1997 Russian Top League Explained

Competition:Russian Top League
Season:1997
Prevseason:1996
Nextseason:1998

In the 1997 season of the Russian Top League, the football team Spartak Moscow successfully defended the championship, winning their fifth Russian title.

Overview

TeamHead coach
FC Spartak MoscowOleg Romantsev
FC Rotor Volgograd Viktor Prokopenko
FC Dynamo MoscowAdamas Golodets
FC Shinnik YaroslavlAnatoli Polosin (until August)
Pyotr Shubin (from August)
FC Lokomotiv MoscowYuri Syomin
FC Chernomorets NovorossiyskOleg Dolmatov
FC Krylia Sovetov SamaraAleksandr Averyanov
FC Zenit St. Petersburg Anatoliy Byshovets
FC Baltika KaliningradLeonid Tkachenko
FC Alania VladikavkazValery Gazzaev
FC Torpedo-Luzhniki MoscowAleksandr Tarkhanov
PFC CSKA MoscowPavel Sadyrin
FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-DonSergey Andreyev
FC Zhemchuzhina SochiArsen Naydyonov
FC TyumenAleksandr Irkhin (until April)
Aleksandr Ignatenko (from April)
FC Fakel VoronezhSergei Savchenkov
FC Lokomotiv Nizhny NovgorodValeri Ovchinnikov
FC KAMAZ-Chally Naberezhnye Chelny Benjaminas Zelkevičius

Standings

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

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RankPlayerClubGoals
1 Oleg VeretennikovRotor22
2 Oleg TeryokhinDynamo17
3 Igor YanovskiyAlania13
4 Lev BereznerChernomorets11
Aleksandr ZernovRotor
Valery KechinovSpartak Moscow
7 Andrey TikhonovSpartak Moscow10
Edgaras JankauskasTorpedo-Luzhniki
9 Aleksandr GerasimovShinnik9
Aleksei KosolapovLokomotiv Moscow
Vladimir KulikCSKA
Dmitry KhokhlovTorpedo-Luzhniki

Medal squads

1. FC Spartak Moscow
Goalkeepers: Aleksandr Filimonov (33), Ruslan Nigmatullin (2).
Defenders: Sergei Gorlukovich (31 / 2), Dmitri Khlestov (27 / 1), Dmitri Ananko (25), Miroslav Romaschenko (24 / 4), Ramiz Mamedov (19 / 1), Vadim Evseev (18), Konstantin Golovskoy (14), Vasili Kulkov (6).
Midfielders: Dmitri Alenichev (33 / 2), Yegor Titov (31 / 8), Aleksei Bakharev (30 / 2), Aleksei Melyoshin (26 / 2), Andrey Tikhonov (24 / 10), Valery Kechinov (22 / 11), Ilya Tsymbalar (11 / 4), Andrei Konovalov (11 / 1), Robert Yevdokimov (4 / 1).
Forwards: Aleksandr Shirko (26 / 7), Maksim Buznikin (20 / 8), Luis Robson (10 / 1), Sergey Dmitriev (6 / 1), Sergei Lutovinov (6).
(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

One own goal scored by Vladimir Klontsak (FC KAMAZ-Chally Naberezhnye Chelny).

Manager: Oleg Romantsev.

Transferred out during the season: Vasili Kulkov (to FC Zenit St. Petersburg), Robert Yevdokimov (to FC KAMAZ-Chally Naberezhnye Chelny).

2. FC Rotor Volgograd
Goalkeepers: Platon Zakharchuk (34).
Defenders: Aleksandr Shmarko (33), Volodymyr Gerashchenko (27), Sergei Zhunenko (23), Valeri Burlachenko (22 / 1), Nikolai Olenikov (19), Albert Borzenkov (15).
Midfielders: Oleg Veretennikov (34 / 22), Aleksandr Berketov (33 / 3), Valery Yesipov (32 / 3), Vitaliy Abramov (30 / 1), Andrei Krivov (25), Maksim Tishchenko (20), Ihor Korniyets (12), Vladimir Smirnov (4), Mikhail Mysin (1), Hennadiy Orbu (1).
Forwards: Denis Zubko (34 / 4), Vladimir Niederhaus (33 / 8), Aleksandr Zernov (31 / 11), Sergei Ilyushin (1).

One own goal scored by Denis Koberskiy (FC Zhemchuzhina Sochi).

Manager: Viktor Prokopenko .

Transferred out during the season: Ihor Korniyets , Sergei Ilyushin (both to FC Arsenal Tula), Hennadiy Orbu (to FC Shakhtar Donetsk).

3. FC Dynamo Moscow
Goalkeepers: Dmytro Tyapushkin (23), Andrei Smetanin (14).
Defenders: Sergei Shtanyuk (33 / 2), Andrei Ostrovskiy (32 / 4), Yuri Kovtun (28), Erik Yakhimovich (16), Mikhail Zharinov (9), Yevgeni Korablyov (9), Vyacheslav Tsaryov (4), Maksim Povorov (1).
Midfielders: Andrey Kobelev (33 / 7), Vladimir Skokov (32 / 5), Sergei Nekrasov (32 / 1), Sergey Grishin (28 / 1), Aliaksandr Kulchiy (26 / 3), Aleksandr Tochilin (23), Andrei Gordeyev (7 / 1), Rolan Gusev (7), Vitali Kulyov (6), Maksim Romaschenko (4 / 4), Yuri Kuznetsov (4).
Forwards: Oleg Teryokhin (33 / 17), Aleksei Kutsenko (19 / 4), Eduard Kosolapov (8 / 1), Yuri Tishkov (4), Sergei Artyomov (2), Andrei Dyomkin (1), Oleg Sergeyev (1).

Manager: Adamas Golodets.

Transferred out during the season: Erik Yakhimovich (on loan to Vanspor), Andrei Dyomkin (to R.S.C. Anderlecht).

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Russia 1997 . . The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation . 23 February 2024.