2013–14 Russian Premier League
| Season | 2013–14 |
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| Champions | CSKA Moscow |
| Relegated | Anzhi Makhachkala Krylia Sovetov Samara Tom Tomsk Volga Nizhny Novgorod |
| Champions League | CSKA Moscow Zenit St. Petersburg |
| Europa League | Lokomotiv Moscow Dynamo Moscow Krasnodar Rostov |
| Matches played | 240 |
| Goals scored | 613 (2.55 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Seydou Doumbia (18) |
| Biggest home win | Lokomotiv Moscow 5–0 Rostov Spartak Moscow 6–1 Volga |
| Biggest away win | Volga 0–5 Dynamo Moscow |
| Highest scoring | Zenit St. Petersburg 6–2 Rubin Kazan |
| Average attendance | 11,499 |
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The 2013–14 Russian Premier League is the 22nd season of the Russian football championship since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and 12th under the current Russian Premier League name. The season started on 13 July 2013 and concluded on 17 May 2014, with a winter break between the weekends around 6 December 2013 and 6 March 2014.
CSKA Moscow are the defending champions.
Contents
Teams
After previous season Mordovia Saransk and Alania Vladikavkaz were relegated to National Football League. They were replaced with Ural, FNL champions, and Tom Tomsk, FNL runners-up. Tom Tomsk returned to Premier League at first attempt, while Ural was absent from the top level for 16 seasons.
Personnel and sponsorship
Managerial changes
| Team | Outgoing | Manner | Date | Table | Incoming | Date | Table |
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| Terek Grozny |  Stanislav Cherchesov |
Contract expired | 26 May 2013 | Pre-season | Yuri Krasnozhan |
26 May 2013[1] | Pre-season |
| Tom Tomsk | Sergei Perednya |
Contract expired | 1 June 2013 | Pre-season | Anatoli Davydov |
25 June 2013[2] | Pre-season |
| Kuban Krasnodar |  Leonid Kuchuk |
Contract expired | 10 June 2013[3] | Pre-season | Igor Osinkin (caretaker) |
10 June 2013 | Pre-season |
| Amkar Perm | Rustem Khuzin |
Contract expired | 17 June 2013[4] | Pre-season | Stanislav Cherchesov |
20 June 2013[5] | Pre-season |
| Lokomotiv Moscow |  Slaven Bilić |
Mutual agreement | 17 June 2013 | Pre-season | Leonid Kuchuk |
18 June 2013[6] | Pre-season |
| Anzhi Makhachkala |  Guus Hiddink |
Resigned | 22 July 2013 | 12th | Rene Meulensteen |
22 July 2013[7] | 12th |
| Kuban Krasnodar | Igor Osinkin (caretaker) |
Caretaker spell over | 31 July 2013 | 5th |  Dorinel Munteanu |
31 July 2013[8] | 5th |
| Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast | Pavel Gusev |
Resigned | 1 August 2013 | 15th | Oleg Vasilenko |
1 August 2013[9] | 15th |
| Krylia Sovetov Samara | Gadzhi Gadzhiyev |
Resigned | 8 August 2013[10] | 14th | Aleksandr Tsygankov (caretaker, since 29 August 2013 manager) |
8 August 2013[11][12] | 14th |
| Anzhi Makhachkala | Rene Meulensteen |
Sacked | 8 August 2013 | 13th | Gadzhi Gadzhiyev |
8 August 2013[10] | 13th |
| Krasnodar |  Slavoljub Muslin |
Mutual consent | 9 August 2013[13] | 11th | Aleh Konanaw |
11 August 2013[14] | 11th |
| Tom | Anatoli Davydov |
Sacked | 15 September 2013[15] | 16th | Vasili Baskakov |
15 September 2013 | 16th |
| Kuban Krasnodar | Dorinel Munteanu |
Sacked | 12 October 2013 | 10th | Viktor Goncharenko |
12 October 2013[16] | 10th |
| Terek Grozny | Yuri Krasnozhan |
Resigned | 28 October 2013[17] | 14th |  Vait Talgayev (caretaker) |
29 October 2013[18] | 14th |
| Terek Grozny | Vait Talgayev (caretaker) |
Caretaker spell over | 7 November 2013 | 15th | Rashid Rakhimov |
7 November 2013[19] | 15th |
| Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast | Oleg Vasilenko |
Mutual agreement | 27 November 2013 | 14th | Aleksandr Tarkhanov |
27 November 2013[20] | 14th |
| Rubin Kazan |  Kurban Berdyev |
Sacked | 20 December 2013[21] | 11th | Vladimir Maminov |
10 January 2014 | 11th |
| Zenit St. Petersburg |  Luciano Spalletti |
Sacked | 11 March 2014[22] | 2nd | Sergei Semak (caretaker) |
11 March 2014[22] | 2nd |
| Spartak Moscow | Valeri Karpin |
Mutual agreement | 18 March 2014[23] | 3rd | Dmitri Gunko (caretaker, since 2 April 2014 manager) |
18 March 2014[23] | 3rd |
| Zenit St. Petersburg | Sergei Semak (caretaker) |
Caretaker spell over | 20 March 2014[24] | 2nd |  André Villas-Boas |
20 March 2014[24] | 2nd |
| Volga Nizhny Novgorod |  Yuriy Kalitvintsev |
Resigned | 28 March 2014[25] | 14th | Andrei Talalayev |
29 March 2014[26] | 14th |
| Dynamo Moscow | Dan Petrescu |
Mutual agreement | 8 April 2014[27] | 4th | Nikolai Kovardayev (caretaker) |
8 April 2014[27] | 4th |
| Amkar Perm | Stanislav Cherchesov |
Mutual agreement | 8 April 2014[28] | 7th | Konstantin Paramonov (caretaker) |
8 April 2014[28] | 7th |
| Dynamo Moscow | Nikolai Kovardayev (caretaker) |
Caretaker spell over | 10 April 2014[29] | 4th | Stanislav Cherchesov |
10 April 2014[29] | 4th |
| Krylia Sovetov Samara | Aleksandr Tsygankov |
Resigned | 5 May 2014[30] | 14th | Vladimir Kukhlevsky (caretaker) |
5 May 2014[31] | 14th |
Last updated: 5 May 2014
Tournament format and regulations
Basic
The 16 teams will play a round-robin tournament whereby each team plays each one of the other teams twice, once at home and once away. Thus, a total of 240 matches will be played, with 30 matches played by each team.
Promotion and relegation
The teams that finish 15th and 16th will be relegated to the FNL, while the top two FNL teams will be promoted to the Premier League for the 2014/15 season.
The 13th and 14th Premier League teams will play the 4th and 3rd FNL teams respectively in two playoff games with the winner securing a Premier League spot for 2014/15 season.
Season events
On 11 May 2014, the game between FC Zenit Saint Petersburg and FC Dynamo Moscow was interrupted in the 86th minute with Dynamo leading 4-2 when Zenit fans ran out of the stands. At first they stood behind the goal line, when the referee decided to take the teams off the field into the dressing rooms and teams began to leave, one of Zenit fans punched Dynamo player Vladimir Granat. It was originally reported that Zenit player José Salomón Rondón was also attacked. Later it has been clarified that Rondón had a conflict with Dynamo player Marko Lomić, but that incident was not registered by the referee or the game inspector.[32][33] The game was abandoned. Granat was diagnosed with concussion and missed Dynamo's last game of the season against Spartak Moscow.[34] The punishment was decided on 14 May 2014 by the Control-Disciplinary Committee of the Russian Football Union. Dynamo was awarded a 3-0 win, Zenit was fined 700,000 rubles, they will play their next two home games (in the 2014-15 season) in an empty stadium, and for the additional three home games the fan stand will be empty.[35] The Zenit fan who punched Granat, 45-year-old Aleksei Nesterov known as Gulliver, was not immediately arrested and went into hiding for several days. Eventually he gave himself up to the police and was charged with assault. The criminal charges against Nesterov were dropped in court after he reached a settlement with Granat and he was released.[36]
League table
| Pos |
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Pld |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
Pts |
Qualification or relegation |
Head-to-head |
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| 1 | CSKA Moscow (C) | 30 | 20 | 4 | 6 | 49 | 26 | +23 | 64 | 2014–15 UEFA Champions League group stage | |
| 2 | Zenit St. Petersburg | 30 | 19 | 6 | 5 | 63 | 32 | +31 | 63 | 2014–15 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round | |
| 3 | Lokomotiv Moscow | 30 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 51 | 23 | +28 | 59 | 2014–15 UEFA Europa League play-off round 1 | |
| 4 | Dynamo Moscow | 30 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 54 | 37 | +17 | 52 | 2014–15 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round 1 | |
| 5 | Krasnodar | 30 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 46 | 39 | +7 | 50 | 2014–15 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round 1 | KRA 4–0 SPA SPA 3–2 KRA |
| 6 | Spartak Moscow | 30 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 46 | 36 | +10 | 50 | ||
| 7 | Rostov | 30 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 40 | 40 | 0 | 39 | 2014–15 UEFA Europa League play-off round 1 | |
| 8 | Kuban Krasnodar | 30 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 40 | 42 | −2 | 38 | ||
| 9 | Rubin Kazan | 30 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 36 | 30 | +6 | 38 | RUB 3–0 AMK AMK 0–0 RUB |
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| 10 | Amkar Perm | 30 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 36 | 37 | −1 | 38 | ||
| 11 | Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast | 30 | 9 | 7 | 14 | 28 | 46 | −18 | 34 | ||
| 12 | Terek Grozny | 30 | 8 | 9 | 13 | 27 | 33 | −6 | 33 | ||
| 13 | Tom Tomsk (R) | 30 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 23 | 39 | −16 | 31 | Qualification to Relegation play-offs | |
| 14 | Krylia Sovetov Samara (R) | 30 | 6 | 11 | 13 | 27 | 46 | −19 | 29 | ||
| 15 | Volga Nizhny Novgorod (R) | 30 | 6 | 3 | 21 | 22 | 65 | −43 | 21 | Relegation to 2014–15 FNL | |
| 16 | Anzhi Makhachkala (R) | 30 | 3 | 11 | 16 | 25 | 42 | −17 | 20 |
Source: Russian Premier League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) number of wins; 3) head-to-head points; 4) number of head-to-head wins; 5) head-to-head goal difference; 6) number of head-to-head goals scored; 7) number of head-to-head away goals scored; 8) goal difference; 9) number of goals scored; 10) number of away goals scored; 11) position in the 2012–13 season (only used until all the regularly scheduled games have been played); 11) extra play-off game or tournament between the teams in question
1 Rostov have won the 2013–14 Russian Cup, therefore qualified for the play-off round of the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League. However, it did not pass the Russian Football Union European licensing and its spot was given to Spartak. That RFU decision was overturned by the CAS and Rostov was returned to the Europa League.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Relegation play-offs
First leg
Second leg
Ufa won 6–4 on aggregate score and was promoted to the 2014–15 Russian Premier League.
Torpedo Moscow won 2–0 on aggregate score and was promoted to the 2014–15 Russian Premier League.
Results
| Home ╲ Away | AMK | ANZ | CSK | DYN | KRA | KRY | KUB | LOK | ROS | RUB | SPA | TER | TOM | URL | VNN | ZEN |
| Amkar Perm | 1–0 | 1–3 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 5–1 | 1–2 | |
| Anzhi Makhachkala | 2–2 | 0–3 | 4–0 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–2 | |
| CSKA Moscow | 2–1 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 5–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | |
| Dynamo Moscow | 2–0 | 2–1 | 4–2 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–4 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | |
| Krasnodar | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–3 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 3–2 | 4–0 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 1–2 | |
| Krylia Sovetov Samara | 2–2 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 0–4 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 1–4 | |
| Kuban Krasnodar | 0–3 | 2–0 | 0–4 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 4–0 | 1–3 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 4–0 | 1–4 | |
| Lokomotiv Moscow | 4–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 5–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | |
| Rostov | 3–3 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–3 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 0–4 | |
| Rubin Kazan | 3–0 | 5–1 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 2–1 | |
| Spartak Moscow | 1–0 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 3–2 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 1–3 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 6–1 | 4–2 | |
| Terek Grozny | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | |
| Tom Tomsk | 0–0 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 0–3 | |
| Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 1–4 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–3 | 1–4 | 0–3 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–2 | |
| Volga Nizhny Novgorod | 0–2 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 0–5 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 1–3 | |
| Zenit St. Petersburg | 1–1 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 0–3 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 6–2 | 4–2 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 |
Source: Russian Premier League
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Round by round
The following table represents the teams position after each round in the competition.
Source: resultados-futbol.com
Statistics
Top goalscorers
| # | Scorer | Goals | Team |
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| 1 |  Seydou Doumbia |
18 (4) | CSKA |
| 2 |  Hulk |
17 (3) | Zenit |
| Artyom Dzyuba |
17 (4) | Rostov | |
| 4 |  Yura Movsisyan |
16 (2) | Spartak |
| 5 | Danny |
13 | Zenit |
 Dame N'Doye |
13 | Lokomotiv | |
 José Salomón Rondón |
13 | Rubin/Zenit | |
| 8 |  Georgi Peev |
12 (8) | Amkar |
| 9 | Zoran Tošić |
11 | CSKA |
| 10 | Aleksandr Kokorin |
10 | Dynamo |
Hat-tricks
| Player | For | Against | Result | Date |
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| Artyom Dzyuba |
Rostov | Tom | 3–0[37] | 27 July 2013 |
| Danny |
Zenit | Volga | 3–1[38] | 3 August 2013 |
| José Salomón Rondón |
Rubin | Ural | 3–0[39] | 1 September 2013 |
| Andriy Voronin |
Dynamo | Ural | 4–1[40] | 16 September 2013 |
| Zoran Tošić |
CSKA | Krasnodar | 5–1[41] | 27 October 2013 |
| Yura Movsisyan |
Spartak | Zenit | 4–2[42] | 10 November 2013 |
| Ari |
Krasnodar | Spartak | 4–0[43] | 22 March 2014 |
| José Salomón Rondón |
Zenit | Rubin | 6–2[44] | 6 April 2014 |
| Hulk |
Zenit | Krasnodar | 4–1[45] | 12 April 2014 |
Last updated: 15 May 2014
Awards
Monthly awards
| Month | Premier League Manager of the Month | Premier League Player of the Month | Reference | ||
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| Manager | Club | Player | Club | ||
| July | Valeri Karpin |
Spartak | Artyom Dzyuba |
Rostov | [46][47] |
| August | Leonid Kuchuk |
Lokomotiv | Danny |
Zenit | [48][49] |
| September | Stanislav Cherchesov |
Amkar | Hulk |
Zenit | [50][51] |
| October | Luciano Spalletti |
Zenit | Roman Shirokov |
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| November | Leonid Kuchuk |
Lokomotiv | Seydou Doumbia |
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Top 33
On 7 June 2014 Russian Football Union named its list of 33 top players:[52]
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On the same day, the RFU also announced the individual awards.[53]
Player of the year: Seydou Doumbia (CSKA).
"Hope of the year" (under-21 players): Aleksei Miranchuk (Lokomotiv).
Manager of the year: Leonid Slutsky (CSKA).
Referee of the year: Aleksei Nikolaev.
Team of the year: PFC CSKA Moscow.
For the contribution to the development of football: Sergey Galitsky (owner of FC Krasnodar).
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