Russian Women's Football Championship
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. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, there had been a women's league, but it only played two seasons, 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 Coefficient 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.
Teams in the 2020 season
| Team | Location | Ground |
| Chertanovo Moscow | Moscow | Arena Chertanovo |
| WFC Krasnodar | Krasnodar | Krasnodar Academy Stadium |
| CSKA Moscow | Moscow | Novye Khimki Stadium |
| Zenit Saint Petersburg | Saint Petersburg | Smena Stadium |
| Ryazan-VDV | Ryazan | Central'nyj Sportivn'yj Kompleks |
| Lokomotiv Moscow | Moscow | Sapsan Arena |
| Zvezda-2005 Perm | Perm | Zvezda Stadium |
| Yenisey Krasnoyarsk | Krasnoyarsk | Futbol-arena Enisey |
Champions and top scorers
The champions so far are:| Year | Champion | Runner-up | Third place | Top scorer |
| 1992 | Interros Moscow | CSK VVS Samara | SKIF Malakhovka |  Larisa Savina |
| 1993 | CSK VVS Samara | Rus Moscow | SKIF Malakhovka | Larisa Savina |
| 1994 | CSK VVS Samara | Energiya Voronezh | Kaluzhanka | Nadezhda Bosikova |
| 1995 | Energiya Voronezh | CSK VVS Samara | Sibiryachka Krasnoyarsk | Nadezhda Bosikova |
| 1996 | CSK VVS Samara | Energiya Voronezh | Lada Togliatti | Nadezhda Bosikova |
| 1997 | Energiya Voronezh | CSK VVS Samara | Ryazan-VDV | Nadezhda Bosikova |
| 1998 | Energiya Voronezh | CSK VVS Samara | Ryazan-VDV | Nadezhda Bosikova |
| 1999 | Ryazan-VDV | Energiya Voronezh | CSK VVS Samara | |
| 2000 | Ryazan-VDV | Energiya Voronezh | CSK VVS Samara | Nadezhda Bosikova Olga Letyushova |
| 2001 | CSK VVS Samara | Energiya Voronezh | Ryazan-VDV | Olga Letyushova |
| 2002 | Energiya Voronezh | Lada Togliatti | Ryazan-VDV | Natalia Barbashina |
| 2003 | Energiya Voronezh | Lada Togliatti | CSK VVS Samara | Natalia Barbashina |
| 2004 | Lada Togliatti | Rossiyanka | Energiya Voronezh | Olga Letyushova |
| 2005 | Rossiyanka | Lada Togliatti | Nadezhda Noginsk | Olga Letyushova |
| 2006 | Rossiyanka | Spartak Moscow | Nadezhda Noginsk | Olga Letyushova |
| 2007 | Zvezda Perm | Rossiyanka | Nadezhda Noginsk | Olga Letyushova |
| 2008 | Zvezda Perm | Rossiyanka | SKA Rostov |  Emueje Ogbiagbevha |
| 2009 | Zvezda Perm | Rossiyanka | Energiya Voronezh |  Daryna Apanaschenko Olesya Kurochkina |
| 2010 | Rossiyanka | Energiya Voronezh | Zvezda Perm | Emueje Ogbiagbevha |
| 2011–12 | Rossiyanka | Zorky Krasnogorsk | Energiya Voronezh | Emueje Ogbiagbevha |
| 2012–13 | Zorky Krasnogorsk | Rossiyanka | Ryazan-VDV | Olesya Kurochkina |
| 2013 | Ryazan-VDV | Zvezda Perm | Zorky Krasnogorsk | Elena Danilova |
| 2014 | Zvezda Perm | Zorky Krasnogorsk | Ryazan-VDV | Daryna Apanaschenko |
| 2015 | Zvezda Perm | Rossiyanka | Zorky Krasnogorsk | Daryna Apanaschenko |
| 2016 | Rossiyanka | Zvezda Perm | Ryazan-VDV | Margarita Chernomyrdina Nadezhda Karpova |
| 2017 | Zvezda Perm | Ryazan-VDV | Chertanovo Moscow | Elena Danilova |
| 2018 | Ryazan-VDV | Chertanovo Moscow | Zvezda Perm | Elena Danilova |
| 2019 | CSKA Moscow | Lokomotiv | Kubanochka | Nelli Korovkina |