight

Round Nine

Round Ten

Play-offs

2009 Russian Professional League Play-offs
HomeScoreAway
Semi-Finals (Best of 3 Match Series)
VVA-Podmoskovye Monino 2-0Slava Moscow
Yenisy-STM Krasnoyarsk2-1Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk
Finals (Best of 3 Match Series)
3rd Place Play-off Final
Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk2-0Slava Moscow
Championship Final
VVA-Podmoskovye Monino 2-1Yenisy-STM Krasnoyarsk

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References

  1. ↑ "Professional Rugby League Website". Archived from the original on 2011-08-13. Retrieved 2011-08-09.
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