2005 Russian Premier League

The 2005 Russian Premier League was the 14th season of the premier football competition in Russia since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the 4th under the current Russian Premier League name.

Teams As in the previous season, 16 teams are playing in the 2005 season. After the 2004 season, Kuban Krasnodar and Rotor Volgograd were relegated to the 2005 Russian First Division. They were replaced by Terek Grozny and Tom Tomsk, the winners and runners up of the 2004 Russian First Division.

Venues Alania Amkar CSKA Dynamo Republican Spartak Stadium Zvezda Stadium Central Stadium Central Stadium Capacity: 32,464 Capacity: 17,000 Capacity: 36,540 Capacity: 36,540 Krylia Sovetov Samara Lokomotiv Moscow Metallurg Stadium RZD Arena Capacity: 27,084 Capacity: 33,001 Moscow Rostov Eduard Streltsov Stadium Olimp-2 Capacity: 13,450 Capacity: 15,840 Rubin Saturn Central Stadium Saturn Stadium Capacity: 22,500 Capacity: 14,685 Shinnik Spartak Shinnik Stadium Luzhniki Stadium Capacity: 22,871 Capacity: 81,029 Terek Tom Torpedo Zenit Saint Petersburg Central Stadium Trud Stadium Luzhniki Stadium Petrovsky Stadium Capacity: 12,500 Capacity: 10,028 Capacity: 81,029 Capacity: 21,570

Personnel and kits TeamLocationHead coachCaptainKit manufacturerShirt sponsorAlaniaVladikavkaz Aleksandr Yanovsky UmbroAmkar PermPerm Sergei OborinAdidasCSKAMoscow Valery GazzaevUmbroSibneftDynamoMoscow Andrey Kobelev UmbroXeroxLokomotivMoscow Vladimir EshtrekovAdidasKryliaSamara Gadzhi GadzhiyevMoscowMoscow Leonid SlutskyRostovRostov-on-Don Sergei BalakhninUmbroRubinKazan Kurban BerdyevNikeSaturnRamenskoye Vladimir ShevchukAdidasShinnikYaroslavl Oleg DolmatovUmbroSpartakMoscow Aleksandrs StarkovsNikeTerekPyatigorsk Aleksandr TarkhanovUmbroTomTomsk Anatoliy ByshovetsAdidasTorpedoMoscow Sergei PetrenkoUmbroZenitSaint Petersburg Vlastimil PetrželaAdidasGazprom

Managerial changes Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Position in table Replaced by Date of appointment Position in table Alania Yuri Sekinayev Preseason Bakhva Tedeyev Preseason Rostov Sergei Balakhnin Gennadi Styopushkin Alania Bakhva Tedeyev April 2005 Edgar Gess 19 April 2005 Rostov Gennadi Styopushkin Medical treatment 17 April 2005 16th Paul Ashworth 17 April 2005 16th Rostov Paul Ashworth End of Role 4 May 2005 16th Gennadi Styopushkin 4 May 2005 16th Dynamo Oleg Romantsev May 2005 Andrey Kobelev May 2005 Lokomotiv Yuri Semin May 2005 Vladimir Eshtrekov May 2005 Saturn Aleksandr Tarkhanov May 2005 Vladimir Shevchuk May 2005 Alania Edgar Gess July 2005 Aleksandr Yanovsky July 2005 Alania Aleksandr Yanovsky End of Role 4 July 2005 14th Itzhak Shum 4 July 2005 14th Dynamo Andrey Kobelev End of Role 19 July 2005 9th Ivo Wortmann 19 July 2005 9th Moscow Valery Petrakov July 2005 Leonid Slutsky July 2005 Rostov Gennadi Styopushkin July 2005 Valery Petrakov July 2005 Rostov Valery Petrakov August 2005 Sergei Balakhnin August 2005 Tom Boris Stukalov August 2005 Anatoliy Byshovets August 2005 Alania Itzhak Shum Fired 27 September 2005 15th Aleksandr Yanovsky 27 September 2005 15th Terek Vait Talgayev October 2005 Aleksandr Tarkhanov October 2005 Dynamo Ivo Wortmann Fired 8 November 2005 8th Andrey Kobelev 8 November 2005 8th

League table

Results

Season statistics Top goalscorers

Rank Player Club Goal1 Dmitri Kirichenko Moscow 142 Derlei Dynamo 133 Igor Semshov Torpedo 124 Roman Pavlyuchenko Spartak Moscow 115 Aleksandr Panov Torpedo 10 Ivica Olić CSKA 7 Andrey Arshavin Zenit 9 Dzhambulad Bazayev Alania 9 Diniyar Bilyaletdinov Lokomotiv 89 Maksim Buznikin Rostov 9 Vágner Love CSKA Tomáš Čížek Rubin Roman Adamov Terek Aleksandr Kerzhakov Zenit Andriy Husin Krylia

Statistics

Goals: 539 (average 2.25 per match) From penalties: 58 (11%) Saved/Missed penalties: 17 (23%) Goals scored home: 324 (60%) Goals scored away: 215 (40%) Yellow cards: 962 (average 4.01 per match) For violent conduct: 603 (63%) For unsporting behaviour: 287 (30%) For undisciplined behaviour: 21 (2%) Other: 51 (5%) Red cards: 32 (average 0.13 per match) For second yellow card: 20 (63%) For denying an obvious goal-scoring opportunity: 3 (9%) For unsporting behaviour: 3 (9%) For insulting language: 3 (9%) For attack wrecking: 1 (3%) For violent conduct: 1 (3%) Attendance: 2,881,674 (average 12,006 per match; 96,048 per matchday)

Awards On December 9 Russian Football Union named its list of 33 top players:

Goalkeepers Igor Akinfeev (CSKA Moscow) Wojciech Kowalewski (Spartak Moscow) Sergei Ovchinnikov (Lokomotiv Moscow)

Right backs Vasili Berezutski (CSKA Moscow) Aleksandr Anyukov (Krylya Sovetov / Zenit) Jerry-Christian Tchuissé (FC Moscow)

Right-centre backs Sergei Ignashevich (CSKA Moscow) Malkhaz Asatiani (Lokomotiv Moscow) Antônio Géder (Saturn)

Left-centre backs Nemanja Vidić (Spartak Moscow) Dmitri Sennikov (Lokomotiv Moscow) Erik Hagen (Zenit)

Left backs Aleksei Berezutski (CSKA Moscow) Calisto (Rubin) Pavel Mareš (Zenit)

Defensive midfielders Elvir Rahimić (CSKA Moscow) Francisco Lima (Lokomotiv Moscow) MacBeth Sibaya (Rubin)

Right wingers Chidi Odiah (CSKA Moscow) Marat Izmailov (Lokomotiv Moscow) Vladimir Bystrov (Spartak Moscow)

Central midfielders Daniel Carvalho (CSKA Moscow) Igor Semshov (Torpedo Moscow) Dmitri Loskov (Lokomotiv Moscow)

Left wingers Yuri Zhirkov (CSKA Moscow) Diniyar Bilyaletdinov (Lokomotiv Moscow) Pyotr Bystrov (Saturn)

Right forwards Andrei Arshavin (Zenit) Dmitri Sychev (Lokomotiv Moscow) Aleksandr Kerzhakov (Zenit)

Left forwards Dmitri Kirichenko (FC Moscow) Vágner Love (CSKA Moscow) Derlei (Dynamo Moscow)

Medal squads

1. PFC CSKA Moscow Goalkeepers: Igor Akinfeev (29), Veniamin Mandrykin (1). Defenders: Deividas Šemberas (28), Aleksei Berezutski (27 / 2), Vasili Berezutski (27 / 2), Sergei Ignashevich (22 / 5), Bohdan Shershun (1). Midfielders: Elvir Rahimić (30 / 1), Daniel Carvalho (29 / 4), Evgeni Aldonin (29 / 1), Chidi Odiah (27 / 2), Miloš Krasić (27 / 2), Rolan Gusev (25 / 4), Dudu (21 / 3), Yuri Zhirkov (20 / 2), Juris Laizāns (3 / 1), Osmar Ferreyra (2), Ivan Taranov (1). Forwards: Vágner Love (21 / 7), Ivica Olić (20 / 10), Sergey Samodin (12), Aleksandr Salugin (5 / 1), Sergei Pravosud (5).(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

One own goal scored by Denis Kovba (FC Krylia Sovetov Samara).

Manager: Valery Gazzaev.

Transferred out during the season: Juris Laizāns (to FC Torpedo Moscow), Osmar Ferreyra (on loan to PSV Eindhoven), Bohdan Shershun (to FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk). 2. FC Spartak Moscow Goalkeepers: Wojciech Kowalewski (29), Aleksei Zuev (1). Defenders: Nemanja Vidić (27 / 2), Clemente Rodríguez (25 / 1), Martin Jiránek (22), Ignas Dedura (18 / 1), Adrian Iencsi (13 / 1), Emanuel Pogatetz (11), Florin Şoavă (7), Dmytro Parfenov (2). Midfielders: Yegor Titov (28 / 4), Denis Boyarintsev (27 / 4), Radoslav Kováč (27 / 4), Serghei Covalciuc (21 / 2), Maksym Kalynychenko (18 / 4), Vladimir Bystrov (15 / 3), Aleksandr Samedov (11), Dmitri Alenichev (8), Mozart (7), Andrejs Rubins (5). Forwards: Roman Pavlyuchenko (25 / 11), Fernando Cavenaghi (25 / 6), Mihajlo Pjanović (17 / 1), Aleksandr Pavlenko (14 / 2), Nikita Bazhenov (10 / 1).

Manager: Aleksandrs Starkovs .

Transferred out during the season: Aleksandr Samedov (to FC Lokomotiv Moscow), Emanuel Pogatetz (to Middlesbrough). 3. FC Lokomotiv Moscow Goalkeepers: Sergei Ovchinnikov (29), Aleksei Poliakov (1). Defenders: Dmitri Sennikov (29 / 1), Malkhaz Asatiani (28 / 3), Sergei Gurenko (26), Vadim Evseev (21 / 2), Oleg Pashinin (18 / 1), Sergei Omelyanchuk (13), Dmitri Kruglov (8), Aleksei Bugayev (8). Midfielders: Dmitri Khokhlov (30 / 3), Diniyar Bilyaletdinov (29 / 8), Francisco Lima (26), Dmitri Loskov (22 / 6), Vladimir Maminov (20), Marat Izmailov (16 / 4), André Bikey (9), Aleksandr Samedov (9). Forwards: Igor Lebedenko (23 / 6), Dmitri Sychev (21 / 6), Francesco Ruopolo (7), Winston Parks (5), Essau Kanyenda (3), Maksim Buznikin (2), Mikheil Ashvetia (2), Giorgi Chelidze (2), Ruslan Pimenov (1).

One own goal scored by Mykhaylo Starostyak (FC Shinnik Yaroslavl).

Manager: Yuri Syomin (until April), Vladimir Eshtrekov (from April).

Transferred out during the season: Winston Parks (on loan to FC Saturn Moscow Oblast), Essau Kanyenda (on loan to FC Rostov), Maksim Buznikin (to FC Rostov), Mikheil Ashvetia (to FC Rostov), Ruslan Pimenov (to FC Alania Vladikavkaz).

Attendances

Rank Club Average 1 Krylia Sovetov 20,833 2 Zenit 20,385 3 Spartak Moscow 19,733 4 Alania 17,600 5 Amkar 13,133 6 Tom 13,053 7 Lokomotiv Moscow 12,140 8 Rubin 12,053 9 PFC CSKA 11,740 10 Saturn 9,900 11 Shinnik 9,307 12 Rostov 8,767 13 Dynamo Moscow 8,500 14 Torpedo Moscow 6,520 15 FC Moscow 6,247 16 Terek 5,947Source:

2005 Russian Premier League

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