Super League 2014/2015 - The 13th draw of the Men's Super League , the 2nd most important division of the Russian Championship among men's professional basketball teams, held under the auspices of the RBF . The tournament started on October 4, 2014 and ended on May 15, 2015 . It is attended by 16 teams that in the regular season will play against each other in two circles - at home and away. The top eight teams in the regular season will reach the playoffs.
| Super League 2014/15 |
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| October 4, 2014 - May 15, 2015 |
| Number of participants | sixteen |
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| Number of cities | sixteen |
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| Number of stadiums | sixteen |
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Champion | Novosibirsk (1st title) |
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Second place | Spartak-Primorye |
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Third place | Dynamo (Moscow) |
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The number of legionnaires in the application of each team should be limited to two players [1] .
The two worst teams in the Super League championship will go to the Premier League in the 2015/2016 season. The winner of the Super League will receive the right to participate in the FIBA Challenge Cup 2015/2016 [2] .
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In the regular season, teams play with each other in two circles at home and away. Teams that took places from the 1st to the 8th in the regular season get into the playoffs for 1-8 places. Teams from 9th to 16th also playoffs for 9-16th places.
In the playoffs for 1-8 places of the series, the 1/4 finals are held according to the 1 + 1 + 1 scheme (up to 2 wins), where the advantage of their site in the 1st match (as well as in the 3rd, if necessary ) gets the team that won the highest place in the regular season. Series 1/2 finals for 1-4 places, games for 1, 3 places are held according to the 2 + 2 + 1 scheme (up to 3 wins), where the advantage of your site in the 1st and 2nd matches (as well as in 5th, if necessary) also gets the team, which took a higher place in the regular season. Series 1/2 finals for 5-8 places, games for 5, 7 places are held according to the scheme 1 + 1 + 1, similarly to series 1/4 finals.
In the playoffs for 9-16 places of the 1/4, 1/2 finals of the series, games for 9, 11, 13, 15 places are held according to the 1 + 1 scheme, where the team that takes more than 1 gets the advantage of their site in the 1st match high place in the regular season. The team with the highest total points after two matches becomes the winner of the pair. In the event that, at the end of the second game, the total score of two games is equal for both teams, additional time is assigned to determine the winner [2] .
The location of the teams of the men's basketball Super League in the season 2014/2015.
Changes from last season
According to the results of the 2013/2014 season , the Saratov Avtodor left the Super League, having transferred to the PBL and VTB United League as the winner of the Super League, as well as the Saransk Rusk-Mordovia and Rostov Ataman . Instead, the Super League was replenished by the Moscow IBA , Khimki-Moscow Region and recommended by the Executive Committee of the RBF for inclusion in Izhevsk 's Kupol-Rodniki and Almaty Legion from Almaty . Also in the 2014/2015 season in the Super League will take part the reserve basketball team of Russia, which will play under the name "Russia". In addition, membership in the Tobolsk Neftekhimik group was expected [1] .
Teams and Stadiums
| Club | City | Stadium | Capacity |
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| | Almaty Legion | Alma-ata | Sports complex "Dostyk" | |
| | AltaiBasket | Barnaul | Sports complex "Victory" | 1050 |
| | Dynamo (Moscow) | Moscow | Sports Palace in Krylatskoye | 5000 |
| | Irkut | Irkutsk | Sports Palace "Labor" | 1500 |
| | Dome Springs | Izhevsk | | |
| | MBA | Moscow | GBU SSHOR "Timiryazevskaya" | 250 |
| | Novosibirsk | Novosibirsk | Sports and concert complex "North" | 1050 |
| | Parma | Permian | Sports complex named after V.P. Sukhareva | 1300 |
| | Russia | Moscow | | |
| | Ryazan | Ryazan | Ryazan City Palace of Children's Creativity | 600 |
| | Samara-SSEU | Samara | MTL Arena | 3000 |
| | Spartak Primorye | Vladivostok | Sports complex "Olympian" | 1250 |
| | Temp-SUMZ | Revda | Sports Palace "Temp-SUMZ" | 1000 |
| | University-Ugra | Surgut | Sports complex "Sparta" | 3000 |
| | Ural | Yekaterinburg | Game Sports Palace | 5000 |
| | Khimki-Moscow region | Khimki | Basketball Center of the Moscow Region | 6000 |