1993 Russian First League

Russian First League
Season	1993
	← 1992 1994 →

The 1993 Russian First League was the 2nd edition of Russian First Division. There were 3 zones with 58 teams in total. The winner of each zone qualified for the promotion tournament to play against the teams that took places 14 to 16 in the 18-team 1993 Russian Top League, 3 top teams from the tournament qualified for the 1994 Russian Top League. For 1994 the Russian league system was reorganized, with First League reduced to one zone of 22 teams, so most of the 1993 Russian First League teams were relegated at the end of the season.

West

Overview

Team	Head coach
FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk	Oleg Dolmatov
FC Avtodor-Olaf Vladikavkaz	Igor Tsakoyev
FC Erzu Grozny	Vait Talgayev
FC Baltika Kaliningrad	Kornei Shperling
FC Smena-Saturn St. Petersburg	Viktor Vinogradov
FC Torpedo Vladimir	Yuri Pyanov
FC Druzhba Maykop	Nurbiy Khakunov
FC Uralan Elista	Arnold Lendengolts
FC Fakel Voronezh	Valeri Nenenko (until October) Sergei Savchenkov (from October)
FC Metallurg Lipetsk	Aleksandr Ignatenko
FC Terek Grozny	Khaidar Alkhanov
FC Spartak Anapa	Mikhail Skachkov
FC Torpedo Taganrog	Aleksandr Skotarenko (until June) Vladimir Novik (from July)
FC Kolos Krasnodar	Viktor Tishchenko (until April) Adolf Poskotin (May to June) Yevgeni Tikhomirov (July to August) Yuri Kotov (September to October) Fyodor Novikov (from October)
FC Kuban Krasnodar	Leonid Nazarenko
PFC Spartak Nalchik	Kazbek Tlyarugov
FC Tekstilshchik Ivanovo	Vladimir Belkov
FC Orekhovo Orekhovo-Zuyevo	Vladimir Yermichev
FC Dynamo Vologda	Leon Yagubyants
FC Asmaral Kislovodsk	Yuri Dyachenko
FC Nart Cherkessk	Aleksandr Perepelkin (until May) Nikolai Shvydkiy (June to September) Nurbiy Lakhov (from October)
FC APK Azov	Yuri Zakharov (until June) Sergei Stetyukha (from July)

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Chernomorets Novorossiysk^[a] (A)	42	29	7	6	121	33	+88	65	Qualification to Promotion tournament
2	Avtodor-Olaf Vladikavkaz	42	24	11	7	76	45	+31	59
3	Erzu Grozny	42	24	7	11	72	26	+46	55
4	Baltika Kaliningrad	42	22	9	11	67	44	+23	53
5	Smena-Saturn St. Petersburg	42	24	4	14	70	50	+20	52
6	Torpedo Vladimir	42	22	7	13	67	53	+14	51
7	Druzhba Maykop	42	20	9	13	70	55	+15	49
8	Uralan Elista	42	23	2	17	60	64	−4	48
9	Fakel Voronezh (R)	42	17	13	12	58	38	+20	47	Relegation to Second League
10	Metallurg Lipetsk (R)	42	20	6	16	68	50	+18	46
11	Terek Grozny (R)	42	20	4	18	76	63	+13	44
12	Spartak Anapa (R)	42	19	5	18	59	65	−6	43
13	Torpedo Taganrog (R)	42	18	7	17	62	65	−3	43
14	Kolos Krasnodar (R)	42	17	8	17	47	57	−10	42
15	Kuban Krasnodar (R)	42	15	8	19	62	82	−20	38
16	Spartak Nalchik (R)	42	13	8	21	52	73	−21	34
17	Tekstilshchik Ivanovo (R)	42	12	8	22	49	58	−9	32
18	Orekhovo Orekhovo-Zuyevo^[b] (R)	42	10	11	21	42	64	−22	31
19	Dynamo Vologda (R)	42	10	10	22	36	65	−29	30
20	Asmaral Kislovodsk (R)	42	8	10	24	33	68	−35	26	Relegation to Third League
21	Nart Cherkessk (R)	42	9	5	28	30	84	−54	23
22	APK Azov^[c] (R)	42	4	5	33	25	98	−73	13

Source: RSSSF
(A) Advance to a further round; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ FC Gekris Novorossiysk was renamed to FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk.
^ FC Znamya Truda Orekhovo-Zuyevo was renamed to FC Orekhovo Orekhovo-Zuyevo
^ FC APK Azov played in the amateur leagues in 1994 under the name of FC APK Morozovsk

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Sergei Burdin	Chernomorets	25
2	Yuri Vostrukhin	Torpedo (Tg)	24
3	Andrei Lapushkin	Smena-Saturn	22
4	Khazret Dyshekov	Chernomorets	21
5	Valeri Borisov	Kolos	19
5	Murat Gomleshko	Kuban	19
7	Lev Berezner	Chernomorets	18
	Gennady Korkin	Metallurg (Lp)
	Igor Tikhonov	Tekstilshchik
	Tamazi Yenik	Druzhba

Center

Overview

Team	Head coach
FC Lada Togliatti	Vladimir Yevsyukov
FC Zenit St. Petersburg	Vyacheslav Melnikov
FC Interros Moscow	Aleksandr Irkhin (until July)
FC Zvezda Perm	Viktor Slesarev
FC Sokol Saratov	Aleksandr Koreshkov
FC Shinnik Yaroslavl	Igor Volchok
FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk	Gennadi Sarychev
FC Rubin-TAN Kazan	Viktor Lukashenko (until July) Murat Zadikashvili (from July)
FC Lada Dimitrovgrad	Vladimir Yurin
FC Torpedo Volzhsky	Oleg Dudarin
FC Gazovik Izhevsk	Aleksandr Salnov
FC Uralets Nizhny Tagil	Viktor Konshin
FC Svetotekhnika Saransk	Vladimir Solovyov
FC Druzhba Yoshkar-Ola	Valeri Volodin
FC Torpedo Ryazan	Sergei Nedosekin
FC Metallurg Magnitogorsk	Boris Kopeikin (until July) Arkadi Shestayev (from August)
FC Avangard Kamyshin	Vladimir Nemchenko
FC Torpedo Miass	Gennadi Nedelkin
FC Zenit Chelyabinsk	Valeri Znarok
FC Zenit Izhevsk	Valeri Salnikov (until June) Nikolai Gorshkov (from June)

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Lada-Togliatti (A)	38	25	10	3	80	29	+51	60	Qualification to Promotion tournament
2	Zenit St. Petersburg	38	25	8	5	87	33	+54	58
3	Interros Moscow^[a]	38	21	8	9	89	42	+47	50
4	Zvezda Perm	38	18	11	9	93	50	+43	47
5	Sokol Saratov	38	18	10	10	76	41	+35	46
6	Shinnik Yaroslavl	38	17	12	9	78	47	+31	46
7	Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk	38	18	9	11	45	33	+12	45
8	Rubin-TAN Kazan (R)	38	19	6	13	48	46	+2	44	Relegation to Second League
9	Lada Dimitrovgrad (R)	38	18	5	15	46	32	+14	41
10	Torpedo Volzhsky (R)	38	17	7	14	54	49	+5	41
11	Gazovik Izhevsk (R)	38	17	7	14	57	56	+1	41
12	Uralets Nizhny Tagil (R)	38	14	6	18	42	48	−6	34
13	Svetotekhnika Saransk (R)	38	12	8	18	51	66	−15	32
14	Druzhba Yoshkar-Ola (R)	38	10	9	19	41	70	−29	29
15	Torpedo Ryazan (R)	38	10	8	20	37	56	−19	28
16	Metallurg Magnitogorsk (R)	38	10	7	21	41	70	−29	27
17	Avangard Kamyshin (R)	38	8	10	20	38	73	−35	26	Relegation to Third League
18	Torpedo Miass (R)	38	8	9	21	28	71	−43	25	Relegation to Second League
19	Zenit Chelyabinsk^[b] (R)	38	7	8	23	40	84	−44	22	Relegation to Third League
20	Zenit Izhevsk (R)	38	7	4	27	31	106	−75	18	Relegation to Third League

Source: RSSSF
(A) Advance to a further round; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ FC Interros Moskovskiy moved to Moscow.
Amateur Football League
.

Top goalscorers

Rank Player Team Goals

1 Vladimir Filimonov Zvezda (P) 37

2 Vladimir Kulik Zenit 36

3 Sergei Chesnakas
Lada
31

4 Oleg Teryokhin Sokol 29

5
Oleg Smirnov
Shinnik 25

6
Andrei Ivanov

Gazovik
21

Aleksei Snigiryov
Interros

8 Mikhail Nikitin Sokol 20

9 Igor Kozlov
Interros
17

10 Yuri Bavykin
Lada
15

Lev Matveyev Zvezda (P)

East

Overview

Team Head coach

FC Dynamo-Gazovik Tyumen
Eduard Malofeyev

FC Irtysh Omsk Artyom Amirdzhanov

FC Zarya Leninsk-Kuznetsky Sergei Vasyutin

FC Lokomotiv Chita

Aleksandr Kovalyov

FC Zvezda-Yunis-Sib Irkutsk

Sergei Muratov

FC Kuzbass Kemerovo Geliy Shershevskiy

FC Dynamo Yakutsk
Anatoli Samkov

FC Metallurg Aldan Vladimir Nomirovskiy

FC Metallurg Krasnoyarsk
Aleksandr Kishinevsky

FC Sakhalin Kholmsk
B. Tibilov

FC Metallurg Novokuznetsk
Valeri Suldin

FC Tom Tomsk Vladimir Pomeshchikov

FC Dynamo Barnaul Stanislav Kaminskiy

FC Chkalovets Novosibirsk
Valeri Yerkovich

FC Selenga Ulan-Ude
Yuri Zubkov

FC SKA Khabarovsk
Vladimir Bychek

Standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation

1 Dynamo-Gazovik Tyumen (A) 30 19 5 6 55 26 +29 43 Qualification to Promotion tournament

2 Irtysh Omsk 30 16 7 7 52 33 +19 39

3 Zarya Leninsk-Kuznetsky 30 15 9 6 47 24 +23 39

4
Lokomotiv Chita
30 15 8 7 39 33 +6 38

5
Zvezda-Yunis-Sib Irkutsk
30 16 5 9 51 38 +13 37

6 Kuzbass Kemerovo (R) 30 15 5 10 53 38 +15 35 Relegation to Second League

7
Dynamo Yakutsk
(R) 30 14 7 9 41 27 +14 35

8 Metallurg Aldan^[a] (R) 30 11 8 11 31 29 +2 30

9
Metallurg Krasnoyarsk
(R) 30 11 7 12 33 35 −2 29

10
Sakhalin Kholmsk^[b]
(R) 30 11 5 14 38 60 −22 27

11
Metallurg Novokuznetsk
(R) 30 11 3 16 35 54 −19 25

12 Tom Tomsk (R) 30 9 7 14 41 40 +1 25

13 Dynamo Barnaul (R) 30 9 5 16 47 56 −9 23

14
Chkalovets Novosibirsk^[c]
(R) 30 8 7 15 39 43 −4 23

15
Selenga Ulan-Ude
(R) 30 8 6 16 25 48 −23 22

16
SKA Khabarovsk
(R) 30 2 6 22 16 59 −43 10
Source: RSSSF
(A) Advance to a further round; (R) Relegated
Notes:

Amateur Football League
.

^ FC Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk moved to Kholmsk

^ FC Chkalovets-FoKuMiS Novosibirsk renamed to FC Chkalovets Novosibirsk

Top goalscorers

Rank Player Team Goals

1 Vyacheslav Kamoltsev Dynamo-Gazovik 22

2 Andrey Dementyev Kuzbass 16

3 Vyacheslav Kartashov Irtysh Omsk 15

Vladimir Vekvart Lokomotiv (Ch)

5 Oleg Razzamazov Tom 14

6 Yevgeni Burdinskiy Zarya 13

7 Karapet Mikaelyan
Zvezda-Yunis-Sib
11

8 Vladislav Kadyrov
Sakhalin
10

Andrei Skovpen Kuzbass

10 Vadim Bazhenov Zarya 9

Sergei Chernov
Metallurg (Nk)

Valeri Matyunin Kuzbass

Aleksandr Muzyka
Dynamo (Yak)

Oleg Nikulin
Chkalovets

Yevgeni Sadovnikov
Metallurg (Kr)

Nikolai Tarakanov
Sakhalin

Promotion tournament

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation

1
Krylia Sovetov Samara
5 3 1 1 10 8 +2 7 Promotion to Top League

2
Lada-Togliatti
5 2 3 0 8 3 +5 7

3 Dynamo-Gazovik Tyumen 5 3 0 2 8 5 +3 6

4 Luch Vladivostok 5 2 2 1 11 9 +2 6 Relegation to First League

5 Chernomorets Novorossiysk 5 1 1 3 7 10 −3 3

6 Okean Nakhodka 5 0 1 4 5 14 −9 1
Source: RSSSF

See also

1993 Russian Top League

1993 Russian Second League

References

1993 Russian First League on KLISF

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[table_note_CHE0.16977993965604-1] FC Gekris Novorossiysk was renamed to FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk.

[table_note_ORE0.16977993965604-2] FC Znamya Truda Orekhovo-Zuyevo was renamed to FC Orekhovo Orekhovo-Zuyevo

[table_note_APK0.16977993965604-3] FC APK Azov played in the amateur leagues in 1994 under the name of FC APK Morozovsk

[table_note_INT0.89160489984397-4] FC Interros Moskovskiy moved to Moscow.

[table_note_ZCH0.89160489984397-5] Amateur Football League
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[table_note_MAL0.4853207969504-6] Amateur Football League
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[table_note_SAK0.4853207969504-7] FC Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk moved to Kholmsk

[table_note_CHK0.4853207969504-8] FC Chkalovets-FoKuMiS Novosibirsk renamed to FC Chkalovets Novosibirsk

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