2009–10 Russian Volleyball Super League
Previous season 2008/09 Team Town Arena ( capacity ) Website Head Coach Foreign players ( max . 2 )
1 VC Zenit-Kazan Kazan Basket-Hall Arena ( 7 000 ) www.zenit-kazan.com Vladimir Alekno Lloy Ball Clay Stanley
2 VC Iskra Odintsovo Odintsovo Volleyball Sportiv Complex ( 3 500 ) iskra.vcmo.ru Sergei Tsvetnov Jochen Schöps Léo Mineiro
3 VC Fakel Novy Urengoy Novy Urengoy CSC Gazodobytchik ( 800 ) www.fakelvolley.ru Boris Kolchin Sean Rooney Kevin Hansen
4 VC Dynamo Moscow Moscow Dynamo Sports Palace ( 5 000 ) www.vcdynamo.ru Yuri Cherednik Teodor Salparov Dante Amaral
5 Lokomotiv-Belogorie Belgorod Sports Palace Cosmos ( 5 000 ) www.belogorievolley.ru Gennadi Shipulin Łukasz Kadziewicz Dmitri Storozhilov
6 VC Lokomotiv Novosibirsk Novosibirsk SKK Sever ( 2 500 ) www.lokovolley.ru Andrei Voronkov William Priddy David Lee
7 Ural Ufa Ufa SDK Dynamo ( 1 000 ) www.volleyufa.ru Zoran Gajić Saša Starović Péter Veres
8 VC Gazprom-Yugra Surgut Surgut SC Tennis Center www.gazprom-ugra.ru Rafael Habibullin Zbigniew Bartman
9 VC Yaroslavich Yaroslavl Yaroslavl SK Atlant www.yarvolley.ru Sergei Shlyapnikov Bojan Janić Metodi Ananiev
Promoted VC Lokomotiv-Izumrud Yekaterinburg DIVS Uralochka ( 5 000 ) www.loko-izumrud.ur.ru Valeri Alferov Hristo Tsvetanov Todor Aleksiev
Promoted VC Dynamo-Yantar Kaliningrad Kaliningrad SC Yunost www.dinamoyantar.ru Yaroslav Antonov Luciano De Cecco Marcus Nilsson
Replaced Yugra-Samotlor VC Tyumen Tyumen SC Tsentralny ( 1 440 ) www.vctyumen.ru Yuri Korotkevich Vitali Kiktev Sergei Shulga
Teams
The Russian Volleyball Super League 2009-10 is the 19th official season of Russian Volleyball Super League. The Championship is held in two phases. In the preliminary stage each team played each other twice - once at home and once away. The top eight teams went into the playoffs. Quarterfinals, semifinals and finals for first and third places were the best of five . Unlike the previous season there was no playoff for the fifth to eighth places. The teams placed ninth to twelfth competed against each other over another twelve games with the two bottom sides being relegated.