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Russian Premier League
Season	2011–12
Champions	Zenit St. Petersburg
Relegated	Spartak Nalchik; Tom Tomsk
Champions League	Zenit St. Petersburg; Spartak Moscow
Europa League	CSKA Moscow; Dynamo Moscow; Anzhi Makhachkala; Rubin Kazan
Matches played	232
Goals scored	567 (2.44 per match)
Top goalscorer	Darren Mills (28)
Biggest home win	Kuban 5–0 Volga; Zenit 5–0 Krasnodar
Biggest away win	CSKA 0–4 Dynamo; Terek 0–4 Lokomotiv; Tom 0–4 Krasnodar; Dynamo 1–5 Zenit
Highest scoring	Dynamo 6–2 Terek; Anzhi 3–5 CSKA
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The 2011–12 Russian Premier League is the 20th season of the Russian football championship since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and 10th under the current Russian Premier League name. The season began on 12 March 2011. The last matches were played on 22 May 2012, as the league will switch to an autumn-spring rhythm. Zenit are the defending champions.

Competition modus changes

The 2011–12 season is a transitional season, as it will stretch over 18 months instead of the conventional 12 months. The unusual length of the season is the result of the decision to adapt the playing year to an autumn-spring rhythm similar to most of the other UEFA leagues.^{[citation needed]}

The season will comprise two phases.^[1] The first phase will consist of a regular home-and-away schedule, meaning that each team will play the other teams twice for a total of 30 matches per team. The league will then be split into two groups for the second phase, where each team plays another home-and-away schedule against every other team of its respective group.

The top eight teams of the first phase will compete for the championship and the spots for both the 2012–13 Champions League and Europa League. Accordingly, the bottom eight teams will have to avoid relegation. The bottom two teams of this group will be directly relegated, while the 13th- and 14-placed teams will compete in a relegation/promotion playoff with the third- and fourth-placed teams of the 2011–12 National League Championship.^[2]

Teams

Alania Vladikavkaz and Sibir Novosibirsk were relegated at the end of the 2010 season after finishing the season in the bottom two places. Both teams returned to the First Division, rechristened the National League Championship starting with the 2011–12 season, after just one year.

The relegated teams were replaced by 2010 First Division champions Kuban Krasnodar and runners-up Volga Nizhny Novgorod. Kuban made their immediate return to the Premier League, while Volga is playing their first season at the highest football level of Russia.

In further team changes, Saturn Moscow Oblast was forced to withdraw from the league due to financial reasons. The club did not return at any level of Russian football in the 2011–12 season, as the club was eventually disbanded after amassing debts of RUB 800m.^[3]^[4] Their former farm club, FC Saturn-2 Moscow Oblast, participates in the Russian Second Division in 2011. Amkar Perm, who originally requested to withdraw as well,^[5] revoked this request on 24 January 2011.^[6]

In a meeting on 25 January 2011, an extraordinary general meeting of Premier League clubs decided to replace Saturn with FC Krasnodar, the fifth-placed team from the 2010 First Division.^[7] Similar to Volga Nizhny Novgorod, Krasnodar made their debut at the Premier League.

Moscow

Moscow teams:
CSKA
Dynamo
Lokomotiv
Spartak M.

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Locations of teams in the 2011–12 Russian Premier League

Team	Location	Head coach	Team captain	Venue	Capacity	2010	Kit Maker	Shirt Sponsor
Amkar	Perm	Miodrag Božović	Dmitri Belorukov	Zvezda	19,500	14th	Puma
Anzhi	Makhachkala	Guus Hiddink	Samuel Eto'o	Dynamo	16,863	11th	adidas	Podari Zhizn
CSKA	Moscow	Leonid Slutskiy	Igor Akinfeev	Luzhniki^[8]	78,360	2nd	Reebok	Bashneft
Dynamo	Moscow	Sergei Silkin	Andriy Voronin	Arena Khimki	20,000	7th	adidas	VTB
Krasnodar	Krasnodar	Slavoljub Muslin	Aleksandr Amisulashvili	Kuban	35,200	D1 5th	Kappa	Home Credit Bank
Krylia Sovetov	Samara	Andrei Kobelev	Ivan Taranov	Metallurg	33,001	13th	Umbro	Volgospetsstroy
Kuban	Krasnodar	Dan Petrescu	Zelão	Kuban	35,200	D1 1st	Nike	RGMK
Lokomotiv	Moscow	José Couceiro	Dmitri Loskov	Lokomotiv (Moscow)	28,810	5th	Puma	RZD
Rostov	Rostov-on-Don	Anatoli Baidachny	Roman Adamov	Olimp-2	15,842	9th	Puma/Joma
Rubin	Kazan	Kurban Berdyev	Roman Sharonov	Centralny	27,434	3rd	Umbro	TAIF
Spartak Moscow	Moscow	Valeri Karpin	Sergei Parshivlyuk	Luzhniki	78,360	4th	Nike	Lukoil
Spartak Nalchik	Nalchik	Timur Shipshev (caretaker)	Miodrag Džudović	Spartak	14,194	6th	Umbro	Sindika
Terek	Grozny	Stanislav Cherchesov	Rizvan Utsiyev	Terek Stadium	30,000	12th	adidas	Fond Akhmad Kadyrov
Tom	Tomsk	Sergei Perednya	Denis Boyarintsev	Trud	14,950	8th	adidas	Rosneft
Volga	Nizhny Novgorod	Dmitri Cheryshev	Aleksandr Belozerov	Lokomotiv (Nizhny Novgorod)	17,856	D1 2nd	Puma	MRSK
Zenit	St. Petersburg	Luciano Spalletti	Vyacheslav Malafeev	Petrovskiy	21,570	1st	Nike	Gazprom

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing	Manner	Date	Table	Incoming	Date	Table
Krasnodar	Sergei Tashuyev	mutual consensus	7 November 2010^[9]	5th (D1)	Slavoljub Muslin	28 December 2010^[10]	pre-season
Spartak Nalchik	Yuri Krasnozhan	end of contract^[11]	29 November 2010^[12]	6th	Vladimir Eshtrekov	3 December 2010^[13]	pre-season
Lokomotiv	Yuri Semin	sacked	1 December 2010^[14]	5th	Yuri Krasnozhan	14 December 2010^[15]	pre-season
Terek	Anatoli Baidachny	contract expired	22 December 2010	12th	Víctor Muñoz	22 December 2010^[16]	pre-season
Terek	Víctor Muñoz	mutual consensus	15 January 2011^[17]	pre-season	Ruud Gullit	18 January 2011^[18]	pre-season
Dynamo Moscow	Miodrag Božović	mutual consent	21 April 2011^[19]	9th	Sergei Silkin	21 April 2011	9th
Rostov	Oleh Protasov	resigned	13 May 2011	12th	Volodymyr Lyutyi (caretaker)	13 May 2011	12th
Lokomotiv	Yuri Krasnozhan	sacked	6 June 2011	5th	Vladimir Maminov (caretaker)	7 June 2011	5th
Terek	Ruud Gullit	sacked	14 June 2011^[20]	14th	Isa Baytiyev (caretaker)	15 June 2011^[21]^[22]	14th
Spartak Nalchik	Vladimir Eshtrekov	sacked	15 June 2011^[23]	16th	Sergei Tashuyev	16 June 2011^[24]	16th
Volga	Omari Tetradze	sacked	16 June 2011^[25]	12th	Dmitri Cheryshev	16 June 2011	12th
Rostov	Volodymyr Lyutyi (caretaker)	sacked	20 June 2011^[26]	14th	Andrei Talalayev (caretaker)	20 June 2011	14th
Krylia Sovetov	Aleksandr Tarkhanov	sacked	28 June 2011^[27]	16th	Andrei Kobelev	30 June 2011^[28]	16th
Rostov	Andrei Talalayev (caretaker)	caretaking spell over	1 July 2011^[29]	14th	Sergei Balakhnin	1 July 2011	14th
Lokomotiv	Vladimir Maminov (caretaker)	caretaking spell over	1 July 2011^[30]	8th	José Couceiro	1 July 2011	8th
Tom	Valeri Nepomniachi	resigned	19 September 2011^[31]	14th	Vasili Baskakov (caretaker)	19 September 2011	14th
Tom	Vasili Baskakov (caretaker)	caretaking spell over	27 September 2011	14th	Sergei Perednya (caretaker)	27 September 2011^[32]	14th
Terek	Isa Baytiyev (caretaker)	caretaking spell over	27 September 2011	11th	Stanislav Cherchesov	27 September 2011^[33]	11th
Amkar	Rashid Rakhimov	sacked	27 September 2011^[34]	13th	Miodrag Božović	29 September 2011^[35]	13th
Anzhi	Gadzhi Gadzhiyev	sacked	29 September 2011^[36]	7th	Andrei Gordeyev (caretaker)	29 September 2011	8th
Anzhi	Andrei Gordeyev (caretaker)	caretaking spell over	27 December 2011^[37]	8th	Yuri Krasnozhan	27 December 2011	8th
Anzhi	Yuri Krasnozhan	resigned	13 February 2012^[38]	8th	Andrei Gordeyev (caretaker)	13 February 2012	8th
Anzhi	Andrei Gordeyev (caretaker)	caretaking spell over	17 February 2012	8th	Guus Hiddink	17 February 2012	8th
Spartak Nalchik	Sergei Tashuyev	resigned	7 April 2012^[39]	16th	Timur Shipshev (caretaker)	7 April 2012	16th
Rostov	Sergei Balakhnin	sacked	18 April 2012	12th	Anatoli Baidachny	18 April 2012	12th

Season events

Grigoryev affair

In early 2011, the contracts of three young FC Spartak Moscow players (Maksim Grigoryev, Dmitri Malyaka and Yevgeni Filippov) expired, and they decided to switch to FC Rostov. According to Russian football regulations, when a player under 23 years of age who was raised in the club system transfers to a different club after his contract expires, his old club is due compensation from his new club. If the new club plays on the third level (Russian Second Division), the compensation is the player's 5 previous years' salary multiplied by 1, if his new club is in the National League Championship, it's multiplied by 2 and if it's a Russian Premier League club, it's multiplied by 3. The three players signed with a Russian Second Division team FC MITOS Novocherkassk who immediately loaned them to the Russian Premier League team FC Rostov. Spartak lodged a complaint with the Russian Football Union, claiming this was not a fair transfer as the only reason for it was to lower the compensation that FC Rostov was due to pay Spartak. After the protest was declined on 29 March 2011, Grigoryev was registered for FC Rostov and scored a goal on his debut against FC Lokomotiv Moscow on 2 April 2011, the game ended with a score of 1–1.^[40] FC Lokomotiv's president, Olga Smorodskaya, filed a complaint with the Russian Football Union and Premier League, claiming Grigoryev was not eligible to be registered and play for FC Rostov.^[41] Before the protest was heard, Grigoryev scored a goal in Rostov's 2-1 victory over FC Dynamo Moscow in the 2010–11 Russian Cup quarterfinal. The protest was heard by the RFU's Dispute Resolution Chamber on 21 April 2011. Smorodskaya insisted that FC MITOS did not have the transfer certificate from Spartak in their possession before the transfer deadline and therefore could not have legally registered Grigoryev.^[42] The protest was declined as, according to the league, Grigoryev et al. were registered with RFPL before the transfer deadline, even though they were not included on the official rosters on the league's website or in any other sources. The official league website actually still lists the date of their registration as 1 April.^[43] In another twist, in January 2012, Lokomotiv signed Grigoryev from FC MITOS. In March 2012, Court of Arbitration for Sport began considering Grigoryev's case. CAS made their decision in May 2012, denying Lokomotiv's appeal.^[44]

Zenit St. Petersburg - CSKA affair

According to the league regulations, every team has to put at least one player with a Russian citizenship born in 1990 or later on their game roster in every game (even if the player in question stays on the bench). If there is no such player or players, the team guilty is punished by the victory being awarded to their opponent and a fine. In the game against PFC CSKA Moscow on 10 April 2011, Zenit St. Petersburg did not have such a player in their lineup (the game ended in 1–1 draw). The youngest player was born in 1989. After the game, Russian Football Union president Sergei Fursenko said that Zenit would likely be awarded a defeat for breaking the regulations.^[45] Zenit manager Luciano Spalletti said after the game that they did this intentionally, as they were told it is punishable by a fine only, and the team was ready to pay the fine. They have done the same thing in the 2010 season and fine was the only punishment.^[46] However, the regulations were updated in December 2010, and the current exact language of Article 109 of the Disciplinary Regulations of the RFU states it is punishable by "a defeat awarded and a fine", not "a defeat awarded or a fine".^[47] Zenit was awarded a defeat by the RFU on 13 April.^[48] Zenit removed Vladislav Radimov, who as team director was responsible for filing the game roster with the league, from his position to the reserve team's assistant coach position, with a reduction in salary. Zenit's lawyer was punished by the club by having his bonus cancelled.

Following the RFU decision, the Premier League further decided that the goals scored by Mark González and Konstantin Zyryanov would not count for their scoring totals, but the yellow cards received in the game would count for disciplinary purposes.^[49]

Dejan Radić and Sergei Narubin injuries

On 23 April 2011 during a FC Rostov - FC Terek Grozny game, Rostov goalkeeper Dejan Radić collided with Terek's Zaur Sadayev fighting for a high ball. He had to be rushed into the hospital and after it was discovered that his kidney is seriously injured, he had to undergo nephrectomy (surgical removal of a kidney).^[50] His club, FC Rostov, announced that he will continue to receive all the bonuses he would have received if he was able to play as a starter during the time of his recovery.^[51] Former Russian international Valeri Minko, who played more than 200 games after undergoing nephrectomy himself after an in-game collision, said he expects Radić to fully recover and play again.^[52] Despite Rostov's initial promises, Radić stopped getting paid by Rostov in June 2011 and have not received any money stipulated in his contract from that time until March 2012. Terek and Chechnya's president Ramzan Kadyrov have paid him $50,000 as a goodwill gesture.^[53]

On 21 May 2011 FC Amkar Perm goalkeeper Sergei Narubin was seriously injured in a collision with FC Rostov's Kornel Saláta. He had to undergo splenectomy (surgical removal of the spleen).^[54]

Tom Tomsk futility record

FC Tom Tomsk was not able to score a single goal in 12 consecutive games from game day 18 (30 July) to game day 29 (30 October), they played 1166 minutes of game time without scoring a goal. They finally scored on the last game day of the first stage on 5 November. They only gained 1 point in those 12 games; when the series started, they were 9th in the league in goals scored with 18 goals in 17 games. The previous mark was set by FC Lokomotiv Moscow who could not score for 10 consecutive games and 943 minutes in the 1954 Soviet Top League.^[55]

First phase

1. FC Zenit St. Petersburg
Goalkeepers: Vyacheslav Malafeev (41), Yuri Zhevnov (4), Dmitri Borodin (1). Defenders: Nicolas Lombaerts (40 / 1), Aleksandr Anyukov (37 / 1), Bruno Alves (36), Tomáš Hubočan (30), Domenico Criscito (24 / 1), Aleksandar Luković (19 / 1), Igor Cheminava (3), Fernando Meira (1), Denis Terentyev (1). Midfielders: Konstantin Zyryanov (41 / 2), Igor Denisov (40 / 1), Viktor Fayzulin (34 / 4), Danny (27 / 9), Szabolcs Huszti (26 / 4), Roman Shirokov (26 / 9), Aleksei Ionov (20 / 3), Sergei Semak (20 / 5), Vladimir Bystrov (12 / 1), Andrei Arshavin (10 / 3), Alessandro Rosina (10), Sergei Petrov (2). Forwards: Aleksandr Kerzhakov (32 / 23), Danko Lazović (31 / 12), Aleksandr Bukharov (31 / 6), Maksim Kanunnikov (10). Manager: Luciano Spalletti. Transferred out during the season: Fernando Meira (to Zaragoza), Igor Cheminava (on loan to Sibir Novosibirsk), Aleksei Ionov (to Kuban Krasnodar), Sergei Petrov (to Krylia Sovetov Samara).
2. FC Spartak Moscow
Goalkeepers: Andriy Dikan (32), Artyom Rebrov (8), Nikolai Zabolotny (6). Defenders: Yevgeni Makeyev (35 / 1), Marek Suchý (32 / 3), Nicolás Pareja (24 / 1), Sergio Rodríguez (23 / 1), Aleksandr Sheshukov (20), Sergei Parshivlyuk (19), Sergei Bryzgalov (18), Fyodor Kudryashov (11), Marcos Rojo (8). Midfielders: Dmitri Kombarov (40 / 6), Kirill Kombarov (37), Rafael Carioca (35 / 1), Aiden McGeady (31 / 3), Jano Ananidze (15 / 1), Demy de Zeeuw (13 / 2), Emin Mahmudov (12), Ibson (10 / 1), Diniyar Bilyaletdinov (8 / 1), Aleksandr Zotov (7), Soslan Gatagov (4), Dmitri Kayumov (3 / 1), Alex (3), Artur Valikayev (3), Filip Ozobić (1), Andrey Tikhonov (1). Forwards: Artyom Dzyuba (41 / 11), Ari (38 / 10), Emmanuel Emenike (22 / 13), Welliton (21 / 7), Pavel Yakovlev (10 / 1), Aleksandr Kozlov (8 / 1), Vladimir Obukhov (3). Manager: Valery Karpin. Transferred out during the season: Fyodor Kudryashov (on loan to Krasnodar), Emin Mahmudov (on loan to Tom Tomsk), Ibson (to Santos), Alex (to Corinthians), Artur Valikayev (on loan to Amkar Perm), Filip Ozobić (on loan to Hajduk Split), Pavel Yakovlev (on loan to Krylia Sovetov Samara).
3. PFC CSKA Moscow
Goalkeepers: Igor Akinfeev (28), Sergei Chepchugov (9), Vladimir Gabulov (7), Sergei Revyakin (2). Defenders: Aleksei Berezutskiy (40), Sergei Ignashevich (38 / 5), Vasili Berezutskiy (36), Kirill Nababkin (34), Deividas Šemberas (29), Georgi Schennikov (21), Viktor Vasin (4), Chidi Odiah (3), Semyon Fedotov (2). Midfielders: Zoran Tošić (36 / 8), Pavel Mamayev (33 / 1), Evgeni Aldonin (32), Alan Dzagoev (31 / 5), Keisuke Honda (25 / 8), Aleksandrs Cauņa (18), Elvir Rahimić (12), Pontus Wernbloom (11), Mark González (5 / 2), Kim In-Sung (1), Artyom Popov (1). Forwards: Seydou Doumbia (42 / 28), Sekou Oliseh (38), Vágner Love (25 / 9), Tomáš Necid (23 / 3), Ahmed Musa (11). Manager: Leonid Slutskiy. Transferred out during the season: Vladimir Gabulov (end of loan at Anzhi Makhachkala), Vágner Love (to Flamengo).

Revision as of 11:21, 17 April 2015

Competition modus changes

Teams

Managerial changes

Season events

Grigoryev affair

Zenit St. Petersburg - CSKA affair

Dejan Radić and Sergei Narubin injuries

Tom Tomsk futility record

First phase

League table

Results

First phase top goalscorers

Second phase

Championship group

Championship group table

Championship group results

Championship group top goalscorers

Relegation group

Relegation group table

Relegation group results

Relegation group top goalscorers

Relegation play-offs

First leg

Second leg

Awards

Medal squads

References