One of the most useful tools for football fans with a global curiosity is Bill’s Sports Maps. For various leagues (not just football), Bill Turianski gives a geographic identity to teams that would otherwise be nothing more than names in a report.
Here is Bill’s map for the 2010 Russian Premier League:
Click on the map for a full size version which, thankfully, is much bigger. It also has 2009 attendance figures for each of the league’s clubs as well as some historical information on each team’s past accomplishment, through which you can see five clubs in the league have been in the league for each of the Premier’s nineteen seasons.
Bill’s site can be a bit addicting. The maps are so well done that you’ll end up clicking through maps of Asian baseball leagues, defunct hockey leagues (World Hockey Association), and if you’re so inclined, the other kind of football: gridiron.
Particularly for a league like Russia – taking place in such a huge country, a country people in the West know little about – Bill’s maps are a great tool for getting people more interested in the league.
thanks for sharing. excellent map.
i like it, replacing a moscow team with alania.
It´s courious to see that 4 of 16 teams are from Caucasian region with an atendance of 10.000-11.000. Seems still teams can survive in RPL without much money. Its good and bad ¡!. Wish to see Luch Energya back soon. Like them and Mumiy Troll from Valdivostok…