2009 Russian Premier League

Russian Premier League
Season	2009
Champions	FC Rubin Kazan; 2nd title
Relegated	FC Kuban Krasnodar; FC Khimki; FC Moscow
Champions League	FC Rubin Kazan; FC Spartak Moscow; FC Zenit Saint Petersburg
Europa League	FC Lokomotiv Moscow; PFC CSKA Moscow
Matches played	240
Goals scored	600 (2.5 per match)
Top goalscorer	Welliton (21)
Biggest home win	Spartak Moscow 5–0 Tom
Biggest away win	Saturn 0–5 Rubin
Highest scoring	10 matches with 6 goals in each
	← 2008 2010 →

The season started on 14 March 2009 with a goalless draw between Amkar Perm and Rostov. The last matches were played on 29 November 2009. On 21 November 2009 Rubin Kazan successfully retained their champion's title.

Teams

As in the previous season, 16 teams played in the 2009 season. After the 2008 season, Shinnik Yaroslavl and Luch-Energiya Vladivostok were relegated to the 2009 Russian First Division. They were replaced by Rostov and Kuban Krasnodar, the winners and runners up of the 2008 Russian First Division.

Venues

Dynamo Moscow played their home games during the 2009 season at the new Arena Khimki, due to their Dynamo Stadium undergoing renovation work.

Amkar	CSKA	Dynamo	Khimki
Zvezda Stadium	Luzhniki Stadium	Arena Khimki	Arena Khimki
Capacity: 17,000	Capacity: 81,000	Capacity: 18,840	Capacity: 18,840

Krylia	CSKA Dynamo Khimki Lokomotiv Moscow Saturn Spartak Amkar Krylia Kuban Rostov Rubin Spartak Terek Zenit class=notpageimage\| Locations of teams in 2009 Russian Premier League Moscow Tom class=notpageimage\| Locations of teams in 2009 Russian Premier League, Tomsk		Kuban
Metallurg Stadium			Kuban Stadium
Capacity: 27,084			Capacity: 28,800

Lokomotiv			Moscow
RZD Arena			Eduard Streltsov Stadium
Capacity: 33,001			Capacity: 13,450

Rostov			Rubin
Olimp-2			Central Stadium
Capacity: 15,840			Capacity: 22,500

Saturn			Spartak Moscow
Saturn Stadium			Luzhniki Stadium
Capacity: 14,685			Capacity: 81,029

Spartak Nalchik	Terek	Tom	Zenit Saint Petersburg
Spartak Stadium	Sultan Bilimkhanov Stadium	Trud Stadium	Petrovsky Stadium
Capacity: 14,149	Capacity: 10,400	Capacity: 10,028	Capacity: 21,570

Personnel and kits

Team	Location	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Amkar Perm	Perm	Rashid Rakhimov	Martin Kushev	Nike
CSKA	Moscow	Leonid Slutsky	Igor Akinfeev	Reebok	Aeroflot
Dynamo	Moscow	Andrey Kobelev	Dmitri Khokhlov	Umbro	VTB Bank
Khimki	Khimki	Igor Chugainov (Caretaker)	Dragan Blatnjak	Nike
Krylia	Samara	Yuri Gazzaev	Ruslan Ajinjal	Nike
Kuban	Krasnodar	Poghos Galstyan (Caretaker)	Andrei Topchu	Nike
Lokomotiv	Moscow	Yuri Semin	Rodolfo	Adidas
Moscow	Moscow	Miodrag Božović	Yuri Zhevnov	Umbro
Rostov	Rostov-on-Don	Oleg Dolmatov	Mikhail Osinov	Nike
Rubin	Kazan	Kurban Berdyev	Sergei Semak	Nike
Saturn	Ramenskoye	Andrei Gordeyev (Caretaker)	Aleksei Igonin	Adidas
Spartak	Moscow	Valeri Karpin (Executive Director)	Martin Jiránek	Nike
Spartak	Nalchik	Yuri Krasnozhan	Miodrag Džudović	Umbro
Terek	Grozny	Shahin Diniyev (Caretaker)	Timur Dzhabrailov	Adidas	SAT&Co Managing Company
Tom	Tomsk	Valery Nepomnyashchy	Sergei Pareiko
Zenit	Saint Petersburg	Anatoli Davydov	Aleksandr Anyukov	Nike	Gazprom

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Amkar	Miodrag Božović			Preseason	Dimitar Dimitrov		Preseason
CSKA	Valery Gazzaev				Zico	9 January 2009
Khimki	Sergei Yuran				Konstantin Sarsania	15 December 2008
Moscow	Oleg Blokhin				Miodrag Božović	28 November 2008
Spartak Moscow	Michael Laudrup	Fired	15 April 2009	10th	Valeri Karpin (Executive Director)^[1]
Lokomotiv	Rashid Rakhimov	Fired	28 April 2009	13th	Vladimir Maminov (Caretaker)	28 April 2009	8th
Saturn	Jürgen Röber	Fired	15 May 2009	15th	Andrei Gordeyev (Caretaker)	15 May 2009	15th
Saturn	Andrei Gordeyev (Caretaker)	End of role	20 May 2009		Andrei Gordeyev	20 May 2009
Lokomotiv	Vladimir Maminov (Caretaker)	End of role	1 June 2009	8th	Yuri Semin	1 June 2009	8th
Zenit	Dick Advocaat	Fired	10 August 2009	8th	Anatoli Davydov (Caretaker)	10 August 2009	8th
Kuban	Sergei Ovchinnikov	Fired	11 August 2009	14th	Poghos Galstyan (Caretaker)	11 August 2009	14th
Amkar	Dimitar Dimitrov	Fired	1 September 2009	13th	Rashid Rakhimov	5 September 2009
CSKA	Zico	Sacked	10 September 2009	4th	Juande Ramos	10 September 2009	4th
Khimki	Konstantin Sarsania	Resigned	19 September 2009	16th	Igor Chugainov (Caretaker)
Zenit	Anatoli Davydov (Caretaker)	End of role	2 October 2009		Anatoli Davydov	2 October 2009
Krylia Sovetov	Leonid Slutsky	Resigned	9 October 2009	10th	Yuri Gazzaev (Caretaker)	10 October 20009	10th
Terek	Vyacheslav Hrozny	Resigned	20 October 2009	9th	Shahin Diniyev (Caretaker)	20 October 2009	9th
CSKA	Juande Ramos	Mutual Termination	26 October 2009	5th	Leonid Slutsky	26 October 2009	5th

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Rubin Kazan (C)	30	19	6	5	62	21	+41	63	Qualification to Champions League group stage
2	Spartak Moscow	30	17	4	9	61	33	+28	55	Qualification to Champions League group stage
3	Zenit St. Petersburg	30	15	9	6	48	27	+21	54	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
4	Lokomotiv Moscow	30	15	9	6	43	30	+13	54	Qualification to Europa League play-off round
5	CSKA Moscow	30	16	4	10	48	30	+18	52	Qualification to Europa League play-off round
6	FC Moscow (R)	30	13	9	8	39	28	+11	48	Club expelled after season
7	Saturn	30	13	6	11	38	41	−3	45
8	Dynamo Moscow	30	12	6	12	31	37	−6	42
9	Tom Tomsk	30	11	8	11	31	39	−8	41
10	Krylia Sovetov Samara	30	10	6	14	32	42	−10	36
11	Spartak Nalchik	30	8	11	11	36	33	+3	35
12	Terek Grozny	30	9	6	15	33	48	−15	33
13	Amkar Perm	30	8	9	13	27	37	−10	33
14	Rostov	30	7	11	12	28	39	−11	32
15	Kuban Krasnodar (R)	30	6	10	14	23	51	−28	28	Relegation to First Division
16	Khimki (R)	30	2	4	24	20	64	−44	10	Relegation to First Division

Source: RFPL (in Russian)
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; 5th goals scored; 6th away goals scored; 7th position in previous season or decision game
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

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Home \ Away	AMK	CSK	DYN	KHI	KRY	KUB	LOK	MOS	ROS	RUB	SAT	SPA	SPN	TER	TOM	ZEN
Amkar Perm		0–0	3–1	2–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	0–1	0–0	2–2	0–2	1–2	1–2	1–0	0–0	2–4
CSKA Moscow	1–0		3–0	2–1	3–0	4–0	4–1	1–3	1–2	0–2	3–0	1–2	0–0	1–0	0–1	2–1
Dynamo Moscow	0–0	1–2		3–2	0–1	1–1	0–2	1–0	1–0	0–3	1–0	1–1	2–1	0–1	0–1	1–0
Khimki	2–0	0–3	0–2		1–3	2–2	1–3	1–1	0–1	2–3	1–0	0–3	0–2	1–2	1–3	0–4
Krylia Sovetov Samara	1–0	1–3	3–1	3–0		1–0	1–3	1–1	2–2	1–2	0–2	2–1	0–0	2–0	1–3	0–1
Kuban Krasnodar	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	0–0		1–0	3–3	0–0	0–3	0–2	1–0	2–2	1–1	0–0	0–2
Lokomotiv Moscow	1–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	4–1		1–0	2–0	2–1	2–2	2–1	1–0	4–0	0–0	1–1
FC Moscow	0–2	2–0	1–2	3–0	2–1	4–1	0–0		2–0	1–3	3–1	3–1	0–2	0–0	2–1	1–0
Rostov	1–1	1–0	0–1	2–0	0–0	3–3	1–1	2–2		1–2	1–2	0–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	2–1
Rubin Kazan	1–2	1–2	3–0	2–1	4–1	3–0	2–0	0–0	0–2		5–1	0–2	2–0	4–0	4–0	0–0
Saturn	2–0	0–3	0–0	1–0	3–1	2–1	2–0	0–1	4–0	0–5		2–1	1–0	3–0	0–0	2–2
Spartak Moscow	5–1	2–3	0–2	1–0	1–1	4–0	3–0	2–1	5–1	0–3	4–0		2–0	2–0	5–0	1–1
Spartak Nalchik	4–1	1–1	2–4	0–0	0–1	4–0	0–1	0–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	2–4		4–2	3–0	2–2
Terek Grozny	2–2	1–1	1–0	2–0	3–2	0–1	2–1	1–2	1–3	1–2	1–1	2–3	1–0		4–0	3–2
Tom Tomsk	1–2	2–3	2–3	4–0	0–1	1–0	1–3	0–0	2–1	0–0	3–1	1–1	1–0	2–1		0–3
Zenit St. Petersburg	0–0	2–0	2–1	4–2	2–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	2–0	0–0	2–1	2–1	2–2	2–0	0–2

2009 Russian Premier League

Teams

Venues

Personnel and kits

Managerial changes

League table

Results

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Awards

Medal squads

See also

References

External links

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Rank	Player	Club	Goal
1	Welliton	Spartak	20
2	Aleksandr Bukharov	Rubin	16
2	Alejandro Domínguez	Rubin	16
4	Dmitri Sychev	Lokomotiv	13
5	Aleksandr Kerzhakov	Dynamo	12
5	Alex	Spartak	12
7	Shamil Lakhiyalov	Terek	11
8	Vladimir Bystrov	Dynamo / Zenit	10
9	Tomáš Necid	CSKA	9
	Miloš Krasić	CSKA
	Jan Koller	Krylia

1. FC Rubin Kazan
Goalkeepers: Sergei Ryzhikov (29), Nukri Revishvili (1). Defenders: César Navas (28), Cristian Ansaldi (25 / 1), Roman Sharonov (25 / 2), Vitali Kaleshin (18), Lasha Salukvadze (10 / 1), Aleksei Popov (10), Dato Kvirkvelia (7), Aleksandr Orekhov (2), Stjepan Tomas (1). Midfielders: Sergei Semak (26 / 6), Gökdeniz Karadeniz (25 / 6), MacBeth Sibaya (23 / 1), Christian Noboa (22 / 2), Aleksandr Ryazantsev (18 / 3), Yevgeni Balyaikin (17), Andrei Gorbanets (11), Pyotr Bystrov (11), Alan Kasaev (10 / 1), Rafał Murawski (7 / 1), Serhii Rebrov (7), Makhach Gadzhiyev (1), Aleksei Kotlyarov (1). Forwards: Alejandro Domínguez (23 / 19), Aleksandr Bukharov (23 / 16), Hasan Kabze (14 / 2), Roman Adamov (13 / 2), Igor Portnyagin (2 / 1), Davron Mirzayev (1). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets) Manager: Kurban Berdyev. Transferred out during the season: Roman Adamov (on loan to FC Krylia Sovetov Samara), Serhii Rebrov (retired), Makhach Gadzhiyev (end of loan from FC Saturn Moscow Oblast).
2. FC Spartak Moscow
Goalkeepers: Soslan Dzhanayev (26), Stipe Pletikosa (4). Defenders: Martin Jiránek (29 / 1), Sergei Parshivlyuk (21 / 1), Martin Stranzl (19 / 1), Malik Fathi (16 / 3), Fyodor Kudryashov (7), Clemente Rodríguez (7), Egor Filipenko (5 / 1), Ignas Dedura (4). Midfielders: Alex (29 / 12), Rafael Carioca (23), Yevgeni Makeyev (20 / 2), Vladimir Bystrov (18 / 4), Denis Boyarintsev (18), Renat Sabitov (17), Serghei Covalciuc (16), Ivan Saenko (13 / 1), Aleksandr Pavlenko (10), Zhano Ananidze (8 / 2), Quincy (8 / 2), Ibson (6), Vladislav Ryzhkov (4), Maksim Grigoryev (3), Artur Maloyan (3), Igor Gorbatenko (2). Forwards: Welliton (28 / 21), Nikita Bazhenov (22 / 2), Pavel Yakovlev (14 / 4), Artyom Dzyuba (8 / 2), Eldar Nizamutdinov (5 / 1). Manager: Michael Laudrup (until April), Valery Karpin (from April). Transferred out during the season: Vladimir Bystrov (to FC Zenit St. Petersburg), Aleksandr Pavlenko (on loan to FC Rostov), Artyom Dzyuba (on loan to FC Tom Tomsk), Clemente Rodríguez (to Estudiantes de La Plata), Artur Maloyan (on loan to FC Anzhi Makhachkala).
3. FC Zenit St. Petersburg
Goalkeepers: Vyacheslav Malafeev (28), Kamil Čontofalský (2). Defenders: Aleksandr Anyukov (27 / 1), Fernando Meira (22 / 1), Ivica Križanac (18 / 2), Kim Dong-Jin (17 / 1), Nicolas Lombaerts (15 / 2), Tomáš Hubočan (10). Midfielders: Konstantin Zyryanov (30 / 4), Igor Denisov (28 / 1), Igor Semshov (26 / 6), Roman Shirokov (21 / 1), Szabolcs Huszti (19 / 2), Radek Šírl (17), Viktor Fayzulin (16), Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (11), Vladimir Bystrov (10 / 6), Aleksei Ionov (10), Alessandro Rosina (9 / 2), Danny (8). Forwards: Fatih Tekke (20 / 8), Pavel Pogrebnyak (15 / 5), Sergei Kornilenko (11 / 1), Mateja Kežman (10 / 2), Maksim Kanunnikov (1). Manager: Dick Advocaat (until August), Anatoli Davydov (from August). Transferred out during the season: Pavel Pogrebnyak (to VfB Stuttgart), Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (to FC Bayern Munich).