Russian American Football Championship (Russian: Чемпионат России по Aмериканскому Футболу, romanized: Chempionat Rossii po Amerikanskomu Futbolu) is the highest level of American football played in Russia originally founded in 1991, previously known as the League of American Football (LAF; Russian: Лига Американского Футбола, romanized: Liga Amerikanskogo Futbola, ЛАФ).
[citation needed] American football came into the Soviet Union in late 1980s.
The first official games were played in 1989 when American high school all-star teams from Oklahoma played exhibition games against local teams, following a failed attempt to have college football bowl game be played in Moscow (known as the Glasnost Bowl).
The Moscow Bears national team was reformed later in 1992 and Russian Football Championship league later re-organized.
[2] In 2016 it was reorganized as The League of American Football, LAF in short.