Russian Premier League

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Russian Premier League

Founded	2001; 17 years ago (2001)
Country	Russia
Confederation	UEFA
Number of teams	16
Level on pyramid	1
Relegation to	Football National League
Domestic cup(s)	Russian Cup Russian Super Cup
International cup(s)	Champions League Europa League
Current champions	Lokomotiv Moscow (3rd title) (2017–18)
Most championships	Spartak Moscow (10 titles)
Website	www.RFPL.org
2018–19 Russian Premier League

The Russian Football Championship^[1] (Russian: Чемпионат России по футболу, Chempionat Rossii po Futbolu), or Russian Premier League (Российская премьер-лига),^[2] is the top division professional association football league in Russia. The competition is administered by the Russian Football Premier League (ru).^[3] There are 16 teams in the competition. The league has three Champions League qualifying spots given to the top three teams at the end of the season and the two Europa League spots will be allocated to the fourth and fifth placed teams. The last two teams are relegated to the Russian National Football League at the end of the season.

The Russian Premier League was established in 2001 and rebranded in 2002. The Russian Premier League succeeded the Top Division including history and records. The Top Division was run by the Professional Football League of Russia. Creation of the Premier League is considered to give the clubs a greater degree of independence. The league is currently called Rosgosstrakh Russian Football Championship^[4] for sponsorship reasons.

Lokomotiv Moscow is the Russian Premier League champion.

Contents

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  1 History
  


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  2 Competition
  
  • 
    2.1 Youth championship
    
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      2.1.1 Youth champions (since 2001)
      
    
    
  
  


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  3 UEFA club rankings
  


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  4 Current clubs
  


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  5 Champions and top scorers
  
  • 
    5.1 Performance by club
    
  
  


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  6 UEFA Ranking
  


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  7 All-time table
  


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  8 Player records
  
  • 
    8.1 Most appearances
    
  
  
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    8.2 Most goals
    
  
  
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    8.3 Champions (players)
    
  
  


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  9 Media coverage
  


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  10 See also
  


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  11 References
  


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  12 External links
  

History

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, starting in 1992, each former Soviet republic organized an independent national championship. In Russia, the six Russian teams who had played in the Soviet Top League in 1991 (CSKA Moscow, Spartak Moscow, Torpedo Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, Spartak Vladikavkaz, and Lokomotiv Moscow) were supplemented with 14 teams from lower divisions to form a 20-team Russian Top Division. The Top Division was further divided into two groups to reduce the total number of matches. The number of teams in the Top Division was gradually reduced to 18 in 1993 and 16 in 1994. Since then, the Russian Top Division (and subsequently the Premier League) has consisted of 16 teams, except for a short-lived experiment with having two more teams in 1996 and 1997.

Spartak Moscow was the dominant force in the top division, winning nine of the first ten titles. Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz was the only team which managed to break Spartak's dominance, winning the top division title in 1995. Lokomotiv Moscow have won the title three times, and CSKA Moscow six times.

In 2007, Zenit St. Petersburg climbed to the top, winning the title for the first time in their history in Russian professional football; they had also won a Soviet title in 1984. 2008 brought the pinnacle of the rise of Rubin Kazan, a club entirely new to the Russian top flight, as it had never even competed in the Soviet Top League.

In mid-2010s, some stadiums opened. CSKA Moscow got a new stadium named Arena CSKA, later VEB Arena. It holds a capacity of 30,000. FC Krasnodar got the most modern stadium in Europe named Krasnodar Stadium. It holds a capacity of 34,000.

In preparation for the 2018–19 season, it was decided to hold a rebranding in which a new logo was presented, and the league is called the Russian Premier League (RPL).^{[5][6][7][8][9]}

Competition

Russian Premier League match between Zenit and Dynamo (the last Zenit match at the Kirov Stadium, stadium had been already partially demolished.)

Teams in the Russian Premier League play each other twice, once at home and once away, for a total of 30 matches. Three points are awarded for a win, one for a draw, and none for a loss. If teams are level on points, the tie-breakers are the number of wins, then the goal difference, followed by several other factors. If the teams are tied for the first position, the tie-breakers are the number of wins, then head-to-head results. If the teams tied for the first place cannot be separated by these tie-breakers, a championship play-off is ordered.

Russian Premier League match between Lokomotiv and Spartak at the Lokomotiv Stadium

As of 2010, the champions and the runners-up qualify for the UEFA Champions League group stage. The third-placed team qualifies for the Champions League second qualifying round. The fourth- and fifth-place teams qualify for the UEFA Europa League. The bottom two teams are relegated to the First Division (renamed the National Football League starting in 2011).

Unlike most other European football leagues, the league traditionally ran in summer, from March to November, to avoid playing games in the cold and snowy weather in winter. This was altered ahead of the 2012–13 season, with the league planning to run the season from autumn to spring. The transitional season of the competition began in early 2011 and continued until summer of 2012. After the 16 Premier League teams played each other twice over the course of the 2011 calendar year, they were split into two groups of eight, and the teams played other teams in their groups two more times for a total of 44 games (30 in 2011 and 14 in 2012). Those two groups were contested in spring 2012, with the top eight clubs playing for the title and European places. The other sides vied to avoid relegation: the bottom two went down while the next two played off against the sides third and fourth in the National Football League, with the two losers being relegated (or denied promotion).^[10] Under the current autumn-spring calendar, the league takes a three-month winter break from mid-December until mid-March.

Youth championship

The Youth championship (Russian: Молодежное первенство), also known as Youth teams championship (Russian: Первенство молодёжных команд), Reserve team tournament (Russian: Турнир дублирующих составов) or Reserves tournament (Russian: Турнир дублёров), full name Youth football championship of Russia among teams of clubs of the Premier League (Russian: Молодёжное Первенство России по футболу среди команд клубов Премьер-Лиги), is a league that runs in parallel to the Russian Premier League and includes the youth or reserve teams of the Russian Premier League teams. The number of players a team can have on the pitch at a time that are over 21 years of age or without a Russian citizenship is limited. 16 teams participate in the league. Matches are commonly played a day before the match of the senior teams of the respective teams. All of the Russian Premier League teams are obliged to have a youth team that would participate in the Youth championship. The teams that are promoted from the National Football League and do not have a youth team must create one. The teams in the league are not relegated based on their final league position, but on the league position of their respective clubs' senior teams.

It has to be noted however that some Premier League clubs have three teams. Apart from the senior team and the team that plays in the Youth championship a team might have another senior team that plays in a lower division of Russian football and serves as the farm team for the main team. Some examples include Spartak-2 and Zenit-2, playing in the Russian Football National League.

Youth champions (since 2001)

• 2001: Rotor Volgograd
  


• 2002: Dynamo Moscow
  


• 2003: Dynamo Moscow
  


• 2004: Terek Grozny
  


• 2005: CSKA Moscow
  


• 2006: Spartak Moscow
  


• 2007: Spartak Moscow
  


• 2008: Spartak Moscow
  


• 2009: Zenit Saint Petersburg
  


• 2010: Spartak Moscow
  


• 2011: Lokomotiv Moscow
  


• 2012: Dynamo Moscow
  


• 2012–13: Spartak Moscow
  


• 2013–14: Dynamo Moscow
  


• 2014–15: Dynamo Moscow
  


• 2015–16: Lokomotiv Moscow
  


• 2016–17: Spartak Moscow
  


• 2017–18: Krasnodar
  

UEFA club rankings

Russia are currently sixth in the UEFA coefficient rankings. The best Russian teams in Europe as of December 2017:

No.	Team	Pts
17	FC Zenit Saint Petersburg	75.000
36	PFC CSKA Moscow	38.000
61	FC Krasnodar	23.500
75	FC Lokomotiv Moscow	18.500
83	FC Rubin Kazan	16.000
84	FC Dynamo Moscow	13.500
108	FC Rostov	13.500
112	FC Spartak Moscow	11.500
119	FC Anzhi Makhachkala	10.000
120	FC Kuban Krasnodar	5.000

• In Italic teams who are not participating in the 2018–19 Russian Premier League
  

Current clubs

The following teams are competing in the 2018–19 season:

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity
Akhmat Grozny	Grozny	Akhmat-Arena	30,597
Anzhi Makhachkala	Kaspiysk	Anzhi-Arena	31,000
Yenisey Krasnoyarsk	Krasnoyarsk	Tsentralny	22,500
Arsenal Tula	Tula	Arsenal Stadium	20,048
CSKA Moscow	Moscow	VEB Arena	30,000
Dynamo Moscow	Moscow	VTB Arena	27,000
Krasnodar	Krasnodar	Krasnodar Stadium	34,291
Lokomotiv Moscow	Moscow	Lokomotiv Stadium	28,800
Rostov	Rostov-on-Don	Rostov Arena	45,000
Rubin Kazan	Kazan	Kazan Arena	45,379
Orenburg	Orenburg	Orenburg Stadium	7,500
Spartak Moscow	Moscow	Otkrytiye Arena	45,360
Krylia Sovetov Samara	Samara	Cosmos Arena	44,918
Ufa	Ufa	Neftyanik Stadium	15,200
Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast	Yekaterinburg	Central Stadium	35,000
Zenit Saint Petersburg	Saint Petersburg	Krestovsky Stadium	68,134

Champions and top scorers

Main article: List of Soviet and Russian football champions

Season	Champion	Runner-up	Third place	Top scorer
1992*	Spartak Moscow	Spartak Vladikavkaz	Dynamo Moscow	Vali Gasimov (Dinamo Moscow, 16 goals – 1–8 place) Yuri Matveyev (Uralmash Yekaterinburg, 20 goals – 9–20 place)
1993*	Spartak Moscow (2)	Rotor Volgograd	Dynamo Moscow (2)	Victor Panchenko (KamAZ Naberezhnye Chelny, 21 goals)
1994*	Spartak Moscow (3)	Dynamo Moscow	Lokomotiv Moscow	Igor Simutenkov (Dinamo Moscow, 21 goals)
1995*	Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz	Lokomotiv Moscow	Spartak Moscow	Oleg Veretennikov (Rotor Volgograd, 25 goals)
1996*	Spartak Moscow (4)	Alania Vladikavkaz (2)	Rotor Volgograd	Aleksandr Maslov (Rostselmash, 23 goals)
1997*	Spartak Moscow (5)	Rotor Volgograd (2)	Dynamo Moscow (3)	Oleg Veretennikov (Rotor Volgograd, 22 goals)
1998**	Spartak Moscow (6)	CSKA Moscow	Lokomotiv Moscow (2)	Oleg Veretennikov (Rotor Volgograd, 22 goals)
1999**	Spartak Moscow (7)	Lokomotiv Moscow (2)	CSKA Moscow	Georgi Demetradze (Alania Vladikavkaz, 21 goals)
2000**	Spartak Moscow (8)	Lokomotiv Moscow (3)	Torpedo Moscow	Dmitri Loskov (Lokomotiv Moscow, 18 goals)
2001**	Spartak Moscow (9)	Lokomotiv Moscow (4)	Zenit Saint Petersburg	Dmitri Vyazmikin (Torpedo Moscow, 18 goals)
2002	Lokomotiv Moscow	CSKA Moscow (2)	Spartak Moscow (2)	Rolan Gusev (CSKA Moscow, 15 goals) Dmitri Kirichenko (CSKA Moscow, 15 goals)
2003	CSKA Moscow	Zenit Saint Petersburg	Rubin Kazan	Dmitri Loskov (Lokomotiv Moscow, 14 goals)
2004	Lokomotiv Moscow (2)	CSKA Moscow (2)	Krylia Sovetov Samara	Aleksandr Kerzhakov (Zenit St. Petersburg, 18 goals)
2005	CSKA Moscow (2)	Spartak Moscow	Lokomotiv Moscow (3)	Dmitri Kirichenko (Moscow, 14 goals)
2006	CSKA Moscow (3)	Spartak Moscow (2)	Lokomotiv Moscow (4)	Roman Pavlyuchenko (Spartak Moscow, 18 goals)
2007	Zenit Saint Petersburg	Spartak Moscow (3)	CSKA Moscow (2)	Roman Pavlyuchenko (Spartak Moscow, 14 goals) Roman Adamov (Moscow, 14 goals)
2008	Rubin Kazan	CSKA Moscow (4)	Dynamo Moscow (4)	Vágner Love (CSKA Moscow, 20 goals)
2009	Rubin Kazan (2)	Spartak Moscow (4)	Zenit Saint Petersburg (2)	Welliton (Spartak Moscow, 21 goals)
2010	Zenit Saint Petersburg (2)	CSKA Moscow (5)	Rubin Kazan (2)	Welliton (Spartak Moscow, 19 goals)
2011–12	Zenit Saint Petersburg (3)	Spartak Moscow (5)	CSKA Moscow (3)	Seydou Doumbia (CSKA Moscow, 28 goals)
2012–13	CSKA Moscow (4)	Zenit Saint Petersburg (2)	Anzhi Makhachkala	Yura Movsisyan (Krasnodar/Spartak Moscow, 13 goals) Wánderson (Krasnodar, 13 goals)
2013–14	CSKA Moscow (5)	Zenit Saint Petersburg (3)	Lokomotiv Moscow (5)	Seydou Doumbia (CSKA Moscow, 18 goals)
2014–15	Zenit Saint Petersburg (4)	CSKA Moscow (6)	Krasnodar	Hulk (Zenit Saint Petersburg, 15 goals)
2015–16	CSKA Moscow (6)	Rostov	Zenit Saint Petersburg (3)	Fyodor Smolov (Krasnodar, 20 goals)
2016–17	Spartak Moscow (10)	CSKA Moscow (7)	Zenit Saint Petersburg (4)	Fyodor Smolov (Krasnodar, 18 goals)
2017–18	Lokomotiv Moscow (3)	CSKA Moscow (8)	Spartak Moscow (3)	Quincy Promes (Spartak Moscow, 15 goals)

Performance by club

Club	Winners	Runners-up	Third place	Years won
Spartak Moscow	10	5	3	1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2016–17
CSKA Moscow	6	8	3	2003, 2005, 2006, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2015–16
Zenit St. Petersburg	4	3	4	2007, 2010, 2011–12, 2014–15
Lokomotiv Moscow	3	4	5	2002, 2004, 2017–18
Rubin Kazan	2	0	2	2008, 2009
Spartak Vladikavkaz	1	2	0	1995
Rotor Volgograd	0	2	1
Dynamo Moscow	0	1	4
Rostov	0	1	0
Torpedo Moscow	0	0	1
Krylia Sovetov Samara	0	0	1
Anzhi Makhachkala	0	0	1
Krasnodar	0	0	1
Total	26	26	26

UEFA Ranking

Main article: UEFA coefficient

• 1. La Liga
  


• 2. Bundesliga
  


• 3. Premier League
  


• 4. Serie A
  


• 5. Ligue 1
  


• 6. Russian Premier League


• 7. Primeira Liga
  


• 8. Ukrainian Premier League
  

All-time table

As of the end of the 2017–18 season. Teams in bold compete in 2018-19 Premier League.

Rank	Club1	Seasons	Spells	Most recent season	Played2	Won	Drawn	Lost	Goals	Points3	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
1	Spartak Moscow	27	1		803	428	185	160	1424-816	1525	10	5	3
2	CSKA Moscow	27	1		803	406	180	187	1148-731	1456	6	8	3
3	Lokomotiv Moscow	27	1		803	375	218	180	1131-718	1403	3	4	5
4	Zenit Saint Petersburg	24	2		712	334	192	156	1085-680	1247	4	3	4
5	Dynamo Moscow	26	2		772	307	212	223	1053-865	1173	-	1	4
6	Krylya Sovetov Samara	25	3		746	233	207	306	793-971	906	-	-	1
7	Rostov	25	3		742	207	206	299	758-959	864	-	1	-
8	Rubin Kazan	16	1		464	184	122	128	570-434	712	2	-	2
9	Torpedo Moscow	16	2	2014–15	492	188	142	162	625-598	706	-	-	1
10	Spartak Vladikavkaz	16	3	2012–13	489	179	109	201	630-663	646	1	2	-	Disbanded and reestablished 2014
11	Rotor Volgograd	13	1	2004	402	151	109	142	562-506	562	-	2	1
12	Amkar Perm	14	1	2017-18	434	114	131	159	368-478	508	-	-	-	Disbanded 2018
13	Saturn Moscow Oblast	12	1	2010	360	120	121	119	396-378	481	-	-	-
14	Akhmat Grozny	12	2		344	102	77	135	322-404	422 4	-	-	-
15	Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast	11	2		308	93	58	127	337-421	374	-	-	-
16	Krasnodar	8	1		224	88	54	52	295-213	372	-	-	1
17	Anzhi Makhachkala	11	3		314	86	83	115	299-353	365	-	-	1
18	Moscow	9	1	2009	270	92	83	95	295-311	359	-	-	-	Disbanded 2010
19	Shinnik Yaroslavl	10	4	2008	304	85	86	133	294-403	341	-	-	-
20	Kuban Krasnodar	9	5	2015-16	284	75	96	113	304-379	321	-	-	-	Disbanded 2018
21	Tom Tomsk	9	2	2016-17	284	75	77	132	259-395	302	-	-	-
22	Chernomorets Novorossiysk	8	2	2003	248	74	65	109	274-357	287	-	-	-
23	Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod	8	2	2000	248	68	63	117	233-356	267	-	-	-	Disbanded 2006
24	Zhemchuzhina Sochi	7	1	1999	222	61	57	104	263-390	240	-	-	-	Disbanded 2003 and 2013, reestablished 2007
25	Spartak Nalchik	6	1	2011–12	194	54	57	83	207-239	219	-	-	-
26	Energia-Tekstilshchik Kamyshin	5	1	1996	158	53	43	62	172-177	202	-	-	-
27	KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny	5	1	1997	162	51	32	79	198-253	179 5	-	-	-
28	Uralan Elista	5	2	2003	150	36	39	75	138-225	147	-	-	-	Disbanded 2005, reestablished 2014
29	Ufa	4	1		90	25	26	39	73-108	144	-	-	-
30	Luch-Energia Vladivostok	4	2	2008	124	34	32	58	116-187	134	-	-	-
31	Baltika Kaliningrad	3	1	1998	98	30	37	31	114-111	127	-	-	-
32	Fakel Voronezh	4	3	2001	124	31	29	64	101-175	122	-	-	-
33	Dynamo Stavropol	3	1	1994	94	27	23	44	94-125	104	-	-	-	Disbanded 2014, re-established 2015
34	Tyumen	5	3	1998	154	25	26	103	116-326	101	-	-	-
35	Arsenal Tula	3	2		60	14	11	35	38-86	95	-	-	-
36	Volga Nizhny Novgorod	3	1	2013–14	104	25	16	63	87-171	91	-	-	-	Disbanded 2016
37	Mordovia Saransk	3	2	2015-16	90	20	22	48	82-150	82	-	-	-
38	Okean Nakhodka	2	1	1993	64	22	14	28	65-83	80	-	-	-	Disbanded 2015
39	Khimki	3	1	2009	90	17	23	50	86-151	74	-	-	-
40	Asmaral Moscow	2	1	1993	60	19	11	30	74-102	68	-	-	-	Disbanded 1999
41	Sokol Saratov	2	1	2002	60	17	13	30	55-87	64	-	-	-
42	Lada Togliatti	2	2	1996	64	10	16	38	42-105	46	-	-	-
43	Orenburg	2	2		30	7	9	14	25-36	30	-	-	-
44	Tosno	1	1	2017-18	30	6	6	18	23-54	24	-	-	-	Disbanded 2018
45	Sibir Novosibirsk	1	1	2010	30	4	8	18	34-58	20	-	-	-
46	SKA-Khabarovsk	1	1	2017-18	30	2	7	21	16-55	13	-	-	-
47	Yenisey Krasnoyarsk	1	1		0	0	0	0		0	-	-	-

Competing in RFPL

Competing in FNL (2nd tier)

Competing in PFL (3rd tier)

Competing in amateur leagues (below 3rd tier)

Defunct (see notes)

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Notes

1. For clubs that have been renamed, their name at the time of their most recent season in the Russian League is given. The current members are listed in bold.


2. Includes championship play-offs, does not include relegation play-offs.


3. For the purposes of this table, each win is worth 3 points. The three-point system was adopted in 1995.


4. Terek were deducted 6 points in 2005.


5. KAMAZ-Chally were deducted 6 points in 1997.

Player records

Most appearances

As of 1 August 2018 [1] [2] [3] [4]

Rank	Player	Apps
1	Sergei Ignashevich	489
2	Sergei Semak	456
3	Dmitri Loskov	453
4	Igor Semshov	433
5	Vasili Berezutski	402
6	Igor Akinfeev	398
7	Ruslan Adzhindzhal	397
8	Valery Yesipov	390
9	Dmitri Kirichenko	377
10	Igor Lebedenko	371

Most goals

As of 20 July 2017 [5]

Rank	Player	Goals	Apps	Avg/Game
1	Oleg Veretennikov	143	274	0.52
2	Aleksandr Kerzhakov	139	340	0.41
3	Dmitri Kirichenko	129	377	0.34
4	Dmitri Loskov	120	453	0.26
5	Roman Pavlyuchenko	104	309	0.34
6	Sergei Semak	102	456	0.22
7	Andrey Tikhonov	98	346	0.28
8	Igor Semshov	98	433	0.23
9	Yegor Titov	88	336	0.26
10	Valery Yesipov	88	390	0.23

Champions (players)

9-time Dmitri Ananko (1992–94), (1996–01) Dmitry Khlestov (1992–94), (1996–01)

Media coverage

NTV Plus cameraman

Country	Broadcaster
CIS	Match Premier
Russia	NTV (till Nov. 1st), Match TV (since Nov. 1st), Sport Plus, Match Premier
Azerbaijan	CBC Sport
Ukraine	Poverkhnost TV (Sport 1 Ukraine)
United States	beIN Sports
Puerto Rico
Canada
Brazil	Esporte Interativo
Portugal	Sport TV
Germany	Sportdigital.tv
Austria
Switzerland
France	L'Equipe 21
Turkey	TivibuSpor
Lithuania	Sport1
Poland	Polsat Sport
Romania	Digi Sport Dolce Sport
Serbia	Sport Klub
Croatia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Montenegro
Skopje
Slovenia
Hungary
Belgium	Eurosport
Denmark
Finland
Ireland
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Norway
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom
Arab World	BeIN Sports Arabia
Japan	J Sports
Indonesia	TelkomVision Arena & Lejel Sport
Argentina	Gol TV
Bolivia
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Uruguay
Venezuela
Asia	Fox Sports Asia
Hong Kong	I-Cable

See also

• 
  Association football portal
  


• 
  Russia portal
  

• Football in Russia


• Russian Cup


• Soviet Top League


• List of attendance figures at domestic professional sports leagues


• List of foreign Russian Premier League players

References

1. 
   ^ ABOUT RUSSIAN FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP rfpl.org
   


2. 
   ^ Russian Premier League uefa.com
   


3. 
   ^ RFPL Archived 29 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine. rfpl.org (Russian: Российская футбольная Премьер-Лига)
   


4. 
   ^ (Russian: Росгосстрах — Чемпионат России по футболу)
   


5. 
   ^ Футбол и сомбреро, они, если честно... Новые логотипы РФПЛ как прививка от скуки
   


6. 
   ^ Новый логотип премьер лиги — просто Бомба!
   


7. 
   ^ Медвежья услуга. С чем ассоциируется наш футбол
   


8. 
   ^ Представлен рабочий вариант нового логотипа РФПЛ
   


9. 
   ^ Cоздание логотипа Российской Премьер-Лиги
   


10. 
    ^ "Russian league switches to new calendar". UEFA.com. UEFA. 2010-09-13. Retrieved 2010-09-13. 
    

External links

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• History and statictics

v t e Russian Premier League
Predecessor: Soviet Top League
Seasons	Top League 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 Top Division 1998 1999 2000 2001 Premier League 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19
Winners	Spartak Moscow (10) CSKA Moscow (6) Zenit St. Petersburg (4) Lokomotiv Moscow (3) Rubin Kazan (2) Spartak Vladikavkaz (1)

v t e Russian Premier League teams
2018–19 teams	Akhmat Grozny Anzhi Makhachkala Arsenal Tula CSKA Moscow Dynamo Moscow Krasnodar Krylia Sovetov Samara Lokomotiv Moscow Orenburg Rostov Rubin Kazan Spartak Moscow Ufa Ural Yekaterinburg Yenisey Krasnoyarsk Zenit Saint Petersburg
Former teams	Baltika Kaliningrad Chernomorets Novorossiysk Dynamo Stavropol Fakel Voronezh KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny Khimki Lada-Togliatti Luch Vladivostok Mordovia Saransk Moscow Rotor Volgograd Saturn Ramenskoye Shinnik Yaroslavl SKA-Khabarovsk Sibir Novosibirsk Sokol Saratov Spartak Nalchik Spartak Vladikavkaz Tekstilshchik Kamyshin Tom Tomsk Torpedo Moscow Tyumen
Defunct teams	Amkar Perm Asmaral Moscow Kuban Krasnodar Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod Okean Nakhodka Torpedo-ZIL Moscow Tosno Uralan Elista Volga Nizhny Novgorod Zhemchuzhina-Sochi

v t e 2018–19 Russian Premier League managers
Adiyev (Anzhi) Alenichev (Yenisey) Berdyev (Rubin) Carrera (Spartak Moscow) Fedotov (Orenburg) Goncharenko (CSKA Moscow) Karpin (Rostov) Khokhlov (Dynamo Moscow) Kononov (Arsenal Tula) Lediakhov (Akhmat) Musayev (Krasnodar) Parfenov (Ural) Semak (Zenit) Semin (Lokomotiv Moscow) Tikhonov (Krylia Sovetov) Tomarov (Ufa)

v t e 2018–19 Russian Premier League venues

Akhmat-Arena (Grozny) Anzhi Arena (Makhachkala) Arena Khimki (Khimki) Arsenal Stadium (Tula) Central Stadium (Krasnoyarsk) Central Stadium (Yekaterinburg) Cosmos Arena (Samara) Gazovik Stadium (Orenburg) Kazan Arena (Kazan) Krasnodar Stadium (Krasnodar) Krestovsky Stadium (Saint Petersburg) Neftyanik Stadium (Ufa) Otkritie Arena (Moscow) Rostov Arena (Rostov-on-Don) RZD Arena (Moscow) VEB Arena (Moscow)

v t e Football in Russia
*_Russian_Premier_League *_Football_National_League *_Professional_Football_League *_Amateur_Football_League"> Russian Football Union Russian Premier League Football National League Professional Football League Amateur Football League
National teams	Men National team Second team Olympic (U-23) U-21 U-20 U-19 U-18 U-17 Students Women Women's national team Women's U-19 Women's U-17 Women's U-15
League system	Men Premier League National Football League Professional Football League West South Centre Urals-Volga East Amateur League Regional League Women Women's Championship Youth Youth Championship
Domestic cups	Men Russian Cup Russian Super Cup FNL Cup Premier League Cup (defunct) Women Russian Women's Cup
Awards	Footballer of the Year Sport-Express Futbol The best 33 (Russia) 100 club Grigory Fedotov club Igor Netto club Lev Yashin club
Lists	Soviet and Russian football champions List of Russia international footballers List of clubs List of venues Foreign players All-time Table Records
Categories	Men's clubs Women's clubs Men's players Women's players Expatriate footballers Managers Referees Venues

v t e Top-level football leagues in Europe (UEFA)
Current	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands Finland France Georgia Germany Gibraltar Greece Hungary Iceland Israel Italy Kazakhstan Kosovo Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales
Defunct	Austria Tagblatt Pokal Gauliga Ostmark Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Republic State Czechoslovakia Denmark East Germany England Finland Germany Bezirksliga Bayern Gauliga Kreisliga Bayern Hessen Nordmain Odenwald Pfalz Saar Südmain Südwest Württemberg Nordkreis-Liga Oberliga Berlin Oberliga Nord Oberliga Süd Oberliga Südwest Oberliga West Südkreis-Liga Westkreis-Liga Herzeg-Bosnia Mandatory Palestine Scotland Premier Division Premier League Turkey Championship National Division Serbia and Montenegro Soviet Union Yugoslavia
Non-recognized	Artsakh Crimea Isle of Man Monaco Northern Cyprus Vatican City

v t e Top sport leagues in Russia
Leagues	Men's Basketball Football Futsal Handball Hockey Rugby Volleyball Water polo Women's Basketball Football Futsal Handball Volleyball Water polo
Others	Badminton Chess Cycling road race time trial Figure skating

v t e Top level men's association football leagues around the world
Africa (clubs)	North Africa Botola (Morocco) Ligue Professionnelle 1 (Algeria) Ligue Professionnelle 1 (Tunisia) Premier League (Egypt) Premier League (Libya) West Africa Cape Verdean Football Championship (Cape Verde) Campeonato Nacional (Guinea-Bissau) Championnat National (Guinea) Championnat National (Togo) First Division (Gambia) Ligue 1 (Ivory Coast) Ligue 1 (Mauritania) National Premier League (Sierra Leone) Première Division (Mali) Premier League (Benin) Premier League (Burkina Faso) Premier League (Ghana) Premier League (Liberia) Premier League (Niger) Nigerian Professional Football League (Nigeria) Premier League (Senegal) Primera División (Equatorial Guinea) Central Africa Championnat National D1 (Gabon) Central African Republic League Elite One (Cameroon) São Tomé and Príncipe Championship East Africa Premier League (Burundi) Premier League (Djibouti) Premier League (Eritrea) Premier League (Ethiopia) Premier League (Kenya) Premier League (Sudan) Premier League (Tanzania) Premier League (Zanzibar) Rwanda National Football League Somali First Division South Sudan Football Championship Uganda Premier League Southern Africa First Division (Seychelles) Girabola (Angola) Premier League Moçambola (Mozambique) Premier Division (Zanzibar) Premier League (Botswana) Premier League (Comoros) Premier League (Lesotho) Premier League (Namibia) Premier League (Swaziland) Premier League (Zambia) Premier Division (South Africa) Premier Soccer League (Zimbabwe) THB Champions League (Madagascar)
Asia (clubs)	West Asia Saudi Professional League (Saudi Arabia) Kuwait Premier League (Kuwait) Qatar Stars League (Qatar) UAE Pro-League Iraqi Premier League (Iraq) Oman Professional League (Oman) Jordan Premier League (Jordan) Lebanese Premier League (Lebanon) Bahraini Premier League (Bahrain) Yemeni League (Yemen) Central Asia Persian Gulf Pro League (Iran) Uzbekistan Super League (Uzbekistan) Ýokary Liga (Turkmenistan) South Asia I-League/Indian Super League (India) Bangladesh Super League (Bangladesh) East Asia Chinese Super League (China PR) J1 League (Japan) K League 1 (Korea Republic) DPR Korea League (Korea DPR) Hong Kong Premier League (Hong Kong) Taiwan Football Premier League (Chinese Taipei) Southeast Asia Thai League 1 (Thailand) Malaysia Super League (Malaysia) Singapore Premier League (Singapore) Liga 1 (Indonesia) A-League (Australia/New Zealand) V.League 1 (Vietnam) Myanmar National League (Myanmar) Philippines Football League (Philippines) LFA Primeira Divisão (Timor Leste)
Europe (clubs)	Belgian First Division A (Belgium) Danish Superliga (Denmark) Premier League (England) Ligue 1 (France) Bundesliga (Germany) Superleague Greece (Greece) Serie A (Italy) Eredivisie (Netherlands) Eliteserien (Norway) Primeira Liga (Portugal) Russian Premier League (Russia) La Liga (Spain) Swiss Super League (Switzerland) Süper Lig (Turkey) Ukrainian Premier League (Ukraine) Czech First League (Czech Republic) Liga I (Romania) Scottish Premiership (Scotland)
North & Central America, and the Caribbean (clubs)	North America Major League Soccer (United States/Canada) Liga MX (Mexico) Central America Liga FPD (Costa Rica) Liga Nacional (Honduras) Caribbean Ligue Haïtienne (Haiti) Jamaican National Premier League Puerto Rico Soccer League (Puerto Rico) TT Pro League (Trinidad and Tobago)
Oceania (clubs)	A-League (Australia/New Zealand) New Zealand Football Championship (New Zealand) Telekom S-League (Solomon Islands)
South America (clubs)	Argentine Primera División (Argentina) Bolivian Primera División (Bolivia) Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (Brazil) Chilean Primera División (Chile) Categoría Primera A (Colombia) Ecuadorian Serie A (Ecuador) Paraguayan Primera División (Paraguay) Peruvian Primera División (Peru) Uruguayan Primera División (Uruguay) Venezuelan Primera División (Venezuela)
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