2009 Russian First Division

The 2009 Russian First Division was the 18th season of Russia's second-tier football league since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The season began on 28 March 2009 and ended on 4 November 2009.[1]

Russian First Division
Season2009
2008
2010

Teams edit

The league has been reduced from 22 to 20 teams. It features eleven clubs from 2008 Russian First Division, two clubs relegated from 2008 Russian Premier League, five zone winners from 2008 Russian Second Division and two of the third-placed clubs from 2008 Russian Second Division.

Movement between Premier League and First Division edit

FC Rostov as 2008 champions and Kuban Krasnodar as runners-up have been promoted to the Premier League. They will be replaced by relegated teams Shinnik Yaroslavl and Luch-Energia Vladivostok.

Movement between First Division and Second Division edit

Due to the league contraction, seven instead of the regular five teams were relegated to their respective Second Division group. These teams, ranked 16th through 22nd in 2008, were Metallurg-Kuzbass Novokuznetsk, Volga Ulyanovsk, Torpedo Moscow, Mashuk-KMV Pyatigorsk, Dinamo Barnaul, Dinamo Bryansk and Zvezda Irkutsk.

The relegated teams were replaced by the five 2008 Second Division zone winners. These were MVD Rossii Moscow (West), Metallurg Lipetsk (Center), Volgar-Gazprom-2 Astrakhan (South), Volga Nizhny Novgorod (Ural-Povolzhye) and FC Chita (East).

Further team changes edit

Sportakademklub Moscow avoided relegation in 2008 by finishing 15th, but announced refusal to play in the First Division on 18 December 2008.[2] On 15 January 2009, SKA Rostov-on-Don refused to play as well.[3] Regulations provided that Sportakademclub and SKA should be replaced by two of the runners-up from the Second Division groups (FC Bataysk-2007, FC Torpedo Vladimir, FC Gazovik Orenburg, FC Avangard Kursk or FC Smena Komsomolsk-on-Amur). However, since all of those teams refused promotion, the places were eventually filled by third-place finishers FC Nizhny Novgorod[4] and FC Krasnodar.[5]

Overview edit

TeamLocationHead coachCaptainVenueCapacityPosition in 2008
AlaniaVladikavkaz Mircea RednicKamalutdin AkhmedovRepublican Spartak32,46410th
AnzhiMakhachkala Omari TetradzeRasim TagirbekovDynamo16,8006th
BaltikaKaliningrad Leonid TkachenkoDenis Matyola[6]Baltika14,6607th
ChernomoretsNovorossiysk Igor Cherniy (caretaker)Tsentralny (Trud)12,5009th
FC ChitaChita Oleg KokarevIlya Makiyenko[7]Lokomotiv10,2001st, D2 "East"
KAMAZNaberezhnye Chelny Vitali Panov (caretaker)Spartak Gogniyev[8]KAMAZ9,2213rd
FC KrasnodarKrasnodar Nurbiy KhakunovMaksim Demenko[9]Kuban35,2003rd, D2 "South"
Luch-EnergiyaVladivostok Aleksandr PobegalovDinamo10,20016th, RPL
MetallurgLipetsk Valeri Tretyakov (caretaker)Metallurg14,9401st, D2 "Center"
MVD RossiiMoscow Vladimir EshtrekovAvangard, Domodedovo6,0001st, D2 "West"
FC Nizhny NovgorodNizhny Novgorod Viktor ZaidenbergOleg Gubanov[10]Severny3,1803rd, D2 "Ural-Povolzhye"
NostaNovotroitsk Gennady GridinRuslan Surodin[11]Metallurg6,0605th
Salyut-EnergiyaBelgorod Sergei TashuevSergei Kushov[12]Salyut11,50012th
ShinnikYaroslavl Yuri BykovRoman Monaryov[13]Shinnik18,500 (in reconstruction time)15th, RPL
SibirNovosibirsk Igor KriushenkoAleksey Medvedev[14]Spartak12,50014th
SKA-EnergiyaKhabarovsk Vladimir FaizulinAndrey Konovalov[15]Lenin Stadium15,2008th
UralYekaterinburg Vladimir FedotovAleksey Katulsky[16]Uralmash13,0004th
VityazPodolsk Andrei Novosadov (caretaker)Andrei Smirnov[17]Trud12,00011th
VolgaNizhny Novgorod Khazret DyshekovVitali Astakhov[18]Polyot4,6001st, D2 "Ural-Povolzhye"
Volgar-Gazprom-2Astrakhan Aleksandr IgnatenkoNail Magzhanov[19]Centralny18,5001st, D2 "South"

FC MVD Rossii resigned from the league on 17 July after playing 19 matches.[20] The team was in the 19th position with 17 points.

Managerial changes edit

TeamOutgoingMannerDateTableIncomingDateTable
Chernomorets Nikolai YuzhaninSacked1 May 2009[21]20th Eduard Sarkisov (caretaker)
Shinnik Sergei PavlovSacked12 May 2009[22]10th Ivan Lyakh12 May 2009[23]10th
Luch-Energiya Benjaminas ZelkevičiusSacked16 May 2009[24]19th Konstantin Yemelyanov (caretaker)
Baltika Zurab SanayaSacked29 May 2009[25]10th Leonid Tkachenko8 June 2009[26]8th
Nosta Sergei PodpalySacked3 June 2009[27]16th Oleg Samatov (caretaker)
Volga Sergei PetrenkoSacked5 June 2009[28]19th Sergei Perednya (caretaker)
FC Nizhny Novgorod Mikhail AfoninSacked6 June 2009[29]17th Viktor Zaidenberg
MVD Rossii Yuri KovtunSacked8 June 2009[30]16th Vladimir Eshtrekov
Metallurg Lipetsk Gennadi StyopushkinSacked16 June 2009[31]17th Valeri Tretyakov (caretaker)
Luch-Energiya Konstantin Yemelyanov (caretaker)Finished23 June 2009[32]14th Francisco Arcos
Nosta Oleg Samatov (caretaker)Finished26 June 2009[33]14th Gennady Gridin
Ural Aleksandr PobegalovSacked13 July 2009[34]5th Vladimir Fedotov
Volga Sergei Perednya (caretaker)Finished5 June 2009[35]16th Khazret Dyshekov
Chernomorets Eduard Sarkisov (caretaker)Finished24 July 200920th Aleksandr Irkhin
Alania Valeriy PetrakovSacked10 August 2009[36]3rd Aleksandr Yanovskiy (caretaker)
Luch-Energiya Francisco ArcosFinished11 August 200916th Aleksandr Pobegalov
Alania Aleksandr Yanovskiy (caretaker)Finished19 August 20093rd Mircea Rednic
Chernomorets Aleksandr IrkhinFinished3 September 200919th Igor Cherniy
Vityaz Sergei BalakhninSacked18 September 2009[37]13th Andrei Novosadov (caretaker)
Shinnik Ivan LyakhSacked1 October 2009[38]4th Yuri Bykov
KAMAZ Yuri GazzaevFinished13 October 2009[39]7th Vitali Panov (caretaker)

Standings edit

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsPromotion or relegation
1Anzhi Makhachkala (P)38211256131+3075Promotion to Premier League
2Sibir Novosibirsk (P)3822796021+3973
3Alania Vladikavkaz[a] (P)38217105730+2770
4Volga Nizhny Novgorod38171475432+2265
5KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny381810105031+1964
6Shinnik Yaroslavl38187134635+1161
7Salyut-Energia Belgorod381710115441+1361
8Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast38151584032+860
9Baltika Kaliningrad381410144142−152
10Krasnodar381410145047+352
11Vityaz Podolsk381312134639+751
12Volgar-Gazprom-2 Astrakhan381215114041−151
13Nizhny Novgorod38148163747−1050
14Luch-Energiya Vladivostok381311144243−150
15SKA-Khabarovsk381211154342+147
16Nosta Novotroitsk (R)38913164759−1240Relegation to Second Division
17Chita (R)38105232765−3835
18Chernomorets Novorossiysk (R)38810203151−2034
19Metallurg Lipetsk (R)3887233062−3231
20MVD Rossii Moscow (R)3838271075−6517
Source: PFL, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd matches won; 3rd head-to-head (points, matches won, goal difference, goals scored, away goals scored); 4th goal difference; 5th goals scored; 6th away goals scored
(P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ Alania Vladikavkaz accepted promotion to the 2010 Russian Premier League upon the withdrawal of FC Moscow.[40]

Results edit

Home \ AwayALAANZBALCHMCHIKAMKRALUEMLIMVDNNNOSSALSHISIBSKAURAVITVNNVGA
Alania Vladikavkaz0–11–22–03–02–32–23–02–01–02–04–00–12–01–02–10–01–00–13–1
Anzhi Makhachkala0–02–02–03–01–11–12–03–01–04–04–10–01–02–13–10–02–12–21–0
Baltika Kaliningrad3–10–01–02–12–01–01–23–03–02–23–02–20–20–30–21–22–10–01–1
Chernomorets Novorossiysk0–11–20–33–01–01–20–11–13–01–12–21–11–12–14–01–11–10–01–1
Chita0–20–21–02–01–01–21–61–03–00–20–01–31–00–40–40–13–33–21–2
KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny1–11–10–11–12–02–12–01–13–03–03–10–00–12–13–11–13–12–00–0
Krasnodar5–10–10–01–01–00–13–11–03–01–01–22–01–32–33–12–21–11–32–2
Luch-Energiya Vladivostok1–13–22–02–01–10–02–11–00–02–01–10–00–21–02–20–00–12–22–2
Metallurg Lipetsk1–52–11–11–20–10–21–31–23–03–00–12–10–00–01–62–10–30–01–2
MVD Rossii Moscow0–30–32–12–10–01–30–10–30–20–30–30–10–10–30–30–30–30–00–3
Nizhny Novgorod0–21–11–01–00–10–21–22–02–11–12–02–10–11–01–10–03–20–10–0
Nosta Novotroitsk2–22–20–10–12–01–24–02–01–22–22–32–23–11–11–30–01–10–03–1
Salyut-Energia Belgorod2–03–03–21–05–21–02–11–05–13–00–22–01–20–02–02–01–11–11–0
Shinnik Yaroslavl1–23–00–00–10–22–01–11–31–03–03–02–14–23–11–01–21–11–00–0
Sibir Novosibirsk1–02–16–04–03–01–01–01–02–00–00–03–04–01–00–01–02–10–04–0
SKA-Khabarovsk0–02–30–12–01–00–01–10–02–01–11–01–21–00–20–12–01–00–00–2
Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast0–10–20–01–01–00–31–12–11–22–03–10–01–03–12–12–12–12–22–0
Vityaz Podolsk0–11–12–14–10–01–22–01–02–00–01–02–13–11–00–21–10–00–22–0
Volga Nizhny Novgorod0–31–11–04–03–04–12–12–01–03–01–24–22–14–12–03–11–10–00–3
Volgar-Gazprom-2 Astrakhan1–01–31–11–02–01–00–03–11–10–12–31–12–20–00–20–01–12–11–0
Source: PFL (in Russian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers edit

Last updated: 4 November 2009; Source: PFL (in Russian)

RankPlayerTeamGoals
1 Aleksei MedvedevSibir18
2 Spartak GogniyevKAMAZ17
3 Vladimir ShishelovUral16
4 Roman GrigoryanVityaz15
5 Otar MartsvaladzeAnzhi13
6 Nikita BurmistrovShinnik12
Serghei DaduAlania
8 Anton KhazovVolga10
9 Sergei DavydovVolgar-Gazprom-29
Denys DedechkoLuch-Energiya
Nicolae JosanAnzhi
Vasili KarmazinenkoSKA-Energiya

Awards edit

On 25 November 2009, Professional Football League announced the award winners for the season.[41]

See also edit

References edit

External links edit