Russian Bandy Supreme League
# Russian Bandy Supreme League

Russian Bandy Supreme League or the Vysshaya Liga (Russian: Всероссийские соревнования Высшая лига) is the second tier of Russian bandy, below Russian Bandy Super League.

In the 2016–17 season, 23 teams competed in three groups.

In the 2022/23 season, 22 teams competed in four groups. The teams play around 24 games and move to a Group A & Group B play-off section. From here the quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals are all single elimination games. The seasons generally runs from December to the finals in March.

The league is mainly a development league as can be seen by the number of affiliated clubs, named Rodina-2 for example, although a few independent clubs are present.

## Current teams

The teams playing in the Russian Vysshaya Liga for the 2022–23 season are below:

| Team | Location | Stadium | Capacity |
| - | - | - | - |
| Kuzbass-2 | Keremovo | Khimik Stadium | 17,000 |
| Sibselmash-2 | Novosibirsk | Sibselmash Stadium | 8,000 |
| Baykal-Energiya-2 | Irkutsk | Rekord Stadium | 5,300 |
| SKA-Neftyanik-2 | Khabarovsk | Arena Yerofey | 10,000 |
| Yenisey-2 | Krasnoyarsk | Yenisey Stadium | 5,000 |
| Start-2 | Nizhny Novgorod | Start Stadium | 6,200 |
| Dynamo Kazan-2 | Kazan | Raketa Stadium | 7,500 |
| Sayany | Abakan | Sayany Stadium | 21,000 |
| Vostok | Arsenyev | East Stadium | |
| Stroitel | Syktyvkar | Respublikansky Stadium | 15,000 |
| Volga-2 | Ulyanovsk | Trud Stadium | 8,309 |
| Dynamo Krylatskoye | Moscow | Krylatskoye Stadium | 8,000 |
| Rodina-2 | Kirov | Rodina Stadium | 7,500 |
| SKA-Sverdlovsk | Yekaterinburg | Uralskiy Trubnik Stadium | 6,000 |
| Vodnik-2 | Arkhangelsk | Trud Stadium | 10,000 |
| Mayak | Krasnoturinsk | Mayak Stadium | 5,000 |
| Zorky Krasnogorsk | Krasnogorsk | Zorky | 8,000 |
| Monchegorsk | Monchegorsk | DYuSSh-3 | 5,000 |
| Znamya-Udmurtiya | Votkinsk | Znamya | 5,000 |
| Nikelshchik Verkhny Ufaley | Verkhny Ufaley | Nikelshchik | 5,000 |
| Lokomotiv | Orenburg | Orenburg | 7,900 |
| Akzhayik | Uralsk(Kazakhstan) | Yunost Stadium | 3,200 |

## Previous teams & seasons

Teams for the 2017–18 season.

