Premier League 2014/15

Premier League 2014/15
master	Zenit Saint Petersburg
Champions League	Zenit Saint Petersburg
Champions League qualification	PFK CSKA Moscow
Europe League	Moscow locomotive
Europa League qualification	FK Krasnodar Rubin Kazan
Cup winners	Moscow locomotive
Relegation ↓	Urals Sverdlovsk Oblast FK Rostov
Relegated	Torpedo Moscow Arsenal Tula
Teams	16
Games	240 + 4 relegation games
Gates	583  (ø 2.43 per game)
spectator	2,436,299  (ø 10,151 per game)
Top scorer	Hulk
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Perwenstwo FNL 2014/15 ↓

The Premier League 2014/15 was the 23rd season of the Russian top division in football. It started on August 1, 2014 with the game Rubin Kazan against Spartak Moscow and ended on May 30, 2015. From December 9, 2014 to March 6, 2015, it was interrupted by the winter break.

Master became Zenit Saint Petersburg .

mode

The 16 teams played against each other twice on a total of 30 match days, divided into a first and a second round. The last two clubs were relegated directly. The third and fourth last played in the relegation against relegation.

Before the season

CSKA Moscow started the season as the defending champion. Mordowija Saransk , Arsenal Tula , Torpedo Moscow and FK Ufa replaced the four relegated members of the previous season Tom Tomsk , Krylya Sovetov Samara , Volga Nizhny Novgorod , Anzhi Makhachkala .

Attendees

Krasnodar ( Kuban , FK ) Terek Grozny Zenit Saint Petersburg Amkar Perm FK Ufa FK Rostov Rubin Kazan Saransk Moscow ( dynamo , locomotive , Spartak , torpedo , CSKA ) Urals Yekaterinburg Arsenal Tula

Clubs of the Premjer League 2014/15

The 12 best-placed teams of the 2013/14 season :

• CSKA Moscow
• Zenit St. Petersburg
• Moscow locomotive
• Dynamo Moscow
• FK Krasnodar
• Spartak Moscow
• FK Rostov
• Kuban Krasnodar
• Rubin Kazan
• Amkar Perm
• Urals Yekaterinburg
• Terek Grozny

The four climbers:

• Mordovia Saransk
• Arsenal Tula
• Torpedo Moscow
• FK Ufa

Closing table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Zenit Saint Petersburg	30th	20th	7th	3	058:170	+41	67
2.	PFK CSKA Moscow (M)	30th	19th	3	8th	067:270	+40	60
3.	FK Krasnodar	30th	17th	9	4th	052:270	+25	60
4th	FK Dynamo Moscow 1	30th	14th	8th	8th	053:360	+17	50
5.	Rubin Kazan	30th	13	9	8th	039:330	+6	48
6th	Spartak Moscow	30th	12	8th	10	042:420	± 0	44
7th	Moscow locomotive	30th	11	10	9	031:250	+6	43
8th.	Mordovia Saransk (N)	30th	11	5	14th	022:430	−21	38
9.	Terek Grozny	30th	10	7th	13	030:300	± 0	37
10.	FK Kuban Krasnodar	30th	8th	12	10	032:360	−4	36
11.	Amkar Perm	30th	8th	8th	14th	025:420	−17	32
12.	FK Ufa (N)	30th	7th	10	13	026:390	−13	31
13.	Urals Yekaterinburg	30th	9	3	18th	031:440	−13	30th
14th	FK Rostov (P)	30th	7th	8th	15th	027:510	−24	29
15th	Torpedo Moscow (N)	30th	6th	11	13	028:450	−17	29
16.	Arsenal Tula (N)	30th	7th	4th	19th	020:460	−26	25th

Placement criteria: 1st points - 2nd wins - 3rd direct comparison (points, goal difference, goals scored) - 4th goal difference - 5th goals scored

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Russian champions and participation in the group stage of the 2015/16 UEFA Champions League

Participation in the third qualifying round of the 2015/16 UEFA Champions League

Participation in the third qualifying round for the 2015/16 UEFA Europa League

Russian Cup winner and participation in the group stage of the 2015/16 UEFA Europa League

Participation in the relegation games

Relegation to the Perwenstwo FNL 2015/16

(M)	reigning Russian champion
(P)	reigning Russian cup winner
(N)	Newcomer from the Perwenstwo FNL 2013/14

Crosstab

2014/15
CSKA Moscow		2: 1	4-0	3: 2	1: 1	0-0	1-0	5-0	1: 3	1-0	2-0	1-0	3-0	3-0	8: 1	1-0
Zenit St. Petersburg	0: 1		1: 1	1: 2	3-0	0: 1	1-0	4-0	1-0	6-0	2: 1	5-0	3: 1	6-0	4: 1	2: 1
FK Krasnodar	2: 2	2: 1		0: 2	2-0	4-0	1-0	4-0	2-0	3: 2	1: 1	0: 2	1: 1	2: 1	2: 2	3-0
Dynamo Moscow	0: 1	1-0	1: 1		0: 2	1: 2	2: 2	2: 1	3-0	2: 2	5-0	3: 1	2-0	7: 3	0-0	2: 2
Rubin Kazan	0: 1	2: 1	1: 2	1: 1		0: 4	1: 1	5-0	2: 1	1-0	1: 1	1: 1	2: 1	2-0	2: 1	1-0
Spartak Moscow	1: 1	0: 4	1: 3	1-0	1-0		1: 1	4: 2	1: 1	1: 1	3: 3	1: 2	2-0	1: 1	3: 1	2-0
Moscow locomotive	0: 1	1: 3	0-0	4: 2	3-0	1-0		1: 1	2: 1	1: 1	3: 1	0-0	1-0	2: 1	2-0	0: 1
Mordovia Saransk	1-0	0: 1	2: 1	0: 1	0: 1	1: 3	0-0		1-0	0-0	1-0	0: 2	2: 1	0-0	1-0	1-0
Terek Grozny	1: 2	1: 2	0: 1	0-0	1: 1	4: 2	0-0	1-0		0-0	4-0	1-0	1: 3	2: 1	0: 1	3-0
Kuban Krasnodar	0-0	0: 1	1: 1	1: 2	2: 1	3: 3	2: 1	0-0	1-0		1-0	2-0	0: 2	2: 2	1: 1	5: 1
Amkar Perm	1-0	1-0	1: 2	2-0	0: 3	2-0	1: 1	0: 1	2: 1	1-0		0: 1	2: 1	2-0	0-0	0: 1
FK Ufa	1: 1	3: 3	0: 2	0: 2	1: 1	1: 2	1-0	1: 2	0: 1	3: 2	1: 1		0: 1	0-0	1: 1	0: 1
Urals Yekaterinburg	1: 2	3: 4	1: 1	2: 1	1: 3	2-0	2-0	2: 3	0: 1	0: 1	1-0	1: 1		0: 1	0: 2	1-0
FK Rostov	0: 5	1: 1	0: 2	2: 2	1: 2	2: 1	0: 1	2: 1	0: 1	2: 1	1: 1	2-0	1-0		1-0	0: 1
Torpedo Moscow	1: 1	0: 2	0: 3	1: 3	2: 2	0: 1	0: 1	2-0	0-0	0-0	1: 1	2: 2	3: 1	2: 1		0: 1
Arsenal Tula	0: 4	1: 4	0: 3	1: 2	0-0	1-0	0: 2	0: 1	1: 1	0: 1	4-0	0: 1	1: 2	1: 1	1: 3

Relegation

The two teams on the relegation places played on June 3rd and 7th, 2015 against the third and fourth of the Perwenstwo FNL for two starting places for the following Premier League season.

	total		First leg	Return leg
Tom Tomsk	0: 1	Urals Yekaterinburg	0: 1	0-0
FK Tosno	1: 5	FK Rostov	0: 1	1: 4

All four clubs remained in their respective leagues.

List of goalscorers

Pl.	Surname	team	Gates
01.	Hulk	Zenit Saint Petersburg	15th
02.	Roman Eremenko	CSKA Moscow	13
	Quincy Promes	Spartak Moscow
	Salomón Rondón	Zenit Saint Petersburg
05.	Bibra Natkho	CSKA Moscow	12
06th	Igor Portnyagin	Rubin Kazan	11
07th	Kevin Kuranyi	Dynamo Moscow	10
	Ahmed Musa	CSKA Moscow
09.	Alexei Ionov	Dynamo Moscow	09
	Mauricio Pereyra	FK Krasnodar

The Zenit Saint Petersburg championship team

(Players with at least two appearances were included, the games and goals are given in brackets)

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Zenit Saint Petersburg

Goal : Yuri Lodygin (28 / -) Vyacheslav Malafejew (2 / -) Defense : Ezequiel Garay (28/1), Domenico Criscito (25/2), Nicolas Lombaerts (24 / -), Igor Smolnikow (23/4), Luís Neto (20 / -), Alexander Anjukow (17 / -), Anatolij Tymoschtschuk (11/3), Pavel Mogilewez (9 / -) Midfield : Oleg Shatow (28/4), Axel Witsel (28/4), Javi García (24/3), Alexander Ryazanzew (20/1), Wiktor Faisulin (14/1), Andrei Arshavin (14/1) Storm : Hulk (28/15), Danny (28/3), Salomón Rondón (26/13), Alexander Kerzhakov (14/3), Ramil Şeydayev (5 / -) Trainer : André Villas-Boas

Web links

• Official website of the Premjer League
• Statistics on weltfussball.de
• Table on premierliga.ru (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2014/15 season. In: eu-football.com. Accessed July 31, 2019 . 
2. ↑ List of goalscorers soccerway.com