title: Russian Bandy Supreme League
text: # Russian Bandy Supreme League
  
  Russian Bandy Supreme League or the Vysshaya Liga (Russian: Всероссийские соревнования Высшая лига) is the second tier of Russian bandy, below Russian Bandy Super League.
  
  In the 2016–17 season, 23 teams competed in three groups.
  
  In the 2022/23 season, 22 teams competed in four groups. The teams play around 24 games and move to a Group A & Group B play-off section. From here the quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals are all single elimination games. The seasons generally runs from December to the finals in March.
  
  The league is mainly a development league as can be seen by the number of affiliated clubs, named Rodina-2 for example, although a few independent clubs are present.
  
  ## Current teams
  
  The teams playing in the Russian Vysshaya Liga for the 2022–23 season are below:
  
  | Team | Location | Stadium | Capacity |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Kuzbass-2 | Keremovo | Khimik Stadium | 17,000 |
  | Sibselmash-2 | Novosibirsk | Sibselmash Stadium | 8,000 |
  | Baykal-Energiya-2 | Irkutsk | Rekord Stadium | 5,300 |
  | SKA-Neftyanik-2 | Khabarovsk | Arena Yerofey | 10,000 |
  | Yenisey-2 | Krasnoyarsk | Yenisey Stadium | 5,000 |
  | Start-2 | Nizhny Novgorod | Start Stadium | 6,200 |
  | Dynamo Kazan-2 | Kazan | Raketa Stadium | 7,500 |
  | Sayany | Abakan | Sayany Stadium | 21,000 |
  | Vostok | Arsenyev | East Stadium | |
  | Stroitel | Syktyvkar | Respublikansky Stadium | 15,000 |
  | Volga-2 | Ulyanovsk | Trud Stadium | 8,309 |
  | Dynamo Krylatskoye | Moscow | Krylatskoye Stadium | 8,000 |
  | Rodina-2 | Kirov | Rodina Stadium | 7,500 |
  | SKA-Sverdlovsk | Yekaterinburg | Uralskiy Trubnik Stadium | 6,000 |
  | Vodnik-2 | Arkhangelsk | Trud Stadium | 10,000 |
  | Mayak | Krasnoturinsk | Mayak Stadium | 5,000 |
  | Zorky Krasnogorsk | Krasnogorsk | Zorky | 8,000 |
  | Monchegorsk | Monchegorsk | DYuSSh-3 | 5,000 |
  | Znamya-Udmurtiya | Votkinsk | Znamya | 5,000 |
  | Nikelshchik Verkhny Ufaley | Verkhny Ufaley | Nikelshchik | 5,000 |
  | Lokomotiv | Orenburg | Orenburg | 7,900 |
  | Akzhayik | Uralsk(Kazakhstan) | Yunost Stadium | 3,200 |
  
  ## Previous teams & seasons
  
  Teams for the 2017–18 season.
  
  