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 edit

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   Dömötör Mészáros
 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 edit

Pos Team Pld W L Pts SW SL SR
1 Fakel Novyi Urengoi 22 18 4 49 58 30 1.933
2 Iskra Odintsovo 22 16 6 48 56 31 1.806
3 Dynamo Moscow 22 15 7 47 53 30 1.767
4 Zenit Kazan 22 13 9 41 49 35 1.400
5 Lokomotiv Belogorie 22 14 8 39 46 34 1.353
6 Ural Ufa 22 13 9 36 45 36 1.250
7 Lokomotiv Novosibirsk 22 11 11 36 47 39 1.205
8 Gazprom-Yugra Surgutsky district 22 7 15 24 31 51 0.608
9 Yugra-Samotlor Nizhnevartovsk 22 7 15 21 28 52 0.538
10 Yaroslavich Yaroslavl 22 8 14 19 34 54 0.630
11 NOVA Novokuybyshevsk 22 5 17 19 31 53 0.585
12 Metalloinvest Stary Oskol 22 5 17 17 23 56 0.411
Source: [citation needed]

Classification 9–12 places edit

Pos Team Pld W L Pts SW SL SR
9 Yaroslavich Yaroslavl 34 17 17 46 65 57 1.140
10 Yugra-Samotlor Nizhnevartovsk 34 14 20 41 55 74 0.743
11 Metalloinvest Stary Oskol 34 10 24 34 45 78 0.577
12 NOVA Novokuybyshevsk 34 8 26 27 44 85 0.518
Source: [citation needed]

Play-off edit

Quarterfinals edit

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 edit

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 edit

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 edit

Final 5–6 places edit

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 edit

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 edit

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 edit

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 edit