1997–98 Russian Women's Hockey League season

The 1997-98 Russian Women's Hockey League season was the third season of the national women's competition in Russia. Seven teams participated in the league, and CSK VVS Moscow won the championship. The Women's Kazakh National Team played "out of competition".

The championship was played in three rounds, held in Samara (September 14-21, 1997), Yekaterinburg (December 10-14, 1997), and Chelyabinsk (February 20-24, 1998). The first round was attended by five teams that all played one another in a round-robin format. In the second and third rounds, seven teams participated, so the format was changed: all the teams were divided into two groups (3-4 teams in each group), and after the group stage the top four teams faced one another, while the 5th-7th placed teams also played off.

The final ranking of the national championship was determined by the sum of the finishes the teams recorded in the three stages of the championship. The team with the lowest sum was the champion.

Regular season

Pl.	Team	I	II	III	Total
	CSK VVS Moscow	1	1	1	3
	Spartak Yekaterinburg	2	2	2	6
	Kazakh National Team	3	3	3	9
	Spartak Moscow	4	4	4	12
4	Avangard Moscow	5	8	5	18
5	Youth-12 Yaroslavl	7	6	6	19
6	Lokomotiv Krasnoyarsk	7	5	8	20
7	Fakel Chelyabinsk	7	7	7	21

Notes: Youth-12 and Fakel Chelyabinsk participated in the championship starting in the second round. Lokomotiv Krasnoyarsk did not take part in the first and third rounds because of financial problems, while Avangard Omsk did not compete in the second round.

Russian Women's Hockey League seasons
1995–96 - 1996–97 - 1997–98 - 1998–99 - 1999–2000 - 2000–01 - 2001–02 - 2002–03 - 2003–04 - 2004–05 - 2005–06 - 2006–07 - 2007–08 - 2008–09 - 2009–10 - 2010–11 - 2011–12 - 2012–13 - 2013–14 - 2014–15 - 2015–16 - 2016–17 - 2017–18 - 2018–19 - 2019–20 - 2020–21 - 2021–22 - 2022–23 - 2023–24