2009 Russian First Division

The 2009 Russian First Division was the 18th season of Russia's second-tier football league since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The season began on 28 March 2009 and ended on 4 November 2009.

Teams The league has been reduced from 22 to 20 teams. It features eleven clubs from 2008 Russian First Division, two clubs relegated from 2008 Russian Premier League, five zone winners from 2008 Russian Second Division and two of the third-placed clubs from 2008 Russian Second Division.

Movement between Premier League and First Division FC Rostov as 2008 champions and Kuban Krasnodar as runners-up have been promoted to the Premier League. They will be replaced by relegated teams Shinnik Yaroslavl and Luch-Energia Vladivostok.

Movement between First Division and Second Division Due to the league contraction, seven instead of the regular five teams were relegated to their respective Second Division group. These teams, ranked 16th through 22nd in 2008, were Metallurg-Kuzbass Novokuznetsk, Volga Ulyanovsk, Torpedo Moscow, Mashuk-KMV Pyatigorsk, Dinamo Barnaul, Dinamo Bryansk and Zvezda Irkutsk.

The relegated teams were replaced by the five 2008 Second Division zone winners. These were MVD Rossii Moscow (West), Metallurg Lipetsk (Center), Volgar-Gazprom-2 Astrakhan (South), Volga Nizhny Novgorod (Ural-Povolzhye) and FC Chita (East).

Further team changes Sportakademklub Moscow avoided relegation in 2008 by finishing 15th, but announced refusal to play in the First Division on 18 December 2008. On 15 January 2009, SKA Rostov-on-Don refused to play as well. Regulations provided that Sportakademclub and SKA should be replaced by two of the runners-up from the Second Division groups (FC Bataysk-2007, FC Torpedo Vladimir, FC Gazovik Orenburg, FC Avangard Kursk or FC Smena Komsomolsk-on-Amur). However, since all of those teams refused promotion, the places were eventually filled by third-place finishers FC Nizhny Novgorod and FC Krasnodar.

Overview

TeamLocationHead coachCaptainVenueCapacityPosition in 2008Vladikavkaz Mircea RednicKamalutdin AkhmedovRepublican Spartak32,464Makhachkala Omari TetradzeRasim TagirbekovDynamo16,800Kaliningrad Leonid TkachenkoDenis Matyola Baltika14,660Novorossiysk Igor Cherniy (caretaker)Tsentralny (Trud)12,500Chita Oleg KokarevIlya MakiyenkoLokomotiv10,200Naberezhnye Chelny Vitali Panov (caretaker)Spartak GogniyevKAMAZ9,221Krasnodar Nurbiy KhakunovMaksim DemenkoKuban35,200Vladivostok Aleksandr PobegalovDinamo10,200Lipetsk Valeri Tretyakov (caretaker)Metallurg14,940Moscow Vladimir EshtrekovAvangard, Domodedovo6,000Nizhny Novgorod Viktor ZaidenbergOleg GubanovSeverny3,180Novotroitsk Gennady GridinRuslan SurodinMetallurg6,060Belgorod Sergei TashuevSergei Kushov Salyut11,500Yaroslavl Yuri BykovRoman MonaryovShinnik18,500 (in reconstruction time)Novosibirsk Igor KriushenkoAleksey MedvedevSpartak12,500Khabarovsk Vladimir FaizulinAndrey KonovalovLenin Stadium15,200Yekaterinburg Vladimir FedotovAleksey KatulskyUralmash13,000Podolsk Andrei Novosadov (caretaker)Andrei SmirnovTrud12,000Nizhny Novgorod Khazret DyshekovVitali AstakhovPolyot4,600Astrakhan Aleksandr IgnatenkoNail MagzhanovCentralny18,500

FC MVD Rossii resigned from the league on 17 July after playing 19 matches. The team was in the 19th position with 17 points.

Managerial changes TeamOutgoingMannerDateTableIncomingDateTableChernomorets Nikolai YuzhaninSacked1 May 200920th Eduard Sarkisov (caretaker) Shinnik Sergei PavlovSacked12 May 200910th Ivan Lyakh 12 May 200910thLuch-Energiya Benjaminas ZelkevičiusSacked16 May 200919th Konstantin Yemelyanov (caretaker) Baltika Zurab SanayaSacked29 May 200910th Leonid Tkachenko8 June 20098thNosta Sergei PodpalySacked3 June 200916th Oleg Samatov (caretaker) Volga Sergei PetrenkoSacked5 June 200919th Sergei Perednya (caretaker) FC Nizhny Novgorod Mikhail AfoninSacked6 June 200917th Viktor Zaidenberg MVD Rossii Yuri KovtunSacked8 June 200916th Vladimir Eshtrekov Metallurg Lipetsk Gennadi StyopushkinSacked16 June 200917th Valeri Tretyakov (caretaker) Luch-Energiya Konstantin Yemelyanov (caretaker)Finished23 June 200914th Francisco Arcos Nosta Oleg Samatov (caretaker)Finished26 June 200914th Gennady Gridin Ural Aleksandr PobegalovSacked13 July 20095th Vladimir Fedotov Volga Sergei Perednya (caretaker)Finished5 June 200916th Khazret Dyshekov Chernomorets Eduard Sarkisov (caretaker)Finished24 July 200920th Aleksandr Irkhin Alania Valeriy PetrakovSacked10 August 20093rd Aleksandr Yanovskiy (caretaker) Luch-Energiya Francisco ArcosFinished11 August 200916th Aleksandr Pobegalov Alania Aleksandr Yanovskiy (caretaker)Finished19 August 20093rd Mircea Rednic Chernomorets Aleksandr IrkhinFinished3 September 200919th Igor Cherniy Vityaz Sergei BalakhninSacked18 September 200913th Andrei Novosadov (caretaker) Shinnik Ivan LyakhSacked1 October 20094th Yuri Bykov KAMAZ Yuri GazzaevFinished13 October 20097th Vitali Panov (caretaker)

Standings

Results

Top scorers Last updated: 4 November 2009; Source: PFL RankPlayerTeamGoals1 Aleksei MedvedevSibir182 Spartak GogniyevKAMAZ173 Vladimir ShishelovUral164 Roman GrigoryanVityaz155 Otar MartsvaladzeAnzhi136 Nikita BurmistrovShinnik12 Serghei DaduAlania8 Anton KhazovVolga109 Sergei DavydovVolgar-Gazprom-29 Denys DedechkoLuch-Energiya Nicolae JosanAnzhi Vasili KarmazinenkoSKA-Energiya

Awards On 25 November 2009, Professional Football League announced the award winners for the season.Лауреаты сезона 2009–го года

Best player: Aleksei Medvedev (FC Sibir Novosibirsk). Best goalkeeper: Sergei Chepchugov (FC Sibir Novosibirsk). Best defender: Rasim Tagirbekov (FC Anzhi Makhachkala). Best midfielder: Nicolae Josan (FC Anzhi Makhachkala). Best striker: Aleksei Medvedev. Best manager: Omari Tetradze (FC Anzhi Makhachkala).

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