| Competition: | Russian Premier League |
| Season: | 2004 |
| Winners: | Lokomotiv Moscow 2nd title |
| Relegated: | Kuban Krasnodar Rotor Volgograd |
| Continentalcup1: | Champions League |
| Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | Lokomotiv Moscow CSKA Moscow |
| Continentalcup2: | UEFA Cup |
| Continentalcup2 Qualifiers: | Krylia Sovetov Zenit St.Petersburg |
| Matches: | 240 |
| Total Goals: | 598 |
| League Topscorer: | Aleksandr Kerzhakov (18) |
| Prevseason: | 2003 |
| Nextseason: | 2005 |
Following are the results of the 2004 Russian Premier League, the top division of Russian association football. Lokomotiv won their second Premier League title, while Krylya Sovetov finished in the top three for the first time, winning bronze. Kuban were relegated after just one season in the Premier League. They were joined by Rotor who played at the top level since the beginning of the Russian league.
As in the previous season, 16 teams are playing in the 2004 season. After the 2003 season, Chernomorets Novorossiysk and Uralan Elista were relegated to the 2004 Russian First Division. They were replaced by Amkar Perm and Kuban Krasnodar, the winners and runners up of the 2003 Russian First Division.
| Alania | Amkar | CSKA | Dynamo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican Spartak Stadium | Zvezda Stadium | Central Stadium | Central Stadium | |
| Capacity: 32,464 | Capacity: 17,000 | Capacity: 36,540 | Capacity: 36,540 | |
| Krylia Sovetov Samara | Kuban Krasnodar | |||
| Metallurg Stadium | Kuban Stadium | |||
| Capacity: 27,084 | Capacity: 28,800 | |||
| Lokomotiv Moscow | Moscow | |||
| RZD Arena | Eduard Streltsov Stadium | |||
| Capacity: 33,001 | Capacity: 13,450 | |||
| Rostov | Rotor | |||
| Olimp-2 | Central Stadium | |||
| Capacity: 15,840 | Capacity: 32,120 | |||
| Rubin | Saturn | |||
| Central Stadium | Saturn Stadium | |||
| Capacity: 22,500 | Capacity: 14,685 | |||
| Shinnik | Spartak | Torpedo | Zenit Saint Petersburg | |
| Shinnik Stadium | Luzhniki Stadium | Luzhniki Stadium | Petrovsky Stadium | |
| Capacity: 22,871 | Capacity: 81,029 | 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alania |  Bakhva Tedeyev | Preseason |  Rolland Courbis | 9 January 2004[1] | Preseason | |||
| CSKA | Valery Gazzaev | Artur Jorge | 23 November 2003[2] | |||||
| Dynamo |  Viktor Prokopenko |  Jaroslav Hřebík | 8 November 2003[3] | |||||
| Krylia | Aleksandr Tarkhanov | Gadzhi Gadzhiyev | ||||||
| Rostov | Sergei Balakhnin | Vitaly Shevchenko | ||||||
| Saturn | Oleg Romantsev | Boris Ignatyev | ||||||
| Spartak | End of role |  Nevio Scala | December 2003[4] | |||||
| Rostov | Vitaly Shevchenko | April 2004 | Sergei Balakhnin | April 2004 | ||||
| Rotor | Vladimir Fayzulin | April 2004 | April 2004 | |||||
| Rotor | April 2004 | Valeriy Yaremchenko | April 2004 | |||||
| Kuban | Nikolai Yuzhanin | May 2004 | Soferbi Yeshugov | May 2004 | ||||
| Shinnik | Aleksandr Pobegalov | May 2004 | May 2004 | |||||
| Shinnik | End of role | May 2004 | Oleg Dolmatov | May 2004 | ||||
| Rotor | Valeriy Yaremchenko | June 2004 | June 2004 | |||||
| Dynamo | Jaroslav Hřebík | Resigned | 12 July 2004[5] | 14th | 12 July 2004[6] | 14th | ||
| CSKA | Artur Jorge | Fired | 13 July 2004[7] | 5th | Valery Gazzaev | 14 July 2004 | 5th | |
| Rotor | July 2004 | Vladimir Fayzulin | July 2004 | |||||
| Spartak | Nevio Scala | August 2004 | Aleksandrs Starkovs | September 2004 | ||||
| Saturn | Boris Ignatyev | September 2004 | Aleksandr Tarkhanov | September 2004 | ||||
| Alania | Rolland Courbis | September 2004 | September 2004 | |||||
| Alania | Resigned | 7 October 2004[8] | 12th | 7 October 2004 | 12th | |||
| Dynamo | Resigned | 26 October 2004[9] | 14th | Oleg Romantsev | 26 October 2004 | 14th | ||
| Kuban | Soferbi Yeshugov | October 2004 | October 2004 |
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