The season will last four months and the eight teams will play each other home and away.

Zenit will start the season away to CSKA Moscow and the match will take place at the VEB Arena at 5pm. 

The eight teams taking part in the league are Zenit, CSKA Moscow, Lokomotiv Moscow, Chertanovo, Krasnodar, Zvezda-2005 Perm, Ryazan-VDV and Yenisei. 

Further fixture kick-off details will be published by the RFU shortly.