The Russian Volleyball Super League 2009–10 is the 19th official season of Russian Volleyball Super League

Russian Volleyball Super League

The Russian Volleyball Super League is the top league of Russian volleyball. It was founded in 1992, and it is considered to be the continuer of the Soviet top league, founded in 1933.-Russian volleyball Champions:-Winners of the Soviet championship:...

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The Championship is held in two phases. In the preliminary stage each team played each other twice - once at home and once away. The top eight teams went into the playoffs. Quarterfinals, semifinals and finals for first and third places were the best of five . Unlike the previous season there was no playoff for the fifth to eighth places. The teams placed ninth to twelfth competed against each other over another twelve games with the two bottom sides being relegated.

Teams

Previous season 2008/09	Team	Town	Arena (capacity)	Website	Head Coach	Foreign Players ( max. 2)
1	Zenit-Kazan	Kazan Kazan Kazan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. With a population of 1,143,546 , it is the eighth most populous city in Russia. Kazan lies at the confluence of the Volga and Kazanka Rivers in European Russia. In April 2009, the Russian Patent Office granted Kazan the...	Basket-Hall Arena Basket-Hall Arena Basket-Hall Arena is a basketball specialized indoor arena in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia.Opened in August 2003. It is primarily used for basketball and is the home arena of the UNICS Kazan. It holds 7,500 people in the main arena and 1,500 in the small one....  (7 000)	www.zenit-kazan.com	Vladimir Alekno	Lloy Ball Lloy Ball Lloy James Ball is an American volleyball player who represented the United States men's national volleyball team in four Olympics team competitions...     Clay Stanley Clay Stanley Clayton “Clay” Iona Stanley is an American volleyball player. Stanley has been on the U.S. men's national team since 2000 and has made two Olympic appearances, in 2004 and 2008...
2	Iskra VC Iskra Odintsovo VC Iskra Odintsovo is a professional Volleyball team based in Odintsovo, Russia.-Palmarès:*Russian Volleyball Super League** Second place : 1994, 2003, 2008, 2009** Third place : 1999, 2000 2001, 2006, 2007* CEV Champions League** Second place: 2004...	Odintsovo Odintsovo Odintsovo is a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia. Population: Town status was granted to it in 1957.-History:The village of Odintsovo was formed in the late 14th century. The famous story among the Odintsovians is about the noble named Andrey Odinets.Odintsovo is a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia....	Volleyball Sportiv Complex (3 500)	iskra.vcmo.ru	Sergei Tsvetnov	Jochen Schöps Jochen Schöps Jochen Schöps is a volleyball player from Germany, who plays for the Men's National Team. He was named Best Scorer at the first 2008 Olympic Qualification Tournament in Düsseldorf, where Germany ended up in first place and qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, PR China.He won the...   Léo Mineiro
3	Fakel	Novy Urengoy Novy Urengoy Novy Urengoy is a city in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. Population: It is served by the Novy Urengoy Airport.It was founded in 1975 after the discovery of the Urengoy gas field, one of the largest in Russia...	CSC Gazodobytchik (800)	www.fakelvolley.ru	Boris Kolchin	Sean Rooney Sean Rooney Sean Michael Rooney is an American volleyball player, who plays as an outside hitter for the U.S. national team. He made his Olympic debut at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China.-Early life:...   Kevin Hansen Kevin Hansen Kevin Christopher Hansen is an American volleyball player. He made his Olympic debut at the 2008 Summer Olympics with the U.S. national team.-Personal life:Hansen was born and raised in Newport Beach, California...
4	Dynamo	Moscow Moscow Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...	Dynamo Sports Palace Dynamo Sports Palace Dvorec Sporta Dinamo is an indoor sporting arena located in Moscow, Russia. The capacity of the arena is 5,000. It hosted the home games of MBC Dynamo Moscow until 2006. It was built during the preparations for the 1980 Summer Olympics, hosted by Moscow, USSR and was used as a venue of the...  (5 000)	www.vcdynamo.ru	Yuri Cherednik Yuri Cherednik Yuri Cherednik is a Russian former volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1988 Summer Olympics and for the Unified Team in the 1992 Summer Olympics. He is 203 cm tall.-Biography:...	Teodor Salparov   Dante Amaral Dante Amaral Dante Guimarães Santos do Amaral is a Brazilian professional volleyball player, who is best known as Dante. Measuring 2,01 m and 86 kg, he plays in the position of outside hitter.-Career:...
5	Lokomotiv-Belogorie Lokomotiv Belgorod Lokomotiv-Belogorie is a professional volleyball club based in Belgorod, Russia.-Palmarès:*Russian Volleyball Super League ** Winner : 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005** Second place : 1995, 1996, 1999, 2006* CEV Champions League...	Belgorod Belgorod -Twin towns/sister cities:Belgorod is twinned with: Wakefield, England, United Kingdom Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia Opole, Poland Vyshhorod, Ukraine Kharkiv, Ukraine-External links:...	Sports Palace Cosmos (5 000)	www.belogorievolley.ru	Gennadi Shipulin	Łukasz Kadziewicz    Dmitri Storozhilov
6	Lokomotiv	Novosibirsk Novosibirsk Novosibirsk is the third-largest city in Russia, after Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and the largest city of Siberia, with a population of 1,473,737 . It is the administrative center of Novosibirsk Oblast as well as of the Siberian Federal District...	SKK Sever (2 500)	www.lokovolley.ru	Andrei Voronkov	William Priddy William Priddy William "Reid" Priddy is an American volleyball player on the United States men's national volleyball team. He has also played on the AVP tour from 2000 to 2006.As of 2009, Priddy has resumed playing on the AVP Tour....   David Lee David Lee (volleyball) David Cameron Lee is an American volleyball player, who plays for Pallavolo Modena. Lee made his Olympic debut with the U.S. national team in Beijing.-Early life:Lee was born in Alpine, California...
7	Ural	Ufa Ufa -Demographics:Nationally, dominated by Russian , Bashkirs and Tatars . In addition, numerous are Ukrainians , Chuvash , Mari , Belarusians , Mordovians , Armenian , Germans , Jews , Azeris .-Government and administration:Local...	SDK Dynamo (1 000)	www.volleyufa.ru	Zoran Gajić	Saša Starović   Péter Veres Péter Veres (volleyball) Péter Veres is an Hungarian volleyball player for the national team and the Russian professional team Dynamo Moscow.-Career:...
8	Gazprom-Yugra	Surgut Surgut Surgut is a city in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located on the Ob River near its junction with the Irtysh River, the largest in the autonomous okrug and the second largest in Tyumen Oblast. Population:...	SC Tennis Center	gazprom-ugra.ru	Rafael Habibullin	Zbigniew Bartman
9	Yaroslavich	Yaroslavl Yaroslavl Yaroslavl is a city and the administrative center of Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located northeast of Moscow. The historical part of the city, a World Heritage Site, is located at the confluence of the Volga and the Kotorosl Rivers. It is one of the Golden Ring cities, a group of historic cities...	SK Atlant	www.yarvolley.ru	Sergei Shlyapnikov	Bojan Janic   Metodi Ananiev
Promoted	Lokomotiv-Izumrud	Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburg is a major city in the central part of Russia, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast. Situated on the eastern side of the Ural mountain range, it is the main industrial and cultural center of the Urals Federal District with a population of 1,350,136 , making it Russia's...	DIVS Uralochka (5 000)	www.loko-izumrud.ur.ru	Valeri Alferov	Hristo Tsvetanov Hristo Tsvetanov Hristo Tsvetanov is a Bulgarian male volleyball player who is a member of the Bulgarian team of the 2006 world championship. Tsvetanov started his career in Lokomotiv. He is a 5 time Bulgarian champion with Levski-Sicconco. In Japan he was a regular player.-External links:*...     Todor Aleksiev
Promoted	Dynamo-Yantar	Kaliningrad Kaliningrad Kaliningrad is a seaport and the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, the Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea...	SC Yunost	www.dinamoyantar.ru	Yaroslav Antonov Yaroslav Antonov Yaroslav Viktorovich Antonov is a Russian former volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1988 Summer Olympics.In 1988 he was part of the Soviet team which won the silver medal in the Olympic tournament. He played all seven matches....	Luciano De Cecco   Marcus Nilsson
Replaced Yugra-Samotlor	VC Tyumen	Tyumen Tyumen Tyumen is the largest city and the administrative center of Tyumen Oblast, Russia, located on the Tura River east of Moscow. Population: Tyumen is the oldest Russian settlement in Siberia. Founded in 16th century to support Russia's eastward expansion, the city has remained one of the most...	SC Tsentralny (1 440)	www.vctyumen.ru	Yuri Korotkevich	Vitali Kiktev   Sergei Shulga

Regular season

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External links

• Volleyball in Russia season 09–10