2014–15 Russian Premier League
Season | 2014–15 |
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Champions | Zenit St. Petersburg |
Relegated | Torpedo Moscow Arsenal Tula |
Champions League | Zenit St. Petersburg CSKA Moscow |
Europa League | Lokomotiv Moscow Krasnodar Rubin Kazan |
Matches played | 240 |
Goals scored | 583 (2.43 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Hulk (15 goals) |
Biggest home win | Zenit 8–1 Torpedo |
Biggest away win | Rostov 0–5 Zenit |
Highest scoring | Dynamo 7–3 Rostov |
Longest winning run | 8 matches: Zenit (2 Aug-20 Sep) |
Longest unbeaten run | 13 matches: Zenit (3 Dec-17 May) Krasnodar (8 Mar-30 May) |
Longest winless run | 11 matches: Arsenal (2 Aug-24 Oct) Amkar (3 Nov-7 Apr) |
Longest losing run | 6 matches: Arsenal (17 Aug-28 Sep) |
← 2013–14 2015–16 → |
The 2014–15 Russian Premier League was the 23rd season of the Russian football championship since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the 13th under the current Russian Premier League name.
The season began on August 1, 2014, when
Teams
Locations of teams in the 2014–15 Russian Premier LeagueAfter the
On 18 and 22 May 2014,
Stadiums
Team | Stadium | Opened | Capacity | Average attendance | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Amkar | Zvezda, Perm | 1969 | 17,000 | 8,275 [2] | |
Arsenal Tula | Arsenal, Tula | 1959 | 20,048 | 12,154 [3] | |
Lokomotiv, Moscow | 2002 | 28,800 | 2,000 [4] | Used as home ground in round 26. | |
MSA Lokomotiv, Moscow
|
2009 | 10,000 | 1,300 [5] | Used as home ground in round 20. | |
CSKA | Arena Khimki, Khimki | 2008 | 18,636 | 8,967 [6] | |
Dynamo Moscow | Arena Khimki, Khimki | 2008 | 18,636 | 7,336 [6] | |
Krasnodar | Kuban, Krasnodar | 1961 | 31,654 | 11,290 [7] | |
Kuban | Kuban, Krasnodar | 1961 | 31,654 | 9,228 [7] | |
Lokomotiv | Lokomotiv, Moscow | 2002 | 28,800 | 8,822 [4] | |
Mordovia | Start, Saransk | 2004 | 11,613 | 5,313 [8] | |
Rostov | Olimp-2, Rostov-on-Don | 1930 | 15,840 | 10,059 [9] | |
Rubin | Kazan Arena, Kazan
|
2013 | 45,105 | 20,066 [10] | |
Rubin, Kazan | 1958 | 10,000 | 3,682 [11] | Used as home ground in rounds 18-27. | |
Central Stadium, Kazan | 1960 | 28,856 | 20,624 [12] | Used as home ground in round 1. | |
Spartak Moscow | Otkrytiye Arena, Moscow
|
2014 | 45,360 | 25,001 [13] | |
Terek
|
Akhmat-Arena, Grozny | 2011 | 30,597 | 16,822 [14] | |
Sultan Bilimkhanov Stadium, Grozny | 1946 | 10,600 | 8,500 [15] | Used as home ground in rounds 18, 24. | |
Torpedo Moscow | Saturn, Ramenskoye | 1999 | 14,685 | 3,544 [16] | |
Eduard Streltsov Stadium, Moscow | 1959 | 13,450 | 3,517 [17] | Used as home ground in rounds 14, 17, 26-30. | |
Otkrytiye Arena, Moscow
|
2014 | 45,360 | 20,147 [13] | Used as home ground in round 20. | |
Ufa | Dynamo, Ufa | 1934 | 5,350 | 4,183 [18] | |
Start, Saransk | 2004 | 11,613 | 1,964 [8] | Used as home ground in rounds 19-23, 30. | |
Zvezda, Perm | 1969 | 17,000 | 1,383 [2] | Used as home ground in rounds 5, 11, 13, 24-26. | |
Petrovsky, Saint Petersburg | 1925 | 20,985 | 16,925 [19] | Used as home ground in round 28. | |
Ural
|
Central Stadium, Yekaterinburg | 1957 | 27,000 | 9,193 [20] | |
Geolog, Tyumen | 1982 | 12,057 | 5,167 [21] | Used as home ground in rounds 23, 27, 28. | |
Ural Indoor Arena, Yekaterinburg | 3,000 | 2,640 [22] | Used as home ground in rounds 11, 20, 21. | ||
Zenit | Petrovsky, Saint Petersburg | 1925 | 20,985 | 16,508 [19] |
Personnel and sponsorship
Managerial changes
Team | Outgoing | Manner | Date | Table | Incoming | Date | Table |
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Mordovia Saransk | Yuriy Maksymov | Mutual consent | 18 May 2014[23] | Pre-season | Yuri Semin
|
28 May 2014[24] | Pre-season |
Spartak Moscow | Dmitri Gunko | Contract expired | 1 June 2014[25] | Pre-season | Murat Yakin | 16 June 2014[26] | Pre-season |
Torpedo Moscow | Aleksandr Borodyuk | Contract expired | 5 June 2014[27] | Pre-season | Nikolai Savichev | 19 June 2014[28] | Pre-season |
Amkar Perm | Konstantin Paramonov | Caretaker spell over | 17 June 2014 | Pre-season | Slavoljub Muslin | 17 June 2014[29] | Pre-season |
Lokomotiv Moscow | Leonid Kuchuk | Sacked | 17 September 2014 | 9th | Igor Cherevchenko (caretaker) | 17 September 2014[30] | 9th |
Rostov | Miodrag Božović | Resigned | 25 September 2014[31] | 14th | Igor Gamula | 25 September 2014[32] | 14th |
Lokomotiv Moscow | Igor Cherevchenko (caretaker) | Caretaking spell over | 4 October 2014 | 9th | Miodrag Božović | 4 October 2014[33] | 9th |
Torpedo Moscow | Nikolai Savichev | Resigned | 4 November 2014 | 15th | Valery Petrakov | 4 November 2014[34] | 15th |
Kuban Krasnodar | Viktor Goncharenko | Mutual consent | 13 November 2014[35] | 5th | Leonid Kuchuk | 17 November 2014[36] | 5th |
Amkar Perm | Slavoljub Muslin | Sacked | 9 December 2014[37] | 14th | Gadzhi Gadzhiyev | 30 December 2014[38] | 14th |
Rostov | Igor Gamula | Moved to the U-21 team | 18 December 2014[39] | 16th | Kurban Berdyev | 18 December 2014[40] | 16th |
Lokomotiv Moscow | Miodrag Božović | Resigned | 11 May 2015[41] | 7th | Igor Cherevchenko | 11 May 2015 (caretaker) 2 June 2015 (permanent)[42] |
7th |
Kuban Krasnodar | Leonid Kuchuk | Mutual consent | 25 May 2015[43] | 10th | Andrei Sosnitskiy (caretaker)
|
25 May 2015 | 10th |
Last updated: 2 June 2015
Tournament format and regulations
Basic
The 16 teams played 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 was played, with 30 matches played by each team.
Promotion and relegation
The teams that finish 15th and 16th will be relegated to the
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 2015–16 season.
League table
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
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1 | Zenit St. Petersburg (C) | 30 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 58 | 17 | +41 | 67 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
2 | CSKA Moscow | 30 | 19 | 3 | 8 | 67 | 27 | +40 | 60 | Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round |
3 | Krasnodar | 30 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 52 | 27 | +25 | 60 | Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round |
4 | Dynamo Moscow | 30 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 53 | 36 | +17 | 50 | |
5 | Rubin Kazan | 30 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 39 | 33 | +6 | 48 | Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round |
6 | Spartak Moscow | 30 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 42 | 42 | 0 | 44 | |
7 | Lokomotiv Moscow | 30 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 31 | 25 | +6 | 43 | Qualification for the Europa League group stage[a] |
8 | Mordovia Saransk | 30 | 11 | 5 | 14 | 22 | 43 | −21 | 38 | |
9 | Terek Grozny
|
30 | 10 | 7 | 13 | 30 | 30 | 0 | 37 | |
10 | Kuban Krasnodar | 30 | 8 | 12 | 10 | 32 | 36 | −4 | 36 | |
11 | Amkar Perm | 30 | 8 | 8 | 14 | 25 | 42 | −17 | 32 | |
12 | Ufa | 30 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 26 | 39 | −13 | 31 | |
13 | Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast (O)
|
30 | 9 | 3 | 18 | 31 | 44 | −13 | 30 | Qualification for the Relegation play-offs |
14 | Rostov (O) | 30 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 27 | 51 | −24 | 29 | |
15 | Torpedo Moscow (R) | 30 | 6 | 11 | 13 | 28 | 45 | −17 | 29 | Relegation to Professional Football League |
16 | Arsenal Tula (R) | 30 | 7 | 4 | 19 | 20 | 46 | −26 | 25 | Relegation to Football National League |
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) number of matches won; 3) head-to-head points; 4) head-to-head wins; 5) head-to-head goal difference; 6) head-to-head goals; 7) number of head-to-head away goals; 8) goal difference; 9) number of goals scored; 10) number of away goals scored
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:
- ^ Lokomotiv Moscow qualified for Europa League group stage by winning the 2014–15 Russian Cup.
Relegation play-offs
First leg
Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast | ||
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Summary | Stavpets 83' |
Second leg
Results
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. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 10, but then postponed and played between days 25 and 26, it will be added to the standings for day 25.