2020–21 Russian Women's Handball Super League

The 2020–21 Russian Women's Handball Super League was the 28th season of Russian Women's Handball Super League, Russia's premier handball league. Rostov-Don are the defending club.

Russian Women's Handball Super League

Season	2020–21
Dates	22 August 2020 – 23 May 2021
Champions	CSKA Moscow
Matches played	158
Goals scored	8,701 (55.07 per match)
Top goalscorer	Diana Golub (186 goals)
← 2019–20 2021-22 →

The Russian Handball Federation streams every match of the league on their website.

Format

The competition format for the 2019–20 season consists of a home-and-away double round-robin system. The first six teams qualifies for play-offs, while the last six plays placement round. The two highest-ranked teams of the play-offs, will qualify for the semifinals. The team's who ended up placing 7th and 8th place, will also qualified directly to the semifinals for the placement round.

Teams

Rostov-Don

KSK Luch

CSKA

Stavropol-SKFU

Ufa-Alisa

Lada

Zvezda

HC Astrakhanochka

Dinamo Volgograd

AGU-Adyif Maykop

Universitet-Izhevsk

Kuban Krasnodar

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2020–21 Superleague teams

The following 12 clubs compete in the Super League during the 2020–21 season.

Team	City	Arena	Capacity
Rostov-Don	Rostov-on-Don	Rostov-on-Don Palace of Sports	3,000
CSKA Moscow	Moscow	Universal Sports Hall CSKA	5,500
Lada Togliatti	Tolyatti	Olymp Sportlomplex	2,700
Dinamo-Sinara Volgograd	Volgograd	Dynamo Sports Hall	1,500
HC Kuban Krasnodar	Krasnodar	Olympus Arena	3,000
HC Astrakhanochka	Astrakhan	Sportcomplex Zvezdny	5,000
Zvezda Zvenigorod	Zvenigorod	Sport Hall Zvezda	1,000
HC Stavropolye	Stavropol	Arena Mezzanine Stavropol	1,000
AGU-Adyif Maykop	Maykop	Sports Place of ASU	1,500
KSK Luch Moscow	Moscow	Dynamo Arena	4,400
Universitet Izhevsk	Izhevsk	University Izhevsk Gymnasium	600
HC Ufa-Alisa	Ufa	MBU Sports Center °32	200

Foreign players

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5
Rostov-Don	Viktoriya Borshchenko	Mayssa Pessoa	Grâce Zaadi	Katarina Krpež Šlezak	Anna Lagerquist
CSKA Moscow	Chana Masson	Sara Ristovska	Sabina Jacobsen	Kathrine Heindahl
HC Astrakhanochka	Karyna Yezhykava	Ana Debelić	Yevgenia Levchenko
Zvezda Zvenigorod	Irina Baranovskaya	Aksana Pantus
Lada Togliatti	Viktoryia Shamanouskaya

Regular season

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Rostov-Don	22	22	0	0	731	515	+216	44	Semifinals
2	CSKA Moscow	22	18	0	4	708	475	+233	36
3	Lada Togliatti	22	18	0	4	674	492	+182	36	Quarterfinals
4	HC Astrakhanochka	22	15	0	7	622	486	+136	30
5	Zvezda Zvenigorod	22	15	0	7	677	581	+96	30
6	HC Kuban Krasnodar	22	14	0	8	672	592	+80	28
7	HC Stavropolye	22	8	0	14	651	695	−44	16	7–10th place semifinals
8	Universitet Izhevsk	22	7	0	15	534	674	−140	14
9	AGU-Adyif Maykop	22	4	2	16	482	658	−176	10	7–12th place quarterfinals
10	Dinamo-Sinara Volgograd	22	4	1	17	507	606	−99	9
11	KSK Luch Moscow	22	3	0	19	465	698	−233	6
12	HC Ufa-Alisa	22	2	1	19	449	700	−251	5

Source: rushandball.ru

Playoffs

Championship bracket

	Quarterfinals						Semifinals						Final
	6 Kuban Krasnodar	29	21	50
	3 Lada Togliatti	30	31	61
							3 Lada Togliatti	26	28	54
							2 CSKA Moscow	26	29	55
													2 CSKA Moscow	30	26	56
													1 Rostov-Don	23	29	52
	5 Zvezda Zvenigorod	24	25	49
	4 Astrakhanochka	31	25	56
							4 Astrakhanochka	25	24	49
							1 Rostov-Don	35	25	60			Third place
													4 Astrakhanochka	34	17	51
													3 Lada Togliatti	29	32	61

	Fifth place
	6 Kuban Krasnodar	28	28	56
	5 Zvezda Zvenigorod	33	26	59

Seventh place bracket

	7–12th place quarterfinals						7–10th place semifinals						Seventh place
	12 Ufa-Alisa	36	26	62
	9 AGU-Adyif Maykop	29	32	61
							12 Ufa-Alisa	27	26	53
							8 Universitet Izhevsk	28	26	54
													8 Universitet Izhevsk	23	29	52
													7 Stavropolye	38	31	69
	11 Luch Moscow	20	15	35
	10 Dinamo-Sinara Volgograd	29	35	64
							10 Dinamo-Sinara Volgograd	25	29	54
							7 Stavropolye	23	37	60			Ninth place
													12 Ufa-Alisa	26	24	50
													10 Dinamo-Sinara Volgograd	36	36	72

	Eleventh place
	11 Luch Moscow	25	16	41
	9 AGU-Adyif Maykop	25	28	53

External links

• Russian Handball Federaration (in Russian)