In this year, Spartak Moscow won their fourth consecutive Russian title, and seventh overall.
Overview Team Head coach FC Spartak Moscow Oleg Romantsev FC Lokomotiv Moscow Yuri Syomin PFC CSKA Moscow Oleg Dolmatov FC Torpedo Moscow Vitaly Shevchenko FC Dynamo Moscow Georgi Yartsev (until June)Aleksei Petrushin (from June) FC Alania Vladikavkaz Valery Gazzaev FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don Sergey Andreyev FC Zenit St. Petersburg Anatoli Davydov FC Uralan Elista Pavlo Yakovenko (until May)Aleksandr Skrynnikov (caretaker) (May to June)Yevhen Kucherevskyi (June)Aleksandr Skrynnikov (caretaker) (June)Aleksandr Averyanov (from June) FC Saturn Ramenskoye Sergei Pavlov FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod Valeri Ovchinnikov FC Krylia Sovetov Samara Aleksandr Tarkhanov FC Rotor Volgograd Viktor Prokopenko FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk Sergei Butenko (until July)Vladimir Fedotov (from July) FC Zhemchuzhina Sochi Anatoly Baidachny (until May)Gennadi Afanasyev (caretaker) (May to June)Viktor Antikhovich (from June) FC Shinnik Yaroslavl Aleksandr Averyanov (until April)Aleksandr Pobegalov (caretaker) (April to June)Benjaminas Zelkevičius (June to October)Aleksandr Pobegalov (caretaker) (from October)
Standings
Results
Season statistics Top goalscorers
Rank Player Club Goals1 Georgi DemetradzeAlania212 Andrey TikhonovSpartak Moscow193 Vladimir KulikCSKA154 Dmitri LoskovLokomotiv Moscow14 Oleg TeryokhinDynamo6 Arsen Avakov Lokomotiv N.N.137 Vyacheslav KamoltsevTorpedo12 Sergei SemakCSKA Oleg VeretennikovRotor10 Egor TitovSpartak Moscow11
Awards On December 2 Russian Football Union named its list of 33 top players:
Goalkeepers Aleksandr Filimonov (Spartak Moscow) Ruslan Nigmatullin (Lokomotiv Moscow) Roman Berezovsky (Zenit)
Right backs Dmytro Parfenov (Spartak Moscow) Valeri Minko (CSKA Moscow) Aleksei Arifullin (Lokomotiv Moscow)
Right-centre backs Dmitri Khlestov (Spartak Moscow) Igor Cherevchenko (Lokomotiv Moscow) Vyacheslav Dayev (Torpedo Moscow)
Left-centre backs Igor Chugainov (Lokomotiv Moscow) Viktor Bulatov (Spartak Moscow) Yevgeni Varlamov (CSKA Moscow)
Left backs Sergei Gurenko (Lokomotiv Moscow) Yuri Kovtun (Spartak Moscow) Oleg Kornaukhov (CSKA Moscow)
Right wingers Sergei Semak (CSKA Moscow) Albert Sarkisyan (Lokomotiv Moscow) Olexandr Gorshkov (Zenit)
Right-center midfielders Alexey Smertin (Lokomotiv Moscow) Yuri Drozdov (Lokomotiv Moscow) Dmitri Khomukha (CSKA Moscow)
Left-center midfielders Yegor Titov (Spartak Moscow) Dmitri Loskov (Lokomotiv Moscow) Artyom Bezrodny (Spartak Moscow)
Left wingers Andrey Tikhonov (Spartak Moscow) Rolan Gusev (Dynamo Moscow) Yevgeni Kharlachyov (Lokomotiv Moscow)
Right forwards Aleksandr Panov (Zenit) Zaza Janashia (Lokomotiv Moscow) Aleksandr Shirko (Spartak Moscow)
Left forwards Giorgi Demetradze (Alania) Vladimir Kulik (CSKA Moscow) Oleg Teryokhin (Dynamo Moscow)
Medal squads
1. FC Spartak Moscow Goalkeepers: Aleksandr Filimonov (28), Andrei Smetanin (5). Defenders: Dmitri Khlestov (27 / 1), Yuri Kovtun (26 / 2), Eduard Mor (23), Dmytro Parfenov (17), Vadim Evseev (11 / 1), Yevgeni Bushmanov (9), Dmitri Ananko (7). Midfielders: Andrey Tikhonov (29 / 19), Yegor Titov (29 / 11), Valery Kechinov (26 / 4), Viktor Bulatov (29 / 4), Vasili Baranov (24 / 4), Artyom Bezrodny (19 / 5), Ilya Tsymbalar (11 / 2), Aleksei Zlydnev (2), Aleksei Melyoshin (2), Peniche (2). Forwards: Aleksandr Shirko (27 / 9), Luis Robson (20 / 7), Sergei Yuran (18 / 3), Maksim Buznikin (6 / 1), Anatoli Kanishchev (1).(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)
One own goal each scored by Aleksandr Berketov (FC Rotor Volgograd) and Igor Cherevchenko (FC Lokomotiv Moscow).
Manager: Oleg Romantsev.
Transferred out during the season: Sergei Yuran (to SK Sturm Graz), Ilya Tsymbalar (to FC Lokomotiv Moscow), Maksim Buznikin (to FC Saturn Ramenskoye). 2. FC Lokomotiv Moscow Goalkeepers: Ruslan Nigmatullin (29), Aleksey Polyakov (1). Defenders: Igor Chugainov (29 / 4), Andrei Lavrik (26), Oleg Pashinin (25 / 1), Yuri Drozdov (21), Igor Cherevchenko (20 / 2), Sargis Hovhannisyan (16 / 2), Aleksei Arifullin (16), Andrei Solomatin (13), Sergei Gurenko (6 / 2), Semyon Semenenko (6). Midfielders: Alexey Smertin (29 / 6), Dmitri Loskov (28 / 14), Yevgeni Kharlachyov (27 / 9), Albert Sarkisyan (26 / 4), Vladimir Maminov (22 / 3), Sergei Neretin (3), Aleksandr Borodyuk (1). Forwards: Dmitri Bulykin (26 / 8), Zaza Janashia (20 / 6), Ruslan Pimenov (4 / 1), Mikalay Ryndzyuk (4).
Manager: Yuri Syomin.
Transferred out during the season: Sergei Gurenko (to A.S. Roma), Mikalay Ryndzyuk (to FC BATE Borisov), Aleksandr Borodyuk (to FC Torpedo-ZIL Moscow). 3. PFC CSKA Moscow Goalkeepers: Dmitri Goncharov (18), Andrei Novosadov (12). Defenders: Maksim Bokov (28 / 1), Valeri Minko (28 / 1), Oleg Kornaukhov (26), Yevgeni Varlamov (21 / 5), Igor Aksyonov (16), Denis Pervushin (4), Ante Pešić (4), Denis Yevsikov (3). Midfielders: Dmitri Khomukha (30 / 8), Sergei Semak (29 / 12), Sergei Filippenkov (29 / 6), Andrei Tsaplin (25), Aleksei Savelyev (24 / 2), Oleg Shishkin (15 / 3), Marek Hollý (14 / 1), Aleksandr Borodkin (13), Viktor Navochenko (13), Aleksandr Grishin (12), Magomed Adiev (4), Maksim Nizovtsev (2), Artyom Kovalenko (1), Andrei Krasnopjorov (1), Aleksandr Lebedev (1). Forwards: Vladimir Kulik (30 / 14), Goran Gutalj (2 / 1), Sergei Rodin (2), Aleksandr Suchkov (2).
One own goal each scored by Konstantin Golovskoy (FC Dynamo Moscow) and Dmitriy Lyapkin (FC Saturn Ramenskoye).
Manager: Oleg Dolmatov.
Transferred out during the season: Aleksandr Borodkin (to FC Torpedo-ZIL Moscow), Magomed Adiev (to FC Sokol Saratov), Ante Pešić (to NK Vukovar '91), Maksim Nizovtsev (to FC Baltika Kaliningrad), Goran Gutalj (to HIT Gorica), Andrei Krasnopjorov (to FC Lantana Tallinn).
Attendances
# Club Average 1 Alania 21,400 2 Zenit 18,800 3 Spartak Moscow 18,000 4 Krylia Sovetov 14,367 5 Nizhny Novgorod 12,383 6 Rotor 11,700 7 Saturn 9,833 8 Chernomorets 9,633 9 Rostselmash 9,120 10 PFC CSKA 8,613 11 Shinnik 8,600 12 Dynamo Moscow 8,367 13 Torpedo 6,247 14 Zhemchuzhina 5,867 15 Elista 5,660 16 Lokomotiv Moscow 5,593
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See also 1999 in Russian football
References
External links RSSSF