2009 Russian Championship (women's football)

The 2009 Russian Women's Football Championship was the 18th edition of the top category in Russian women's football. Like the previous year the competition was contested by seven teams, with Lada Togliatti and Zvezda Zvenigorod replacing disbanded teams Nadezhda Noginsk and SKA Rostov to join Energiya Voronezh, ShVSM Izmailovo, WFC Rossiyanka, Ryazan VDV and Zvezda Perm. Twelve game weeks were played from May 7 to October 29, 2009.

The championship was won for the third year in a row by European Cup runner-up Zvezda Perm, which became the first team to achieve this since the competition's foundation in 1992. Rossiyanka was the championship's runner-up, also qualifying for the Champions League. 2004 champion Lada Togliatti was disbanded after Week 9.

Table

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	PS	Q/R
1	Zvezda Perm (C)	12	11	0	1	46	10	36	33		2010-11 Champions League (round of 32)
2	Rossiyanka	12	8	3	1	31	8	23	27		2010-11 Champions League (qual. stage)
3	Energiya Voronezh	12	7	0	5	20	16	4	21	4
4	Izmailovo	12	5	2	5	15	12	3	21	2
5	Ryazan	12	5	1	6	19	21	-2	16	1
6	Zvezda Zvenigorod	12	1	1	10	9	41	-32	4
7	Lada Togliatti	7	1	1	5	6	23	-17	4		Disbanded after 7 games

Results

2009	ZVP	ROS	ENV	IZM	RYA	ZVZ	LAT
Zvezda P.		1–3	1–0	4–0	3–2	6–1	10–1
Rossiyanka	1–2		3–0	3–0	2–2	5–1	4–0
Energiya Voronezh	2–4	0–3		1–0	2–0	5–2	2–0
Izmailovo	0–1	0–0	1–0		3–0	1–0	w/o
Ryazan	0–4	1–3	1–2	2–1		4–0	2–0
Zvezda Z.	0–7	1–1	0–2	0–5	1–2		0–3
Lada Togliatti	w/o	w/o	1–4	1–1	w/o	w/o

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Daryna Apanaschenko	Zvezda Perm	12
	Olesya Kurochkina	Zvezda Perm	12
3	Olga Letyushova	Izmailovo	8
4	Nadezhda Bosikova	Energiya Voronezh	7
5	Emueje Ogbiagbevha	Rossiyanka	6
6	Svetlana Zangieva	Ryazan	5
	Natalia Zinchenko	Zvezda Perm	5
8	Elena Danilova	Rossiyanka	4
	Vera Dyatel	Zvezda Perm	4
	Elena Gorbacheva	Ryazan	4
	Svetlana Tsydikova	Energiya Voronezh	4