The Russian Super League match in the northern city of Arkhangelsk ended in an 11-9 win for Baikal-Energiya against Vodnik.

All 20 goals, however, were scored in the teams' own nets rather than their opponent’s.

With just under a quarter of the contest remaining, Vodnik's Oleg Pivovarov put three goals into the back of his own net.

Baikal-Energiya responded with nine own goals of their own, only for Pivovarov to put eight more past his own defence.

"On the one hand, this is provocation, on the other hand - mere stupidity," Russian Bandy Federation (RBF) President and President of the Federation of International Bandy (FIB) Boris Skrynnik told the country's official news agency Tass.

"We will take very tough measures."

The clubs will now be forced to replay the game on Friday (March 3) at a neutral stadium in the Moscow Region, the RBF said.

Skrynnik accused Vodnik of ensuring they played "against a convenient team" in the upcoming playoffs.

Had Vodnik won, it would have faced the League’s reigning champion Yenisey Krasnoyarsk.

Russian Sports Minister Pavel Kolobkov compared the match game to "a circus" performance.

"At some moment the players forgot they were playing for spectators, for their fans," the Minister told TASS.

Bandy, a winter sport played on ice in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal, was officially recognised by the International Olympic Committee in 2001.

It featured as a demonstration sport at the 1952 Winter Olympic Games in Norway’s capital Oslo.

The sport is also hopeful of eventually securing a place on the Winter Olympic programme, with FIB President Skrynnik revealing last year that they would pursue an attempt for Beijing 2022.