2014–15 Russian Bandy Super League

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2014–15 Russian Bandy Super League
League Russian Bandy Super League
Sport Bandy
Duration 8 November 2014 – 21 March 2015
Number of teams 13
Regular season
League winner Yenisey
Top scorer Christoffer Edlund (62 goals)
Final
Champions Yenisey
  Runners-up Dynamo Moscow
Russian Bandy Super League seasons
  2013–14
2015–16  

The 2014–15 Russian Bandy Super League was the 23rd season of the present highest Russian men's bandy top division, Russian Bandy Super League. The regular season began on 8 November 2014, and the final was played in Khabarovsk on 21 March 2015.

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Bandy is a team winter sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.

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Teams

Team Location Stadium Capacity
Baykal-Energiya Irkutsk Rekord Stadium 5,300
Dynamo Moscow Moscow Ice Palace Krylatskoye 8,000
Dynamo Kazan Kazan Raketa Stadium 7,500
Kuzbass Kemerovo Khimik Stadium 32,000
Rodina Kirov Rodina Stadium 7,500
Sibselmash Novosibirsk Sibselmash Stadium 8,000
SKA-Neftyanik Khabarovsk Arena Yerofey 10,000
Start Nizhny Novgorod Start Stadium 6,200
Uralsky Trubnik Pervouralsk Uralskiy Trubnik Stadium 6,000
Vodnik Arkhangelsk Trud Stadium 10,000
Volga Ulyanovsk Volga-Sport-Arena 5,000
Yenisey Krasnoyarsk Yenisey Stadium 10,000
Zorky Krasnogorsk Zorky Stadium 8,000

League table

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
1 Yenisey 24181517581+94 55Advance to Knock-out stage
2 Dynamo Moscow 24171615480+74 52
3 Baykal-Energiya 24164413283+49 52
4 SKA-Neftyanik 24146411479+35 48
5 Zorky 241608150116+34 48
6 Rodina 24134710488+16 43
7 Vodnik 2495101011010 32
8 Kuzbass 24941110713528 31
9 Uralsky Trubnik 2483137712144 27
10 Start 2464148610216 22
11 Sibselmash 2464148712437 22
12 Dynamo Kazan 2432197216088 11
13 Volga 2412217316289 5
Updated to match(es) played on completed. Source:

Knock-out stage

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
                      
 
 
 
 
Yenisey 5 15 11
 
 
 
Kuzbass 6 2 2
 
Yenisey 5 9 2
 
 
 
SKA-Neftyanik 3 2 0
 
SKA-Neftyanik 1 8 4
 
21 March – Khabarovsk
 
Zorky 5 4 1
 
Yenisey 5
 
 
 
Dynamo Moscow 2
 
Dynamo Moscow 7 6
 
 
 
Vodnik 4 1
 
Dynamo Moscow 6 5 5
 
 
 
Baykal-Energiya 3 1 1
 
Baykal-Energiya 6 5 5
 
 
Rodina 9 2 3
 

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