The Russian Volleyball Super League 2008/2009 is the 18th official season of Russian Volleyball Super League. In all there are 12 teams.
Teams Previous season 2007/2008TeamTownArena (capacity)WebsiteHead CoachForeign players (max. 2)1DynamoMoscowDynamo Sports Palace (5 000)www.vcdynamo.ru Daniele Bagnoli Dante Amaral Alexis Gonzalez2IskraOdintsovoVolleyball Sportiv Complex (3 500)iskravolley.com Zoran Gajić Giba Jochen Schöps3ZenitKazanBasket-Hall Arena (7 000)www.zenit-kazan.com Vladimir Alekno Lloy Ball Clay Stanley4LokomotivNovosibirskSKK Sever (2 500)www.lokovolley.ru Vladimir Babakin William Priddy Héctor Soto5Lokomotiv-BelogorieBelgorodSports Palace Cosmos (5 000)www.belogorievolley.ru Genadiy Shipulin Guntars Celitans Alan Barbosa Domingos Richard Lambourne6UralUfaFOC Neftyanik Bashkortostanawww.volleyufa.ru Yuriy Marichev Gabriel Gardner Péter Veres7FakelNovy UrengoyCSC Gazodobytchik (800)www.fakelvolley.ru Boris Kolchin Sean Rooney Kevin Hansen8Gazprom-YugraSurgutsky districtSC Tennis Centergazprom-ugra.ru Rafael Habibullin Dömötör Mészáros Sasa Gadnik Christian Pampel (until September)9YaroslavichYaroslavlSK Atlantwww.yarvolley.ru Roberto Serniotti Dallas Soonias Frederick Winters10Yugra-SamotlorNiznevartovskSC Neftaynik (2000)www.ugra-samotlor.ru Yuriy Korotkevich Sergey ShulgaPromotedNovaNovokuybyshevsk SC Octan www.novavolley.narod.ru Aleksandr Cherny Cristian Casoli Kostadin StoykovPromotedMetalloinvestStary Oskolwww.belogorievolley.ru Andrey Ivanov
Regular season
Classification 9–12 places
Play-off
Quarterfinals Fakel vs Gazprom-Yugra 2–1
Iskra vs Lokomotiv Novosibirsk 2–0
Dynamo vs Ural 2–0
Zenit vs Lokomotiv Belogorie 2–1
Semifinals Fakel vs Zenit 1–3
Iskra vs Dynamo 3–2
Classification 5–8 places Lokomotiv Belogorie vs Gazprom-Yugra 3–0
Ural vs Lokomotiv Novosibirsk 1–3
Finals
Final 5–6 places Lokomotiv Belogorie vs Lokomotiv Novosibirsk 3–1
Bronze medal matches Fakel vs Dynamo 3–0
Gold medal matches Iskra vs Zenit 0–3
Final standings RankTeamZenit KazanIskra OdintsovoFakel Novyi Urengoi4Dynamo Moscow5Lokomotiv Belogorie6Lokomotiv Novosibirsk7Ural Ufa8Gazprom-Yugra Surgutsky district9Yaroslavich Yaroslavl10Yugra-Samotlor Nizhnevartovsk11Metalloinvest Stary Oskol12NOVA Novokuybyshevsk
External links Volleyball in Russia season 08-09