2016–17 Russian Premier League Explained

Competition:Russian Premier League
Season:2016–17
Winners:Spartak Moscow
9th Premier League title
22nd overall title
Continentalcup1:Champions League
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers:Spartak Moscow
CSKA Moscow
Continentalcup2:Europa League
Continentalcup2 Qualifiers:Lokomotiv Moscow
Zenit St. Petersburg
Krasnodar
Matches:240
Total Goals:512
League Topscorer:Fyodor Smolov
(18 goals)
Biggest Home Win:Spartak 4–0 Arsenal
Krasnodar 4–0 Terek
Lokomotiv 4–0 Anzhi
Krylia Sovetov 4–0 Spartak
CSKA 4–0 Ural
CSKA 4–0 Tom
CSKA 4–0 Anzhi
Biggest Away Win:Tom 0–6 Rostov
Highest Scoring:Tom 1–6 Lokomotiv
Longest Wins:6 matches:
Spartak (15 Oct–26 Nov)
Longest Unbeaten:13 matches:
CSKA (6 Nov–26 Apr)
Longest Winless:14 matches:
Arsenal (14 Aug–30 Nov)
Longest Losses:5 matches:
Arsenal (30 Oct–30 Nov)
Tom (27 Nov-11 Mar)
Highest Attendance:44,884
Spartak 3–1 CSKA Moscow
(29 October 2016)
Lowest Attendance:2,950
Tom 1–1 Ural
(1 October 2016)
Average Attendance:11,246
Prevseason:2015–16
Nextseason:2017–18

The 2016–17 Russian Premier League was the 25th season of the premier league football competition in Russia since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the 15th under the current Russian Premier League name. CSKA Moscow came into the season as the defending champions of the 2015-16 season. Fixtures for the 2016–17 season were announced on 20 June 2016.[1]

Teams

As in the previous season, 16 teams played in the 2016–17 season. After the 2015–16 season, FC Kuban Krasnodar, FC Dynamo Moscow and FC Mordovia Saransk were relegated to the 2016–17 Russian National Football League. They were replaced by three clubs from the 2015–16 Russian National Football League, FC Arsenal Tula, FC Orenburg and FC Tom Tomsk.

Stadiums

TeamStadiumCityOpenedCapacity
AmkarZvezda StadiumPerm196917,000
AnzhiAnzhi ArenaKaspiysk200326,400
ArsenalArsenal StadiumTula195920,048
CSKAArena CSKAMoscow201630,000
KrasnodarKrasnodar StadiumKrasnodar201634,291
Krylia SovetovMetallurg StadiumSamara195733,001
LokomotivLokomotiv StadiumMoscow200228,800
OrenburgGazovik StadiumOrenburg20027,500
RostovOlimp-2Rostov-on-Don193015,840
RubinKazan ArenaKazan201345,379
SpartakOtkrytiye ArenaMoscow201445,360
TerekAkhmat-ArenaGrozny201130,597
TomTrud StadiumTomsk192910,028
UfaNeftyanik StadiumUfa196715,234
UralSKB-Bank ArenaYekaterinburg194010,000
ZenitPetrovskySaint Petersburg192521,405

Personnel and sponsorship

TeamLocationHead coach
Amkar PermPerm Gadzhi Gadzhiyev
Anzhi MakhachkalaMakhachkala Aleksandr Grigoryan
Arsenal TulaTula Sergei Kiriakov
CSKA MoscowMoscow Viktor Goncharenko
KrasnodarKrasnodar Igor Shalimov
Krylia Sovetov SamaraSamara Vadim Skripchenko
Lokomotiv MoscowMoscow Yuri Semin
OrenburgOrenburg Robert Yevdokimov
RostovRostov-on-Don Ivan Daniliants
Rubin KazanKazan Javi Gracia
Spartak MoscowMoscow Massimo Carrera
Terek GroznyGrozny Rashid Rakhimov
Tom TomskTomsk Valery Petrakov
UfaUfa Sergei Semak
Ural Sverdlovsk OblastYekaterinburg Aleksandr Tarkhanov
Zenit Saint PetersburgSaint Petersburg Mircea Lucescu

Managerial changes

TeamOutgoingMannerDateTableIncomingDateTable
Zenit André Villas-BoasContract expired24 May 2016pre-season Mircea Lucescu24 May 2016[2] pre-season
Rubin Valeriy ChalyContract expired21 May 2016[3] pre-season Javi Gracia27 May 2016[4] pre-season
Ufa Sergei Tomarov (caretaker)Caretaking spell over6 June 2016pre-season Viktor Goncharenko6 June 2016[5] pre-season
Anzhi Ruslan AgalarovContract expired31 May 2016[6] pre-season Pavel Vrba30 June 2016[7] pre-season
Spartak Dmitri AlenichevResigned5 August 2016[8] 1st5 August 2016
[9]
1st
2nd
Rostov Kurban BerdyevResigned6 August 2016[10] 4th Dmitri Kirichenko (caretaker)6 August 20164th
Lokomotiv Igor CherevchenkoResigned10 August 2016[11] 9th Oleg Pashinin (caretaker)10 August 20169th
Lokomotiv Oleg Pashinin (caretaker)Caretaking spell over26 August 2016[12] 12th Yuri Semin26 August 201612th
Rostov Dmitri Kirichenko (caretaker)Caretaking spell over9 September 2016[13] 7th Ivan Daniliants9 September 20167th
Krasnodar Oleg KononovResigned13 September 2016[14] 7th Igor Shalimov (caretaker)
Igor Shalimov
13 September 2016
[15]
7th
6th
Arsenal Tula Sergei PavlovMutual consent5 October 2016[16] 14th Andrei Kozlov (caretaker)5 October 2016[17] 14th
Arsenal Tula Andrei Kozlov (caretaker)Caretaking spell over6 October 2016[18] 14th Sergei Kiriakov6 October 201614th
Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast Vadim SkripchenkoResigned1 November 2016[19] 13th Yuri Matveyev (caretaker)1 November 2016[20] 13th
Krylia Sovetov Franky VercauterenMutual consent1 November 2016[21] 16th Hans Visser (caretaker)1 November 201616th
Krylia Sovetov Hans Visser (caretaker)Caretaking spell over3 November 2016[22] 16th Vadim Skripchenko3 November 201616th
Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast Yuri Matveyev (caretaker)Caretaking spell over3 November 2016[23] 13th Aleksandr Tarkhanov3 November 201613th
CSKA Moscow Leonid SlutskyResigned7 December 2016[24] 3rd Viktor Goncharenko12 December 2016[25] 3rd
Ufa Viktor GoncharenkoMutual consent12 December 2016[26] 8th Sergei Semak30 December 2016[27] 8th
Anzhi Makhachkala Pavel VrbaMutual consent30 December 2016[28] 11th Aleksandr Grigoryan5 January 2017[29] 11th

Tournament format and regulations

Basic

The 16 teams played 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 was played, with 30 matches played by each team.

Promotion and relegation

The teams that finish 15th and 16th will be relegated to the FNL, while the top 2 in that league will be promoted to the Premier League for the 2016 - 17 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 2017 - 18 season.

Relegation play-offs

The draw for relegation play-offs scheduling took place on 24 April 2017.[30]

First leg

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Second leg

0–0 on aggregate. SKA-Khabarovsk won 5–3 on penalties and were promoted to the 2017–18 Russian Premier League; Orenburg were relegated to the 2017–18 Russian National Football League.----2–2 on aggregate. Arsenal Tula won on away goals and retained their spot in the 2017–18 Russian Premier League; Yenisey Krasnoyarsk remained in the 2017–18 Russian National Football League.

Results

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.

Season statistics

Scoring

Top goalscorers

RankPlayerTeamGoals
1 Fyodor SmolovKrasnodar18
2 Artem DzyubaZenit13
3 Quincy PromesSpartak12
4 AriKrasnodar/Lokomotiv10
5 JonathasRubinalign=center rowspan=29
Bekim BalajTerek
7 Denis GlushakovSpartakalign=center rowspan=38
Sergei KornilenkoKrylia Sovetov
Victor GiulianoZenit
10 Ablaye MbengueTerekalign=center rowspan=67
Manuel FernandesLokomotiv
Maksim KanunnikovRubin
Aleksandr SamedovLokomotiv/Spartak
Dmitry PolozRostov
Sardar AzmounRostov
Last updated: 28 May 2017[34]

Season events

Transfer bans

On 3 November 2016, FC Tom Tomsk was banned from registering new players for debts to PFC CSKA Moscow for Pyotr Ten's transfer fee.[35] On 27 December 2016, the ban was re-confirmed for debts to a former player Andrei Lyakh.[36] On 19 January 2017, the ban was re-confirmed for debts to player Sergey Kuznetsov and former players Maksim Tishkin, Artyom Yarmolitsky, Aslan Dudiyev, Aleksandr Zhirov, Sergey Samodin, Vitali Dyakov, Anton Kochenkov and Pyotr Ten.[37] On 31 January 2017, the ban was re-confirmed for debts to former players Oleksandr Kasyan and Pavel Golyshev.[38] On 10 February 2017, the ban was re-confirmed for debts to former players Pavel Golyshev and Kirill Pogrebnyak.[39] On 20 February 2017, the ban was re-confirmed for debts to players Aleksei Pugin, Artyom Popov and Kirill Kombarov.[40] By the time the winter player registration window closed on 24 February 2017, the ban remained as place. Most of the players who represented Tom in games played in 2016 left the club as free agents due to non-payment of wages, and as a result, Tom were forced to play out the 2017 games remaining on their schedule with the players registered for their Under-21 squad.

On 16 November 2016, FC Rubin Kazan was banned from registering new players for debts to former player Shota Bibilov.[41] On 23 December 2016, the ban was re-confirmed for debts to player Ruslan Kambolov.[42] On 17 February 2017, the ban was removed.[43]

On 19 December 2016, FC Krylia Sovetov Samara, FC Tom Tomsk, FC Amkar Perm and FC Rubin Kazan were banned from registering new players by the licensing committee of the Russian Football Union for unspecified debts.[44] Krylia Sovetov's ban was removed on 30 January 2017.

Awards

Top 33

On 22 May 2017, Russian Football Union named its list of 33 top players:[45]

Other awards announced on the same day included:

Player of the year: Denis Glushakov.

Hope prize (under-21 players): Fyodor Chalov (CSKA).

Coach of the year: Massimo Carrera (Spartak).

Referee of the year: Vladislav Bezborodov.

Team of the year: FC Spartak Moscow.

For contribution to football development: Nikita Simonyan.

External links

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