1999 Russian Top Division

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Russian Top Division
Season1999
1998
2000

In this year, Spartak Moscow won their fourth consecutive Russian title, and seventh overall.

Overview

Team Head coach
FC Spartak Moscow Oleg Romantsev
FC Lokomotiv Moscow
Yuri Syomin
PFC CSKA Moscow Oleg Dolmatov
FC Torpedo Moscow Vitaly Shevchenko
FC Dynamo Moscow Georgi Yartsev (until June)
Aleksei Petrushin (from June)
FC Alania Vladikavkaz
Valery Gazzaev
FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don
Sergey Andreyev
FC Zenit St. Petersburg
Anatoli Davydov
FC Uralan Elista
Pavlo Yakovenko Ukraine (until May)
Aleksandr Skrynnikov (caretaker) (May to June)
Yevhen Kucherevskyi Ukraine (June)
Aleksandr Skrynnikov (caretaker) (June)
Aleksandr Averyanov (from June)
FC Saturn Ramenskoye
Sergei Pavlov
FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod Valeri Ovchinnikov
FC Krylia Sovetov Samara
Aleksandr Tarkhanov
FC Rotor Volgograd Viktor Prokopenko Ukraine
FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk Sergei Butenko (until July)
Vladimir Fedotov (from July)
FC Zhemchuzhina Sochi
Anatoly Baidachny (until May)
Gennadi Afanasyev (caretaker) (May to June)
Viktor Antikhovich (from June)
FC Shinnik Yaroslavl Aleksandr Averyanov (until April)
Aleksandr Pobegalov (caretaker) (April to June)
Benjaminas Zelkevičius Lithuania (June to October)
Aleksandr Pobegalov (caretaker) (from October)

Standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Spartak Moscow (C) 30 22 6 2 75 24 +51 72 Qualification to Champions League group stage
2 Lokomotiv Moscow 30 20 5 5 62 30 +32 65 Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
3 CSKA Moscow 30 15 10 5 56 29 +27 55 Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
4 Torpedo Moscow 30 13 11 6 38 33 +5 50
5 Dynamo Moscow 30 12 8 10 44 41 +3 44
6
Alania Vladikavkaz[a]
30 12 7 11 54 45 +9 43
7 Rostselmash 30 11 8 11 32 37 −5 41 Qualification to Intertoto Cup third round
8 Zenit St. Petersburg 30 9 12 9 36 34 +2 39 Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round
9 Uralan Elista 30 10 6 14 27 34 −7 36
10
Saturn
30 8 10 12 30 38 −8 34
11 Lokomotiv N.N. 30 9 6 15 33 48 −15 33
12
Krylia Sovetov Samara
30 8 7 15 39 49 −10 31
13 Rotor Volgograd 30 7 10 13 36 51 −15 31
14 Chernomorets Novorossiysk 30 7 8 15 30 49 −19 29
15
Zhemchuzhina Sochi
(R)
30 5 11 14 29 55 −26 26 Relegation to First Division
16 Shinnik Yaroslavl (R) 30 5 9 16 21 45 −24 24
Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ Alania qualified for the UEFA Cup thanks to Lokomotiv winning the Russian Cup in 2000.

Results

Home \ Away
ALA
CHE CSK DYN
KRY
LOK LNN ROS ROT
SAT
SHI SPA TOR URE ZEN
ZHE
Alania Vladikavkaz
3–1 0–1 5–1 1–1 0–2 5–2 3–1 3–0[a] 2–0 3–1 0–1 6–1 4–2 2–2 2–2
Chernomorets Novorossiysk 1–0 2–1 2–1 1–1 1–4 0–1 1–0 1–1 1–1 1–1 1–1 1–2 0–0 1–0 3–0
CSKA Moscow 4–1 5–2 4–1 1–1 1–0 3–1 2–0 5–1 1–0 5–0 0–4 0–0 2–0 2–2 3–0
Dynamo Moscow 0–0 0–1 1–0 3–3 2–4 2–1 4–0 2–1 0–0 3–1 1–1 1–1 1–0 0–1 3–0
Krylia Sovetov Samara
0–3 1–1 1–1 1–2 1–2 3–0 0–0 0–1 2–0 4–2 3–1 1–2 0–1 3–2 4–2
Lokomotiv Moscow 4–1 2–1 1–0 2–1 2–0 3–1 3–0 5–1 3–0 4–1 0–3 1–2 1–0 1–1 1–1
Lokomotiv N.N. 2–1 3–2 0–2 1–3 3–0 0–0 0–0 1–1 0–1 1–0 2–4 0–1 1–2 1–0 2–1
Rostselmash 4–2 1–0 1–3 1–3 2–1 1–1 1–0 1–1 4–1 0–0 0–3 0–0 2–0 2–1 2–1
Rotor Volgograd 0–2 5–2 1–1 1–2 2–1 1–0 2–3 0–1 1–1 2–0 3–3 0–2 3–1 2–2 0–0
Saturn
0–1 3–0 2–3 3–3 2–0 1–1 1–1 1–1 1–0 0–0 0–3 2–2 2–0 1–0 3–0
Shinnik Yaroslavl 1–1 1–0 0–0 3–1 1–2 2–4 0–1 0–3 2–0 0–0 1–2 1–0 1–0 0–0 0–0
Spartak Moscow 3–0 2–0 1–0 2–2 3–0 3–0 2–2 1–0 4–1 3–1 4–1 0–1 3–0 4–1 4–0
Torpedo Moscow 1–1 3–1 2–2 0–1 3–1 2–4 3–2 1–2 2–1 0–2 0–0 0–0 3–1 1–0 1–0
Uralan Elista 3–0 3–1 1–1 1–0 2–1 0–1 3–0 2–1 0–1 2–0 1–0 0–1 1–1 0–0 1–1
Zenit St. Petersburg 2–2 1–1 1–1 0–0 3–1 1–2 1–0 1–0 1–1 2–1 2–1 1–2 0–0 2–0 3–1
Zhemchuzhina Sochi
2–0 2–0 2–2 1–0 0–2 1–4 1–1 1–1 2–2 2–0 1–0 3–7 1–1 0–0 1–3
Source: [citation needed]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:
  1. ^ In the match of the 17th round between Alania and Rotor, the Volgograd team left the field in the 66th minute with the score 1:1 as a sign of disagreement with the referee's decision. "Rotor" was awarded a technical loss of 3:0.[1][2][3]

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

As of matches played on 8 November 1999.[4]
Rank Player Club Goals
1
Georgi Demetradze
Alania 21
2 Russia Andrey Tikhonov Spartak Moscow 19
3 Russia Vladimir Kulik CSKA 15
4 Russia Dmitri Loskov Lokomotiv Moscow 14
Russia Oleg Teryokhin Dynamo
6 Tajikistan Arsen Avakov Lokomotiv N.N. 13
7 Russia Vyacheslav Kamoltsev Torpedo 12
Russia Sergei Semak CSKA
Russia Oleg Veretennikov Rotor
10
Egor Titov
Spartak Moscow 11

Awards

On December 2 Russian Football Union named its list of 33 top players:[5]

Goalkeepers
  1. Russia Aleksandr Filimonov (Spartak Moscow)
  2. Russia Ruslan Nigmatullin (Lokomotiv Moscow)
  3. Armenia Roman Berezovsky (Zenit)

Medal squads

1. FC Spartak Moscow

Goalkeepers: Aleksandr Filimonov (28), Andrei Smetanin (5).
Defenders:

Vadim Evseev (11 / 1), Yevgeni Bushmanov (9), Dmitri Ananko
(7).
Midfielders:
(2).
Forwards:
Aleksandr Shirko (27 / 9), Luis Robson Brazil (20 / 7), Sergei Yuran (18 / 3), Maksim Buznikin (6 / 1), Anatoli Kanishchev (1).
(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

One own goal each scored by Aleksandr Berketov (FC Rotor Volgograd) and Igor Cherevchenko Tajikistan (FC Lokomotiv Moscow).

Manager: Oleg Romantsev.

Transferred out during the season:

FC Saturn Ramenskoye
).

2. FC Lokomotiv Moscow

Goalkeepers: Ruslan Nigmatullin (29), Aleksey Polyakov Uzbekistan (1).
Defenders:

Aleksei Arifullin (16), Andrei Solomatin (13), Sergei Gurenko Belarus (6 / 2), Semyon Semenenko
(6).
Midfielders:
Alexey Smertin (29 / 6), Dmitri Loskov (28 / 14), Yevgeni Kharlachyov (27 / 9), Albert Sarkisyan Armenia (26 / 4), Vladimir Maminov Uzbekistan (22 / 3), Sergei Neretin (3), Aleksandr Borodyuk (1).
Forwards: Dmitri Bulykin (26 / 8), Zaza Janashia Georgia (country) (20 / 6), Ruslan Pimenov (4 / 1), Mikalay Ryndzyuk Belarus (4).

Manager:

Yuri Syomin
.

Transferred out during the season:

).

3. PFC CSKA Moscow

Goalkeepers: Dmitri Goncharov (18), Andrei Novosadov (12).
Defenders: Maksim Bokov (28 / 1), Valeri Minko (28 / 1), Oleg Kornaukhov (26), Yevgeni Varlamov (21 / 5), Igor Aksyonov (16), Denis Pervushin (4), Ante Pešić Croatia (4), Denis Yevsikov (3).
Midfielders:

Aleksandr Lebedev
(1).
Forwards: Vladimir Kulik (30 / 14), Goran Gutalj Serbia (2 / 1), Sergei Rodin (2), Aleksandr Suchkov (2).

One own goal each scored by

FC Saturn Ramenskoye
).

Manager: Oleg Dolmatov.

Transferred out during the season:

).

See also

References

  1. ^ ""Алания" – "Ротор"" (in Russian). 100bombardirov.ru. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Скандал во Владикавказе: хозяин "Ротора" уводит свою команду с поля" (in Russian). sport-express.ru. 22 July 1999. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  3. ^ "9 технических поражений в истории чемпионатов России" (in Russian). sports.ru. 14 May 2014. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  4. ^ "Russia 1999". RSSSF. The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
  5. ^ НАЗВАНЫ 33 ЛУЧШИХ ИГРОКА ЧЕМПИОНАТА РОССИИ (in Russian). Sport Express. 1999-12-03. Archived from the original on 2012-09-13.

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