2011 Russian Professional Rugby League season

The 2011 Russian Professional Rugby League season will be the seventh edition of the competition since its transition from the Super League.

2011 Russian Professional Rugby League season
Countries Russia

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 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

Warm-up fixtures and results
21 February 2011 Farul Constanţa Romania 7 – 31 Russia Yenisey-STM Krasnoyarsk Turkey  
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27 February 2011 Lazio Roma Rugby Italy 14 – 37 Russia Yenisey-STM Krasnoyarsk Italy  
1 March 2011 Ludom Avezzano Rugby Italy 12 – 74 Russia Yenisey-STM Krasnoyarsk Italy  
5 March 2011 L'Aquila Italy 12 – 24 Russia 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 New Zealand 7 – 32 Russia Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk Canterbury, New Zealand  
16 March 2011 Lincoln University New Zealand 15 – 56 Russia Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk Canterbury, New Zealand  
26 March 2011 Kazan Russia 0 – 40 Russia Imperia-Dynamo Penza Turkey  
20 March 2011 Oxford RFC New Zealand 28 – 40 Russia Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk Canterbury, New Zealand  
23 March 2011 Canterbury Academy New Zealand 58 – 5 Russia Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk Canterbury, New Zealand  
RC Novokuznetsk Russia 10 – 5 Russia Imperia-Dynamo Penza Russia  
27 March 2011 Shirley New Zealand 14 – 39 Russia Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk Canterbury, New Zealand  
14 April 2011 Rainbow Russia 5 – 78 Russia Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk Russia  
17 April 2011 Slava Moscow Russia 6 – 29 Russia Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk Russia  
22 April 2011 VVA-Podmoskovye Monino Russia 45 – 40 France 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
Pos Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts
1 Yenisey-STM Krasnoyarsk 12 11 0 1 513 75 +438 45
2 VVA-Podmoskovye Monino 13 10 1 2 451 196 +255 44
3 Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk 12 8 1 3 409 131 +278 37
4 RC Novokuznetsk 13 6 1 6 269 331 −62 32
5 Slava Moscow 13 4 1 8 235 327 −92 26
6 Imperia-Dynamo Penza 11 5 0 6 244 229 +15 26
7 Fili Moscow 14 2 0 12 167 619 −452 20
8 Spartak Moscow 12 2 0 10 121 448 −327 18
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Schedule and results

References
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