| Competition: | Russian Premier League |
| Season: | 2005 |
| Winners: | CSKA Moscow |
| Relegated: | Alania Vladikavkaz Terek Grozny |
| Continentalcup1: | Champions League |
| Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | CSKA Moscow Spartak Moscow |
| Continentalcup2: | UEFA Cup |
| Continentalcup2 Qualifiers: | Lokomotiv Moscow Rubin Kazan |
| Continentalcup3: | Intertoto Cup |
| Continentalcup3 Qualifiers: | FC Moscow |
| Matches: | 240 |
| Total Goals: | 542 |
| League Topscorer: | Dmitri Kirichenko (14) |
| Prevseason: | 2004 |
| Nextseason: | 2006 |
The 2005 Russian Premier League was the 14th season of the premier football competition in Russia since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the 4th under the current Russian Premier League name.
As in the previous season, 16 teams are playing in the 2005 season. After the 2004 season, Kuban Krasnodar and Rotor Volgograd were relegated to the 2005 Russian First Division. They were replaced by Terek Grozny and Tom Tomsk, the winners and runners up of the 2004 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 | Lokomotiv Moscow | |||
| Metallurg Stadium | RZD Arena | |||
| Capacity: 27,084 | Capacity: 33,001 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Shinnik Stadium | Luzhniki Stadium | |||
| Capacity: 22,871 | Capacity: 81,029 | |||
| Terek | Tom | Torpedo | Zenit Saint Petersburg | |
| Central Stadium | Trud Stadium | Luzhniki Stadium | Petrovsky Stadium | |
| Capacity: 12,500 | 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alania | Preseason |  Bakhva Tedeyev | Preseason | |||||
| Rostov | Sergei Balakhnin | Gennadi Styopushkin | ||||||
| Alania | Bakhva Tedeyev | April 2005 | Edgar Gess | 19 April 2005[1] | ||||
| Rostov | Gennadi Styopushkin | Medical treatment | 17 April 2005[2] | 16th | 17 April 2005 | 16th | ||
| Rostov | End of Role | 4 May 2005[3] | 16th | Gennadi Styopushkin | 4 May 2005 | 16th | ||
| Dynamo | Oleg Romantsev | May 2005 | May 2005 | |||||
| Lokomotiv | Yuri Semin | May 2005 | Vladimir Eshtrekov | May 2005 | ||||
| Saturn | Aleksandr Tarkhanov | May 2005 | Vladimir Shevchuk | May 2005 | ||||
| Alania | Edgar Gess | July 2005 | July 2005 | |||||
| Alania | End of Role | 4 July 2005 | 14th |  Itzhak Shum | 4 July 2005[4] | 14th | ||
| Dynamo | End of Role | 19 July 2005 | 9th |  Ivo Wortmann | 19 July 2005[5] | 9th | ||
| Moscow | Valery Petrakov | July 2005 | Leonid Slutsky | July 2005 | ||||
| Rostov | Gennadi Styopushkin | July 2005 | Valery Petrakov | July 2005 | ||||
| Rostov | Valery Petrakov | August 2005 | Sergei Balakhnin | August 2005 | ||||
| Tom | Boris Stukalov | August 2005 |  Anatoliy Byshovets | August 2005 | ||||
| Alania | Itzhak Shum | Fired | 27 September 2005[6] | 15th | 27 September 2005 | 15th | ||
| Terek |  Vait Talgayev | October 2005 | Aleksandr Tarkhanov | October 2005 | ||||
| Dynamo | Ivo Wortmann | Fired | 8 November 2005[7] | 8th | 8 November 2005 | 8th |
| Rank | Player | Club | Goal |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dmitri Kirichenko | 14 | |
| 2 | Derlei | 13 | |
| 3 | Igor Semshov | 12 | |
| 4 | Roman Pavlyuchenko | 11 | |
| 5 | Aleksandr Panov | 10 | |
| Ivica Olić | |||
| 7 | Andrey Arshavin | 9 | |
| Dzhambulad Bazayev | |||
| 9 | Diniyar Bilyaletdinov | 8 | |
| 9 | Maksim Buznikin | 9 | |
| Vágner Love | |||
 Tomáš Čížek | |||
| Roman Adamov | |||
| Aleksandr Kerzhakov | |||
| Andriy Husin |
On December 9 Russian Football Union named its list of 33 top players:[8]
Wojciech Kowalewski (Spartak Moscow)
Jerry-Christian Tchuissé (FC Moscow)
Malkhaz Asatiani (Lokomotiv Moscow) Antônio Géder (Saturn)
Nemanja Vidić (Spartak Moscow)
Erik Hagen (Zenit) Calisto (Rubin) Pavel Mareš (Zenit)
Elvir Rahimić (CSKA Moscow) Francisco Lima (Lokomotiv Moscow)
MacBeth Sibaya (Rubin)
Chidi Odiah (CSKA Moscow) Daniel Carvalho (CSKA Moscow) Vágner Love (CSKA Moscow) Derlei (Dynamo Moscow)
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