The Russian Basketball Super League 1, or Super Liga 1, (), formerly known as the Russian Basketball Super League A or the Russian Basketball Super Liga A, is a men's professional basketball league that was the pre-eminent league of Russian professional basketball until 2010. Currently, it is the second-tier division of the Russian professional basketball pyramid. The league is run by the Russian Basketball Federation (RBF).
History It was founded in 1991 as Premier League and it was renamed to Super League for the 1994-95 season. After the introduction of the Super League B in 2000, it was renamed to Super League A.
After being the first-tier division of Russian basketball, from its first season in 1991–92, the Super League A was relegated to being the second-tier division of Russian basketball after the 2009–10 season, and was replaced with a different first-tier league, starting with the 2010–11 season of the Russian Professional Basketball League (PBL). The successor league to the Super League 1 was not controlled by the Russian Basketball Federation (RBF), like the Super League 1 is, but by a separate body named the Professional Basketball League (PBL).
From the 2010–11 season onward, the Super League A and Super League B (the previous second division of the Russian basketball pyramid) divisions were united into a single league that serves as the second tier of Russian basketball, named the Super League 1. The 2010–11 season featured 11 clubs.
Clubs 2021/2022 BC Samara Runa Basket Moscow Temp-SUMZ Revda Irkut Irkutsk Uralmash Yekaterinburg Universitet Yugra Surgut Novosibirsk Barnaul Ufimets Ufa Khimki CSKA Moscow-2 Dome Springs Izhevsk MBA Moscow Lokomotiv Kuban 2 Dynamo Vladivostok
Super League A (first-tier league) champions 1992-2010
1991–92 CSKA Moscow 1992–93 CSKA Moscow 1993–94 CSKA Moscow 1994–95 CSKA Moscow 1995–96 CSKA Moscow 1996–97 CSKA Moscow 1997–98 CSKA Moscow 1998–99 CSKA Moscow 1999–00 CSKA Moscow 2000–01 Ural Great
2001–02 Ural Great 2002–03 CSKA Moscow 2003–04 CSKA Moscow 2004–05 CSKA Moscow 2005–06 CSKA Moscow 2006–07 CSKA Moscow 2007–08 CSKA Moscow 2008–09 CSKA Moscow 2009–10 CSKA Moscow
Club Winners Winning years CSKA Moscow 1992–2000, 2003–2010 Ural Great Perm 2001, 2002
Super League 1 (second-tier league) champions 2011-present 2011 Spartak Primorye 2012 Ural Yekaterinburg 2013 Ural Yekaterinburg 2014 Avtodor Saratov 2015 Novosibirsk 2016 PSK Sakhalin 2017 Universitet Yugra Surgut 2018 BC Spartak Primorye 2019 BC Samara 2020 not awarded 2021 BC Samara 2022 Uralmash Yekaterinburg 2023 Uralmash Yekaterinburg 2024 Dinamo Vladivostok 2025 Temp-SUMZ-UGMK Revda
Club Winners Winning yearsUral Yekaterinburg2012, 2013 Uralmash Yekaterinburg2022, 2023 BC Samara 2019, 2021 Spartak Primorye 2011, 2018 Avtodor Saratov 2014 Novosibirsk 2015 PSK Sakhalin 2016 Universitet Yugra Surgut 2017 Dinamo Vladivostok 2024 Temp-SUMZ-UGMK Revda 2025
Finals Season Champion Score Runner-up 2011 Spartak Primorye 2-0 Universitet Yugra Surgut 2012 Ural Yekaterinburg 2-1 Universitet Yugra Surgut 2013 Ural Yekaterinburg 3-1 Universitet Yugra Surgut 2014 Avtodor Saratov 3-0 Universitet Yugra Surgut 2015 Novosibirsk 3-0 Spartak Primorye 2016 PSK Sakhalin 3-1 Temp-SUMZ-UGMK Revda 2017 Universitet Yugra Surgut 3-0 BC Irkut Irkutsk 2018 Spartak Primorye 3-2 BC Samara 2019 BC Samara 3-0 Spartak Saint Petersburg 2020 not awarded 2021 BC Samara 3-2 Uralmash Yekaterinburg 2022 Uralmash Yekaterinburg 3-0 PBC Runa Basket Moscow 2023 Uralmash Yekaterinburg 3-0 PBC Runa Basket Moscow 2024 Dinamo Vladivostok 3-1 BC Khimki 2025 Temp-SUMZ-UGMK Revda 3-1 CSKA Moscow II
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Super League A (first-tier league) regular season winners 1992-2010 1995 CSKA Moscow 1996 CSKA Moscow 1997 Avtodor Saratov 1998 Avtodor Saratov 1999 CSKA Moscow 2000 CSKA Moscow 2001 Ural Great Perm 2002 Ural Great Perm 2003 CSKA Moscow 2004 CSKA Moscow 2005 CSKA Moscow 2006 CSKA Moscow 2007 CSKA Moscow 2008 CSKA Moscow 2009 CSKA Moscow 2010 CSKA Moscow
Super League 1 (second-tier league) regular season winners 2011-present 2011 Universitet Yugra Surgut 2012 Ural Yekaterinburg 2013 Universitet Yugra Surgut 2014 Avtodor Saratov 2015 Samara SGEU 2016 PSK Sakhalin 2017 Novosibirsk 2018 BC Samara 2019 Vostok-65 2020 Spartak Primorye 2021 Samara 2022 Uralmash Yekaterinburg 2023 Uralmash Yekaterinburg 2024 Khimki 2025 Temp-SUMZ-UGMK Revda
Club Winners Winning years CSKA Moscow 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2003–2010 Avtodor Saratov 1997, 1998, 2014 Samara 2015, 2018, 2021 Ural Great Perm 2001, 2002 Universitet Yugra Surgut 2011, 2013 Uralmash Yekaterinburg 2022, 2023 Ural Yekaterinburg 2012 PSK Sakhalin 2016 Novosibirsk 2017 Khimki 2024 Temp-SUMZ-UGMK Revda 2025
Russian basketball clubs in European and worldwide competitions
Awards
MVP YearPlayerTeam 1994 Valeri Tikhonenko CSK VVS-Samara 1995 Valeri Tikhonenko CSK VVS-Samara 1999 Andrei Fetisov Avtodor Saratov 2001 Sergei Chikalkin Ural Great Perm
YearPlayerTeam 2004 Marcus Brown CSKA Moscow 2005 Theo Papaloukas CSKA Moscow 2006 Theo Papaloukas CSKA Moscow 2007 Theo Papaloukas CSKA Moscow 2008 Trajan Langdon CSKA Moscow 2009 Ramūnas ŠiškauskasCSKA Moscow
Coaches
YearPlayerTeam 2004 Dušan Ivković CSKA Moscow 2005 / David Blatt BC Dynamo Saint Petersburg 2006 Ettore Messina CSKA Moscow 2007 Ettore Messina CSKA Moscow 2008 Ettore Messina CSKA Moscow 2009 Ettore MessinaCSKA Moscow
Topscorers Per game Top tier YearPlayerTeamPPG 2008 Lee Nailon Sibirtelecom Lokomotiv Novosibirsk 22.0 2009 Lionel Chalmers Universitet Yugra Surgut 21.0 2010 Sergey Bykov Dynamo Moscow 20.8
Second tier YearPlayerTeamPPG 2011 Nikola Lepojević Universitet Yugra Surgut 23.0 2012 Nikola Lepojević Ural Yekaterinburg18.6 2013 Steve Burtt Jr. Avtodor Saratov21.5 2014 Nikola Lepojević Universitet Yugra Surgut 2015 Nikola Lepojević Universitet Yugra Surgut22.7 2016 Nikola Lepojević Universitet Yugra Surgut21.3 2017 Nikola Lepojević Universitet Yugra Surgut22.2 2018 Nikola Lepojević (7)Universitet Yugra Surgut21.2 2019 Kahlil Dukes Universitet Yugra Surgut25.8 2020 Andre Walker Universitet Yugra Surgut22.3 2021 Ike Nwamu BC Samara19.6 2022 Grigory Motovilov BC Izhevsk19.7 2023 Alimdzhan Fedyushin BC Barnaul Altayskiy Kray19.2 2024 Yegor Bestuzhev Dynamo Vladivostok17.4 2025 Alimdzhan Fedyushin (2)Lokomotiv Kuban II20.2
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Total points Second tier YearPlayerTeamPts 2011 Nikola Lepojević Universitet Yugra Surgut 963 2012 Nikola Lepojević Ural Yekaterinburg668 2013 Christopher Monroe Ural Yekaterinburg553 2014 Nikola Lepojević Universitet Yugra Surgut 201
Name history Premier League (1991-1994) Super League (1994-2000) Super League A (2000-2010) Super League 1 (2010-present)
Predecessor league USSR Premier League: (1923–1992)
Successor leagues Russian Professional League: (2010–2013) VTB United League: (2008–present)
See also Russian Professional Championship: (1991–present) Russian Professional League: (2010–2013) Russian Cup: (1999–present) VTB United League: (2008–present) USSR Premier League: (1923–1992) USSR Cup: (1949–1987) Russian basketball league system Basketball in Russia Russian Basketball All-Star Game
Notes
References
External links Russian Basketball Federation Official Website Russian Super League 1 on Eurobasket.com