The innovations were designed to reduce the number of walk-through games, to make the tournament more interesting and dynamic. In the Cup of Russia in 2013 will not be a preliminary stage and the draw of the tournament will consist of two rounds.
At the semi-final stage, 24 teams will be divided into 4 groups. Participants in the “Final Six” will be group winners and the best two teams from the second place.
The host of the Final tournament will be determined from the six teams, which will achieve the right to play in the “Final Six”. The winner of the National Cup will have the right to play in the CEV Cup 2014/15.
Last season this format of “Final Six” was first used in the men’s tournament.
Pool A |
Pool B |
Pool C |
Pool D |
1 (1) Dinamo Kazan 2 (8) Tiumen-Tiumgu 3 (9) Ufimochka, UFA 4 (16) Nadezhda 5 (17) Sakhalin 6 (24) Politekh |
1 (2) Dinamo Moscow 2 (7) Fakel Novy Urengoi 3 (10) Proton 4 (15) Voronezh 5 (18) Avtodor-Metar 6 (23) Impuls |
1 (3) Omicha, Omsk 2 (6) Dinamo Krasnodar 3 (11) Hara Marin 4 (14) Yenisei Krasnoyarsk 5 (19) Leningradka 6 (22) Primorochka |
1 (4) Uralochka Ekaterinburg 2 (5) Zarechie Odintsovo 3 (12)Indesit Lipeck 4 (13) Severstal 5 (20) Spartak Nizhny Novgorod 6 (21) Loko-Angara, Irkutsk |
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