2014–15 Russian Premier League
| Season | 2014–15 |
|---|---|
| Champions | Zenit St. Petersburg |
| Relegated | Torpedo Moscow Arsenal Tula |
| Champions League | Zenit St. Petersburg CSKA Moscow |
| Europa League | Lokomotiv Moscow Krasnodar Rubin Kazan |
| Matches played | 240 |
| Goals scored | 583 (2.43 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Hulk (15 goals) |
| Biggest home win | Zenit 8–1 Torpedo |
| Biggest away win | Rostov 0–5 Zenit |
| Highest scoring | Dynamo 7–3 Rostov |
| Longest winning run | 8 matches: Zenit (2 Aug-20 Sep) |
| Longest unbeaten run | 13 matches: Zenit (3 Dec-17 May) Krasnodar (8 Mar-30 May) |
| Longest winless run | 11 matches: Arsenal (2 Aug-24 Oct) Amkar (3 Nov-7 Apr) |
| Longest losing run | 6 matches: Arsenal (17 Aug-28 Sep) |
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← 2013–14
2015–16 →
All statistics correct as of 7 June 2015. |
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The 2014–15 Russian Premier League is the 23rd season of the Russian football championship since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the 13th under the current Russian Premier League name.
The season began on August 1, 2014, when Rubin Kazan opened its season at home against Spartak Moscow.[1] The season ended on May 29, 2015. Zenit won the championship, on 17 May, 2 rounds before the season ended.
Contents
Teams
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After the 2013–14 season, FC Anzhi Makhachkala and FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod were relegated to the 2014–15 Russian National Football League. Anzhi's relegation was confirmed on 11 May 2014 after losing 0–1 to FC Krasnodar, a result that came one year after the club finished third in the previous season, and will return after four seasons. FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod will be returning after three seasons in the Russian Premier League during its first stint in Russia's top division. They were replaced by two clubs who qualified automatically from the 2013–14 Russian National Football League. After being relegated from the Premier League the season before, FC Mordovia Saransk returned to the Premier League at its first attempt after winning the Russian National Football League in the 2013–14 season. The 2014–15 season will also mark the Premier League debut for FC Arsenal Tula, having finished second to play in the top division of any level for the first time in its 68-year history.
On 22 May 2014, FC Tom Tomsk and FC Krylia Sovetov Samara would also be relegated via promotion/relegation play-offs. Winners of the 2012–13 Russian National Football League, FC Tom Tomsk lost to FC Ufa 4–6 on aggregate. Ufa's qualification to the Premier League was all the more impressive considering that the club was founded at the end of 2010 and played its 2011–12 season in the second division. FC Krylia Sovetov Samara will also be playing in the 2014–15 Russian National Football League. One of the original members of Russia's first division since the breakup of the Soviet Union, FC Krylia Sovetov Samara will be playing outside the top division for the first time since 1991. They lost to FC Torpedo Moscow 0–2 on aggregate, and the Moscow-based club will return to the top division for the first time since the 2006 season.
Stadiums
| Team | Stadium | Opened | Capacity | Average attendance | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amkar | Zvezda, Perm | 1969 | 17,000 | 8,275 [2] | |
| Arsenal Tula | Arsenal, Tula | 1959 | 20,048 | 12,154 [3] | |
| Lokomotiv, Moscow | 2002 | 28,800 | 2,000 [4] | Used as home ground in round 26. | |
| MSA Lokomotiv, Moscow | 2009 | 10,000 | 1,300 [5] | Used as home ground in round 20. | |
| CSKA | Arena Khimki, Khimki | 2008 | 18,636 | 8,967 [6] | |
| Dynamo Moscow | Arena Khimki, Khimki | 2008 | 18,636 | 7,336 [6] | |
| Krasnodar | Kuban, Krasnodar | 1961 | 31,654 | 11,290 [7] | |
| Kuban | Kuban, Krasnodar | 1961 | 31,654 | 9,228 [7] | |
| Lokomotiv | Lokomotiv, Moscow | 2002 | 28,800 | 8,822 [4] | |
| Mordovia | Start, Saransk | 2004 | 11,613 | 5,313 [8] | |
| Rostov | Olimp-2, Rostov-on-Don | 1930 | 15,840 | 10,059 [9] | |
| Rubin | Kazan Arena, Kazan | 2013 | 45,105 | 20,066 [10] | |
| Rubin, Kazan | 1958 | 10,000 | 3,682 [11] | Used as home ground in rounds 18-27. | |
| Central Stadium, Kazan | 1960 | 28,856 | 20,624 [12] | Used as home ground in round 1. | |
| Spartak Moscow | Otkrytiye Arena, Moscow | 2014 | 45,360 | 25,001 [13] | |
| Terek | Akhmat-Arena, Grozny | 2011 | 30,597 | 16,822 [14] | |
| Sultan Bilimkhanov Stadium, Grozny | 1946 | 10,600 | 8,500 [15] | Used as home ground in rounds 18, 24. | |
| Torpedo Moscow | Saturn, Ramenskoye | 1999 | 14,685 | 3,544 [16] | |
| Eduard Streltsov Stadium, Moscow | 1959 | 13,450 | 3,517 [17] | Used as home ground in rounds 14, 17, 26-30. | |
| Otkrytiye Arena, Moscow | 2014 | 45,360 | 20,147 [13] | Used as home ground in round 20. | |
| Ufa | Dynamo, Ufa | 1934 | 5,350 | 4,183 [18] | |
| Start, Saransk | 2004 | 11,613 | 1,964 [8] | Used as home ground in rounds 19-23, 30. | |
| Zvezda, Perm | 1969 | 17,000 | 1,383 [2] | Used as home ground in rounds 5, 11, 13, 24-26. | |
| Petrovsky, Saint Petersburg | 1925 | 20,985 | 16,925 [19] | Used as home ground in round 28. | |
| Ural | Central Stadium, Yekaterinburg | 1957 | 27,000 | 9,193 [20] | |
| Geolog, Tyumen | 1982 | 12,057 | 5,167 [21] | Used as home ground in rounds 23, 27, 28. | |
| Ural Indoor Arena, Yekaterinburg | 3,000 | 2,640 [22] | Used as home ground in rounds 11, 20, 21. | ||
| Zenit | Petrovsky, Saint Petersburg | 1925 | 20,985 | 16,508 [19] |
Personnel and sponsorship
Managerial changes
| Team | Outgoing | Manner | Date | Table | Incoming | Date | Table |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mordovia Saransk |  Yuriy Maksymov |
Mutual consent | 18 May 2014[23] | Pre-season |  Yuri Semin |
28 May 2014[24] | Pre-season |
| Spartak Moscow | Dmitri Gunko |
Contract expired | 1 June 2014[25] | Pre-season |  Murat Yakin |
16 June 2014[26] | Pre-season |
| Torpedo Moscow | Aleksandr Borodyuk |
Contract expired | 5 June 2014[27] | Pre-season | Nikolai Savichev |
19 June 2014[28] | Pre-season |
| Amkar Perm | Konstantin Paramonov |
Caretaker spell over | 17 June 2014 | Pre-season |  Slavoljub Muslin |
17 June 2014[29] | Pre-season |
| Lokomotiv Moscow |  Leonid Kuchuk |
Sacked | 17 September 2014 | 9th |  Igor Cherevchenko (caretaker) |
17 September 2014[30] | 9th |
| Rostov |  Miodrag Božović |
Resigned | 25 September 2014[31] | 14th | Igor Gamula |
25 September 2014[32] | 14th |
| Lokomotiv Moscow | Igor Cherevchenko (caretaker) |
Caretaking spell over | 4 October 2014 | 9th | Miodrag Božović |
4 October 2014[33] | 9th |
| Torpedo Moscow | Nikolai Savichev |
Resigned | 4 November 2014 | 15th | Valery Petrakov |
4 November 2014[34] | 15th |
| Kuban Krasnodar | Viktor Goncharenko |
Mutual consent | 13 November 2014[35] | 5th | Leonid Kuchuk |
17 November 2014[36] | 5th |
| Amkar Perm | Slavoljub Muslin |
Sacked | 9 December 2014[37] | 14th | Gadzhi Gadzhiyev |
30 December 2014[38] | 14th |
| Rostov | Igor Gamula |
Moved to the U-21 team | 18 December 2014[39] | 16th |  Kurban Berdyev |
18 December 2014[40] | 16th |
| Lokomotiv Moscow | Miodrag Božović |
Resigned | 11 May 2015[41] | 7th | Igor Cherevchenko |
11 May 2015 (caretaker) 2 June 2015 (permanent)[42] |
7th |
| Kuban Krasnodar | Leonid Kuchuk |
Mutual consent | 25 May 2015[43] | 10th | Andrei Sosnitskiy (caretaker) |
25 May 2015 | 10th |
Last updated: 2 June 2015
Tournament format and regulations
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Basic
The 16 teams will play a round-robin tournament whereby each team plays each one of the other teams twice, once at home and once away. Thus, a total of 240 matches will be played, with 30 matches played by each team.
Promotion and relegation
The teams that finish 15th and 16th will be relegated to the RNFL, while the top 2 in that league will be promoted to the Premier League for the 2015–16 season.
The 13th and 14th Premier League teams will play the 4th and 3rd FNL teams respectively in two playoff games with the winners securing Premier League spots for the 2015–16 season.
League table
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zenit St. Petersburg (C) | 30 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 58 | 17 | +41 | 67 | Qualification to Champions League group stage |
| 2 | CSKA Moscow | 30 | 19 | 3 | 8 | 67 | 27 | +40 | 60 | Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round |
| 3 | Krasnodar | 30 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 52 | 27 | +25 | 60 | Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round |
| 4 | Dynamo Moscow | 30 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 53 | 36 | +17 | 50 | Excluded from European competitions |
| 5 | Rubin Kazan | 30 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 39 | 33 | +6 | 48 | Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round |
| 6 | Spartak Moscow | 30 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 42 | 42 | 0 | 44 | |
| 7 | Lokomotiv Moscow | 30 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 31 | 25 | +6 | 43 | Qualification to Europa League group stage[lower-alpha 1] |
| 8 | Mordovia Saransk | 30 | 11 | 5 | 14 | 22 | 43 | −21 | 38 | |
| 9 | Terek Grozny | 30 | 10 | 7 | 13 | 30 | 30 | 0 | 37 | |
| 10 | Kuban Krasnodar | 30 | 8 | 12 | 10 | 32 | 36 | −4 | 36 | |
| 11 | Amkar Perm | 30 | 8 | 8 | 14 | 25 | 42 | −17 | 32 | |
| 12 | Ufa | 30 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 26 | 39 | −13 | 31 | |
| 13 | Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast (O) | 30 | 9 | 3 | 18 | 31 | 44 | −13 | 30 | Qualification to Relegation play-offs |
| 14 | Rostov (O) | 30 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 27 | 51 | −24 | 29 | |
| 15 | Torpedo Moscow (R) | 30 | 6 | 11 | 13 | 28 | 45 | −17 | 29 | Relegation to PFL |
| 16 | Arsenal Tula (R) | 30 | 7 | 4 | 19 | 20 | 46 | −26 | 25 | Relegation to FNL |
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) number of matches won; 3) head-to-head points; 4) head-to-head wins; 5) head-to-head goal difference; 6) head-to-head goals; 7) number of head-to-head away goals; 8) goal difference; 9) number of goals scored; 10) number of away goals scored
(C) Champion; (O) Play-off winner; (R) Relegated.
Notes:
- ↑ Lokomotiv Moscow qualified for Europa League group stage by winning the 2014–15 Russian Cup.
Relegation play-offs
First leg
Second leg
Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast won 1–0 on aggregate score and remained in the 2015–16 Russian Premier League.
Rostov won 5–1 on aggregate score and remained in the 2015–16 Russian Premier League.
Results
| Home ╲ Away | AMK | ARS | CSK | DYN | KRA | KUB | LOK | MOR | ROS | RUB | SPA | TER | TOR | UFA | URL | ZEN |
| Amkar Perm | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 0–3 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | |
| Arsenal Tula | 4–0 | 1–4 | 1–2 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 0–4 | |
| CSKA Moscow | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 6–0 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 6–0 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 5–0 | 3–1 | 0–1 | |
| Dynamo Moscow | 5–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 7–3 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 0–1 | |
| Krasnodar | 1–1 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 2–2 | |
| Kuban Krasnodar | 1–0 | 5–1 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 3–3 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 0–0 | |
| Lokomotiv Moscow | 3–1 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 4–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | |
| Mordovia Saransk | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | |
| Rostov | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–5 | |
| Rubin Kazan | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 5–0 | 2–0 | 0–4 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–1 | |
| Spartak Moscow | 3–3 | 2–0 | 0–4 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 4–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 1–1 | |
| Terek Grozny | 4–0 | 3–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 4–2 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 1–2 | |
| Torpedo Moscow | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 1–3 | 0–3 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 1–1 | |
| Ufa | 1–1 | 0–1 | 3–3 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 | |
| Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–4 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 2–3 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 1–2 | |
| Zenit St. Petersburg | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 5–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 8–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 |
Updated to games played on 30 May 2015.
Source: Russian Premier League
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Positions by round
The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 10, but then postponed and played between days 25 and 26, it will be added to the standings for day 25.
Source: resultados-futbol.com
Season events
Arsenal–CSKA game
On 16 March 2015, the league decided that the game between FC Arsenal Tula and PFC CSKA Moscow on 21 March 2015 can not be played at Arsenal Stadium due to unacceptable pitch condition.[44] The backup stadium registered by Arsenal with the league for such occasions is MSA Lokomotiv in Moscow, where the game was moved, in effect making Arsenal visitors at their own home game. In protest, Arsenal manager Dmitri Alenichev decided to field the reserves squad for this game.[45] Most of the players from the reserves teams are registered to play in league games, therefore the league could not reverse such a decision. 9 of the 11 Arsenal starters in the game (except for Sergei Kotov and Leonid Boyev) made their Premier League debut in the game. Kotov and Boyev had played in the Premier League for 185 combined minutes before this game.[46] It was also a first game since 21 July 2012 in which one of the teams (in this case, Arsenal) did not play a single foreign player.[47] CSKA won the game 4–1.[48]
Season statistics
Scoring
- First goal of the season: Artem Dzyuba for Spartak Moscow against Rubin Kazan (1 August 2014)[49]
Top goalscorers
| Rank | Player | Team | Goals | Minutes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Hulk |
Zenit | 15 (3) | 2283 |
| 2 |  José Salomón Rondón |
Zenit | 13 | 1516 |
 Roman Eremenko |
CSKA | 13 | 2213 | |
 Quincy Promes |
Spartak | 13 | 2379 | |
| 5 |  Bibras Natkho |
CSKA | 12 (7) | 2174 |
| 6 | Igor Portnyagin |
Rubin | 11 | 2018 |
| 7 |  Ahmed Musa |
CSKA | 10 | 2431 |
| 8 |  Kevin Kurányi |
Dynamo | 10 (3) | 1578 |
| 9 | Aleksei Ionov |
Dynamo | 9 | 2054 |
| 10 |  Mauricio Pereyra |
Krasnodar | 9 (1) | 2013 |
Last updated: 30 May 2015[50]
Hat-tricks
| Player | For | Against | Result | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aleksandr Kokorin |
Dynamo | Rostov | 7–3 | 2 August 2014[51] |
| Bibras Natkho |
CSKA | Rostov | 6–0 | 31 August 2014[52] |
| José Salomón Rondón |
Zenit | Rostov | 5–0 | 20 September 2014[53] |
| José Salomón Rondón |
Zenit | Ural | 3–0 | 7 March 2015[54] |
Round One Scoring Record
In the first round of matches, the 16 clubs (10 of which scored) combined for 34 goals to open the Russian Premier League, a new record that was elapsed even prior to Terek Grozny's home match against Amkar Perm on August 4. Ten of those goals came in Dinamo Moskva's 7-3 victory over FC Rostov.[55][56]
Zenit Saint Petersburg winning record
Zenit started the competition with 8 victories in a row, beating the previous record set by FC Rubin Kazan in 2008 with 7.[57]
References
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