Russian Government Cup was a tournament for national teams in bandy, arranged in Russia every other year from 1972 until 2012. The cup has not been played since 2012.
When the Bandy World Championships were held every other year, this tournament was held in around the same time of the year (February/March) in the years when there was no World Championships. Starting in 2003, it was arranged in December instead.
History Besides the national teams, there have sometimes been irregular teams representing federation subjects of Russia (earlier the USSR) or a "Russia no. 2" team – these are written with italics below and marked with two flags if they are federation subjects – or Russian club teams, to fill out the tournament. Youth national teams have also occasionally been invited.
It was called the Rossiya Tournament until 1990, because it was arranged by the newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya. Since then, it was instead being arranged by the Russian government, hence the latter name.
Tournaments YearVenue(s)WinnerSecond placeThird placeFourth place1972 Details Ulyanovsk 1974 Details Arkhangelsk1976 Details Khabarovsk 1978 Details Kemerovo 1980 Details Syktyvkar Komi ASSR1982 Details Syktyvkar 1984 Details Kemerovo 1986 Details Irkutsk Russian SFSR1988 Details Abakan 1990 Details Novosibirsk 1992 Details Krasnoyarsk Commonwealth of Independent States1994 Details Krasnoyarsk and Moscow 1996 Details Arkhangelsk Russia-21998 Details Nizhny Novgorod 2000 Details Kazan Tatarstan2002 Details Arkhangelsk Russia-22003 Details Krasnogorsk Russia-2 Sweden U2006 Details Krasnogorsk Baykal-Energiya Irkutsk2008 Details Novosibirsk Russia-22010 Details Kirov Russia-2 Ulyanovsk Oblast2012 Details Abakan Russia-2 Khakassia
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