Russian Women's Football Championship
Introduction The '''Russian Women's Football Championship''' (), also known as the '''Top Division''' and the '''Women's Football League''', is the highest professional  women's football league in Russia.The Top Division was founded in 1992.Prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union, the women's league played two seasons in 1990 and 1991.
Format For the 2010 season the seven teams play each other four times, two times away and two games at home. In previous years the team played each other only twice. As Russia is in the top 8 leagues of Europe by UEFA Coefficient the top two teams qualify for the UEFA Women's Champions League and the last team gets relegated to the Women’s 1.Division. The 2011–12 season was the first to last over the winter month. Eight teams contest the season and play each other four times for a total of 28 matches.The tie-breaking rules after the season are in descending order: points, number of wins, then in matches between tied teams: points, wins, goal difference, goals scored, away goals scored, after that in all matches: goal difference, goals scored, away goal scored, better fair-play record and finally the tie is broken by drawing of a lot. One exception is, if there is a tie of points involving the first place, thus the tie-breaking would determine the champion. In this case, there is an additional match, or in case of at least a three way tie a tournament to be played.In the 2012–13 season a championship and relegation round was played after the regular season. After 14 matches each, the top four and bottom four teams played each other twice more. The winner of the championship round is the champion.In 2013 the league returned to the spring-autumn format. No championship group was played then. In 2014 a championship group followed the regular season. Points of both stages are added together.
Teams in the 2022 season  Team  Location  GroundChertanovo MoscowMoscow  Arena ChertanovoDynamo MoscowMoscow  VTB Arena WFC Krasnodar  Krasnodar Krasnodar Academy StadiumCSKA MoscowMoscow Novye Khimki StadiumZenit Saint PetersburgSaint Petersburg Smena StadiumRyazan-VDVRyazan  Central'nyj Sportivn'yj KompleksLokomotiv Moscow  Moscow  Sapsan ArenaZvezda-2005 PermPerm  Zvezda StadiumYenisey KrasnoyarskKrasnoyarsk  Futbol-arena Enisey
Champions and top scorers The champions so far are: # Year Champion Runner-up Third place Top scorer 1  1992  Interros Moscow  CSK VVS Samara  SKIF Malakhovka   Larisa Savina (CSK VVS Samara, 23 goals) 2  1993  CSK VVS Samara  Rus Moscow  SKIF Malakhovka   Larisa Savina (CSK VVS Samara, 19 goals) 3  1994  CSK VVS Samara  Energiya Voronezh  Kaluzhanka   Nadezhda Bosikova (Energiya Voronezh, 31 goals) 4  1995  Energiya Voronezh  CSK VVS Samara  Sibiryachka Krasnoyarsk   Nadezhda Bosikova (Energiya Voronezh, 37 goals) 5  1996  CSK VVS Samara  Energiya Voronezh  Lada Togliatti   Nadezhda Bosikova (Energiya Voronezh, 39 goals) 6  1997  Energiya Voronezh  CSK VVS Samara  VDV Ryazan   Nadezhda Bosikova (Energiya Voronezh, 21 goals) 7  1998  Energiya Voronezh  CSK VVS Samara  VDV Ryazan   Nadezhda Bosikova (Energiya Voronezh, 19 goals) 8  1999  VDV Ryazan  Energiya Voronezh  CSK VVS Samara   9  2000  Ryazan TNK  Energiya XXI Vek Voronezh  CSK VVS Samara   Nadezhda Bosikova (Energiya Voronezh, 30 goals) Olga Letyushova (Ryazan-VDV, 30 goals) 10  2001  CSK VVS Samara  Energiya XXI Vek Voronezh  Ryazan TNK   Olga Letyushova (Ryazan-VDV, 31 goals) 11  2002  Energiya Voronezh  Lada Togliatti  Ryazan TNK   Natalia Barbashina (Lada Togliatti, 29 goals) 12 2003  Energiya Voronezh  Lada Togliatti  CSK VVS Samara   Natalia Barbashina (Lada Togliatti, 21 goals) 13  2004  Lada Togliatti  Rossiyanka  Energiya Voronezh   Olga Letyushova (Rossiyanka, 18 goals) 14  2005  Rossiyanka  Lada Togliatti  Nadezhda Noginsk   Olga Letyushova (Rossiyanka, 27 goals) 15  2006  Rossiyanka  Spartak Moscow  Nadezhda Noginsk   Olga Letyushova (Rossiyanka, 34 goals) 16  2007  Zvezda-2005 Perm  Rossiyanka  Nadezhda Noginsk   Olga Letyushova (Zvezda-2005 Perm, 19 goals) 17  2008  Zvezda-2005 Perm  Rossiyanka  SKA Rostov   Emueje Ogbiagbevha (Rossiyanka, 16 goals) 18  2009  Zvezda-2005 Perm  Rossiyanka   Energiya Voronezh    Daryna Apanaschenko (Zvezda-2005 Perm, 12 goals) Olesya Kurochkina (Zvezda-2005 Perm, 12 goals) 19  2010  Rossiyanka  Energiya Voronezh  Zvezda-2005 Perm   Emueje Ogbiagbevha (Rossiyanka, 23 goals) 20  2011–12  Rossiyanka  Zorky Krasnogorsk  Energiya Voronezh   Emueje Ogbiagbevha (Energiya Voronezh, 15 goals) 21  2012–13  Zorky Krasnogorsk  Rossiyanka  Ryazan-VDV   Olesya Kurochkina (Izmailovo Moscow, 16 goals) 22  2013   Ryazan-VDV  Zvezda-2005 Perm  Zorky Krasnogorsk   Elena Danilova (Ryazan-VDV, 17 goals) 23  2014  Zvezda-2005 Perm  Zorky Krasnogorsk  Ryazan-VDV   Daryna Apanaschenko (Zvezda-2005 Perm, 8 goals) 24  2015  Zvezda-2005 Perm  Rossiyanka  Zorky Krasnogorsk   Daryna Apanaschenko (Zvezda-2005 Perm, 13 goals) 25  2016  Rossiyanka  Zvezda-2005 Perm  Ryazan-VDV   Margarita Chernomyrdina (Chertanovo Moscow, 8 goals) Nadezhda Karpova (Chertanovo Moscow, 8 goals) 26  2017  Zvezda-2005 Perm  Ryazan-VDV  Chertanovo Moscow   Elena Danilova (Ryazan-VDV, 11 goals) 27  2018  Ryazan-VDV  Chertanovo Moscow  Zvezda-2005 Perm   Elena Danilova (Ryazan-VDV, 11 goals) 28  2019  CSKA Moscow  Lokomotiv Moscow  Kubanochka Krasnodar   Nelli Korovkina (Lokomotiv Moscow, 20 goals) 29  2020  CSKA Moscow  Lokomotiv Moscow  Zvezda-2005 Perm   Olesya Kurochkina (Zvezda-2005 Perm, 9 goals) 30  2021  Lokomotiv Moscow  CSKA Moscow  Zenit Saint Petersburg   Nelli Korovkina (Lokomotiv Moscow, 20 goals) 31  2022  Zenit Saint Petersburg  CSKA Moscow   Lokomotiv Moscow   Nelli Korovkina (Lokomotiv Moscow, 17 goals) 32  2023  Zenit Saint Petersburg  CSKA Moscow   Lokomotiv Moscow   Ana Dias (Zenit Saint Petersburg, 18 goals)===Performance by club===ClubWinnersRunners-upThird placeYears wonZvezda-2005 Perm  6  2  3  2007, 2008, 2009, 2014, 2015, 2017Energiya Voronezh  5  6  3  1995, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2003Rossiyanka  5  6  0  2005, 2006, 2010, 2011–12, 2016CSK VVS Samara  4  4  3  1993, 1994, 1996, 2001Ryazan-VDV  4  1  7  1999, 2000, 2013, 2018CSKA Moscow  2  3  0  2019, 2020Zenit Saint Petersburg  2  0  1  2022, 2023Lada Togliatti  1  3  1  2004Zorky Krasnogorsk  1  2  2  2012–13Lokomotiv Moscow  1  2  2  2021Interros Moscow  1  0  0  1992Chertanovo Moscow /SKIF Malakhovka  0  1  3 Rus Moscow  0  1  0 Spartak Moscow  0  1  0 Nadezhda Noginsk  0  0  3 Kaluzhanka  0  0  1 Sibiryachka Krasnoyarsk  0  0  1  SKA Rostov  0  0  1 Kubanochka Krasnodar  0  0  1
See also * Women's football in Russia
References
External links * *  League at UEFA*  women.soccerway.com*  womenfootball.ru