The 2009 Russian Premier League was the 18th season of the Russian football championship since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and 8th under the current Russian Premier League name. The season started on 14 March 2009 with a goalless draw between Amkar Perm and Rostov. The last matches were played on 29 November 2009. On 21 November 2009 Rubin Kazan successfully retained their champion's title.

Teams As in the previous season, 16 teams played in the 2009 season. After the 2008 season, Shinnik Yaroslavl and Luch-Energiya Vladivostok were relegated to the 2009 Russian First Division. They were replaced by Rostov and Kuban Krasnodar, the winners and runners up of the 2008 Russian First Division.

Venues Dynamo Moscow played their home games during the 2009 season at the new Arena Khimki, due to their Dynamo Stadium undergoing renovation work.

Amkar CSKA Dynamo Khimki Zvezda Stadium Luzhniki Stadium Arena Khimki Arena Khimki Capacity: 17,000 Capacity: 81,000 Capacity: 18,840 Capacity: 18,840 Krylia Kuban Metallurg Stadium Kuban Stadium Capacity: 27,084 Capacity: 28,800 Lokomotiv Moscow RZD Arena Eduard Streltsov Stadium Capacity: 33,001 Capacity: 13,450 Rostov Rubin Olimp-2 Central Stadium Capacity: 15,840 Capacity: 22,500 Saturn Spartak Moscow Saturn Stadium Luzhniki Stadium Capacity: 14,685 Capacity: 81,029 Spartak Nalchik Terek Tom Zenit Saint Petersburg Spartak Stadium Sultan Bilimkhanov Stadium Trud Stadium Petrovsky Stadium Capacity: 14,149 Capacity: 10,400 Capacity: 10,028 Capacity: 21,570

Personnel and kits TeamLocationHead coachCaptainKit manufacturerShirt sponsorAmkar PermPerm Rashid Rakhimov Martin KushevNikeCSKAMoscow Leonid Slutsky Igor AkinfeevReebokAeroflotDynamoMoscow Andrey Kobelev Dmitri KhokhlovUmbroVTB BankKhimkiKhimki Igor Chugainov Dragan BlatnjakNikeKryliaSamara Yuri Gazzaev Ruslan AjinjalNikeKubanKrasnodar Poghos Galstyan Andrei TopchuNikeLokomotivMoscow Yuri Semin RodolfoAdidasMoscowMoscow Miodrag Božović Yuri ZhevnovUmbroRostovRostov-on-Don Oleg Dolmatov Mikhail OsinovNikeRubinKazan Kurban Berdyev Sergei SemakNikeSaturnRamenskoye Andrei Gordeyev Aleksei IgoninAdidasSpartakMoscow Valeri Karpin Martin JiránekNikeSpartakNalchik Yuri Krasnozhan Miodrag DžudovićUmbroTerekGrozny Shahin Diniyev Timur DzhabrailovAdidasSAT&Co Managing CompanyTomTomsk Valery Nepomnyashchy Sergei PareikoZenitSaint Petersburg Anatoli Davydov Aleksandr AnyukovNikeGazprom

Managerial changes Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Position in table Replaced by Date of appointment Position in table Amkar Miodrag Božović Preseason Dimitar Dimitrov Preseason CSKA Valery Gazzaev Zico 9 January 2009 Khimki Sergei Yuran Konstantin Sarsania 15 December 2008 Moscow Oleg Blokhin Miodrag Božović 28 November 2008 Spartak Moscow Michael Laudrup Fired 15 April 2009 10th Valeri Karpin Lokomotiv Rashid Rakhimov Fired 28 April 2009 13th Vladimir Maminov 28 April 2009 8th Saturn Jürgen Röber Fired 15 May 2009 15th Andrei Gordeyev 15 May 2009 15th Saturn Andrei Gordeyev End of role 20 May 2009 Andrei Gordeyev 20 May 2009 Lokomotiv Vladimir Maminov End of role 1 June 2009 8th Yuri Semin 1 June 2009 8th Zenit Dick Advocaat Fired 10 August 2009 8th Anatoli Davydov 10 August 2009 8th Kuban Sergei Ovchinnikov Fired 11 August 2009 14th Poghos Galstyan 11 August 2009 14th Amkar Dimitar Dimitrov Fired 1 September 2009 13th Rashid Rakhimov 5 September 2009 CSKA Zico Sacked 10 September 2009 4th Juande Ramos 10 September 2009 4th Khimki Konstantin Sarsania Resigned 19 September 2009 16th Igor Chugainov Zenit Anatoli Davydov End of role 2 October 2009 Anatoli Davydov 2 October 2009 Krylia Sovetov Leonid Slutsky Resigned 9 October 2009 10th Yuri Gazzaev 10 October 20009 10th Terek Vyacheslav Hrozny Resigned 20 October 2009 9th Shahin Diniyev 20 October 2009 9th CSKA Juande Ramos Mutual Termination 26 October 2009 5th Leonid Slutsky 26 October 2009 5th

League table

Results

Season statistics Top goalscorers

Rank Player Club Goal1 Welliton Spartak 21 2 Aleksandr Bukharov Rubin 16 Alejandro Domínguez Rubin 4 Dmitri Sychev Lokomotiv 135 Aleksandr Kerzhakov Dynamo 12 Alex Spartak 7 Shamil Lakhiyalov Terek 118 Vladimir Bystrov Dynamo / Zenit 109 Tomáš Necid CSKA 9 Miloš Krasić CSKA Jan Koller Krylia

Awards On 24 November 2009 Russian Football Union named its list of 33 top players:

Goalkeepers Igor Akinfeev (CSKA) Sergei Ryzhikov (Rubin) Vladimir Gabulov (Dynamo)

Right backs Aleksandr Anyukov (Zenit) Sergei Parshivlyuk (Spartak M.) Kirill Nababkin (Moscow)

Right-centre backs Roman Sharonov (Rubin) Vasili Berezutskiy (CSKA) Martin Jiránek (Spartak M.)

Left-centre backs Sergei Ignashevich (CSKA) César Navas (Rubin) Denis Kolodin (Dynamo)

Left backs Cristian Ansaldi (Rubin) Renat Yanbaev (Lokomotiv) Georgi Schennikov (CSKA)

Defensive midfielders Sergei Semak (Rubin) Igor Denisov (Zenit) Dmitri Khokhlov (Dynamo)

Right wingers Vladimir Bystrov (Spartak M. / Zenit) Miloš Krasić (CSKA) Aleksandr Samedov (Moscow)

Central midfielders Alex (Spartak M.) Alan Dzagoev (CSKA) Igor Semshov (Zenit)

Left wingers Konstantin Zyryanov (Zenit) Edgaras Česnauskis (Moscow) Aleksandr Ryazantsev (Rubin)

Right forwards Welliton (Spartak M.) Aleksandr Bukharov (Rubin) Fatih Tekke (Zenit)

Left forwards Alejandro Domínguez (Rubin) Aleksandr Kerzhakov (Dynamo) Dmitri Sychev (Lokomotiv)

Medal squads

1. FC Rubin Kazan Goalkeepers: Sergei Ryzhikov (29), Nukri Revishvili (1). Defenders: César Navas (28), Cristian Ansaldi (25 / 1), Roman Sharonov (25 / 2), Vitali Kaleshin (18), Lasha Salukvadze (10 / 1), Aleksei Popov (10), Dato Kvirkvelia (7), Aleksandr Orekhov (2), Stjepan Tomas (1). Midfielders: Sergei Semak (26 / 6), Gökdeniz Karadeniz (25 / 6), MacBeth Sibaya (23 / 1), Christian Noboa (22 / 2), Aleksandr Ryazantsev (18 / 3), Yevgeni Balyaikin (17), Andrei Gorbanets (11), Pyotr Bystrov (11), Alan Kasaev (10 / 1), Rafał Murawski (7 / 1), Serhii Rebrov (7), Makhach Gadzhiyev (1), Aleksei Kotlyarov (1). Forwards: Alejandro Domínguez (23 / 19), Aleksandr Bukharov (23 / 16), Hasan Kabze (14 / 2), Roman Adamov (13 / 2), Igor Portnyagin (2 / 1), Davron Mirzayev (1).(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

Manager: Gurban Berdiýew.

Transferred out during the season: Roman Adamov (on loan to FC Krylia Sovetov Samara), Serhii Rebrov (retired), Makhach Gadzhiyev (end of loan from FC Saturn Moscow Oblast). 2. FC Spartak Moscow Goalkeepers: Soslan Dzhanayev (26), Stipe Pletikosa (4). Defenders: Martin Jiránek (29 / 1), Sergei Parshivlyuk (21 / 1), Martin Stranzl (19 / 1), Malik Fathi (16 / 3), Fyodor Kudryashov (7), Clemente Rodríguez (7), Egor Filipenko (5 / 1), Ignas Dedura (4). Midfielders: Alex (29 / 12), Rafael Carioca (23), Yevgeni Makeyev (20 / 2), Vladimir Bystrov (18 / 4), Denis Boyarintsev (18), Renat Sabitov (17), Serghei Covalciuc (16), Ivan Saenko (13 / 1), Aleksandr Pavlenko (10), Zhano Ananidze (8 / 2), Quincy (8 / 2), Ibson (6), Vladislav Ryzhkov (4), Maksim Grigoryev (3), Artur Maloyan (3), Igor Gorbatenko (2). Forwards: Welliton (28 / 21), Nikita Bazhenov (22 / 2), Pavel Yakovlev (14 / 4), Artyom Dzyuba (8 / 2), Eldar Nizamutdinov (5 / 1).

Manager: Michael Laudrup (until April), Valery Karpin (from April).

Transferred out during the season: Vladimir Bystrov (to FC Zenit St. Petersburg), Aleksandr Pavlenko (on loan to FC Rostov), Artyom Dzyuba (on loan to FC Tom Tomsk), Clemente Rodríguez (to Estudiantes de La Plata), Artur Maloyan (on loan to FC Anzhi Makhachkala). 3. FC Zenit St. Petersburg Goalkeepers: Vyacheslav Malafeev (28), Kamil Čontofalský (2). Defenders: Aleksandr Anyukov (27 / 1), Fernando Meira (22 / 1), Ivica Križanac (18 / 2), Kim Dong-Jin (17 / 1), Nicolas Lombaerts (15 / 2), Tomáš Hubočan (10). Midfielders: Konstantin Zyryanov (30 / 4), Igor Denisov (28 / 1), Igor Semshov (26 / 6), Roman Shirokov (21 / 1), Szabolcs Huszti (19 / 2), Radek Šírl (17), Viktor Fayzulin (16), Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (11), Vladimir Bystrov (10 / 6), Aleksei Ionov (10), Alessandro Rosina (9 / 2), Danny (8). Forwards: Fatih Tekke (20 / 8), Pavel Pogrebnyak (15 / 5), Sergei Kornilenko (11 / 1), Mateja Kežman (10 / 2), Maksim Kanunnikov (1). Manager: Dick Advocaat (until August), Anatoli Davydov (from August).

Transferred out during the season: Pavel Pogrebnyak (to VfB Stuttgart), Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (to FC Bayern Munich).

Attendances

Rank Club Average 1 Spartak Moscow 25,253 2 Zenit 18,910 3 Kuban 18,467 4 Krylia Sovetov 15,873 5 Lokomotiv Moscow 15,288 6 Rubin 14,726 7 PFC CSKA 13,687 8 Amkar 12,073 9 Tom 11,833 10 Rostov 11,597 11 Spartak Nalchik 9,793 12 Terek 8,020 13 Dynamo Moscow 7,752 14 Saturn 7,173 15 FC Moscow 4,940 16 Khimki 4,881Source:

See also 2009 Russian First Division 2008–09 Russian Cup List of Russian football transfers summer 2009

References

External links Official website Russian Football Union RFPL 2009 at Global Sports Archive