Russian women's football championship
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The Russian Women's Football Championship , also known as the Top Division, is the highest professional women's football league in Russia. The Top Division was founded in 1992.

Format

For the 2010 season the seven teams play a each other four times, two times away and two games at home. In previous yeaers the team played each other only twice. As Russia is in the top 8 leagues of Europe by UEFA Coefficent the top two teams qualify for the UEFA Women's Champions League and the last team gets relegated to the Women’s 1.Division. The 2011–12 season was the first to last over the winter month. Eight teams contest the season and play each other four times for a total of 28 matches.
The tie-breaking rules after the season are in descending order: points, number of wins, then in matches between tied teams: points, wins, goal differnce, goals scored, away goals scored, after that in all matches: goal difference, goals scored, away goal scored,better fair-play record and finally the tie is broken by drawing of a lot. One exception is, if there is a tie of points involving the first place, thus the tie-breaking would determine the champion. In this case, there is an additional match, or in case of at least a three way tie a tournament to be played.

Teams in the 2011–12 season

Team Location Ground
Energiya Voronezh  Voronezh
Voronezh
Voronezh is a city in southwestern Russia, the administrative center of Voronezh Oblast. It is located on both sides of the Voronezh River, away from where it flows into the Don. It is an operating center of the Southeastern Railway , as well as the center of the Don Highway...

 
Stadion Rudgormash
Izmailovo Moscow 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...

 
Sportivnyj gorodok Luzhniki
Kubanochka Krasnodar
Kubanochka Krasnodar
FK Kubanochka Krasnodar is a Russian women's football team, currently competing in the country's top category.Founded in 1988 as Zhemchuzhina Krasnodar, it took its current shortly after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Kubanochka chained two consecutive promotions to reach the top division in...

 
Krasnodar
Krasnodar
Krasnodar is a city in Southern Russia, located on the Kuban River about northeast of the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. It is the administrative center of Krasnodar Krai . Population: -Name:...

 
Stadion Trud
Mordovochka Saransk Saransk Stadion Start
Rossiyanka
WFC Rossiyanka
WFC Rossiyanka is a Russian women's football club from Krasnoarmeysk near Moscow.The team was founded in 1990 as a futsal club. Futsal was played until 1998, when the club left it and concentrated in football. The teams first season was 1999 and ended in a 5th place...

 
Moscow Stadion Rossijanka
Ryazan VDV
Ryazan VDV
Ryazan VDV is a Russian women's football team from Ryazan.Founded in 1996, it was one of the leading women's team between 1997 and 2002, winning one League and two Cups in the last years of the twentieth century...

 
Ryazan
Ryazan
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Central'nyj Sportivn'yj Kompleks
Zorkiy Krasnogorsk Krasnogorsk
Krasnogorsk
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, Moscow
Stadion Zorkij
Zvezda 2005 Perm
Zvezda 2005 Perm
Zvezda 2005 Perm ) is Russian professional women's football club.-History:The club is based in the city of Perm and takes its name from men's team Zvezda Perm, which was dissolved in 1997...

 
Perm
Perm
Perm is a city and the administrative center of Perm Krai, Russia, located on the banks of the Kama River, in the European part of Russia near the Ural Mountains. From 1940 to 1957 it was named Molotov ....

 
Stadion Zvezda

List of champions

The champions so far are:
Year Champion
1992 Interros Moskva
FC Krasnoznamensk
FC Krasnoznamensk was a Russian football team from Krasnoznamensk. It played professionally from 1992 to 1998 and from 2000 to 2002, including two seasons in the second-highest Russian First Division.- Women's team :...

1993 CSK VVS Samara
1994 CSK VVS Samara
1995 Energy Voronezh
FC Energy Voronezh
FC Energy Voronezh is a women's football club from Voronezh, Russia.The club holds the most championships in Russian, having 5 championships to its name. In 1994 the team won the vice championship behind CSK WWS Samara...

1996 CSK VVS Samara
1997 Energy Voronezh
1998 Energy Voronezh
1999 VDV Ryazan
Ryazan VDV
Ryazan VDV is a Russian women's football team from Ryazan.Founded in 1996, it was one of the leading women's team between 1997 and 2002, winning one League and two Cups in the last years of the twentieth century...

2000 Ryazan TNK
2001 CSK VVS Samara
2002 Energy Voronezh
2003 Energy Voronezh
2004 Lada Togliatti
2005 Rossiyanka
WFC Rossiyanka
WFC Rossiyanka is a Russian women's football club from Krasnoarmeysk near Moscow.The team was founded in 1990 as a futsal club. Futsal was played until 1998, when the club left it and concentrated in football. The teams first season was 1999 and ended in a 5th place...

2006 Rossiyanka
2007 Zvezda 2005 Perm
Zvezda 2005 Perm
Zvezda 2005 Perm ) is Russian professional women's football club.-History:The club is based in the city of Perm and takes its name from men's team Zvezda Perm, which was dissolved in 1997...

2008 Zvezda 2005 Perm
2009 Zvezda 2005 Perm
2010 Rossiyanka
2011/12

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