2008–09 Russian Volleyball Super League

The Russian Volleyball Super League 2008/2009 is the 18th official season of Russian Volleyball Super League. In all there are 12 teams.

Teams[]

Previous season 2007/2008	Team	Town	Arena (capacity)	Website	Head Coach	Foreign players (max. 2)
1	Dynamo	Moscow	Dynamo Sports Palace (5 000)	www.vcdynamo.ru	Daniele Bagnoli	Dante Amaral Alexis Gonzalez
2	Iskra	Odintsovo	Volleyball Sportiv Complex (3 500)	iskravolley.com	Zoran Gajić	Giba Jochen Schöps
3	Zenit	Kazan	Basket-Hall Arena (7 000)	www.zenit-kazan.com	Vladimir Alekno	Lloy Ball Clay Stanley
4	Lokomotiv	Novosibirsk	SKK Sever (2 500)	www.lokovolley.ru	Vladimir Babakin	William Priddy Héctor Soto
5	Lokomotiv-Belogorie	Belgorod	Sports Palace Cosmos (5 000)	www.belogorievolley.ru	Genadiy Shipulin	Guntars Celitans Alan Barbosa Domingos Richard Lambourne
6	Ural	Ufa	FOC Neftyanik Bashkortostana	www.volleyufa.ru Archived 2007-10-25 at the Wayback Machine	Yuriy Marichev	Gabriel Gardner Péter Veres
7	Fakel	Novy Urengoy	CSC Gazodobytchik (800)	www.fakelvolley.ru	Boris Kolchin	Sean Rooney Kevin Hansen
8	Gazprom-Yugra	Surgutsky district	SC Tennis Center	gazprom-ugra.ru	Rafael Habibullin	Domotor Meszaros Sasa Gadnik Christian Pampel (until September)
9	Yaroslavich	Yaroslavl	SK Atlant	www.yarvolley.ru	Roberto Serniotti	Dallas Soonias Frederick Winters
10	Yugra-Samotlor	Niznevartovsk	SC Neftaynik (2000)	www.ugra-samotlor.ru	Yuriy Korotkevich	Sergey Shulga
Promoted	Nova	Novokuybyshevsk	SC Octan	www.novavolley.narod.ru	Aleksandr Cherny	Cristian Casoli Kostadin Stoykov
Promoted	Metalloinvest	Stary Oskol		www.belogorievolley.ru	Andrey Ivanov

Regular season[]

		Pts	Matches		Points			Sets
Rank	Team		W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Fakel Novyi Urengoi	49	18	4	0	0	MAX	58	30	1.933
2	Iskra Odintsovo	48	16	6	0	0	MAX	56	31	1.806
3	Dynamo Moscow	47	15	7	0	0	MAX	53	30	1.767
4	Zenit Kazan	41	13	9	0	0	MAX	49	35	1.400
5	Lokomotiv Belogorie	39	14	8	0	0	MAX	46	34	1.353
6	Ural Ufa	36	13	9	0	0	MAX	45	36	1.250
7	Lokomotiv Novosibirsk	36	11	11	0	0	MAX	47	39	1.205
8	Gazprom-Yugra Surgutsky district	24	7	15	0	0	MAX	31	51	0.608
9	Yugra-Samotlor Nizhnevartovsk	21	7	15	0	0	MAX	28	52	0.538
10	Yaroslavich Yaroslavl	19	8	14	0	0	MAX	34	54	0.630
11	NOVA Novokuybyshevsk	19	5	17	0	0	MAX	31	53	0.585
12	Metalloinvest Stary Oskol	17	5	17	0	0	MAX	23	56	0.411

Classification 9–12 places[]

		Pts	Matches		Points			Sets
Rank	Team		W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
9	Yaroslavich Yaroslavl	46	17	17	0	0	MAX	65	57	1.140
10	Yugra-Samotlor Nizhnevartovsk	41	14	20	0	0	MAX	55	74	0.743
11	Metalloinvest Stary Oskol	34	10	24	0	0	MAX	45	78	0.577
12	NOVA Novokuybyshevsk	27	8	26	0	0	MAX	44	85	0.518

Play-off[]

Quarterfinals[]

Fakel vs Gazprom-Yugra 2–1

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
25 Mar	Fakel Novyi Urengoi	3–1	Gazprom-Yugra Surgutsky district	21–25	31–29	25–20	25–19		102–93
29 Mar	Gazprom-Yugra Surgutsky district	3–1	Fakel Novyi Urengoi	27–29	25–19	25–23	25–21		102–92
9 Apr	Fakel Novyi Urengoi	3–1	Gazprom-Yugra Surgutsky district	25–22	25–13	19–25	25–23		94–83

Iskra vs Lokomotiv Novosibirsk 2–0

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
25 Mar	Iskra Odintsovo	3–1	Lokomotiv Novosibirsk	20–25	25–18	25–20	26–24		96–87
29 Mar	Lokomotiv Novosibirsk	0–3	Iskra Odintsovo	23–25	21–25	21–25			65–75

Dynamo vs Ural 2–0

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
25 Mar	Dynamo Moscow	3–1	Ural Ufa	25–21	25–23	23–25	26–24		99–93
29 Mar	Ural Ufa	2–3	Dynamo Moscow	25–21	21–25	25–21	21–25	9–15	101–107

Zenit vs Lokomotiv Belogorie 2–1

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
25 Mar	Zenit Kazan	3–2	Lokomotiv Belogorie	25–22	21–25	14–25	25–22	24–22	109–116
29 Mar	Lokomotiv Belogorie	3–0	Zenit Kazan	25–21	25–17	25–22			75–60
9 Apr	Zenit Kazan	3–0	Lokomotiv Belogorie	25–22	25–18	25–22			75–62

Semifinals[]

Fakel vs Zenit 1–3

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
13 Apr	Fakel Novyi Urengoi	2–3	Zenit Kazan	24–26	25–18	17–25	25–20	11–25	102–104
14 Apr	Fakel Novyi Urengoi	3–0	Zenit Kazan	25–18	25–23	38–36			88–77
18 Apr	Zenit Kazan	3–0	Fakel Novyi Urengoi	25–18	25–18	25–20			75–56
19 Apr	Zenit Kazan	3–1	Fakel Novyi Urengoi	25–23	25–18	19–25	25–23		94–89

Iskra vs Dynamo 3–2

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
13 Apr	Iskra Odintsovo	3–2	Dynamo Moscow	18–25	25–23	24–26	25–20	15–12	107–106
14 Apr	Iskra Odintsovo	1–3	Dynamo Moscow	25–17	26–28	21–25	15–25		87–95
18 Apr	Dynamo Moscow	3–1	Iskra Odintsovo	27–25	25–17	16–25	23–25		93–90
19 Apr	Dynamo Moscow	2–3	Iskra Odintsovo	24–26	25–20	24–26	25–14	15–17	113–103
23 Apr	Iskra Odintsovo	3–1	Dynamo Moscow	22–25	25–20	25–18	25–20		97–83

Classification 5–8 places[]

Lokomotiv Belogorie vs Gazprom-Yugra 3–0

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
13 Apr	Lokomotiv Belogorie	3–1	Gazprom-Yugra Surgutsky district	25–17	25–18	23–25	25–16		98–76
14 Apr	Lokomotiv Belogorie	3–2	Gazprom-Yugra Surgutsky district	21–25	24–26	25–18	25–17	21–19	116–105
18 Apr	Gazprom-Yugra Surgutsky district	1–3	Lokomotiv Belogorie	25–19	19–25	21–25	23–25		88–95

Ural vs Lokomotiv Novosibirsk 1–3

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
13 Apr	Ural Ufa	2–3	Lokomotiv Novosibirsk	25–22	25–23	23–25	17–25	13–25	103–110
14 Apr	Ural Ufa	3–2	Lokomotiv Novosibirsk	23–25	25–19	21–25	25–23	15–11	109–103
18 Apr	Lokomotiv Novosibirsk	3–1	Ural Ufa	20–25	25–21	25–14	25–14		95–74
19 Apr	Lokomotiv Novosibirsk	3–0	Ural Ufa	25–22	29–27	25–22	25–14		79–71

Finals[]

Final 5–6 places[]

Lokomotiv Belogorie vs Lokomotiv Novosibirsk 3–1

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
27 Apr	Lokomotiv Belogorie	3–1	Lokomotiv Novosibirsk	19–25	25–19	25–23	25–22		94–89
28 Apr	Lokomotiv Belogorie	3–1	Lokomotiv Novosibirsk	25–21	25–18	20–25	25–21		95–85
02 May	Lokomotiv Novosibirsk	3–1	Lokomotiv Belogorie	25–17	22–25	25–23	25–21		97–86
03 May	Lokomotiv Novosibirsk	0–3	Lokomotiv Belogorie	18–25	23–25	29–31			70–81

Bronze medal matches[]

Fakel vs Dynamo 3–0

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
27 Apr	Fakel Novyi Urengoi	3–2	Dynamo Moscow	25–20	25–23	20–25	28–30	16–14	114–112
28 Apr	Fakel Novyi Urengoi	3–2	Dynamo Moscow	22–25	25–15	23–25	25–17	15–8	110–90
02 May	Dynamo Moscow	2–3	Fakel Novyi Urengoi	19–25	25–21	21–25	25–20	13–15	103–106

Gold medal matches[]

Iskra vs Zenit 0–3

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
27 Apr	Iskra Odintsovo	0–3	Zenit Kazan	21–25	19–25	23–25			63–75
28 Apr	Iskra Odintsovo	2–3	Zenit Kazan	25–20	27–29	25–19	23–25	13–15	113–108
02 May	Zenit Kazan	3–1	Iskra Odintsovo	25–21	18–25	25–22	25–21		93–89

Final standings[]

Rank	Team
	Zenit Kazan
	Iskra Odintsovo
	Fakel Novyi Urengoi
4	Dynamo Moscow
5	Lokomotiv Belogorie
6	Lokomotiv Novosibirsk
7	Ural Ufa
8	Gazprom-Yugra Surgutsky district
9	Yaroslavich Yaroslavl
10	Yugra-Samotlor Nizhnevartovsk
11	Metalloinvest Stary Oskol
12	NOVA Novokuybyshevsk

External links[]

• Volleyball in Russia season 08-09^{[permanent dead link]}