Russian Women's Football Championship facts for kids

Quick facts for kids
Founded	1992
Country	Russia
Confederation	UEFA
Number of teams	12
Level on pyramid	1
Relegation to	Women’s 1.Division
Domestic cup(s)	Russian Women's Cup
International cup(s)	UEFA Women's Champions League
Current champions	Zenit Saint Petersburg (2023)
Most championships	Zvezda-2005 Perm (6 titles)
Website	wfl.rfs.ru

The Russian Women's Football Championship (Russian: Чемпионат России по футболу среди женщин), 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

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

See also

In Spanish: Campeonato Ruso de fútbol femenino para niños

• Women's football in Russia