Premjer League 2018/19

Premjer League 2018/19
master	Zenit St. Petersburg
Champions League	Zenit St. Petersburg Locomotive Moscow
Champions League qualification	FK Krasnodar
Europe League	CSKA Moscow
Europa League qualification	Spartak Moscow Arsenal Tula
Cup winners	Moscow locomotive
Relegation ↓	Krylja Sowetow Samara FK Ufa
Relegated	Anzhi Makhachkala Yenisei Krasnoyarsk
Teams	16
Games	240
Gates	542  (ø 2.26 per game)
spectator	4,032,184  (ø 16.801 per game)
Top scorer	Fyodor Chalov (CSKA Moscow), 15 goals
← Premjer League 2017/18 Premjer League 2019/20 →
Perwenstwo FNL 2018/19 ↓

The Premier League 2018/19 was the 27th season of the Russian top division in football . It began on July 28, 2018 with the game Ural Yekaterinburg against Anzhi Makhachkala and ended with the last matchday on May 26, 2019. After the 17th matchday, it was interrupted by the winter break from December 11, 2018 to February 28, 2019.

Master became Zenit St. 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

Lokomotiv Moscow started the season as defending champion . FK Orenburg , Krylja Sowetow Samara and Yenisei Krasnoyarsk replaced the three relegated members of the previous season Amkar Perm , FK SKA-Khabarovsk and FK Tosno .

Attendees

Krasnodar Grozny St. Petersburg Ufa Rostov Kazan Moscow ( Spartak , locomotive , CSKA , dynamo ) Ekaterinburg Tula Orenburg Samara Anzhi Makhachkala Krasnoyarsk

Clubs of the Premjer League 2018/19

The following clubs had qualified for the 2018/19 season:

• The remaining teams of the Premjer League 2017/18:
  • Moscow locomotive
  • CSKA Moscow
  • Spartak Moscow
  • FK Krasnodar
  • Zenit St. Petersburg
  • FK Ufa
  • Arsenal Tula
  • FK Dynamo Moscow
  • Achmat Grozny
  • Rubin Kazan
  • FK Rostov
  • Urals Yekaterinburg
• The two permanent climbers of the Perwenstwo FNL 2017/18 :
  • FK Orenburg
  • Krylya Sovetov Samara
• The two winners of the final round of the relegation play-offs :
  • Anzhi Makhachkala (Premjer League; instead of the actual winner Amkar Perm , who had to be relegated due to license withdrawal)
  • Yenisei Krasnoyarsk (Pervenstvo FNL)

Closing table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Zenit St. Petersburg	30th	21st	3	6th	057:290	+28	66
2.	Moscow locomotive (M)	30th	16	8th	6th	045:280	+17	56
3.	FK Krasnodar	30th	16	8th	6th	055:230	+32	56
4th	CSKA Moscow	30th	14th	9	7th	046:230	+23	51
5.	Spartak Moscow	30th	14th	7th	9	036:310	+5	49
6th	Arsenal Tula	30th	12	10	8th	040:330	+7	46
7th	FK Orenburg (N)	30th	12	7th	11	039:340	+5	43
8th.	Achmat Grozny	30th	11	9	10	028:300	−2	42
9.	FK Rostov	30th	10	11	9	025:230	+2	41
10.	Urals Yekaterinburg	30th	10	8th	12	033:450	−12	38
11.	Rubin Kazan 1	30th	7th	15th	8th	024:300	−6	36
12.	Dynamo Moscow	30th	6th	15th	9	028:280	± 0	33
13.	Krylja Sowetow Samara (N)	30th	8th	4th	18th	025:460	−21	28
14th	FK Ufa	30th	5	11	14th	024:340	−10	26th
15th	Anzhi Makhachkala 2	30th	5	6th	19th	013:500	−37	21st
16.	Yenisei Krasnoyarsk (N)	30th	4th	8th	18th	024:550	−31	20th

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

Russian champion and participation in the 2019/20 UEFA Champions League group stage

Participation in the group stage of the 2019/20 Champions League

Participation in the third qualifying round for the 2019/20 UEFA Champions League

Participation in the group stage of the 2019/20 UEFA Europa League

Participation in the third qualifying round for the 2019/20 UEFA Europa League

Participation in the 2nd qualifying round for the 2019/20 UEFA Europa League

Participation in the relegation games

Relegation to the Perwenstwo PFL Süd 2019/20

Relegation to the Perwenstwo FNL 2019/20

(M)	reigning Russian champion
(N)	Newcomer from the Perwenstwo FNL 2017/18

¹Due to violations of financial fair play , Rubin Kazan was banned from UEFA for 1 season in a European competition until 2020.

² Anshi Makhachkala did not get a license for the Perwenstwo FNL and had to relegate to the third-class Perwenstwo PFL.

Crosstab

2018/19
Zenit St. Petersburg		5: 3	2: 1	3: 1	0-0	1-0	3: 1	1-0	2-0	4: 1	1: 2	2-0	4: 2	2: 1	5-0	4: 1
Moscow locomotive	1: 1		1-0	1: 1	0-0	3: 1	2: 1	2-0	2: 1	1: 2	4-0	1: 1	2: 2	1-0	2: 1	2: 1
FK Krasnodar	2: 3	2: 1		2-0	0: 1	3-0	2: 2	0: 1	2: 2	2-0	1-0	3-0	1-0	1: 1	5-0	3-0
CSKA Moscow	2-0	0: 1	1: 2		1: 1	3-0	2: 3	1-0	0: 1	4-0	3-0	2: 2	6-0	2: 2	2-0	2: 1
Spartak Moscow	1: 1	2: 1	1: 1	0: 2		2: 3	1-0	1: 2	0: 1	1: 2	1: 1	2: 1	3: 1	1-0	1-0	2-0
Arsenal Tula	4: 2	2-0	0: 3	2-0	3-0		2: 2	3: 1	0: 1	0-0	2: 2	0-0	4-0	1: 1	2-0	2-0
FK Orenburg	1: 2	1-0	1: 1	0: 1	2-0	1: 1		1: 3	3-0	2: 2	1-0	1-0	3: 1	1-0	0: 1	0-0
Achmat Grozny	1: 1	1: 3	1: 1	0: 2	1: 3	2-0	1: 1		1-0	1: 1	1: 1	0-0	2: 1	2: 1	0-0	1-0
FK Rostov	1-0	1: 2	1: 1	0-0	2: 1	0-0	0: 1	1-0		2: 1	1: 1	0-0	0: 1	0-0	1-0	4-0
Urals Yekaterinburg	0: 1	2: 2	1: 2	0: 1	0: 1	2: 1	2: 1	2: 1	1: 1		2: 1	1: 1	1: 1	1: 1	0: 1	3: 2
Rubin Kazan	0: 1	0-0	2: 1	1: 1	1: 1	0-0	2-0	1-0	0: 2	1-0		1: 1	2: 1	1: 1	0-0	1-0
Dynamo Moscow	1-0	0: 1	1: 1	0-0	0: 1	3: 3	2-0	0-0	0-0	4-0	1: 1		1-0	3-0	0: 1	1: 2
Krylya Sovetov Samara	0: 1	0: 1	0: 3	0-0	1: 2	0: 1	0: 3	1: 2	1-0	0: 1	1-0	1-0		1: 1	1-0	4-0
FK Ufa	0: 2	0-0	0: 1	0: 3	2-0	1: 2	0: 2	0: 1	1-0	4: 1	0-0	1: 2	1: 2		3-0	2: 1
Anzhi Makhachkala	2: 1	0: 2	0: 4	0: 2	0: 3	0: 1	1: 3	0: 1	1: 1	0: 2	1: 1	1: 1	0: 2	0-0		2: 1
Yenisei Krasnoyarsk	0: 2	0: 3	0: 4	1: 1	2: 3	0-0	2: 1	1: 1	1: 1	1: 2	1: 1	2: 2	1-0	0-0	3: 1

Relegation

The 13th and 14th of the Premjer-Liga played against the third and fourth of the Perwenstwo FNL 2018/19 for the qualification for the Premjer-Liga 2019/20. The first leg took place on May 30, the second leg on June 2, 2019.

	total		First leg	Return leg
FK Ufa (I)	2: 1	Tom Tomsk (II)	2-0	0: 1
FK Nizhny Novgorod (II)	2: 3	Krylja Sowetow Samara (I)	1: 3	1-0

List of goalscorers

In the event of a tie in the goalscorer list, the lower number of penalty goals and then the shorter playing time during the season decide.

Pl.	Surname	team	Gates	Elfm.	Game minutes
01.	Fyodor Chalov	CSKA Moscow	15th	2	2467
02.	Sardar Azmoun	Zenit St. Petersburg 1	13	1	2162
03.	Viktor Claesson	FK Krasnodar	12	4th	2450
04th	Sebastián Driussi	Zenit St. Petersburg	11	0	1846
05.	Anton Miranchuk	Moscow locomotive	11	4th	1790
06th	Zé Luís	Spartak Moscow	10	3	1894
07th	Sylvester Igboun	FK Ufa	09	0	2273
08th.	Magomed Suleymanov	FK Krasnodar	08th	0	0563
09.	Ari	FK Krasnodar	08th	0	1149
10.	Jefferson Farfan	Moscow locomotive	08th	0	1506

¹ Serdar Azmoun played for Rubin Kazan until the winter break and scored four goals for him.

The Zenit Saint Petersburg championship team

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Zenit Saint Petersburg

Goal : Andrei Lunjow (29 / -) Michail Kerschakow (1 / -) Defense : Branislav Ivanović (28/1), Igor Smolnikow (23/1), Alexander Anjukow (16 / -), Elmir Nabiullin (11 / -), Luís Neto (13 / -), Jaroslaw Rakyzkyj (12/3), Emanuel Mammana (6 / -), Jewgeni Schernow (5 / -), Denis Terentjew (1 / -) Midfield : Róbert Mak (21/1), Oleg Schatow (19/3), Alexander Jerochin (16/6), Leandro Paredes (15/3), Daler Kusjajew (18/2), Magomed Osdojew (16 / -), Hernani (14/1), Juri Schirkow (12 / -), Emiliano Rigoni (11/3), Christian Noboa (11/1), Wílmar Barrios (10/1), Claudio Marchisio (9/2), Matías Kranevitter ( 6 / -), Miha Mevlja (6 / -), Leon Musayev (4 / -) Forward : Sebastián Driussi (27/11), Artjom Dsjuba (27/8), Sardar Azmoun (12/9), Anton Sabolotny (16 / -), Alexander Kokorin (3 / -) Coach : Sergei Semak

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Russian Rosgosstrakh Championship Standings. In: rfpl.org. Retrieved May 26, 2019 . 
2. ↑ UEFA excludes Rubin Kazan from the European Cup for one season , transfermarkt.de, accessed on October 18, 2018
3. ↑ Season 2018/19. In: eu-football.com. Retrieved August 2, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Goalscorers , rfpl.org