Professional Rugby League

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Professional Rugby League

Sport	Rugby union
Founded	2005
No. of teams	8
Country(ies)	Russia
Most recent champion(s)	VVA-Podmoskovye Monino

Professional Rugby League (Russian: Профессиональная регбийная лига) is the premier rugby union competition in Russia. The Professional League was formed in 2005 and succeeds the Superleague. The Superleague, in turn, was active from 1992 to 2004 and succeeded the Soviet Championship.

In the 2007 season, RK South of Krasnodar were admitted to the competition, increasing the league's size to eight teams. For the 2008 league there will be 14 teams with these teams split into 3 conferences due to the distances involved in travelling. The average attendance at games in 2006 was 3285.

VVA Podmoskovie will play in the 2008-9 European Challenge Cup.

Each club plays each opponent twice; four points are awarded for a win, two for a draw, and one for a defeat. The top four clubs proceed to the play-offs (first introduced in 2006).

[edit] 2006 season

This is the final table of the 2006 Professional Rugby League.

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	+/-	Pts
1	VVA-Podmoskovye Monino	12	10	1	1	357-141	43
2	Yenisey-STM Krasnoyarsk	12	10	0	2	388-138	42
3	Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk	12	9	1	2	381-164	40
4	Slava Moscow	12	5	1	6	245-235	28
5	Penza	12	3	0	9	155-303	19
6	Novokuznetsk	12	2	1	9	156-324	19
7	Universitet Chita	12	1	0	11	161-540	15

Semi finals			Final

Decided on aggregate score of two matches
Slava	26
VVA-Podmoskovye	76

			Decided in best-of-three series
			VVA-Podmoskovye	2
			Krasny Yar	0


			Third place

Krasny Yar	49	Slava	1
Yenisey-STM	36		Yenisey-STM	2