The 2010 Russian First Division was the 19th season of Russia's second-tier football league since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The season began on 27 March 2010.
Teams As in the previous year, 20 clubs participate in this year championship. It features eleven clubs from 2009 Russian First Division, two clubs relegated from 2009 Russian Premier League, five zone winners from 2009 Russian Second Division, one of the second-placed clubs from 2009 Russian Second Division and one of the third-placed clubs from 2009 Russian Second Division.
Movement between Premier League and First Division Anzhi Makhachkala as 2009 champions and Sibir Novosibirsk as runners-up have been promoted to the Premier League. They will be replaced by relegated teams Kuban Krasnodar and Khimki.
Movement between First Division and Second Division Nosta Novotroitsk, Chita, Chernomorets Novorossiysk, Metallurg Lipetsk and MVD Rossii Moscow who placed in the last 5 places respectively in 2009 were relegated to the Russian Second Division.
The relegated teams were replaced by the five 2009 Second Division zone winners. These were Dynamo Saint Petersburg (West), Avangard Kursk (Centre), Zhemchuzhina-Sochi (South), Mordovia Saransk (Ural-Povolzhye) and Irtysh Omsk (East).
Further team changes Due to financial difficulties, Vityaz Podolsk who placed 11th in 2009, decided to give up their spot in the Russian First Division and participate in the Russian Second Division in 2010.
Pending licensing, their place was taken by FC Volgograd who placed 3rd in the Russian Second Division (South Zone) in 2009. For the occasion the management decided to change the name of the club from FC Volgograd to Rotor Volgograd.
FC Alania Vladikavkaz were promoted into the 2010 Russian Premier League after FC Moscow dropped out due to financial reasons. It was replaced by FC Dynamo Bryansk.Первый дивизион – 2010 Dynamo Bryansk originally refused to be promoted when offered Vityaz's spot, but by the time Alania's spot became available, they found new financial commitments and agreed to participate in the First Division.
Overview
TeamLocationHead CoachCaptainVenueCapacityPosition in 2009Kursk Aleksandr IgnatenkoTrudovye Rezervy11,329Kaliningrad Leonid TkachenkoBaltika14,664Bryansk Aleksandr SmirnovDynamo10,100Saint Petersburg Sergey FrantsevMSA Petrovsky2,835Omsk Aleksandr DorofeyevRed Star8,000Naberezhnye Chelny Robert YevdokimovKAMAZ9,221Khimki Yevgeni BushmanovNovyye Khimki3,066Krasnodar Sergei TashuevKuban34,640Krasnodar Dan PetrescuKuban34,640Vladivostok Francisco ArcosDinamo10,185Saransk Fyodor ShcherbachenkoSvetotekhnika14,000Nizhny Novgorod Viktor ZaidenbergSeverny3,180Volgograd Vitaliy ShevchenkoCentral32,126Belgorod Yuri BykovSalyut11,500Yaroslavl Aleksandr PobegalovShinnik18,481Khabarovsk Sergey FeldmanLenin Stadium15,200Yekaterinburg Vladimir FedotovUralmash13,000Nizhny Novgorod Omari TetradzeLokomotiv17,856Astrakhan Lev IvanovCentralny20,500Sochi Oleg VasilenkoCentral10,280
Managerial changes TeamOutgoingMannerDateTableIncomingDateTableDynamo St. Petersburg Aleksandr AveryanovResigned15 April 201019th Grigori Mikhalyuk (caretaker)Dynamo Bryansk Soferbi YeshugovSacked7 May 201020th Sergei Ovchinnikov7 May 201020thVolga Nizhny Novgorod Aleksandr PobegalovResigned8 May 201012th Omari Tetradze8 May 201012thShinnik Yaroslavl Igor LediakhovSacked11 May 201018th Aleksandr Pobegalov11 May 201012thUral Sverdlovsk Oblast Vladimir FedotovSacked11 May 20107th Boris Stukalov14 May 20107thDynamo St. Petersburg Grigori Mikhalyuk (caretaker)Finished19 May 201010th Boris Zhuravlyov 19 May 2010Salyut Belgorod Miroslav RomaschenkoSacked20 May 201016th Leonid Koutchouk20 May 201016thLuch-Energiya Leonid NazarenkoSacked22 May 201013th Francisco Arcos (caretaker)22 May 201013thBaltika Ivan LyakhSacked5 June 201013th Leonid TkachenkoRotor Vladimir FaizulinSacked26 June 201020th Vitaliy Shevchenko27 June 201020thDynamo St. Petersburg Boris ZhuravlyovSacked22 July 201017th Eduard Malofeyev22 July 201020thKhimki Aleksandr Tarkhanov30 July 20109th Yevgeni Bushmanov (caretaker)Zhemchuzhina-Sochi Oleg Vasilenko2 August 20104th Zurab SanayaAvangard Kursk Valery YesipovSacked17 August 201019th Oleg Sergeyev (caretaker)Dynamo St. Petersburg Eduard MalofeyevSacked20 August 201020th Sergey FrantsevSalyut Belgorod Leonid KoutchoukSacked23 August 201019th Yuri Bykov23 August 201019thIrtysh Omsk Vladimir AraysSacked2 September 201020th Aleksandr Dorofeyev2 September 2010Avangard Kursk Oleg Sergeyev (caretaker)Finished17 September 201019th Aleksandr IgnatenkoDynamo Bryansk Sergei OvchinnikovSacked17 September 201018th Aleksandr Smirnov17 September 201018thZhemchuzhina-Sochi Zurab Sanaya27 September 20105th Oleg VasilenkoSKA-Energiya Sergei GorlukovichSacked28 September 201015th Sergey Feldman
Standings
Results
Top scorers Last updated: 6 November 2010; Source: PFL RankPlayerTeamGoals1 Otar MartsvaladzeVolga212 Spartak GogniyevKAMAZ / Krasnodar183 Sergei DavydovVolgar-Gazprom / Kuban164 Dmitri GolubovBaltika155 Ruslan MukhametshinMordovia13 Sergei SerdyukovKAMAZ Aleksandr TikhonovetskyNizhny Novgorod8 Azamat GonezhukovDynamo St. Petersburg129 Maksim DemenkoKrasnodar / Zhemchuzhina-Sochi11 Yevgeni KaleshinKrasnodar Kirill PanchenkoMordovia12 Vasiliy KarmazinenkoSKA-Energiya10
Awards Professional Football League announced the award winners for the season.Лауреаты сезона 2010-го года
Best player: Andrey Tikhonov (FC Khimki). Best goalkeeper: Aleksandr Budakov (FC Kuban Krasnodar). Best defender: Milan Vještica (FC Shinnik Yaroslavl). Best midfielder: Andrey Tikhonov (FC Khimki). Best striker: Spartak Gogniyev (FC Krasnodar). Best manager: Robert Yevdokimov (FC KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny).
See also 2010 Russian Premier League
References
External links 2010 Russian First Division at Soccerway.com