In the 1997 season of the Russian Top League, the football team Spartak Moscow successfully defended the championship, winning their fifth Russian title.
Overview Team Head coach FC Spartak Moscow Oleg Romantsev FC Rotor Volgograd Viktor Prokopenko FC Dynamo Moscow Adamas Golodets FC Shinnik Yaroslavl Anatoli Polosin (until August)Pyotr Shubin (from August) FC Lokomotiv Moscow Yuri Syomin FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk Oleg Dolmatov FC Krylia Sovetov Samara Aleksandr Averyanov FC Zenit St. Petersburg Anatoliy Byshovets FC Baltika Kaliningrad Leonid Tkachenko FC Alania Vladikavkaz Valery Gazzaev FC Torpedo-Luzhniki Moscow Aleksandr Tarkhanov PFC CSKA Moscow Pavel Sadyrin FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don Sergey Andreyev FC Zhemchuzhina Sochi Arsen Naydyonov FC Tyumen Aleksandr Irkhin (until April)Aleksandr Ignatenko (from April) FC Fakel Voronezh Sergei Savchenkov FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod Valeri Ovchinnikov FC KAMAZ-Chally Naberezhnye Chelny Benjaminas Zelkevičius
Standings
Results
Season statistics Top goalscorers
Rank Player Club Goals1 Oleg VeretennikovRotor222 Oleg TeryokhinDynamo173 Igor YanovskiyAlania134 Lev BereznerChernomorets11 Aleksandr ZernovRotor Valery KechinovSpartak Moscow7 Andrey TikhonovSpartak Moscow10 Edgaras JankauskasTorpedo-Luzhniki9 Aleksandr GerasimovShinnik9 Aleksei KosolapovLokomotiv Moscow Vladimir KulikCSKA Dmitry KhokhlovTorpedo-Luzhniki
Medal squads
1. FC Spartak Moscow Goalkeepers: Aleksandr Filimonov (33), Ruslan Nigmatullin (2). Defenders: Sergei Gorlukovich (31 / 2), Dmitri Khlestov (27 / 1), Dmitri Ananko (25), Miroslav Romaschenko (24 / 4), Ramiz Mamedov (19 / 1), Vadim Evseev (18), Konstantin Golovskoy (14), Vasili Kulkov (6). Midfielders: Dmitri Alenichev (33 / 2), Yegor Titov (31 / 8), Aleksei Bakharev (30 / 2), Aleksei Melyoshin (26 / 2), Andrey Tikhonov (24 / 10), Valery Kechinov (22 / 11), Ilya Tsymbalar (11 / 4), Andrei Konovalov (11 / 1), Robert Yevdokimov (4 / 1). Forwards: Aleksandr Shirko (26 / 7), Maksim Buznikin (20 / 8), Luis Robson (10 / 1), Sergey Dmitriev (6 / 1), Sergei Lutovinov (6).(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)
One own goal scored by Vladimir Klontsak (FC KAMAZ-Chally Naberezhnye Chelny).
Manager: Oleg Romantsev.
Transferred out during the season: Vasili Kulkov (to FC Zenit St. Petersburg), Robert Yevdokimov (to FC KAMAZ-Chally Naberezhnye Chelny). 2. FC Rotor Volgograd Goalkeepers: Platon Zakharchuk (34). Defenders: Aleksandr Shmarko (33), Volodymyr Gerashchenko (27), Sergei Zhunenko (23), Valeri Burlachenko (22 / 1), Nikolai Olenikov (19), Albert Borzenkov (15). Midfielders: Oleg Veretennikov (34 / 22), Aleksandr Berketov (33 / 3), Valery Yesipov (32 / 3), Vitaliy Abramov (30 / 1), Andrei Krivov (25), Maksim Tishchenko (20), Ihor Korniyets (12), Vladimir Smirnov (4), Mikhail Mysin (1), Hennadiy Orbu (1). Forwards: Denis Zubko (34 / 4), Vladimir Niederhaus (33 / 8), Aleksandr Zernov (31 / 11), Sergei Ilyushin (1).
One own goal scored by Denis Koberskiy (FC Zhemchuzhina Sochi).
Manager: Viktor Prokopenko .
Transferred out during the season: Ihor Korniyets , Sergei Ilyushin (both to FC Arsenal Tula), Hennadiy Orbu (to FC Shakhtar Donetsk). 3. FC Dynamo Moscow Goalkeepers: Dmytro Tyapushkin (23), Andrei Smetanin (14). Defenders: Sergei Shtanyuk (33 / 2), Andrei Ostrovskiy (32 / 4), Yuri Kovtun (28), Erik Yakhimovich (16), Mikhail Zharinov (9), Yevgeni Korablyov (9), Vyacheslav Tsaryov (4), Maksim Povorov (1). Midfielders: Andrey Kobelev (33 / 7), Vladimir Skokov (32 / 5), Sergei Nekrasov (32 / 1), Sergey Grishin (28 / 1), Aliaksandr Kulchiy (26 / 3), Aleksandr Tochilin (23), Andrei Gordeyev (7 / 1), Rolan Gusev (7), Vitali Kulyov (6), Maksim Romaschenko (4 / 4), Yuri Kuznetsov (4). Forwards: Oleg Teryokhin (33 / 17), Aleksei Kutsenko (19 / 4), Eduard Kosolapov (8 / 1), Yuri Tishkov (4), Sergei Artyomov (2), Andrei Dyomkin (1), Oleg Sergeyev (1).
Manager: Adamas Golodets.
Transferred out during the season: Erik Yakhimovich (on loan to Vanspor), Andrei Dyomkin (to R.S.C. Anderlecht).
Attendances
Rank Club Average 1 Alania 27,176 2 Rotor 20,529 3 Krylia Sovetov 18,294 4 Fakel 17,253 5 Baltika 17,059 6 Spartak Moscow 11,941 7 Novorossiysk 11,882 8 Shinnik 10,741 9 Rostov 10,653 10 Zenit 10,471 11 KAMAZ 7,618 12 Nizhny Novgorod 6,312 13 Dynamo Moscow 6,000 14 PFC CSKA 5,176 15 Zhemchuzhina 5,118 16 Tyumen 4,029 17 Torpedo Moscow 3,606 18 Lokomotiv Moscow 3,118Source:
See also 1997 in Russian football
References
External links RSSSF