[citation needed] The Russian Bandy Federation banned coach Igor Gapanovich of Vodnik Arkhangelsk and coach Evgeny Erakhtin of Baykal-Energiya each for 30 months in March 2017, and fined each club 300,000 rubles (£4,100/$5,100/€4,800) for the teams scoring an aggregate of 20 goals in their own nets rather than their opponent’s to ensure they played against a convenient team in upcoming play-offs.
The regular league is followed by a play-off, where the final decides which team will become the Russian bandy champion.
[citation needed] The Russian Cup is played between the months of August & September and is split into East & Western conferences consisting of 7 teams each.
The top 4 teams from each conference go through to the Play-offs, which are all single elimination through the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final.
The regular season consists of 26 games and runs from November to February,[7] with the finals taking place in March.