| Competition: | Russian Premier League |
| Season: | 2006 |
| Winners: | CSKA Moscow |
| Relegated: | Torpedo Moscow Shinnik Yaroslavl |
| Continentalcup1: | Champions League |
| Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | CSKA Moscow Spartak Moscow |
| Continentalcup2: | UEFA Cup |
| Continentalcup2 Qualifiers: | Lokomotiv Moscow Zenit St.Petersburg |
| Continentalcup3: | Intertoto Cup |
| Continentalcup3 Qualifiers: | Rubin Kazan |
| Matches: | 240 |
| Total Goals: | 585 |
| League Topscorer: | Roman Pavlyuchenko (18) |
| Prevseason: | 2005 |
| Nextseason: | 2007 |
The 2006 Russian Premier League was the 15th season of the premier football competition in Russia since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the 5th under the current Russian Premier League name.
The season started on 17 March 2006 and ended on 26 November 2006. Defending champions CSKA Moscow claimed their second successive title on 18 November 2006 with an away win over Luch-Energiya Vladivostok.[1] Spartak Moscow finished runners-up, level on points with CSKA but ranked behind due to fewer wins (see Tie-breaking criteria below). Lokomotiv Moscow finished third.
Torpedo Moscow and Shinnik were relegated. It was the first time in Torpedo Moscow's history that the club was relegated.
As in the previous season, 16 teams played in the 2006 season. After the 2005 season, Alania Vladikavkaz and Terek Grozny were relegated to the 2006 Russian First Division. They were replaced by Luch-Energia Vladivostok and Spartak Nalchik, the winners and runners up of the 2005 Russian First Division.
| Amkar | CSKA | Dynamo | Krylia | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zvezda Stadium | Central Stadium | Central Stadium | Metallurg Stadium | |
| Capacity: 17,000 | Capacity: 36,540 | Capacity: 36,540 | Capacity: 27,084 | |
| Lokomotiv | Luch-Energia | |||
| RZD Arena | Dynamo Stadium | |||
| Capacity: 33,001 | Capacity: 10,200 | |||
| 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 Moscow | |||
| Shinnik Stadium | Luzhniki Stadium | |||
| Capacity: 22,871 | Capacity: 81,029 | |||
| Spartak Nalchik | Tom | Torpedo | Zenit Saint Petersburg | |
| Spartak Stadium | Trud Stadium | Luzhniki Stadium | Petrovsky Stadium | |
| Capacity: 14,149 | Capacity: 10,028 | Capacity: 81,029 | Capacity: 21,570 | |
| Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Replaced by | Date of appointment | Position in table | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dynamo | End of role | Preseason |  Yuri Semin | 22 November 2005[2] | Preseason | |||
| Lokomotiv | Vladimir Eshtrekov |  Slavoljub Muslin | 12 December 2005[3] | |||||
| Saturn | Vladimir Shevchuk |  Vladimír Weiss | ||||||
| Tom |  Anatoliy Byshovets | Valery Petrakov | ||||||
| Spartak | Aleksandrs Starkovs | April 2006 | Vladimir Fedotov | April 2006 | ||||
| Zenit St.Petersburg |  Vlastimil Petržela | 4 May 2006[4] | May 2006 | |||||
| Zenit St.Petersburg | End of Role | July 2006 |  Dick Advocaat | 26 June 2006[5] | ||||
| Amkar | Sergei Oborin | August 2006 | August 2006 | |||||
| Dynamo | Yuri Semin | Resigned | 4 August 2006 | 15th | Andrey Kobelev | August 2006 | ||
| Amkar | End of Role | September 2006 |  Rashid Rakhimov | September 2006 | ||||
| Shinnik | Oleg Dolmatov | September 2006 | Boris Gavrilov | September 2006 | ||||
| Torpedo | Sergei Petrenko | September 2006 | Aleksandr Gostenin | September 2006 | ||||
| Lokomotiv | Slavoljub Muslin | Fired | 5 October 2006[6] | Oleg Dolmatov | 5 October 2006 |
Based on paragraph 15.3 of the Russian Premier League regulations for the current season, if two or more teams are equal on points (without having the highest number), the positions of these teams are determined by:
Based on paragraph 15.4 of the regulations, if two teams are equal on the highest number of points, the first position is determined by:
Based on paragraph 15.5 of the regulations, if more than two teams are equal on the highest number of points, the first position and subsequent positions of these teams are determined by:
1The terms of this additional tournament are determined by the Russian Football Union and the governing body of the Russian Premier League based on suggestions from the participating clubs.
| Rank | Player | Club | Goal |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roman Pavlyuchenko | 18 | |
| 2 |  Jô | 14 | |
| 3 |  Alejandro Domínguez | 13 | |
| Pavel Pogrebnyak | |||
| Dmitri Loskov | |||
| 6 | Dmitri Kirichenko | 12 | |
| Mikhail Osinov | |||
| 8 | Vágner Love | 9 | |
| Ivica Olić | |||
| 10 | Yegor Titov | 8 | |
| Roman Adamov |
Russian Football Union named Andrey Arshavin the best Premier League player of the season. Arshavin was also ranked best by major Russian sports newspapers, Sport-Express[7] and Soviet Sports[8] and became the Russian Footballer of the Year.
On December 18, the Russian Football Union named its list of 33 top players:[9]
Antonín Kinský (Saturn) Martin Jiránek (Spartak Moscow)
Erik Hagen (Zenit)
Deividas Šemberas (CSKA Moscow) Martin Škrtel (Zenit) Orlando Calisto (Rubin)
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Sergei Gurenko (Lokomotiv Moscow) Jô (CSKA Moscow) Alejandro Domínguez (Rubin) Vágner Love (CSKA Moscow)
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