2013–14 Russian Premier League

The 2013–14 Russian Premier League was the 22nd season of the Russian football championship since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and 12th under the current Russian Premier League name. The season started on 13 July 2013 and concluded on 17 May 2014, with a winter break between the weekends around 6 December 2013 and 6 March 2014.

Russian Premier League

Season	2013–14
Champions	CSKA Moscow
Relegated	Anzhi Makhachkala Krylia Sovetov Samara Tom Tomsk Volga Nizhny Novgorod
Champions League	CSKA Moscow Zenit St. Petersburg
Europa League	Lokomotiv Moscow Dynamo Moscow Krasnodar Rostov
Matches played	240
Goals scored	613 (2.55 per match)
Top goalscorer	Seydou Doumbia (18)
Biggest home win	Lokomotiv Moscow 5–0 Rostov Spartak Moscow 6–1 Volga
Biggest away win	Volga 0–5 Dynamo Moscow
Highest scoring	Zenit St. Petersburg 6–2 Rubin Kazan
Average attendance	11,499
← 2012–13 2014–15 →

CSKA Moscow were the defending champions.

Teams

Amkar

Anzhi

CSKA

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Dynamo

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Lokomotiv

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Spartak

Krasnodar

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Kuban

Krylia Sovetov

Rostov

Rubin

Terek

Ural

Volga

Zenit

Locations of teams in the 2013–14 Russian Premier League

Moscow

Tom Tomsk

Locations of teams in 2013–14 Russian Premier League (Tomsk)

After previous season Mordovia Saransk and Alania Vladikavkaz were relegated to National Football League. They were replaced with Ural, FNL champions, and Tom Tomsk, FNL runners-up. Tom Tomsk returned to Premier League at first attempt, while Ural was absent from the top level for 16 seasons.

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	Location	Head coach	Captain	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
Amkar	Perm	Konstantin Paramonov (caretaker)	Dmitri Belorukov	Puma	Bank of Moscow
Anzhi	Makhachkala	Gadzhi Gadzhiyev	Alexandru Epureanu	Nike	Energy Standard Group
CSKA	Moscow	Leonid Slutsky	Igor Akinfeev	adidas	Russian Grids
Dynamo	Moscow	Stanislav Cherchesov	Vladimir Granat	adidas	VTB
Krasnodar	Krasnodar	Aleh Konanaw	Alyaksandr Martynovich	Kappa	Westa
Krylia Sovetov	Samara	Vladimir Kukhlevskiy (caretaker)	Ivan Taranov	Nike	Samara Oblast1
Kuban	Krasnodar	Viktor Goncharenko	Aleksandr Belenov	adidas	RGMK
Lokomotiv	Moscow	Leonid Kuchuk	Guilherme	Puma	RZD
Rostov	Rostov-on-Don	Miodrag Božović	Stipe Pletikosa	Joma	TNS Energo
Rubin	Kazan	Vladimir Maminov	Oleg Kuzmin	Puma	TAIF
Spartak	Moscow	Dmitri Gunko	Dmitri Kombarov	Nike	Lukoil
Terek	Grozny	Rashid Rakhimov	Rizvan Utsiyev	adidas	AK
Tom	Tomsk	Vasili Baskakov	Sergey Omelyanchuk	Nike	Rosneft
Ural	Yekaterinburg	Aleksandr Tarkhanov	Denis Tumasyan	adidas	TMK
Volga	Nizhny Novgorod	Andrei Talalayev	Andrei Karyaka	adidas	Sberbank
Zenit	St. Petersburg	André Villas-Boas	Konstantin Zyryanov	Nike	Gazprom

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing	Manner	Date	Table	Incoming	Date	Table
Terek Grozny	Stanislav Cherchesov	Contract expired	26 May 2013	Pre-season	Yuri Krasnozhan	26 May 2013[1]	Pre-season
Tom Tomsk	Sergei Perednya	Contract expired	1 June 2013	Pre-season	Anatoli Davydov	25 June 2013[2]	Pre-season
Kuban Krasnodar	Leonid Kuchuk	Contract expired	10 June 2013[3]	Pre-season	Igor Osinkin (caretaker)	10 June 2013	Pre-season
Amkar Perm	Rustem Khuzin	Contract expired	17 June 2013[4]	Pre-season	Stanislav Cherchesov	20 June 2013[5]	Pre-season
Lokomotiv Moscow	Slaven Bilić	Mutual agreement	17 June 2013	Pre-season	Leonid Kuchuk	18 June 2013[6]	Pre-season
Anzhi Makhachkala	Guus Hiddink	Resigned	22 July 2013	12th	Rene Meulensteen	22 July 2013[7]	12th
Kuban Krasnodar	Igor Osinkin (caretaker)	Caretaker spell over	31 July 2013	5th	Dorinel Munteanu	31 July 2013[8]	5th
Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast	Pavel Gusev	Resigned	1 August 2013	15th	Oleg Vasilenko	1 August 2013[9]	15th
Krylia Sovetov Samara	Gadzhi Gadzhiyev	Resigned	8 August 2013[10]	14th	Aleksandr Tsygankov (caretaker, since 29 August 2013 manager)	8 August 2013[11][12]	14th
Anzhi Makhachkala	Rene Meulensteen	Sacked	8 August 2013	13th	Gadzhi Gadzhiyev	8 August 2013[10]	13th
Krasnodar	Slavoljub Muslin	Mutual consent	9 August 2013[13]	11th	Aleh Konanaw	11 August 2013[14]	11th
Tom	Anatoli Davydov	Sacked	15 September 2013[15]	16th	Vasili Baskakov	15 September 2013	16th
Kuban Krasnodar	Dorinel Munteanu	Sacked	12 October 2013	10th	Viktor Goncharenko	12 October 2013[16]	10th
Terek Grozny	Yuri Krasnozhan	Resigned	28 October 2013[17]	14th	Vait Talgayev (caretaker)	29 October 2013[18]	14th
Terek Grozny	Vait Talgayev (caretaker)	Caretaker spell over	7 November 2013	15th	Rashid Rakhimov	7 November 2013[19]	15th
Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast	Oleg Vasilenko	Mutual agreement	27 November 2013	14th	Aleksandr Tarkhanov	27 November 2013[20]	14th
Rubin Kazan	Kurban Berdyev	Sacked	20 December 2013[21]	11th	Vladimir Maminov	10 January 2014	11th
Zenit St. Petersburg	Luciano Spalletti	Sacked	11 March 2014[22]	2nd	Sergei Semak (caretaker)	11 March 2014[22]	2nd
Spartak Moscow	Valeri Karpin	Mutual agreement	18 March 2014[23]	3rd	Dmitri Gunko (caretaker, since 2 April 2014 manager)	18 March 2014[23]	3rd
Zenit St. Petersburg	Sergei Semak (caretaker)	Caretaker spell over	20 March 2014[24]	2nd	André Villas-Boas	20 March 2014[24]	2nd
Volga Nizhny Novgorod	Yuriy Kalitvintsev	Resigned	28 March 2014[25]	14th	Andrei Talalayev	29 March 2014[26]	14th
Dynamo Moscow	Dan Petrescu	Mutual agreement	8 April 2014[27]	4th	Nikolai Kovardayev (caretaker)	8 April 2014[27]	4th
Amkar Perm	Stanislav Cherchesov	Mutual agreement	8 April 2014[28]	7th	Konstantin Paramonov (caretaker)	8 April 2014[28]	7th
Dynamo Moscow	Nikolai Kovardayev (caretaker)	Caretaker spell over	10 April 2014[29]	4th	Stanislav Cherchesov	10 April 2014[29]	4th
Krylia Sovetov Samara	Aleksandr Tsygankov	Resigned	5 May 2014[30]	14th	Vladimir Kukhlevsky (caretaker)	5 May 2014[31]	14th

Last updated: 5 May 2014

Tournament format and regulations

Basic

The 16 teams played a round-robin tournament whereby each team played each one of the other teams twice, once at home and once away. Thus, a total of 240 matches were played, with 30 matches played by each team.

Promotion and relegation

The teams that finished 15th and 16th were relegated to the FNL, while the top two FNL teams were promoted to the Premier League for the 2014–15 season.

The 13th and 14th Premier League teams played the 4th and 3rd FNL teams, respectively, in two playoff games, with the winner securing a Premier League spot for 2014–15 season.

Season events

On 11 May 2014, the match between Zenit and Dynamo was interrupted in the 86th minute, with Dynamo leading 4–2, when Zenit fans ran out of the stands. At first they stood behind the goal line; when the referee decided to take the teams off the field into the dressing rooms and teams began to leave, one of Zenit's fans punched Dynamo player Vladimir Granat. It was originally reported that Zenit player Salomón Rondón was also attacked. Later, it was clarified that Rondón had a conflict with Dynamo player Marko Lomić, but that incident was not registered by the referee or the game inspector.^[32][33] The game was abandoned. Granat was diagnosed with concussion and missed Dynamo's last game of the season against Spartak Moscow.^[34] The punishment was decided on 14 May 2014 by the Control-Disciplinary Committee of the Russian Football Union. Dynamo was awarded a 3–0 win, and Zenit was fined 700,000 rubles; they were required to play their next two home games (in the 2014–15 season) in an empty stadium, and for an additional three home games the fan stands were empty.^[35] The Zenit fan who punched Granat, 45-year-old Aleksei Nesterov known as Gulliver, was not immediately arrested, and went into hiding for several days. Eventually, he gave himself up to the police and was charged with assault. The criminal charges against Nesterov were dropped in court after he reached a settlement with Granat, and he was then released.^[36]

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	CSKA Moscow (C)	30	20	4	6	49	26	+23	64	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
2	Zenit St. Petersburg	30	19	6	5	63	32	+31	63	Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
3	Lokomotiv Moscow	30	17	8	5	51	23	+28	59	Qualification for the Europa League play-off round
4	Dynamo Moscow	30	15	7	8	54	37	+17	52	Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round[a]
5	Krasnodar	30	15	5	10	46	39	+7	50[b]	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round[c]
6	Spartak Moscow	30	15	5	10	46	36	+10	50[b]
7	Rostov	30	10	9	11	40	40	0	39	Qualification for the Europa League play-off round[d]
8	Kuban Krasnodar	30	10	8	12	40	42	−2	38
9	Rubin Kazan	30	9	11	10	36	30	+6	38[e]
10	Amkar Perm	30	9	11	10	36	37	−1	38[e]
11	Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast	30	9	7	14	28	46	−18	34
12	Terek Grozny	30	8	9	13	27	33	−6	33
13	Tom Tomsk (R)	30	8	7	15	23	39	−16	31	Qualification for the Relegation play-offs
14	Krylia Sovetov Samara (R)	30	6	11	13	27	46	−19	29
15	Volga Nizhny Novgorod (R)	30	6	3	21	22	65	−43	21	Relegation to Football National League
16	Anzhi Makhachkala (R)	30	3	11	16	25	42	−17	20

Source: Russian Premier League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) number of wins; 3) head-to-head points; 4) number of head-to-head wins; 5) head-to-head goal difference; 6) number of head-to-head goals scored; 7) number of head-to-head away goals scored; 8) goal difference; 9) number of goals scored; 10) number of away goals scored; 11) position in the 2012–13 season (only used until all the regularly scheduled games have been played); 11) extra play-off game or tournament between the teams in question.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. ELPO
2. Krasnodar ahead of Spartak Moscow on head-to-head points; Krasnodar–Spartak Moscow 4–0, Spartak Moscow–Krasnodar 3–2.
3. ELPO
4. Rostov won the 2013–14 Russian Cup, therefore qualifying for the play-off round of the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League. However, it did not pass the Russian Football Union European licensing and thus its spot was given to Spartak. However, that RFU decision was then overturned by the CAS and Rostov was returned to the Europa League.
5. Rubin Kazan ahead of Amkar Perm on head-to-head points; Rubin Kazan–Amkar Perm 3–0, Amkar Perm–Rubin Kazan 0–0.

Relegation play-offs

First leg

Ufa	5–1	Tom Tomsk
Golubov 4' (pen.), 10', 24', 61' William Oliveira 83'	Report	Panchenko 56'

18 May 2014

15:00 MSK (UTC+4)

Dynamo Stadium, Ufa

Attendance: 4,500

Referee: Sergei Karasev

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Torpedo Moscow	2–0	Krylia Sovetov Samara
Salugin 40' Vlasov 67'	Report

18 May 2014

19:00 MSK (UTC+4)

Saturn Stadium, Ramenskoye

Attendance: 6,500

Referee: Sergei Ivanov

Second leg

Tom Tomsk	3–1	Ufa
Bashkirov 4' Golyshev 23' Portnyagin 73'	Report	Golubov 13'

22 May 2014

16:00 MSK (UTC+4)

Trud Stadium, Tomsk

Attendance: 7,500

Referee: Vladislav Bezborodov

Ufa won 6–4 on aggregate score and was promoted to the 2014–15 Russian Premier League.

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Krylia Sovetov Samara	0–0	Torpedo Moscow
	Report

22 May 2014

19:00 MSK (UTC+4)

Metallurg Stadium, Samara

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Mikhail Vilkov

Torpedo Moscow won 2–0 on aggregate score and was promoted to the 2014–15 Russian Premier League.

Results

Home \ Away	AMK	ANZ	CSK	DYN	KRA	KRY	KUB	LOK	ROS	RUB	SPA	TER	TOM	URA	VNN	ZEN
Amkar Perm		1–0	1–3	2–1	2–2	0–0	3–1	0–0	1–0	0–0	2–1	0–1	2–0	0–2	5–1	1–2
Anzhi Makhachkala	2–2		0–3	4–0	1–2	0–1	0–0	2–2	0–1	1–0	0–1	3–0	0–2	0–1	0–0	1–2
CSKA Moscow	2–1	0–0		0–2	5–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	4–1	2–0	1–0	3–0	1–0
Dynamo Moscow	2–0	2–1	4–2		1–2	2–0	3–1	1–3	1–1	0–0	1–4	1–0	1–0	3–0	2–2	1–1
Krasnodar	2–1	1–0	1–0	1–1		1–1	1–2	1–3	0–2	1–0	4–0	3–2	4–0	0–1	3–0	1–2
Krylia Sovetov Samara	2–2	1–1	1–3	1–2	1–0		0–0	2–2	0–2	0–4	1–2	1–1	1–0	1–1	2–2	1–4
Kuban Krasnodar	0–3	2–0	0–4	1–1	1–3	4–0		1–3	2–2	1–1	2–2	3–1	2–0	3–2	4–0	1–4
Lokomotiv Moscow	4–0	0–0	1–2	1–0	3–1	2–1	1–0		5–0	0–0	0–0	2–1	0–0	3–0	3–0	1–1
Rostov	3–3	1–1	0–0	2–3	2–2	1–2	0–0	2–0		0–0	0–1	2–1	3–0	1–1	4–0	0–4
Rubin Kazan	3–0	5–1	0–0	2–2	0–1	1–1	0–2	1–2	1–2		2–1	1–1	1–2	1–0	3–1	2–1
Spartak Moscow	1–0	2–2	3–0	3–2	3–2	1–0	0–2	1–3	2–0	0–0		0–0	2–1	0–1	6–1	4–2
Terek Grozny	1–1	1–1	2–0	1–0	0–1	0–1	2–1	0–1	3–0	0–0	1–0		2–0	1–1	2–0	1–1
Tom Tomsk	0–0	2–2	1–2	1–3	1–1	2–0	1–2	2–0	3–2	0–1	2–1	0–0		1–2	1–0	0–3
Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast	0–0	2–1	2–2	1–4	0–2	1–1	2–1	0–3	1–4	0–3	0–2	2–1	0–0		1–2	1–2
Volga Nizhny Novgorod	0–2	2–1	1–2	0–5	0–1	1–2	1–0	1–2	2–1	2–1	0–1	1–0	0–1	1–2		1–3
Zenit St. Petersburg	1–1	3–0	2–0	0–3	4–1	2–1	1–1	2–1	0–2	6–2	4–2	2–0	0–0	2–1	2–0

Source: Russian Premier League
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Round by round

The following table represents the teams position after each round in the competition.

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
CSKA Moscow	6	3	3	3	3	1	1	1	3	4	4	5	6	5	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	1	1
Zenit St. Petersburg	4	9	10	5	4	5	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	2	2
Lokomotiv Moscow	8	6	8	4	5	2	3	4	4	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	3	3
Dynamo Moscow	7	4	11	6	6	8	10	6	8	7	7	7	5	6	5	5	7	5	4	4	4	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Krasnodar	13	11	7	10	11	10	7	8	5	6	5	4	4	4	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	5	5	5
Spartak Moscow	3	1	1	1	2	4	5	3	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	5	5	5	5	5	6	6	6
Rostov	2	5	2	2	1	3	4	5	6	8	8	9	9	11	11	9	9	8	10	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	9	7	7
Kuban Krasnodar	11	7	4	7	9	7	8	10	10	10	10	10	11	8	8	8	8	10	9	9	10	10	10	9	9	9	9	7	8	8
Rubin Kazan	12	8	5	8	7	9	6	7	9	9	9	8	8	10	9	10	10	9	8	11	9	9	9	10	10	10	10	10	9	9
Amkar Perm	1	2	6	9	8	6	9	9	7	5	6	6	7	7	7	7	5	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	8	10	10
Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast	9	14	15	12	12	13	13	13	13	14	14	15	14	15	13	14	14	14	15	15	13	15	12	12	13	11	12	12	12	11
Terek Grozny	15	13	13	15	14	14	14	15	16	16	16	14	13	13	14	15	15	15	14	14	15	13	14	13	11	12	11	11	11	12
Tom Tomsk	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	13	13	13	15	14	15	13	13	13	13	13	14	12	13	14	14	14	14	13	13	13
Krylia Sovetov Samara	14	15	14	14	10	12	12	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	10	11	11	11	11	10	11	11	11	11	12	13	13	14	14	14
Volga Nizhny Novgorod	10	12	9	11	13	11	11	12	11	11	11	11	10	9	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	14	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15
Anzhi Makhachkala	5	9	12	13	15	15	15	14	14	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16

Source: resultados-futbol.com

Statistics

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Goals	Team
1	Seydou Doumbia	18 (4)	CSKA
2	Hulk	17 (3)	Zenit
	Artyom Dzyuba	17 (4)	Rostov
4	Yura Movsisyan	16 (2)	Spartak
5	Danny	13	Zenit
	Dame N'Doye	13	Lokomotiv
	Salomón Rondón	13	Rubin/Zenit
8	Georgi Peev	12 (8)	Amkar
9	Zoran Tošić	11	CSKA
10	Aleksandr Kokorin	10	Dynamo

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Artyom Dzyuba	Rostov	Tom	3–0[37]	27 July 2013
Danny	Zenit	Volga	3–1[38]	3 August 2013
Salomón Rondón	Rubin	Ural	3–0[39]	1 September 2013
Andriy Voronin	Dynamo	Ural	4–1[40]	16 September 2013
Zoran Tošić	CSKA	Krasnodar	5–1[41]	27 October 2013
Yura Movsisyan	Spartak	Zenit	4–2[42]	10 November 2013
Ari	Krasnodar	Spartak	4–0[43]	22 March 2014
Salomón Rondón	Zenit	Rubin	6–2[44]	6 April 2014
Hulk	Zenit	Krasnodar	4–1[45]	12 April 2014

Last updated: 15 May 2014

Awards

Monthly awards

Month	Premier League Manager of the Month		Premier League Player of the Month		Reference
	Manager	Club	Player	Club
July	Valeri Karpin	Spartak	Artyom Dzyuba	Rostov	[46][47]
August	Leonid Kuchuk	Lokomotiv	Danny	Zenit	[48][49]
September	Stanislav Cherchesov	Amkar	Hulk	Zenit	[50][51]
October	Luciano Spalletti	Zenit	Roman Shirokov	Zenit
November	Leonid Kuchuk	Lokomotiv	Seydou Doumbia	CSKA

Top 33

On 7 June 2014 Russian Football Union named its list of 33 top players:^[52]

Goalkeepers Igor Akinfeev (CSKA) Yuri Lodigin (Zenit) Aleksandr Belenov (Kuban)

Right backs Mário Fernandes (CSKA) Roman Shishkin (Lokomotiv) Aleksei Kozlov (Kuban/Dynamo)

Right-centre backs Vasili Berezutskiy (CSKA) Vedran Ćorluka (Lokomotiv) Vitali Dyakov (Rostov)

Left-centre backs Sergei Ignashevich (CSKA) Ján Ďurica (Lokomotiv) Vladimir Granat (Dynamo)

Left backs Vitaliy Denisov (Lokomotiv) Dmitri Kombarov (Spartak) Georgi Shchennikov (CSKA)

Defensive midfielders Rasmus Elm (CSKA) Charles Kaboré (Kuban) Denis Glushakov (Spartak)

Right wingers Hulk (Zenit) Aleksandr Samedov (Lokomotiv) Zoran Tošić (CSKA)

Central midfielders Roman Shirokov (Zenit/Krasnodar) Ivelin Popov (Kuban) Alan Dzagoev (CSKA)

Left wingers Danny (Zenit) Joãozinho (Krasnodar) Yuri Zhirkov (Anzhi/Dynamo)

Right forwards Seydou Doumbia (CSKA) Artyom Dzyuba (Rostov) Yura Movsisyan (Spartak)

Left forwards Aleksandr Kokorin (Dynamo) Dame N'Doye (Lokomotiv) Wánderson (Krasnodar)

On the same day, the RFU also announced the individual awards.^[53]

Player of the year: Seydou Doumbia (CSKA).

"Hope of the year" (under-21 players): Aleksei Miranchuk (Lokomotiv).

Manager of the year: Leonid Slutsky (CSKA).

Referee of the year: Aleksei Nikolaev.

Team of the year: PFC CSKA Moscow.

For the contribution to the development of football: Sergey Galitsky (owner of FC Krasnodar).