2005 Russian Premier League

The 2005 Russian Premier League was the 14th season of the premier football competition in Russia since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the 4th under the current Russian Premier League name.

Russian Premier League

Season	2005
Champions	CSKA Moscow
Relegated	Alania Vladikavkaz Terek Grozny
Champions League	CSKA Moscow Spartak Moscow
UEFA Cup	Lokomotiv Moscow Rubin Kazan
Intertoto Cup	FC Moscow
Matches	240
Goals	542 (2.26 per match)
Top goalscorer	Dmitri Kirichenko (14)
← 2004 2006 →

Teams

As in the previous season, 16 teams are playing in the 2005 season. After the 2004 season, Kuban Krasnodar and Rotor Volgograd were relegated to the 2005 Russian First Division. They were replaced by Terek Grozny and Tom Tomsk, the winners and runners up of the 2004 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 Rostov Rubin Shinnik Terek Zenit Locations of teams in 2004 Russian Premier League Moscow Tom Locations of teams in 2005 Russian Premier League (Tomsk)		Lokomotiv Moscow
Metallurg Stadium			RZD Arena
Capacity: 27,084			Capacity: 33,001
Moscow			Rostov
Eduard Streltsov Stadium			Olimp-2
Capacity: 13,450			Capacity: 15,840
Rubin			Saturn
Central Stadium			Saturn Stadium
Capacity: 22,500			Capacity: 14,685
Shinnik			Spartak
Shinnik Stadium			Luzhniki Stadium
Capacity: 22,871			Capacity: 81,029
Terek	Tom	Torpedo	Zenit Saint Petersburg
Central Stadium	Trud Stadium	Luzhniki Stadium	Petrovsky Stadium
Capacity: 12,500	Capacity: 10,028	Capacity: 81,029	Capacity: 21,570

Personnel and kits

Team	Location	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Alania	Vladikavkaz	Aleksandr Yanovsky (Caretaker)		Umbro	—
Amkar Perm	Perm	Sergei Oborin		Adidas	—
CSKA	Moscow	Valery Gazzaev		Umbro	Sibneft
Dynamo	Moscow	Andrey Kobelev (Caretaker)		Umbro	Xerox
Lokomotiv	Moscow	Vladimir Eshtrekov		Adidas
Krylia	Samara	Gadzhi Gadzhiyev
Moscow	Moscow	Leonid Slutsky
Rostov	Rostov-on-Don	Sergei Balakhnin		Umbro	—
Rubin	Kazan	Kurban Berdyev		Nike
Saturn	Ramenskoye	Vladimir Shevchuk		Adidas
Shinnik	Yaroslavl	Oleg Dolmatov		Umbro
Spartak	Moscow	Aleksandrs Starkovs		Nike
Terek	Pyatigorsk	Aleksandr Tarkhanov		Umbro
Tom	Tomsk	Anatoliy Byshovets		Adidas
Torpedo	Moscow	Sergei Petrenko		Umbro	—
Zenit	Saint Petersburg	Vlastimil Petržela		Adidas	Gazprom

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Alania	Yuri Sekinayev (Caretaker)			Preseason	Bakhva Tedeyev		Preseason
Rostov	Sergei Balakhnin				Gennadi Styopushkin
Alania	Bakhva Tedeyev		April 2005		Edgar Gess	19 April 2005[1]
Rostov	Gennadi Styopushkin	Medical treatment	17 April 2005[2]	16th	Paul Ashworth (Caretaker)	17 April 2005[2]	16th
Rostov	Paul Ashworth (Caretaker)	End of Role	4 May 2005[3]	16th	Gennadi Styopushkin	4 May 2005[3]	16th
Dynamo	Oleg Romantsev		May 2005		Andrey Kobelev (Caretaker)	May 2005
Lokomotiv	Yuri Semin		May 2005		Vladimir Eshtrekov	May 2005
Saturn	Aleksandr Tarkhanov		May 2005		Vladimir Shevchuk	May 2005
Alania	Edgar Gess		July 2005		Aleksandr Yanovsky (Caretaker)	July 2005
Alania	Aleksandr Yanovsky (Caretaker)	End of Role	4 July 2005	14th	Itzhak Shum	4 July 2005[4]	14th
Dynamo	Andrey Kobelev (Caretaker)	End of Role	19 July 2005	9th	Ivo Wortmann	19 July 2005[5]	9th
Moscow	Valery Petrakov		July 2005		Leonid Slutsky	July 2005
Rostov	Gennadi Styopushkin		July 2005		Valery Petrakov	July 2005
Rostov	Valery Petrakov		August 2005		Sergei Balakhnin	August 2005
Tom	Boris Stukalov		August 2005		Anatoliy Byshovets	August 2005
Alania	Itzhak Shum	Fired	27 September 2005[6]	15th	Aleksandr Yanovsky (Caretaker)	27 September 2005[6]	15th
Terek	Vait Talgayev		October 2005		Aleksandr Tarkhanov	October 2005
Dynamo	Ivo Wortmann	Fired	8 November 2005[7][5]	8th	Andrey Kobelev (Caretaker)	8 November 2005[7]	8th

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	CSKA Moscow (C)	30	18	8	4	48	20	+28	62	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
2	Spartak Moscow	30	16	8	6	47	26	+21	56	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
3	Lokomotiv Moscow	30	14	14	2	41	18	+23	56	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round[a]
4	Rubin Kazan	30	14	9	7	45	31	+14	51	Qualification to UEFA Cup second qualifying round
5	FC Moscow	30	14	8	8	36	26	+10	50	Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round
6	Zenit St. Petersburg	30	13	10	7	45	26	+19	49
7	Torpedo Moscow	30	12	9	9	37	33	+4	45
8	Dynamo Moscow	20	12	2	6	36	46	−10	38
9	Shinnik Yaroslavl	30	9	11	10	26	31	−5	38
10	Tom Tomsk	30	9	10	11	28	33	−5	37
11	Saturn	30	8	9	13	23	25	−2	33
12	Amkar Perm	30	7	12	11	25	36	−11	33
13	Rostov	30	8	7	15	26	41	−15	31
14	Krylia Sovetov Samara	30	7	8	15	29	44	−15	29
15	Alania Vladikavkaz (R)	30	5	8	17	27	53	−26	23	Relegation to First Division
16	Terek Grozny[b] (R)	30	5	5	20	20	50	−30	14

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

1. Since CSKA Moscow won the 2005–06 Russian Cup, and winner of the Russian Cup should advance to the First Round of UEFA Cup, the spot was awarded to 3rd-positioned team, because CSKA Moscow already qualified for UEFA Champions League. As a result, 4th-positioned team received a spot in the Second Qualifying Round of UEFA Cup, and 5th-positioned team received a spot in the Second Round of UEFA Intertoto Cup
2. Terek had 6 points deducted for failing to pay transfer fee in time.

Results

Home \ Away	ALA	AMK	CSK	DYN	KRY	LOK	MOS	ROS	RUB	SAT	SHI	SPA	TER	TOM	TOR	ZEN
Alania Vladikavkaz		0–1	1–1	2–4	2–0	0–0	0–2	0–0	4–3	1–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	1–2	2–2	0–3
Amkar Perm	0–0		0–1	4–1	1–1	3–4	0–0	1–0	1–0	3–2	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–0
CSKA Moscow	4–3	3–1		2–0	5–0	0–0	1–1	2–1	2–1	1–0	2–0	1–0	3–0	2–0	2–0	1–1
Dynamo Moscow	1–0	1–2	1–2		3–1	0–0	0–2	2–1	3–1	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–1	0–0	2–1	1–2
Krylia Sovetov Samara	2–0	1–0	2–2	0–1		0–0	4–1	1–1	2–2	1–0	1–0	1–3	0–1	1–1	0–1	3–0
Lokomotiv Moscow	3–0	1–1	3–2	4–1	1–0		0–0	4–0	1–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	4–0	2–0	0–3	0–0
FC Moscow	1–0	1–0	0–0	2–1	0–1	0–1		1–0	0–1	0–1	3–2	3–1	2–1	4–1	1–1	2–0
Rostov	1–0	2–0	0–2	0–3	2–1	1–1	1–0		0–1	0–0	2–2	0–1	1–0	2–0	1–1	0–1
Rubin Kazan	4–2	2–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	3–1	1–1	1–1		0–0	2–0	0–0	1–1	0–0	5–1	1–0
Saturn	3–1	2–0	0–1	0–1	1–1	0–0	1–2	2–0	0–0		1–0	1–1	3–2	0–2	1–0	0–0
Shinnik Yaroslavl	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–1	3–1	0–2	0–1	2–1	3–2	1–0		1–3	2–1	0–0	1–3	1–0
Spartak Moscow	5–1	1–1	1–3	5–1	1–0	1–2	0–2	2–0	3–0	1–0	1–1		3–0	2–1	1–0	1–1
Terek Grozny	1–2	2–2	1–0	0–1	2–0	0–3	0–0	2–3	1–5	1–0	0–1	1–2		0–1	0–1	0–0
Tom Tomsk	0–0	3–0	0–0	3–2	4–2	0–0	3–2	1–2	1–2	0–3	0–0	0–1	2–0		1–1	2–0
Torpedo Moscow	3–0	2–1	0–2	2–1	0–0	0–1	2–0	3–1	1–1	2–0	0–0	1–3	2–1	3–0		0–4
Zenit St. Petersburg	3–1	5–1	1–0	4–1	4–1	1–1	2–2	4–2	0–1	1–0	0–0	1–1	5–1	1–0	1–1

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

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

As of matches played on 19 November 2005.

Rank	Player	Club	Goal
1	Dmitri Kirichenko	Moscow	14
2	Derlei	Dynamo	13
3	Igor Semshov	Torpedo	12
4	Roman Pavlyuchenko	Spartak Moscow	11
5	Aleksandr Panov	Torpedo	10
	Ivica Olić	CSKA
7	Andrey Arshavin	Zenit	9
	Dzhambulad Bazayev	Alania
9	Diniyar Bilyaletdinov	Lokomotiv	8
9	Maksim Buznikin	Rostov	9
	Vágner Love	CSKA
	Tomáš Čížek	Rubin
	Roman Adamov	Terek
	Aleksandr Kerzhakov	Zenit
	Andriy Husin	Krylia

Statistics

• Goals: 539 (average 2.25 per match)
  • From penalties: 58 (11%)
  • Saved/Missed penalties: 17 (23%)
  • Goals scored home: 324 (60%)
  • Goals scored away: 215 (40%)
• Yellow cards: 962 (average 4.01 per match)
  • For violent conduct: 603 (63%)
  • For unsporting behaviour: 287 (30%)
  • For undisciplined behaviour: 21 (2%)
  • Other: 51 (5%)
• Red cards: 32 (average 0.13 per match)
  • For second yellow card: 20 (63%)
  • For denying an obvious goal-scoring opportunity: 3 (9%)
  • For unsporting behaviour: 3 (9%)
  • For insulting language: 3 (9%)
  • For attack wrecking: 1 (3%)
  • For violent conduct: 1 (3%)
• Attendance: 2,881,674 (average 12,006 per match; 96,048 per matchday)

Awards

On December 9 Russian Football Union named its list of 33 top players:^[8]

Goalkeepers

1. Igor Akinfeev (CSKA Moscow)
2. Wojciech Kowalewski (Spartak Moscow)
3. Sergei Ovchinnikov (Lokomotiv Moscow)

Right backs Vasili Berezutski (CSKA Moscow) Aleksandr Anyukov (Krylya Sovetov / Zenit) Jerry-Christian Tchuissé (FC Moscow)

Right-centre backs Sergei Ignashevich (CSKA Moscow) Malkhaz Asatiani (Lokomotiv Moscow) Antônio Géder (Saturn)

Left-centre backs Nemanja Vidić (Spartak Moscow) Dmitri Sennikov (Lokomotiv Moscow) Erik Hagen (Zenit)

Left backs Aleksei Berezutski (CSKA Moscow) Calisto (Rubin) Pavel Mareš (Zenit)

Defensive midfielders

1. Elvir Rahimić (CSKA Moscow)
2. Francisco Lima (Lokomotiv Moscow)
3. MacBeth Sibaya (Rubin)

Right wingers Chidi Odiah (CSKA Moscow) Marat Izmailov (Lokomotiv Moscow) Vladimir Bystrov (Spartak Moscow)

Central midfielders Daniel Carvalho (CSKA Moscow) Igor Semshov (Torpedo Moscow) Dmitri Loskov (Lokomotiv Moscow)

Left wingers Yuri Zhirkov (CSKA Moscow) Diniyar Bilyaletdinov (Lokomotiv Moscow) Pyotr Bystrov (Saturn)

Right forwards Andrei Arshavin (Zenit) Dmitri Sychev (Lokomotiv Moscow) Aleksandr Kerzhakov (Zenit)

Left forwards Dmitri Kirichenko (FC Moscow) Vágner Love (CSKA Moscow) Derlei (Dynamo Moscow)

Medal squads

1. PFC CSKA Moscow

Goalkeepers: Igor Akinfeev (29), Veniamin Mandrykin (1). Defenders: Deividas Šemberas (28), Aleksei Berezutski (27 / 2), Vasili Berezutski (27 / 2), Sergei Ignashevich (22 / 5), Bohdan Shershun (1). Midfielders: Elvir Rahimić (30 / 1), Daniel Carvalho (29 / 4), Evgeni Aldonin (29 / 1), Chidi Odiah (27 / 2), Miloš Krasić (27 / 2), Rolan Gusev (25 / 4), Dudu (21 / 3), Yuri Zhirkov (20 / 2), Juris Laizāns (3 / 1), Osmar Ferreyra (2), Ivan Taranov (1). Forwards: Vágner Love (21 / 7), Ivica Olić (20 / 10), Sergey Samodin (12), Aleksandr Salugin (5 / 1), Sergei Pravosud (5). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets) One own goal scored by Denis Kovba (FC Krylia Sovetov Samara). Manager: Valery Gazzaev. Transferred out during the season: Juris Laizāns (to FC Torpedo Moscow), Osmar Ferreyra (on loan to PSV Eindhoven), Bohdan Shershun (to FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk).

2. FC Spartak Moscow

Goalkeepers: Wojciech Kowalewski (29), Aleksei Zuev (1). Defenders: Nemanja Vidić (27 / 2), Clemente Rodríguez (25 / 1), Martin Jiránek (22), Ignas Dedura (18 / 1), Adrian Iencsi (13 / 1), Emanuel Pogatetz (11), Florin Şoavă (7), Dmytro Parfenov (2). Midfielders: Yegor Titov (28 / 4), Denis Boyarintsev (27 / 4), Radoslav Kováč (27 / 4), Serghei Covalciuc (21 / 2), Maksym Kalynychenko (18 / 4), Vladimir Bystrov (15 / 3), Aleksandr Samedov (11), Dmitri Alenichev (8), Mozart (7), Andrejs Rubins (5). Forwards: Roman Pavlyuchenko (25 / 11), Fernando Cavenaghi (25 / 6), Mihajlo Pjanović (17 / 1), Aleksandr Pavlenko (14 / 2), Nikita Bazhenov (10 / 1). Manager: Aleksandrs Starkovs . Transferred out during the season: Aleksandr Samedov (to FC Lokomotiv Moscow), Emanuel Pogatetz (to Middlesbrough).

3. FC Lokomotiv Moscow

Goalkeepers: Sergei Ovchinnikov (29), Aleksei Poliakov (1). Defenders: Dmitri Sennikov (29 / 1), Malkhaz Asatiani (28 / 3), Sergei Gurenko (26), Vadim Evseev (21 / 2), Oleg Pashinin (18 / 1), Sergei Omelyanchuk (13), Dmitri Kruglov (8), Aleksei Bugayev (8). Midfielders: Dmitri Khokhlov (30 / 3), Diniyar Bilyaletdinov (29 / 8), Francisco Lima (26), Dmitri Loskov (22 / 6), Vladimir Maminov (20), Marat Izmailov (16 / 4), André Bikey (9), Aleksandr Samedov (9). Forwards: Igor Lebedenko (23 / 6), Dmitri Sychev (21 / 6), Francesco Ruopolo (7), Winston Parks (5), Essau Kanyenda (3), Maksim Buznikin (2), Mikheil Ashvetia (2), Giorgi Chelidze (2), Ruslan Pimenov (1). One own goal scored by Mykhaylo Starostyak (FC Shinnik Yaroslavl). Manager: Yuri Syomin (until April), Vladimir Eshtrekov (from April). Transferred out during the season: Winston Parks (on loan to FC Saturn Moscow Oblast), Essau Kanyenda (on loan to FC Rostov), Maksim Buznikin (to FC Rostov), Mikheil Ashvetia (to FC Rostov), Ruslan Pimenov (to FC Alania Vladikavkaz).

Attendances

Rank	Club	Average
1	Krylia Sovetov	20,833
2	Zenit	20,385
3	Spartak Moscow	19,733
4	Alania	17,600
5	Amkar	13,133
6	Tom	13,053
7	Lokomotiv Moscow	12,140
8	Rubin	12,053
9	PFC CSKA	11,740
10	Saturn	9,900
11	Shinnik	9,307
12	Rostov	8,767
13	Dynamo Moscow	8,500
14	Torpedo Moscow	6,520
15	FC Moscow	6,247
16	Terek	5,947

Source:^[9]

See also

• 2005 in Russian football