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 CoefficientUEFA Women's Cup 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.Top Russia title 2014

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) 33 2024 Zenit Saint Petersburg CSKA Moscow Spartak Moscow Gabriela Grzywińska (Zenit Saint Petersburg, 19 goals) 34 2025 Spartak Moscow CSKA Moscow Zenit Saint Petersburg Tijana Filipović (Spartak Moscow, 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, 2018Zenit Saint Petersburg 3 0 1 2022, 2023, 2024CSKA Moscow 2 4 0 2019, 2020Lada Togliatti 1 3 1 2004Zorky Krasnogorsk 1 2 2 2012–13Lokomotiv Moscow 1 2 2 2021Spartak Moscow 1 1 1 2025Interros Moscow 1 0 0 1992Chertanovo Moscow /SKIF Malakhovka 0 1 3 Rus 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