2009 Russian Professional Rugby League season explained

2010 Professional Rugby League season
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Tournament Format:	Round-robin and knockout
Previous Champions:	VVA-Podmoskovye Monino (7th title)
Champions:	VVA-Podmoskovye Monino (8th title)
Prevseason:	2008
Nextseason:	2010

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 Fixtures

Final Standings (Pos 7 - 12)

Final Fixtures (Pos 7 - 12)

Final Stage Fixtures

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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
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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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Professional Rugby League Website. 2011-08-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20110813111447/http://rugby.ru/event/resultsevent/championat09/. 2011-08-13. dead.