2004 Russian Premier League

Following are the results of the 2004 Russian Premier League, the top division of Russian association football. Lokomotiv won their second Premier League title, while Krylya Sovetov finished in the top three for the first time, winning bronze. Kuban were relegated after just one season in the Premier League. They were joined by Rotor who played at the top level since the beginning of the Russian league.

Russian Premier League

Season	2004
Champions	Lokomotiv Moscow 2nd title
Relegated	Kuban Krasnodar Rotor Volgograd
Champions League	Lokomotiv Moscow CSKA Moscow
UEFA Cup	Krylia Sovetov Zenit St.Petersburg
Matches played	240
Goals scored	598 (2.49 per match)
Top goalscorer	Aleksandr Kerzhakov (18)
← 2003 2005 →

Teams

As in the previous season, 16 teams are playing in the 2004 season. After the 2003 season, Chernomorets Novorossiysk and Uralan Elista were relegated to the 2004 Russian First Division. They were replaced by Amkar Perm and Kuban Krasnodar, the winners and runners up of the 2003 Russian First Division.

Venues

Alania	Amkar	CSKA	Dynamo
Republican Spartak Stadium	Zvezda Stadium	Central Stadium	Central Stadium
Capacity: 32,464	Capacity: 17,000	Capacity: 36,540	Capacity: 36,540
Krylia Sovetov Samara	CSKA Dynamo Lokomotiv Moscow Saturn Spartak Torpedo Alania Amkar Krylia Kuban Rostov Rotor Rubin Shinnik Zenit Locations of teams in 2004 Russian Premier League		Kuban Krasnodar
Metallurg Stadium			Kuban Stadium
Capacity: 27,084			Capacity: 28,800
Lokomotiv Moscow			Moscow
RZD Arena			Eduard Streltsov Stadium
Capacity: 33,001			Capacity: 13,450
Rostov			Rotor
Olimp-2			Central Stadium
Capacity: 15,840			Capacity: 32,120
Rubin			Saturn
Central Stadium			Saturn Stadium
Capacity: 22,500			Capacity: 14,685
Shinnik	Spartak	Torpedo	Zenit Saint Petersburg
Shinnik Stadium	Luzhniki Stadium	Luzhniki Stadium	Petrovsky Stadium
Capacity: 22,871	Capacity: 81,029	Capacity: 81,029	Capacity: 21,570

Personnel and kits

Team	Location	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Alania	Vladikavkaz	Yuri Sekinayev (Caretaker)
Amkar Perm	Perm	Sergei Oborin
CSKA	Moscow	Valery Gazzaev		Umbro	Sibneft
Dynamo	Moscow	Oleg Romantsev		Diadora
Lokomotiv	Moscow	Yuri Semin		Nike
Krylia	Samara	Gadzhi Gadzhiyev
Kuban	Krasnodar	Leonid Nazarenko (Caretaker)		Umbro
Moscow	Moscow	Valery Petrakov
Rostov	Rostov-on-Don	Sergei Balakhnin		Umbro	—
Rotor	Volgograd	Vladimir Fayzulin		Umbro	Rotor
Rubin	Kazan	Kurban Berdyev		Nike	—
Saturn	Ramenskoye	Aleksandr Tarkhanov
Shinnik	Yaroslavl	Oleg Dolmatov
Spartak	Moscow	Aleksandrs Starkovs		Umbro
Torpedo	Moscow	Sergei Petrenko		Le Coq Sportif
Zenit	Saint Petersburg	Vlastimil Petržela		Umbro	Gazprom

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Alania	Bakhva Tedeyev			Preseason	Rolland Courbis	9 January 2004[1]	Preseason
CSKA	Valery Gazzaev				Artur Jorge	23 November 2003[2]
Dynamo	Viktor Prokopenko				Jaroslav Hřebík	8 November 2003[3]
Krylia	Aleksandr Tarkhanov				Gadzhi Gadzhiyev
Rostov	Sergei Balakhnin				Vitaly Shevchenko
Saturn	Oleg Romantsev				Boris Ignatyev
Spartak	Vladimir Fedotov (Caretaker)	End of role			Nevio Scala	December 2003[4]
Rostov	Vitaly Shevchenko		April 2004		Sergei Balakhnin	April 2004
Rotor	Vladimir Fayzulin		April 2004		Yuri Marushkin (Caretaker)	April 2004
Rotor	Yuri Marushkin (Caretaker)		April 2004		Valeriy Yaremchenko	April 2004
Kuban	Nikolai Yuzhanin		May 2004		Soferbi Yeshugov	May 2004
Shinnik	Aleksandr Pobegalov		May 2004		Valeri Frolov (Caretaker)	May 2004
Shinnik	Valeri Frolov (Caretaker)	End of role	May 2004		Oleg Dolmatov	May 2004
Rotor	Valeriy Yaremchenko		June 2004		Yuri Marushkin (Caretaker)	June 2004
Dynamo	Jaroslav Hřebík	Resigned	12 July 2004[5]	14th	Viktor Bondarenko (Caretaker)	12 July 2004[6]	14th
CSKA	Artur Jorge	Fired	13 July 2004[7]	5th	Valery Gazzaev	14 July 2004[7]	5th
Rotor	Yuri Marushkin (Caretaker)		July 2004		Vladimir Fayzulin	July 2004
Spartak	Nevio Scala		August 2004		Aleksandrs Starkovs	September 2004
Saturn	Boris Ignatyev		September 2004		Aleksandr Tarkhanov	September 2004
Alania	Rolland Courbis		September 2004		Dragan Cvetković (Caretaker)	September 2004
Alania	Dragan Cvetković (Caretaker)	Resigned	7 October 2004[8]	12th	Yuri Sekinayev (Caretaker)	7 October 2004[8]	12th
Dynamo	Viktor Bondarenko (Caretaker)	Resigned	26 October 2004[9]	14th	Oleg Romantsev	26 October 2004[9]	14th
Kuban	Soferbi Yeshugov		October 2004		Leonid Nazarenko (Caretaker)	October 2004

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Lokomotiv Moscow (C)	30	18	7	5	44	19	+25	61	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2	CSKA Moscow	30	17	9	4	53	22	+31	60	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
3	Krylia Sovetov Samara	30	17	5	8	50	41	+9	56	Qualification to UEFA Cup second qualifying round
4	Zenit St. Petersburg	30	17	5	8	55	37	+18	56
5	Torpedo Moscow	30	16	6	8	53	37	+16	54
6	Shinnik Yaroslavl	30	12	8	10	29	29	0	44
7	Saturn	30	10	11	9	37	30	+7	41
8	Spartak Moscow	30	11	7	12	43	44	−1	40
9	FC Moscow	30	10	10	10	38	39	−1	40
10	Rubin Kazan	30	7	12	11	32	31	+1	33
11	Amkar Perm	30	6	12	12	27	42	−15	30
12	Rostov	30	7	8	15	28	42	−14	29
13	Dynamo Moscow	30	6	11	13	27	38	−11	29
14	Alania Vladikavkaz	30	7	7	16	28	52	−24	28
15	Kuban Krasnodar (R)	30	6	10	14	26	42	−16	28	Relegation to First Division
16	Rotor Volgograd (R)	30	4	10	16	28	53	−25	22

Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd matches won; 3rd head-to-head (points, matches won, goal difference, goals scored, away goals scored); 4th goal difference
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	ALA	AMK	CSK	DYN	KRY	KUB	LOK	MOS	ROS	ROT	RUB	SAT	SHI	SPA	TOR	ZEN
Alania Vladikavkaz		1–2	1–4	4–2	1–4	2–0	1–2	1–0	0–0	1–1	0–0	0–3	2–1	0–2	0–0	0–3
Amkar Perm	1–0		0–0	0–1	3–1	1–2	0–1	1–0	2–0	1–1	2–2	1–1	1–1	0–2	2–1	0–2
CSKA Moscow	1–0	3–0		0–0	1–1	3–1	0–1	0–0	2–0	3–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	2–1	3–3	3–3
Dynamo Moscow	1–0	3–1	1–1		1–1	0–1	2–4	1–0	0–1	5–0	0–0	0–2	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–2
Krylia Sovetov Samara	4–2	1–0	1–1	4–1		2–1	1–0	2–1	2–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	1–2	4–2	2–5	0–1
Kuban Krasnodar	2–3	0–0	0–3	0–0	1–1		2–1	0–0	3–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–2	1–2	1–3
Lokomotiv Moscow	3–0	0–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	3–0		0–1	1–1	0–1	0–0	2–0	3–0	0–0	3–1	0–1
FC Moscow	0–0	3–1	1–4	1–0	5–1	2–2	1–2		2–2	1–0	1–0	2–1	3–2	2–3	0–2	1–1
Rostov	0–0	0–0	1–3	2–0	0–1	1–1	1–2	1–2		4–1	1–0	1–2	0–0	3–1	0–4	2–1
Rotor Volgograd	0–1	2–2	1–3	0–0	3–2	1–1	2–2	1–1	3–2		0–1	1–0	0–2	2–3	0–1	2–5
Rubin Kazan	4–1	2–2	2–1	2–2	1–3	2–0	0–0	3–0	1–1	1–1		0–1	0–1	2–0	2–0	1–1
Saturn	5–1	1–1	0–1	0–0	1–2	2–1	1–2	1–1	2–0	2–0	1–1		0–0	2–2	1–1	1–3
Shinnik Yaroslavl	1–1	2–1	2–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	0–2	1–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	1–0		1–1	3–1	2–1
Spartak Moscow	0–1	6–0	0–2	2–2	3–1	1–1	1–3	3–2	1–0	1–1	2–0	0–2	1–0		1–2	0–3
Torpedo Moscow	3–2	3–2	0–1	3–1	0–1	3–1	1–1	1–1	4–1	1–0	1–0	1–2	2–0	2–1		3–1
Zenit St. Petersburg	3–2	0–0	0–3	2–0	1–2	1–0	0–2	2–3	0–1	3–2	4–3	2–2	1–0	2–0	3–1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

As of matches played on 12 November 2004.

Rank	Player	Club	Goal
1	Aleksandr Kerzhakov	Zenit	18
2	Andrei Karyaka	Krylia	17
3	Dmitri Sychev	Lokomotiv	15
	Aleksandr Panov	Torpedo
5	Héctor Bracamonte	Moscow	10
	Roman Pavlyuchenko	Spartak Moscow
	Valery Yesipov	Rotor
	Oleksandr Spivak	Zenit
9	Robertas Poškus	Krylia	9
	Igor Lebedenko	Torpedo
	Igor Semshov	Torpedo
	Vágner Love	CSKA
	Ivica Olić	CSKA
	Dmitri Kirichenko	CSKA

1. FC Lokomotiv Moscow

Goalkeepers: Sergei Ovchinnikov (30), Ruslan Nigmatullin (1). Defenders: Vadim Evseev (27 / 4), Dmitri Sennikov (26), Sergei Gurenko (26), Gennadiy Nizhegorodov (23), Malkhaz Asatiani (19 / 1), Oleg Pashinin (13), Jacob Lekgetho (6). Midfielders: Dmitri Loskov (30 / 4), Diniyar Bilyaletdinov (25 / 5), Dmitri Khokhlov (24 / 6), Marat Izmailov (18 / 2), Vladimir Maminov (18 / 1), Francisco Lima (15), Deividas Česnauskis (10), Jorge Wagner (4), Leandro (1). Forwards: Dmitri Sychev (27 / 15), James Obiorah (15 / 1), Ruslan Pimenov (14 / 4), Winston Parks (13 / 1), Mikheil Ashvetia (12), Milan Jovanović (3), Maksim Buznikin (1). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets) Manager: Yuri Syomin. Transferred out during the season: Maksim Buznikin (on loan to FC Rotor Volgograd).

2. PFC CSKA Moscow

Goalkeepers: Igor Akinfeev (26), Veniamin Mandrykin (6). Defenders: Aleksei Berezutski (27), Deividas Šemberas (24), Sergei Ignashevich (22 / 1), Chidi Odiah (21), Bohdan Shershun (14), Vasili Berezutski (6). Midfielders: Sergei Semak (30 / 5), Evgeni Aldonin (30), Jiří Jarošík (29 / 5), Rolan Gusev (28 / 4), Elvir Rahimić (26 / 1), Yuri Zhirkov (25 / 6), Osmar Ferreyra (13 / 2), Daniel Carvalho (13 / 1), Miloš Krasić (7), Juris Laizāns (4). Forwards: Dmitri Kirichenko (26 / 9), Ivica Olić (24 / 9), Vágner Love (12 / 9), Denis Popov (2), Serghei Dadu (1). One own goal scored by Luc Zoa (FC Spartak Moscow). Manager: Artur Jorge (until July), Valery Gazzaev (from July). Transferred out during the season: Denis Popov (to FC Kuban Krasnodar).

3. FC Krylia Sovetov Samara

Goalkeepers: Aleksei Poliakov (29), Aleksandr Makarov (1). Defenders: Aleksandr Anyukov (29 / 2), Denis Kolodin (25 / 1), Patrick Ovie (24), Moisés (22 / 1), Leilton (14), Omari Tetradze (14), Rafael Schmitz (9), Matthew Booth (8 / 1). Midfielders: Andrei Karyaka (29 / 17), Denis Kovba (29 / 1), Sergei Vinogradov (26 / 4), Ognjen Koroman (26 / 1), Souza (25 / 3), Andrey Tikhonov (23 / 4), Anton Bober (13 / 1), Dmitri Kudryashov (9), Omonigho Temile (5), Laryea Kingston (3). Forwards: Robertas Poškus (18 / 9), Catanha (11 / 1), Roni (8 / 1). One own goal each scored by Aleksei Yepifanov (FC Rotor Volgograd) and Nikolay Shirshov (FC Rostov). Manager: Gadzhi Gadzhiev. Transferred out during the season: Catanha (free agent), Rafael Schmitz (end of loan from Lille).

See also

• 2004 in Russian football