

Second League A - Autumn Stage, Silver (Russia) - a stage of Russia’s third-tier professional club division run under the FNL. Regulations: 10 clubs take part in the Silver group, the stage is played as a double round-robin with home-and-away matches, teams get 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss, and positions are decided by points. If two clubs are level on points, the tie-breakers are applied in this order: head-to-head points, head-to-head goal difference, head-to-head away goals, then total wins, overall goal difference, goals scored, away wins, away goals, disciplinary points, then drawing of lots. If three or more clubs are level on points and have played the same number of head-to-head matches, the tie-breakers start with a head-to-head mini-table: head-to-head points, head-to-head wins, head-to-head goal difference, head-to-head goals scored, head-to-head away goals, then overall criteria, disciplinary points and drawing of lots. At the end of the stage, the teams finishing 1st-4th move to the Gold group for the next stage, and the teams finishing 9th-10th drop to Second League Division B.































































































































































































































