2016–17 Russian Premier League

Russian Premier League 2016–17
Season information
Winners	Spartak Moscow
Continental cup qualifiers
Champions League	Spartak Moscow CSKA Moscow
Europa League	Lokomotiv Moscow Zenit St. Petersburg Krasnodar
Season statistics
Matches played	216
Goals scored	445
Top goalscorer	Fyodor Smolov (18 goals)
Biggest home win	Spartak 4–0 Arsenal Krasnodar 4–0 Terek Lokomotiv 4–0 Anzhi Krylia Sovetov 4–0 Spartak CSKA 4–0 Ural CSKA 4–0 Tom CSKA 4–0 Anzhi
Biggest away win	Tom 0–6 Rostov
Highest scoring	Tom 1–6 Lokomotiv
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The 2016–17 Russian Premier League is the 25th season of the premier league football competition in Russia since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the 14th under the current Russian Premier League name. CSKA Moscow came into the season as the defending champions of the 2015-16 season. Fixtures for the 2016–17 season were announced on 20 June 2016.

Teams

As in the previous season, 16 teams played in the 2016–17 season. After the 2015–16 season, FC Kuban Krasnodar, FC Dynamo Moscow and FC Mordovia Saransk were relegated to the 2016–17 Russian National Football League. They were replaced by three clubs from the 2015–16 Russian National Football League, FC Arsenal Tula, FC Orenburg and FC Tom Tomsk.

Stadiums

Team	Stadium	City	Opened	Capacity
Amkar	Zvezda Stadium	Perm	1969	17,000
Anzhi	Anzhi Arena	Kaspiysk	2003	26,400
Arsenal	Arsenal Stadium	Tula	1959	20,048
CSKA	Arena CSKA	Moscow	2016	30,000
Krasnodar	Krasnodar Stadium	Krasnodar	2016	34,291
Krylia Sovetov	Metallurg Stadium	Samara	1957	33,001
Lokomotiv	Lokomotiv Stadium	Moscow	2002	28,800
Orenburg	Gazovik Stadium	Orenburg	2002	7,500
Rostov	Olimp-2	Rostov-on-Don	1930	15,840
Rubin	Kazan Arena	Kazan	2013	45,379
Spartak	Otkrytiye Arena	Moscow	2014	45,360
Terek	Akhmat-Arena	Grozny	2011	30,597
Tom	Trud Stadium	Tomsk	1929	10,028
Ufa	Neftyanik Stadium	Ufa	1967	15,234
Ural	SKB-Bank Arena	Yekaterinburg	1940	10,000
Zenit	Petrovsky	Saint Petersburg	1925	21,405

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	Location	Head coach
Amkar Perm	Perm	Gadzhi Gadzhiyev
Anzhi Makhachkala	Makhachkala	Aleksandr Grigoryan
Arsenal Tula	Tula	Sergei Kiriakov
CSKA Moscow	Moscow	Viktor Goncharenko
Krasnodar	Krasnodar	Igor Shalimov
Krylia Sovetov Samara	Samara	Vadim Skripchenko
Lokomotiv Moscow	Moscow	Yuri Semin
Orenburg	Orenburg	Robert Yevdokimov
Rostov	Rostov-on-Don	Ivan Daniliants
Rubin Kazan	Kazan	Javi Gracia
Spartak Moscow	Moscow	Massimo Carrera
Terek Grozny	Grozny	Rashid Rakhimov
Tom Tomsk	Tomsk	Valery Petrakov
Ufa	Ufa	Sergei Semak
Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast	Yekaterinburg	Aleksandr Tarkhanov
Zenit Saint Petersburg	Saint Petersburg	Mircea Lucescu

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing	Manner	Date	Table	Incoming	Date	Table
Zenit	André Villas-Boas	Contract expired	24 May 2016	pre-season	Mircea Lucescu	24 May 2016	pre-season
Rubin	Valeriy Chaly	Contract expired	21 May 2016	pre-season	Javi Gracia	27 May 2016	pre-season
Ufa	Sergei Tomarov (caretaker)	Caretaking spell over	6 June 2016	pre-season	Viktor Goncharenko	6 June 2016	pre-season
Anzhi	Ruslan Agalarov	Contract expired	31 May 2016	pre-season	Pavel Vrba	30 June 2016	pre-season
Spartak	Dmitri Alenichev	Resigned	5 August 2016	1st	Massimo Carrera (caretaker) Massimo Carrera	5 August 2016 permanent since 17 August 2016	1st 2nd
Rostov	Kurban Berdyev	Resigned	6 August 2016	4th	Dmitri Kirichenko (caretaker)	6 August 2016	4th
Lokomotiv	Igor Cherevchenko	Resigned	10 August 2016	9th	Oleg Pashinin (caretaker)	10 August 2016	9th
Lokomotiv	Oleg Pashinin (caretaker)	Caretaking spell over	26 August 2016	12th	Yuri Semin	26 August 2016	12th
Rostov	Dmitri Kirichenko (caretaker)	Caretaking spell over	9 September 2016	7th	Ivan Daniliants	9 September 2016	7th
Krasnodar	Oleg Kononov	Resigned	13 September 2016	7th	Igor Shalimov (caretaker) Igor Shalimov	13 September 2016 permanent since 6 October 2016	7th 6th
Arsenal Tula	Sergei Pavlov	Mutual consent	5 October 2016	14th	Andrei Kozlov (caretaker)	5 October 2016	14th
Arsenal Tula	Andrei Kozlov (caretaker)	Caretaking spell over	6 October 2016	14th	Sergei Kiriakov	6 October 2016	14th
Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast	Vadim Skripchenko	Resigned	1 November 2016	13th	Yuri Matveyev (caretaker)	1 November 2016	13th
Krylia Sovetov	Franky Vercauteren	Mutual consent	1 November 2016	16th	Hans Visser (caretaker)	1 November 2016	16th
Krylia Sovetov	Hans Visser (caretaker)	Caretaking spell over	3 November 2016	16th	Vadim Skripchenko	3 November 2016	16th
Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast	Yuri Matveyev (caretaker)	Caretaking spell over	3 November 2016	13th	Aleksandr Tarkhanov	3 November 2016	13th
CSKA Moscow	Leonid Slutsky	Resigned	7 December 2016	3rd	Viktor Goncharenko	12 December 2016	3rd
Ufa	Viktor Goncharenko	Mutual consent	12 December 2016	8th	Sergei Semak	30 December 2016	8th
Anzhi Makhachkala	Pavel Vrba	Mutual consent	30 December 2016	11th	Aleksandr Grigoryan	5 January 2017	11th

Last updated: 5 January 2017

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 2 in that league will be promoted to the Premier League for the 2016–17 season.

The 13th and 14th Premier League teams will play the 4th and 3rd FNL teams respectively in two playoff games with the winners securing Premier League spots for the 2017–18 season.

League table

2016–17 Russian Premier League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Spartak Moscow  (C)	30	22	3	5	46	27	+19	69	Qualification to Champions League group stage
2	CSKA Moscow	30	18	8	4	47	15	+32	62	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
3	Zenit St. Petersburg	30	18	7	5	50	19	+31	61	Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round
4	Krasnodar	30	12	13	5	40	22	+18	49
5	Template:Fb team Terek Grozny	30	14	6	10	38	35	+3	48
6	Rostov	30	13	9	8	36	18	+18	48
7	Ufa	30	12	7	11	22	25	−3	43
8	Lokomotiv Moscow	30	10	12	8	39	27	+12	42	Qualification to Europa League group stage
9	Rubin Kazan	30	10	8	12	30	34	−4	38
10	Template:Fb team Amkar Perm	30	8	11	11	25	29	−4	35
11	Ural Yekaterinburg	30	8	6	16	24	44	−20	30
12	Anzhi Makhachkala	30	7	9	14	24	38	−14	30
13	Orenburg  (R)	30	7	9	14	25	36	−11	30	Qualification to Relegation play-offs
14	Arsenal Tula  (O)	30	7	7	16	18	40	−22	28
15	Krylia Sovetov Samara  (R)	30	6	10	14	31	39	−8	28	Relegation to FNL
16	Template:Fb team Tom Tomsk (R)	30	3	5	22	17	64	−47	14

Source: [ Russian Premier League], [ Soccerway]
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament

Relegation play-offs

The draw for relegation play-offs scheduling took place on 24 April 2017.

First leg

25 May 2017 (2017-05-25) 12:00 UTC+3	SKA-Khabarovsk	0–0	Orenburg	Lenin Stadium, Khabarovsk Attendance: 11,300 Referee: Sergey Lapochkin (St. Petersburg)
		Report

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25 May 2017 (2017-05-25) 15:30 UTC+3	Yenisey Krasnoyarsk	2–1	Arsenal Tula	Central Stadium, Krasnoyarsk Attendance: 14,000 Referee: Vladislav Bezborodov (St. Petersburg)
	Aleksandrov  11' (o.g.) Maloyan  90+1'	Report	72' Kombarov

Second leg

28 May 2017 (2017-05-28) 15:00 UTC+3	Orenburg	0–0 (a.e.t.)	SKA-Khabarovsk	Gazovik Stadium, Orenburg Attendance: 6,971 Referee: Alexander Yegorov (Saransk)
		Report
		Penalties
	Koronov Shogenov Malykh Sivakow	3–5	Kazankov Kobyalko Udaly Dedechko Koryan

0–0 on aggregate. SKA-Khabarovsk won 5–3 on penalties and were promoted to the 2017–18 Russian Premier League; Orenburg were relegated to the 2017–18 Russian Football National League.

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28 May 2017 (2017-05-28) 18:00 UTC+3	Arsenal Tula	1–0	Yenisey Krasnoyarsk	Arsenal Stadium, Tula Referee: Vladimir Seldiakov (Balashikha)
	Shevchenko  29'	Report

2–2 on aggregate. Arsenal Tula won on away goals and retained their spot in the 2017–18 Russian Premier League; Yenisey Krasnoyarsk remained in the 2017–18 Russian Football National League.

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards.

Team \ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Spartak Moscow	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
CSKA Moscow	6	6	3	3	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	4	3	4	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	2
Template:Fb team Zenit St. Petersburg	7	10	5	8	4	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	3	3	3	3
Krasnodar	2	1	1	4	6	7	5	6	6	6	4	5	5	5	3	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	4
Template:Fb team Terek Grozny	5	7	10	7	3	5	7	8	7	7	5	4	3	4	5	4	4	5	7	8	8	5	6	8	6	6	5	5	6	5
Rostov	4	4	7	5	7	6	8	5	4	5	6	7	7	6	6	6	7	7	8	7	7	8	9	5	5	5	6	6	4	6
Ufa	14	12	16	16	13	13	9	9	9	10	9	9	10	9	8	9	8	6	5	5	5	6	7	7	9	7	7	7	8	7
Lokomotiv Moscow	8	9	12	12	9	9	11	13	13	12	11	11	11	11	11	11	10	10	10	10	9	9	5	6	7	8	8	8	7	8
Rubin Kazan	9	11	13	13	14	10	12	10	10	9	10	10	8	8	9	8	9	9	9	9	10	10	11	11	11	10	9	9	9	9
Template:Fb team Amkar Perm	10	5	4	2	5	4	4	4	5	4	7	6	6	7	7	7	6	8	6	6	6	7	8	9	8	9	10	10	10	10
Template:Fb team Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast	3	3	6	9	11	11	14	11	11	11	12	13	13	13	13	12	13	12	12	12	11	11	10	10	10	12	12	11	11	11
Anzhi Makhachkala	11	13	8	6	8	8	6	7	8	8	8	8	9	10	10	10	11	11	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	11	11	12	12	12
Orenburg	13	16	15	15	15	15	15	15	16	15	15	12	12	12	12	14	14	13	13	13	14	15	14	13	13	13	13	13	14	13
Arsenal Tula	16	8	11	10	10	12	13	14	14	14	13	14	14	15	16	16	15	15	14	15	13	13	15	15	14	15	15	15	15	14
Krylia Sovetov Samara	12	15	14	14	16	16	16	16	15	16	16	16	16	16	14	13	12	14	15	14	15	14	13	14	15	14	14	14	13	15
Template:Fb team Tom Tomsk	15	14	9	11	12	14	10	12	12	13	14	15	15	14	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16

Last updated: 21 May 2017
Source: resultados-futbol.com

Season statistics

Scoring

• First goal of the season: Ivan Novoseltsev for Rostov against Orenburg (30 July 2016)
• First double: Jano Ananidze for Spartak Moscow against Arsenal Tula (31 July 2016)
• First hat-trick: Pavel Nyakhaychyk for Orenburg against Tom Tomsk (16 October 2016)

Top goalscorers Rank Player Team Goals 1 Fyodor Smolov Krasnodar 18 2 Artem Dzyuba Zenit 13 3 Quincy Promes Spartak 12 4 Ari Krasnodar/Lokomotiv 10 5 Jonathas Rubin 9 Bekim Balaj Terek 7 Denis Glushakov Spartak 8 Sergei Kornilenko Krylia Sovetov Victor Giuliano Zenit 10 Ablaye Mbengue Terek 7 Manuel Fernandes Lokomotiv Maksim Kanunnikov Rubin Aleksandr Samedov Lokomotiv/Spartak Dmitry Poloz Rostov Sardar Azmoun Rostov Last updated: 28 May 2017 Top players by combined goals and assists Rank Player Team Goals + Assists 1 Quincy Promes Spartak 21 2 Fyodor Smolov Krasnodar 16 3 Artem Dzyuba Zenit 15 4 Victor Giuliano Zenit 14 5 Ari Krasnodar/Lokomotiv 13 6 Manuel Fernandes Lokomotiv 11 Sergei Kornilenko Krylia Sovetov Zé Luís Spartak Aleksei Miranchuk Lokomotiv 10 Jonathas Rubin 10 Yohan Mollo Krylia Sovetov/Zenit Dmitry Poloz Rostov Last updated: 6 May 2017

Top assists Rank Player Team Assists 1 Quincy Promes Spartak 10 2 Tsimafei Kalachou Rostov 8 Aleksey Miranchuk Lokomotiv 4 Oleg Shatov Zenit 7 5 Manuel Fernandes Lokomotiv 6 Zé Luís Spartak Victor Giuliano Zenit 8 Ari Krasnodar/Lokomotiv 5 Alan Dzagoev CSKA Artem Dzyuba Zenit Mário Fernandes CSKA Aleksandr Kokorin Zenit Cristian Pasquato Krylia Sovetov Dmitry Poloz Rostov Odise Roshi Terek Last updated: 6 May 2017

Season events

Transfer bans

On 3 November 2016, FC Tom Tomsk was banned from registering new players for debts to PFC CSKA Moscow for Pyotr Ten's transfer fee. On 27 December 2016, the ban was re-confirmed for debts to a former player Andrei Lyakh. On 19 January 2017, the ban was re-confirmed for debts to player Sergey Kuznetsov and former players Maksim Tishkin, Artyom Yarmolitsky, Aslan Dudiyev, Aleksandr Zhirov, Sergey Samodin, Vitali Dyakov, Anton Kochenkov and Pyotr Ten. On 31 January 2017, the ban was re-confirmed for debts to former players Oleksandr Kasyan and Pavel Golyshev. On 10 February 2017, the ban was re-confirmed for debts to former players Pavel Golyshev and Kirill Pogrebnyak. On 20 February 2017, the ban was re-confirmed for debts to players Aleksei Pugin, Artyom Popov and Kirill Kombarov. By the time the winter player registration window closed on 24 February 2017, the ban remained as place. Most of the players who represented Tom in games played in 2016 left the club as free agents due to non-payment of wages, and as a result, Tom were forced to play out the 2017 games remaining on their schedule with the players registered for their Under-21 squad.

On 16 November 2016, FC Rubin Kazan was banned from registering new players for debts to former player Shota Bibilov. On 23 December 2016, the ban was re-confirmed for debts to player Ruslan Kambolov. On 17 February 2017, the ban was removed.

On 19 December 2016, FC Krylia Sovetov Samara, FC Tom Tomsk, FC Amkar Perm and FC Rubin Kazan were banned from registering new players by the licensing committee of the Russian Football Union for unspecified debts. Krylia Sovetov's ban was removed on 30 January 2017.

External links

• Official website
• 2016–17 Russian Premier League at Soccerway

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