2018–19 Russian Football National League

Russian National Football League
Season	2018–19
Biggest home win	Tyumen 4–1 Baltika
Biggest away win	Zenit-2 1–4 Sochi
Longest losing run	FC Zenit-2 (6 Matches)
Highest attendance	30,611 Round 6 Rotor Volgograd Vs. Luch Energiya 12 August 2018
	← 2017–18 2019–20 → All statistics correct as of 30 July 2018.

The 2018–19 Russian National Football League was the 27th season of Russia's second-tier football league since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The season began on 17 July 2018 and ended on 25 May 2019.

Winner: Fc tambov with 73 points

Team changes

To FNL

Promoted from PFL

Relegated from Premier League

SKA-Khabarovsk

From FNL

Relegated to PFL

Volgar Astrakhan

Promoted to Premier League

Excluded teams

Amkar Perm and Tosno were excluded from Premier League due to financial problems, but were also refused a license for the 2018–19 Russian Professional Football League, being subsequently dissolved.

Kuban Krasnodar was excluded from championship due to financial problems, then being dissolved.

Ararat Moscow was promoted from 2017–18 PFL, but were refused a license for the 2018–19 Russian National Football League, the club being subsequently dissolved.

Teams spared from relegation

Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg, Rotor Volgograd, Luch Vladivostok, Tyumen and Fakel Voronezh were spared from relegation due to lack of teams enrolled for the 2018–19 season.

Other teams

Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk finished on the promotion place at the end of the 2017–18 PFL season, but refused to be promoted.

Renamed teams

Dynamo Saint Petersburg was moved from Saint Petersburg to Sochi and renamed as PFC Sochi.

FC Nizhny Novgorod

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Luch-Energiya Vladivostok was renamed to Luch Vladivostok.

Stadia by capacity

Club	City	Stadium	Capacity
Armavir	Armavir	Yunost	5,700
Avangard	Kursk	Trudovye Rezervy	11,329
Baltika	Kaliningrad	Arena Baltika	25,000
Chertanovo	Moscow	Arena Chertanovo	500
Fakel	Voronezh	Tsentralnyi Profsoyuz	31,793
Khimki	Khimki	Rodina	5,083
Krasnodar-2	Krasnodar	Krasnodar Academy	3,500
Luch	Vladivostok	Dynamo	10,200
Mordovia	Saransk	Mordovia Arena	28,000
Nizhny Novgorod	Nizhny Novgorod	Nizhny Novgorod	44,899
Rotor	Volgograd	Volgograd Arena	45,568
Shinnik	Yaroslavl	Shinnik	22,990
Sibir	Novosibirsk	Spartak	12,500
SKA	Khabarovsk	Lenin	15,200
Sochi	Sochi	Fisht Olympic	47,659
Spartak-2	Moscow	Spartak Academy	4,000
Tambov	Tambov	Spartak	8,000
Tom	Tomsk	Trud	10,028
Tyumen	Tyumen	Geolog	13,057
Zenit-2	Saint Petersburg	MSA Petrovsky / Petrovsky	2,809 / 21,405

Stadia by locations

Nizhny Novgorod

Location of teams in 2018–19 FNL.

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Armavir	Arsen Papikyan	Sergei Miroshnichenko	Adidas
Avangard Kursk	Igor Belyayev	Mikhail Bagayev	Adidas
Baltika Kaliningrad	Valery Nepomnyashchy	Aleksandr Sheshukov	Jako	Sodruzhestvo
Chertanovo Moscow	Igor Osinkin	Aleksandr Soldatenkov	Nike	Chertanovo Education Center
Fakel Voronezh	Sergei Volgin	Igor Lebedenko	Adidas	TNS Energo
Khimki	Igor Shalimov	Aleksandr Dimidko	Puma
Krasnodar-2	Igor Picușceac	Ivan Taranov	Puma	WAFF!
Luch Vladivostok	Rustem Khuzin	Maksim Nasadyuk	Nike
Mordovia Saransk	Marat Mustafin	Ruslan Mukhametshin	Nike
Nizhny Novgorod	Dmitri Cheryshev	Andrei Khripkov	Jako
Rotor Volgograd	Robert Yevdokimov	Ismail Ediyev	Jako
Shinnik Yaroslavl	Aleksandr Pobegalov	Eldar Nizamutdinov	Jako
Sibir Novosibirsk	Sergei Kirsanov	Eugeniu Cebotaru	Jako
SKA-Khabarovsk	Sergei Perednya	Denys Dedechko	Adidas
Sochi	Aleksandr Tochilin	Yevgeni Pesegov	Nike
Spartak-2 Moscow	Viktor Bulatov	Nikolai Tyunin	Nike	Lukoil
Tambov	Timur Shipshev	Mladen Kašćelan	Jako
Tom Tomsk	Vasili Baskakov	Sergei Zuykov	Joma
Tyumen	Goran Aleksić	Ivan Chudin	Jako	Sibur
Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg	Vladislav Radimov	Sergei Bugriyev	Nike	Gazprom

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Tambov (C, P)	38	21	10	7	55	35	+20	73	Promotion to Premier League
2	Sochi (P)	38	19	12	7	63	34	+29	69	Promotion to Premier League
3	Tom Tomsk	38	17	13	8	40	25	+15	64	Qualification to Premier League play-offs
4	Nizhny Novgorod	38	18	8	12	41	31	+10	62	Qualification to Premier League play-offs
5	Chertanovo Moscow	38	17	10	11	65	53	+12	61
6	Shinnik Yaroslavl	38	16	12	10	42	31	+11	60
7	SKA-Khabarovsk	38	15	13	10	46	41	+5	58
8	Avangard Kursk	38	16	8	14	48	42	+6	56
9	Khimki	38	14	11	13	47	49	−2	53
10	Krasnodar-2	38	12	15	11	45	52	−7	51	Ineligible for promotion
11	Rotor Volgograd	38	12	14	12	34	36	−2	50
12	Mordovia Saransk	38	12	11	15	37	46	−9	47
13	Luch Vladivostok	38	10	17	11	29	28	+1	47
14	Spartak-2 Moscow	38	12	10	16	45	47	−2	46	Ineligible for promotion
15	Armavir	38	10	14	14	32	44	−12	44
16	Baltika Kaliningrad^[a]	38	10	12	16	38	52	−14	42
17	Fakel Voronezh^[b]	38	9	14	15	36	40	−4	41
18	Sibir Novosibirsk^[c]	38	8	13	17	28	45	−17	37	Dissolved after the season
19	Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg	38	7	7	24	33	57	−24	28	Relegation to Professional Football League
20	Tyumen^[d]	38	5	16	17	30	46	−16	25	Relegation to Professional Football League

Home \ Away	ARM	AVA	BAL	CHE	FAK	KHI	KR2	LUC	MOR	NNO	ROT	SHI	SIB	SKA	SOC	SP2	TAM	TOM	TYU	ZE2
Armavir		0–0	2–2	1–3	4–1	0–2	3–3	1–1	0–1	2–1	2–2	0–0	0–1	2–0	0–3	0–0	1–3	0–0	1–0	1–0
Avangard Kursk	1–0		0–2	2–1	1–0	4–0	1–1	2–2	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–2	3–2	1–1	2–1	3–2	0–0	0–0	2–0	2–1
Baltika Kaliningrad	1–1	2–1		2–0	0–2	2–1	1–4	0–2	1–0	1–2	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	2–2	2–0	1–2	1–0	1–1	0–2
Chertanovo Moscow	1–1	3–2	3–1		2–1	2–1	3–0	1–1	0–2	3–1	1–1	0–1	2–1	2–2	2–6	1–0	0–1	1–1	4–0	4–0
Fakel Voronezh	0–0	3–2	1–1	1–1		2–0	0–0	1–1	1–2	1–0	0–0	3–0	0–1	1–3	1–2	3–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	2–2
Khimki	2–3	3–1	3–3	3–2	1–1		3–0	2–1	1–1	0–2	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	1–3	2–0	0–1	2–1	3–0
Krasnodar-2	0–0	0–2	2–1	3–1	1–2	4–2		2–1	1–2	0–2	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–2	0–3	2–0	1–1	0–0	2–1
Luch Vladivostok	3–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–1	0–1		0–1	1–0	1–0	0–2	1–0	0–2	0–1	2–0	0–1	2–2	1–1	1–0
Mordovia Saransk	2–1	1–4	1–0	1–2	1–1	1–1	1–2	0–0		2–2	1–0	0–0	3–0	0–1	0–2	0–1	1–3	0–1	1–1	1–0
Nizhny Novgorod	1–0	0–1	0–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	3–0	0–0	3–1		1–3	0–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	3–1	1–0	2–1	2–1	1–0
Rotor Volgograd	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–2	1–2	1–0	1–0	1–0	3–1	2–1		1–3	2–0	2–2	1–1	0–0	1–2	0–0	2–1	1–1
Shinnik Yaroslavl	0–0	4–2	1–0	3–3	1–0	0–1	2–2	0–0	1–2	1–0	0–0		2–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	3–0	1–0	1–0	1–0
Sibir Novosibirsk	0–1	1–0	2–1	1–2	2–0	1–2	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	0–2		1–1	0–1	1–0	0–2	1–0	2–0	0–1
SKA-Khabarovsk	3–0	1–0	1–1	1–3	2–1	0–1	2–2	0–0	2–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–1		2–2	1–0	1–2	1–0	2–1	3–1
Sochi	1–0	1–0	4–1	2–1	0–2	3–2	1–1	2–2	0–2	0–1	4–2	0–0	4–1	2–0		0–1	0–0	3–1	1–1	2–0
Spartak-2 Moscow	1–2	0–0	2–1	0–2	2–1	0–1	2–3	2–2	4–0	1–2	2–0	1–4	3–0	2–1	1–1		2–2	1–1	0–0	1–1
Tambov	0–1	3–1	2–0	2–2	0–0	3–0	1–2	2–1	2–2	0–0	1–0	1–0	3–1	3–2	0–3	2–0		3–0	1–1	2–1
Tom Tomsk	3–0	1–0	1–1	3–1	2–0	2–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–1	2–0	2–0	1–1	4–1	1–0	2–1	1–1		1–0	1–0
Tyumen	1–0	0–1	4–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	0–0	1–1	2–1	0–1	3–2	0–0	1–1	2–1	1–2	1–3	1–2		1–2
Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg	1–1	1–2	0–1	1–2	1–0	2–2	5–2	0–1	3–1	1–2	0–1	1–0	2–2	0–1	1–4	0–3	1–2	0–1	0–0

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2018–19 Russian Football National League

Team changes

To FNL

From FNL

Excluded teams

Teams spared from relegation

Other teams

Renamed teams

Stadia by capacity

Stadia by locations

Personnel and kits

League table

Results

Statistics

Top goalscorers

References

External links