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

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

	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)		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

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

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

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

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

		RC Novokuznetsk	10 – 5	Imperia-Dynamo Penza	Russia

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

	14 April 2011	Rainbow	5 – 78	Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk	Russia

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

	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

References

External links

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