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
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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

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Details of this season's competition format have not yet been decided.

Teams

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Warm-up fixtures and results

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21 February 2011 Farul Constanţa   7 – 31   Yenisey-STM Krasnoyarsk Turkey  
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27 February 2011 Lazio Roma Rugby   14 – 37   Yenisey-STM Krasnoyarsk Italy  
[1]


1 March 2011 Ludom Avezzano Rugby   12 – 74   Yenisey-STM Krasnoyarsk Italy  
[2]


5 March 2011 L'Aquila   12 – 24   Yenisey-STM Krasnoyarsk Stadio Tommaso Fattori, L'Aquila  
Try: Maurizio Zaffiri, Marco Di Massimo
Con: Stefano Paolucci (1)
[3] Try: Victor Arhip , Yulris Baranovs, Vitaly Orlov, Yaroslav Rechnev
Con: Igor Kurashov (2)


13 March 2011 Burnside Rugby Football Club   7 – 32   Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk Canterbury, New Zealand  
[4]


16 March 2011 Lincoln University   15 – 56   Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk Canterbury, New Zealand  
[5]


26 March 2011 Kazan   0 – 40   Imperia-Dynamo Penza Turkey  
[6]


20 March 2011 Oxford RFC   28 – 40   Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk Canterbury, New Zealand  
[7]


23 March 2011 Canterbury Academy   58 – 5   Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk Canterbury, New Zealand  
[8]


RC Novokuznetsk   10 – 5   Imperia-Dynamo Penza Russia  
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27 March 2011 Shirley   14 – 39   Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk Canterbury, New Zealand  
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14 April 2011 Rainbow   5 – 78   Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk Russia  
[11]


17 April 2011 Slava Moscow   6 – 29   Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk Russia  
[12]


22 April 2011 VVA-Podmoskovye Monino   45 – 40   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

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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
Source: [citation needed]

Schedule and results

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References

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