Russian Premier League Explained

Russian Premier League
Pixels:190px
Organiser:Russian Football Union (RFU)
Country:Russia
Confed:UEFA
Founded:1992 (as Top League)
2001 (as Premier League)
Relegation:First League
Levels:1
Domest Cup:Russian Cup
Russian Super Cup
Season:2023–24
Tv:List of broadcasters
Current:2024–25 Russian Premier League

The Russian Premier League (RPL; Russian: Российская премьер-лига, Rossiyskaya premyer-liga; РПЛ), also written as Russian Premier Liga,[1] is the top division professional association football league in Russia.[2] It was established at the end of 2001 as the Russian Football Premier League (RFPL; Russian: Российская футбольная премьер-лига; РФПЛ) and was rebranded with its current name in 2018.[3] From 1992 through 2001, the top level of the Russian football league system was the Russian Football Championship (Russian: Чемпионат России по футболу, Chempionat Rossii po Futbolu).[4]

There are 16 teams in the competition. As of the 2021/22 season, the league had two Champions League qualifying spots for the league winners and league runners-up, and two spots in the UEFA Conference League were allocated to the third- and fourth-placed teams.[5] However, those have all been suspended due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, along with the national team's participation in international competitions.[6] The last two teams are relegated to the Russian First League at the end of the season, while the 13th and 14th placed teams compete against the National League's 4th and 3rd teams respectively in a two-legged playoff.[7]

The Russian Premier League succeeded the Top Division including history and records. The Top Division was run by the Professional Football League of Russia. Since July 2022, the league is currently called Mir Russian Premier League (Russian: Мир Российская премьер-лига), also written as Mir Russian Premier Liga (after the Mir payment system), for sponsorship reasons.[8]

Since the introduction of the Russian Premier League in 2002, Zenit Saint Petersburg (10 times), CSKA Moscow (6 times), Lokomotiv Moscow (3 times), Rubin Kazan (2 times) and Spartak Moscow (1 time) have won the title. Zenit Saint Petersburg are the current champions winning the competition since 2018–19 until 2022–23 consecutively.

History

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, starting in 1992, each former Soviet republic organized an independent national championship. In Russia, the six Russian teams who had played in the Soviet Top League in 1991 (CSKA Moscow, Spartak Moscow, Torpedo Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, Spartak Vladikavkaz, and Lokomotiv Moscow) were supplemented with 14 teams from lower divisions to form a 20-team Russian Top Division. The Top Division was divided into two groups to reduce the total number of matches. The number of teams in the Top Division was reduced to 18 in 1993 and 16 in 1994. Since then, the Russian Top Division (and the Premier League since 2002) has consisted of 16 teams, except for a short-lived experiment with having two more teams in 1996 and 1997.[9]

Spartak Moscow won nine of the first ten titles. Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz was the only team which managed to break Spartak's dominance, winning the top division title in 1995. Lokomotiv Moscow have won the title three times,[10] and CSKA Moscow six times.[11] In 2007, Zenit St. Petersburg won the title for the first time in their history in Russian professional football; they had also won a Soviet title in 1984. 2008 brought the rise of Rubin Kazan, a club entirely new to the Russian top flight, as it had never competed in the Soviet Top League.

In preparation for the 2018–19 season, it was decided to hold a rebranding in which a new logo was presented.[12] [13] [14] [15] [16]

As a result of the Russia's invasion of Ukraine, all Russian club and national teams were banned from European competition indefinitely. Spartak Moscow, who were competing in the UEFA Europa League and were the only Russian club team remaining in European competition at the time, were disqualified from their tie against RB Leipzig, who advanced on a walkover.[17]

Competition

Teams in the Russian Premier League play each other twice, once at home and once away, for a total of 30 matches. Three points are awarded for a win, one for a draw, and none for a loss. If teams are level on points, the tie-breakers are the number of wins, then the goal difference, followed by several other factors. If the teams are tied for the first position, the tie-breakers are the number of wins, then head-to-head results. If the teams tied for the first place cannot be separated by these tie-breakers, a championship play-off is ordered.

As of 2020–21 season, the champions qualify for the UEFA Champions League group stage. The runners-up qualifies for the Champions League third qualifying round. The third and fourth-place teams qualify for the UEFA Europa Conference League. If the winner of Russian Cup ends in first or second on the championship in same season, then the third-place team qualifies to UEFA Europa League group stage, while fourth and fifth-place teams qualify for the UEFA Europa Conference League instead. The bottom two teams are relegated to the First League. Starting on the 2020–21 season the teams ranked in 13th and 14th-place play a two legs relegation play-off against 4th and 3rd-place team from National League. The two winners of this play-off secures the right to play in Premier League in following season.

Unlike most other European football leagues, the league traditionally used to run in summer, from March to November, to avoid playing games in the cold and snowy weather in winter. This was altered ahead of the 2012–13 season, with the league planning to run the season from autumn to spring. The transitional season of the competition began in early 2011 and continued until summer of 2012. After the 16 Premier League teams played each other twice over the course of the 2011 calendar year, they were split into two groups of eight, and the teams played other teams in their groups two more times for a total of 44 games (30 in 2011 and 14 in 2012). Those two groups were contested in spring 2012, with the top eight clubs playing for the title and European places. The other sides vied to avoid relegation: the bottom two went down while the next two played off against the sides third and fourth in the National Football League, with the two losers being relegated (or denied promotion).[18] Under the current autumn-spring calendar, the league takes a three-month winter break from mid-December until mid-March. Merging the calendar with other UEFA leagues however, has increased numbers of games in winter. This has resulted in the Russian Far East and Siberian teams being forced to play more home games in hostile weather conditions which affected the Premier League when SKA Khabarovsk took part.[19]

Youth championship

The Youth championship (Russian: Молодежное первенство), also known as Youth teams championship (Russian: Первенство молодёжных команд), Reserve team tournament (Russian: Турнир дублирующих составов) or Reserves tournament (Russian: Турнир дублёров), full name Youth football championship of Russia among teams of clubs of the Premier League (Russian: Молодёжное Первенство России по футболу среди команд клубов Премьер-Лиги), is a league that runs in parallel to the Russian Premier League and includes the youth or reserve teams of the Russian Premier League teams. The number of players a team can have on the pitch at a time that are over 21 years of age or without a Russian citizenship is limited. 16 teams participate in the league. Matches are commonly played a day before the match of the senior teams of the respective teams. All of the Russian Premier League teams are obliged to have a youth team that would participate in the Youth championship. The teams that are promoted from the National Football League and do not have a youth team must create one. The teams in the league are not relegated based on their final league position, but on the league position of their respective clubs' senior teams.

It has to be noted however that some Premier League clubs have three teams. Apart from the senior team and the team that plays in the Youth championship a team might have another senior team that plays in a lower division of Russian football and serves as the farm team for the main team. An example is Krasnodar-2, playing in the Russian First League.

Reserves tournament champions (2001–2007)

Youth championship winners (since 2008)

UEFA club rankings

Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia have been suspended from UEFA and from participating in UEFA competitions and therefore the UEFA coefficient ranking of the Russian Premier League is an automatic 0.

Current clubs

The following teams are competing in the 2024–25 season:

TeamHome cityStadiumCapacityHead coach
Akron TolyattiZhigulyovskKristall Stadium3,065 Zaur Tedeyev
Akhmat GroznyGroznyAkhmat-Arena30,597 Magomed Adiyev
Fakel VoronezhVoronezhTsentralnyi Profsoyuz Stadion32,750 Igor Cherevchenko
CSKA MoscowMoscowVEB Arena30,457[20] Marko Nikolić
Dynamo MakhachkalaMakhachkalaDynamo Stadium15,200 Khasanbi Bidzhiyev
Dynamo MoscowMoscowVTB Arena26,700 Marcel Lička
KhimkiKhimkiArena Khimki18,636 Franc Artiga
KrasnodarKrasnodarKrasnodar Stadium34,291 Murad Musayev
Krylia SovetovSamaraSolidarnost Arena44,918 Igor Osinkin
Lokomotiv MoscowMoscowRZD Arena27,320 Mikhail Galaktionov
FC Nizhny NovgorodNizhny NovgorodNizhny Novgorod Stadium44,899 Saša Ilić
RostovRostov-on-DonRostov Arena45,000 Valeri Karpin
FC OrenburgOrenburgGazovik Stadium10,046 David Deogracia
Spartak MoscowMoscowLukoil Arena44,307[21] Dejan Stanković
Rubin KazanKazanKazan Arena45,379 Rashid Rakhimov
Zenit Saint PetersburgSaint PetersburgKrestovsky Stadium67,800[22] Sergei Semak

Champions

See main article: article and List of Soviet and Russian football champions.

SeasonChampionsRunners-upThird placeTop scorer
1992Spartak MoscowSpartak VladikavkazDynamo Moscow Vali Gasimov (Dinamo Moscow, 16 goals – 1–8 place)
Yuri Matveyev (Uralmash Yekaterinburg, 20 goals – 9–20 place)
1993Spartak Moscow (2)Rotor VolgogradDynamo Moscow (2) Victor Panchenko (KamAZ Naberezhnye Chelny, 21 goals)
1994Spartak Moscow (3)Dynamo MoscowLokomotiv Moscow Igor Simutenkov (Dinamo Moscow, 21 goals)
1995Spartak-Alania VladikavkazLokomotiv MoscowSpartak Moscow Oleg Veretennikov (Rotor Volgograd, 25 goals)
1996Spartak Moscow (4)Alania Vladikavkaz (2)Rotor Volgograd Aleksandr Maslov (Rostselmash, 23 goals)
1997Spartak Moscow (5)Rotor Volgograd (2)Dynamo Moscow (3) Oleg Veretennikov (Rotor Volgograd, 22 goals)
1998Spartak Moscow (6)CSKA MoscowLokomotiv Moscow (2) Oleg Veretennikov (Rotor Volgograd, 22 goals)
1999Spartak Moscow (7)Lokomotiv Moscow (2)CSKA Moscow Georgi Demetradze (Alania Vladikavkaz, 21 goals)
2000Spartak Moscow (8)Lokomotiv Moscow (3)Torpedo Moscow Dmitri Loskov (Lokomotiv Moscow, 18 goals)
2001Spartak Moscow (9)Lokomotiv Moscow (4)Zenit Saint Petersburg Dmitri Vyazmikin (Torpedo Moscow, 18 goals)
2002Lokomotiv MoscowCSKA Moscow (2)Spartak Moscow (2) Rolan Gusev (CSKA Moscow, 15 goals)
Dmitri Kirichenko (CSKA Moscow, 15 goals)
2003CSKA MoscowZenit Saint PetersburgRubin Kazan Dmitri Loskov (Lokomotiv Moscow, 14 goals)
2004Lokomotiv Moscow (2)CSKA Moscow (2)Krylia Sovetov Samara Aleksandr Kerzhakov (Zenit St. Petersburg, 18 goals)
2005CSKA Moscow (2)Spartak MoscowLokomotiv Moscow (3) Dmitri Kirichenko (Moscow, 14 goals)
2006CSKA Moscow (3)Spartak Moscow (2)Lokomotiv Moscow (4) Roman Pavlyuchenko (Spartak Moscow, 18 goals)
2007Zenit Saint PetersburgSpartak Moscow (3)CSKA Moscow (2) Roman Pavlyuchenko (Spartak Moscow, 14 goals)
Roman Adamov (Moscow, 14 goals)
2008Rubin KazanCSKA Moscow (4)Dynamo Moscow (4) Vágner Love (CSKA Moscow, 20 goals)
2009Rubin Kazan (2)Spartak Moscow (4)Zenit Saint Petersburg (2) Welliton (Spartak Moscow, 21 goals)
2010Zenit Saint Petersburg (2)CSKA Moscow (5)Rubin Kazan (2) Welliton (Spartak Moscow, 19 goals)
2011–12Zenit Saint Petersburg (3)Spartak Moscow (5)CSKA Moscow (3) Seydou Doumbia (CSKA Moscow, 28 goals)
2012–13CSKA Moscow (4)Zenit Saint Petersburg (2)Anzhi Makhachkala Yura Movsisyan (Krasnodar/Spartak Moscow, 13 goals)
Wánderson (Krasnodar, 13 goals)
2013–14CSKA Moscow (5)Zenit Saint Petersburg (3)Lokomotiv Moscow (5) Seydou Doumbia (CSKA Moscow, 18 goals)
2014–15Zenit Saint Petersburg (4)CSKA Moscow (6)Krasnodar Hulk (Zenit Saint Petersburg, 15 goals)
2015–16CSKA Moscow (6)Zenit Saint Petersburg (3) Fyodor Smolov (Krasnodar, 20 goals)
2016–17Spartak Moscow (10)CSKA Moscow (7)Zenit Saint Petersburg (4) Fyodor Smolov (Krasnodar, 18 goals)
2017–18Lokomotiv Moscow (3)CSKA Moscow (8)Spartak Moscow (3) Quincy Promes (Spartak Moscow, 15 goals)
2018–19Zenit Saint Petersburg (5)Lokomotiv Moscow (5)Krasnodar (2) Fyodor Chalov (CSKA Moscow, 15 goals)
2019–20Zenit Saint Petersburg (6)Lokomotiv Moscow (6)Krasnodar (3) Sardar Azmoun (Zenit Saint Petersburg, 17 goals)
Artem Dzyuba (Zenit Saint Petersburg, 17 goals)
2020–21Zenit Saint Petersburg (7)Spartak Moscow (6)Lokomotiv Moscow (6) Artem Dzyuba (Zenit Saint Petersburg, 20 goals)
2021–22Zenit Saint Petersburg (8)SochiDynamo Moscow (5) Gamid Agalarov (Ufa, 19 goals)
2022–23Zenit Saint Petersburg (9)CSKA Moscow (9)Spartak Moscow (4) Malcom (Zenit Saint Petersburg, 23 goals)
2023–24Zenit Saint Petersburg (10)Krasnodar (1)Dynamo Moscow (6) Mateo Cassierra (Zenit Saint Petersburg, 21 goals)

Performance by club

ClubWinnersRunners-upThird placeSeasons won
Spartak Moscow1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2016–17
Zenit Saint Petersburg2007, 2010, 2011–12, 2014–15, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24
CSKA Moscow2003, 2005, 2006, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2015–16
Lokomotiv Moscow2002, 2004, 2017–18
Rubin Kazan2008, 2009
Alania Vladikavkaz1995
Rotor Volgograd
Dynamo Moscow
Rostov
Krasnodar
Sochi
Torpedo Moscow
Krylia Sovetov Samara
Anzhi Makhachkala
Total323232

Russian all-time champions

ClubTitlesSeasons WonRunners up
22 1936(a), 1938, 1939, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1962, 1969, 1979, 1987, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2016–17 18
13 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1970, 1991, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2015–16 13
11 1936(s), 1937, 1940, 1945, 1949, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1963, 1976(s) 12
11 1984, 2007, 2010, 2011–12, 2014–15, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24 3
3 2002, 2004, 2017–18 7
3 1960, 1965, 1976(a) 3
2 2008, 2009 0
1 1995 2

Seasons of Russian Premier League and Russian Football Championship (1992-2024)

A total of 52 teams had competed in at least one season at the top division. Spartak Moscow, CSKA Moscow and Lokomotiv Moscow are the only teams to have played in the top division in every season since the league's inception at 1992. The teams in bold participate in the 2024–25 Premier League.

SeasonsClubs
33Spartak Moscow, CSKA Moscow, Lokomotiv Moscow
32Dynamo Moscow
31Rostov
30Zenit Saint Petersburg, Krylia Sovetov Samara
21Rubin Kazan
18Akhmat Grozny
17Torpedo Moscow
16Alania Vladikavkaz, Ural Yekaterinburg
14Rotor Volgograd, Amkar Perm, Krasnodar
12Saturn Ramenskoye
11Anzhi Makhachkala
10Shinnik Yaroslavl
9Moscow, Tom Tomsk, Kuban Krasnodar
8Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod, Chernomorets Novorossiysk, Ufa
7Zhemchuzhina-Sochi, Arsenal Tula, Fakel Voronezh, Khimki
6Spartak Nalchik, Orenburg
5Tekstilshchik Kamyshin, KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny, Uralan Elista, Tyumen, Sochi
4Luch Vladivostok, Baltika Kaliningrad, Nizhny Novgorod
3
2Okean Nakhodka, Asmaral Moscow, Sokol Saratov, Lada-Tolyatti, Tambov
1Sibir Novosibirsk, Tosno, SKA-Khabarovsk, Yenisey Krasnoyarsk, Akron Tolyatti, Dynamo Makhachkala

All-time table

As of the end of the 2021–22 season. Teams in bold compete in 2018–19 Premier League.

RankClub1SeasonsSpellsMost
recent
season
Played2WonDrawnLostGoalsPoints3GoldSilverBronzeNotes
1Spartak Moscow3018934702041891551-91716701054
2CSKA Moscow3018934492022121288-8161607683
3Lokomotiv Moscow3018934242401991262-8101572366
4Zenit Saint Petersburg2728023952101671448-7831247734
5Dynamo Moscow2928623392402531152-9561297-14
6Krylya Sovetov Samara274806249218339851–1057965--1
7Rostov283832242230330865–1067993-1-
8Rubin Kazan191554215153156654–5258362-2
9Torpedo Moscow1622014–15492188142162625–598706--1
10Alania Vladikavkaz1632012–13489179109201630–66364612-Disbanded 2020
11Rotor Volgograd1422020-21432156116160577–558584-21
12Amkar Perm1412017–18 434114131159368–478508---
13Saturn Moscow Oblast1212010360120121119396–378481---
14Akhmat Grozny12234410277135322–404422 4---
15Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast1123089358127337–421374---
16Krasnodar81224885452295–213372--1
17Anzhi Makhachkala1133148683115299–353365--1Disbanded 2022
18Moscow912009 270928395295–311359---Disbanded 2010
19Shinnik Yaroslavl10420083048586133294–403341---
20Kuban Krasnodar952015–162847596113304–379321---Disbanded 2018, reestablished 2019 as Funs owned-Club
21Tom Tomsk922016–172847577132259–395302---Dissolved 2022
22Chernomorets Novorossiysk8220032487465109274–357287---
23Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod8220002486863117233–356267---Disbanded 2006, reestablished in 2017
24Zhemchuzhina Sochi7119992226157104263–390240---Disbanded 2003 and 2013, reestablished 2007
25Spartak Nalchik612011–12194545783207–239219---
26Energia-Tekstilshchik Kamyshin511996158534362172–177202---
27KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny511997162513279198–253179 5---
28Uralan Elista522003150363975138–225147---Disbanded 2005, reestablished 2014
29Ufa419025263973–108144---
30Luch-Energia Vladivostok422008124343258116–187134---
31Baltika Kaliningrad31199898303731114–111127---
32Fakel Voronezh432001124312964101–175122---
33Dynamo Stavropol3119949427234494–125104---Disbanded 2014, re-established 2015
34Tyumen5319981542526103116–326101---
35Arsenal Tula326014113538–8695---
36Volga Nizhny Novgorod312013–1410425166387–17191---Disbanded 2016
37Mordovia Saransk322015–16 9020224882–15082---
38Okean Nakhodka2119936422142865–8380---Disbanded 2015, reestablished 2018
39Khimki3120099017235086–15174---
40Asmaral Moscow2119936019113074–10268---Disbanded 1999
41Sokol Saratov2120026017133055–8764---
42Lada Togliatti2219966410163842–10546---
43Orenburg2230791425–3630---
44Tosno112017–1830661823–5424---Disbanded 2018
45Sibir Novosibirsk11201030481834–5820---Disbanded 2019
46SKA-Khabarovsk112017–1830272116–5513---
47Yenisey Krasnoyarsk112018-1930481824-5520---
Competing in RPL
Competing in RFL (2nd tier)
Competing in PFLA (3rd tier)
Competing in PFLB (4th tier)
Competing in amateur leagues (below 4th tier)
Defunct (see notes)
Notes
  1. For clubs that have been renamed, their name at the time of their most recent season in the Russian League is given. The current members are listed in bold.
  2. Includes championship play-offs, does not include relegation play-offs.
  3. For the purposes of this table, each win is worth 3 points. The three-point system was adopted in 1995.
  4. Terek were deducted 6 points in 2005.
  5. KAMAZ-Chally were deducted 6 points in 1997.

Player records

Most appearances

As of 18 August 2024

RankPlayerApps
1 Igor Akinfeev573
2 Sergei Ignashevich489
3 Sergei Semak456
4 Dmitri Loskov453
5 Igor Semshov433
6 Artem Dzyuba422
7 Vasili Berezutski402
8 Ruslan Adzhindzhal397
9 Igor Lebedenko394
10 Valery Yesipov390

Most goals

As of 28 July 2024

RankPlayerGoalsAppsAvg/Game
1 Artem Dzyuba1614220.39
2 Oleg Veretennikov1432740.52
3 Aleksandr Kerzhakov1393400.41
4 Dmitri Kirichenko1293770.34
5 Dmitri Loskov1204530.26
6 Fedor Smolov1083250.33
7 Roman Pavlyuchenko1043090.34
8 Sergei Semak1024560.22
9 Andrey Tikhonov983460.28
10 Igor Semshov984330.23

Champions (players)

9-time

Media coverage

2020–21 and 2021–22

Russia and CIS

ChannelSummaryRef
Match TV60 matches per season live[23]
Match PremierAll 240 matches live

Worldwide

All 240 matches are aired live globally on YouTube with a required subscription. There will be two membership levels for the viewers outside Russia, CIS, and China. The first level includes two matches with English commentary each matchday and will cost a monthly fee of $2.99. The second level, for $4.99 a month, gives subscribers access to all eight matches in Russian and two matches with English commentary as well.[24] In 2018–19 season, YouTube broadcast four live matches per week for free (in matchweek 30, aired all last eight matches).[25] From 2020 to 2021, YouTube also broadcast the FTA coverage of Super Cup before airing the league.

Country/RegionBroadcaster
Southeast EuropeSportklub
Belarus 5
Grupo Bandeirantes
CISQsport
i-cable
Latin AmericaGol TV

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Russian Premier Liga (@premierliga_en) . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230614184201/https://twitter.com/premierliga_en . Jun 14, 2023 . Twitter.
  2. Web site: Russia - League . uefa.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20141211202756/http://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/association=rus/domesticleague/index.html . 11 December 2014.
  3. Web site: RFPL . Russian Football Premier-League . https://web.archive.org/web/20141129012138/http://eng.rfpl.org/rfpl/ . 29 November 2014.
  4. Web site: About Russian Football Championship . Russian Football Premier-League . https://web.archive.org/web/20170607152406/http://eng.rfpl.org/rfpl/championat/ . 7 June 2017.
  5. Web site: European competitions in 2021/22: where will RPL teams be? . Feb 19, 2021 . Russian Premier Liga . 2022-01-07 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20210219140013/https://eng.premierliga.ru/news/rfpl/news_26234.html . Feb 19, 2021 .
  6. News: FIFA and UEFA suspend Russia from international football and clubs from European competition . The New York Times . 2022-03-24 . Buckingham . Philip .
  7. Web site: About the Russian Premier Liga . eng.premierliga.ru . 2022-01-07.
  8. Web site: Национальная платёжная система "Мир" стала титульным партнёром РПЛ . 2022-07-11 . premierliga.ru.
  9. Web site: Russian Premier Liga . 2023-04-14 . eng.premierliga.ru . ru.
  10. Web site: ИСТОРИЯ КЛУБА . The CLUB HISTORY . 2023-04-14 . Football Club Lokomotiv Moscow(Футбо́льный клуб "Локомоти́в" Москва́).
  11. Web site: CSKA Moscow - Club details - Football . 2023-04-14 . Eurosport . en.
  12. Web site: Футбол и сомбреро, они, если честно... Новые логотипы РФПЛ как прививка от скуки . 17 April 2018 . 17 April 2018 . ru. https://web.archive.org/web/20180418032357/https://matchtv.ru/football/rfpl/matchtvnews_NI843132_Futbol_i_sombrero_oni_esli_chestno_ . 18 April 2018 . live.
  13. Web site: ru. Новый логотип премьер-лиги. Просто бомба! . 12 April 2018 . 12 September 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180629064525/http://www.sport-express.ru/football/rfpl/reviews/novyy-logotip-premer-ligi-prosto-bomba-1395907/ . 29 June 2018 . live.
  14. Web site: ru. Медведь на логотипе РФПЛ. . 12 September 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180618075616/https://www.sportsdaily.ru/articles/medvezhya-usluga-s-chem-assocziiruetsya-nash-futbol . 18 June 2018 . live.
  15. Web site: ru. Представлен рабочий вариант нового логотипа РФПЛ . 12 September 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180618203624/https://matchtv.ru/football/matchtvnews_NI843462_Predstavlen_rabochij_variant_novogo_logotipa_RFPL . 18 June 2018 . live.
  16. Web site: ru. Cоздание логотипа Российской премьер-лиги . www.artlebedev.ru . 12 September 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180714193056/https://www.artlebedev.ru/rpl/logo/process/ . 14 July 2018 . live.
  17. News: FIFA and UEFA suspend Russia from international football and clubs from European competition. Buckingham. Philip. 28 February 2022. The Athletic. 24 March 2022.
  18. News: Russian league switches to new calendar . UEFA.com . . 2010-09-13 . 2010-09-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120217045135/http://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/association=rus/news/newsid=1527870.html?cid=PULSE_TW . 17 February 2012 . live.
  19. Web site: Russia fears freezing out top players. Gulf News. 21 November 2017. 1 January 2021.
  20. Web site: Arena CSKA (VEB Arena).
  21. Web site: Otkritie Arena.
  22. Web site: Arena St Petersburg.
  23. Web site: 2018-07-25. Match TV creates new channel for Russian Premier Liga. 2020-06-20. SportBusiness Media. en-GB.
  24. Web site: Russian Premier Liga launches YouTube memberships to broadcast all matches of the 2019/2020 season live. 2020-06-20. Russian Premier League.
  25. Web site: Sansun. David. 2019-03-02. RPL announce live matches to be broadcast free on YouTube. 2019-03-17. Russian Football News. en-GB.