Russian Bandy Supreme League or the Vysshaya Liga () is the second tier of Russian bandy, below Russian Bandy Super League.
The teams play around 24 games and move to a Group A & Group B play-off section. From here the quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals are all single elimination games. The seasons generally runs from December to the finals in March.
The league is mainly a development league as can be seen by the number of affiliated clubs, named Rodina-2 for example, although a few independent clubs are present.
Current teams The teams playing in the Russian Vysshaya Liga for the 2022–23 season are below:
Team Location Stadium CapacityKuzbass-2KemerovoKhimik Stadium17,000Sibselmash-2NovosibirskSibselmash Stadium8,000Baykal-Energiya-2IrkutskRekord Stadium5,300SKA-Neftyanik-2KhabarovskArena Yerofey10,000Yenisey-2KrasnoyarskYenisey Stadium5,000Start-2Nizhny NovgorodStart Stadium6,200Dynamo Kazan-2KazanRaketa Stadium7,500SayanyAbakanSayany Stadium21,000VostokArsenyevEast StadiumStroitelSyktyvkarRespublikansky Stadium15,000Volga-2UlyanovskTrud Stadium8,309Dynamo KrylatskoyeMoscowKrylatskoye Stadium8,000Rodina-2KirovRodina Stadium7,500SKA-SverdlovskYekaterinburgUralskiy Trubnik Stadium6,000Vodnik-2ArkhangelskTrud Stadium10,000MayakKrasnoturinskMayak Stadium5,000Zorky KrasnogorskKrasnogorskZorky8,000MonchegorskMonchegorskDYuSSh-35,000Znamya-UdmurtiyaVotkinskZnamya5,000Nikelshchik Verkhny UfaleyVerkhny UfaleyNikelshchik5,000LokomotivOrenburgOrenburg7,900AkzhayikUralsk(Kazakhstan)Yunost Stadium3,200
Previous teams & seasons
Teams for the 2017–18 season.
Group 1 Dynamo Krylatskoye Murman Rodina-2 SShOR No. 1 Start-2 Vodnik-2 Volga-2 Zorky-2
Group 2 Akzhayik Dynamo Kazan-2 Lokomotiv Mayak Nikelshchik SKA-Sverdlovsk Znamya-Udmurtiya
Group 3 Baykal-Energiya-2 Kuzbass-2 Sayany Sibselmash-2 SKA-Neftyanik-2 Vostok Yenisey-2
References