It was also the sixth season that the league functions as the Russian domestic first tier level.

It started in October 2018 with the first round of the regular season and ended in June 2019 with the last game of the finals.

[1] A total of 14 teams from six countries contest the league, including nine sides from Russia, one from Belarus, one from Estonia, one from Kazakhstan, one from Latvia and one from Poland.

[2] Polish teams returned to the competition four years after.

In the regular season, teams play against each other twice (home-and-away) in a round-robin format.