Fixtures
| Date | R | Home vs Away | - |
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| 12/05 16:00 | 18 |
FC Akhmat Grozny vs FC Orenburg
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| 12/06 11:00 | 18 |
Rostov vs Rubin Kazan
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| 12/06 13:30 | 18 |
Spartak Moscow vs Dinamo Moscow
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| 12/06 16:30 | 18 |
Zenit St Petersburg vs Akron Tolyatti
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| 12/07 11:00 | 18 |
Dynamo Makhachkala vs FC Nizhny Novgorod
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| 12/07 13:30 | 18 |
PFC Sochi vs Lokomotiv Moscow
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| 12/07 16:00 | 18 |
Baltika Kaliningrad vs Krylia Sovetov
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| 12/07 16:00 | 18 |
Krasnodar vs CSKA Moscow
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| 03/01 15:00 | 19 |
PFC Sochi vs Spartak Moscow
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| 03/01 15:00 | 19 |
Dynamo Makhachkala vs Rubin Kazan
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| 03/01 15:00 | 19 |
FC Akhmat Grozny vs CSKA Moscow
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| 03/01 15:00 | 19 |
Lokomotiv Moscow vs FC Nizhny Novgorod
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Results
| Date | R | Home vs Away | - |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/01 16:30 | 17 |
PFC Sochi vs Dynamo Makhachkala
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0-0 |
| 11/30 16:00 | 17 |
Zenit St Petersburg vs Rubin Kazan
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1-0 |
| 11/30 13:30 | 17 |
Rostov vs Lokomotiv Moscow
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1-3 |
| 11/30 13:30 | 17 |
FC Akhmat Grozny vs Dinamo Moscow
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2-1 |
| 11/30 11:00 | 17 |
Krasnodar vs Krylia Sovetov
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5-0 |
| 11/29 16:30 | 17 |
Baltika Kaliningrad vs Spartak Moscow
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1-0 |
| 11/29 13:30 | 17 |
CSKA Moscow vs FC Orenburg
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2-0 |
| 11/29 11:00 | 17 |
Akron Tolyatti vs FC Nizhny Novgorod
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1-2 |
| 11/23 16:45 | 16 |
Lokomotiv Moscow vs Krasnodar
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1-1 |
| 11/23 14:30 | 16 |
La Serena vs Dynamo Makhachkala
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3-0 |
| 11/23 12:15 | 16 |
FC Nizhny Novgorod vs Zenit St Petersburg
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0-2 |
| 11/23 10:00 | 16 |
Krylia Sovetov vs Rostov
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2-0 |
Teams
FC Akhmat Grozny
CSKA Moscow
Rostov
Lokomotiv Moscow
Krasnodar
Zenit St Petersburg
Spartak Moscow
Dinamo Moscow
Rubin Kazan
Ural
Krylia Sovetov
FC Ufa
Arsenal Tula
FC Orenburg
PFC Sochi
FC Nizhny Novgorod
Amkar Perm
Anzhi Makhachkala
FK Khimki
Fakel Voronezh
FK Tambov
Akron Tolyatti
Dynamo Makhachkala
Baltika Kaliningrad
Kuban Krasnodar
Mordovia Saransk
Torpedo Moscow
FK Yenisey
SKA Energia Khabarovsk
Tom Tomsk
FK Tosno
Rotor Volgograd
Wikipedia - Russian Premier League
The Russian Premier League (RPL; Russian: Российская премьер-лига, Rossiyskaya premyer-liga; РПЛ), also written as Russian Premier Liga, is a professional association football league in Russia and the highest level of the Russian football league system. It was established at the end of 2001 as the Russian Football Premier League (RFPL; Russian: Российская футбольная премьер-лига; РФПЛ) and was rebranded with its current name in 2018. From 1992 through 2001, the top level of the Russian league system was the Russian Football Championship (Russian: Чемпионат России по футболу, Chempionat Rossii po Futbolu).
There are 16 teams in the competition. As of the 2021/22 season, the league had two Champions League qualifying spots for the league winners and league runners-up, and two spots in the UEFA Conference League were allocated to the third- and fourth-placed teams. However, those have all been suspended due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, along with the national team's participation in international competitions. The last two teams are relegated to the Russian First League at the end of the season, while the 13th and 14th placed teams compete against the National League's 4th and 3rd teams respectively in a two-legged playoff.
The Russian Premier League succeeded the Top Division including history and records. The Top Division was run by the Professional Football League of Russia. Since July 2022, the league is currently called Mir Russian Premier League (Russian: Мир Российская премьер-лига), also written as Mir Russian Premier Liga (after the Mir payment system), for sponsorship reasons.
Since the introduction of the Russian Premier League in 2002, Zenit Saint Petersburg and Spartak Moscow (10 times each), CSKA Moscow (6 times), Lokomotiv Moscow (3 times), Rubin Kazan (2 times) and Krasnodar (1 time) have won the title. Krasnodar are the current champions, winning the competition in 2024–25.
History
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, starting in 1992, each former Soviet republic organized an independent national championship. In Russia, the six Russian teams who had played in the Soviet Top League in 1991 (CSKA Moscow, Spartak Moscow, Torpedo Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, Spartak Vladikavkaz, and Lokomotiv Moscow) were supplemented with 14 teams from lower divisions to form a 20-team Russian Top Division. The Top Division was divided into two groups to reduce the total number of matches. The number of teams in the Top Division was reduced to 18 in 1993 and 16 in 1994. Since then, the Russian Top Division (and the Premier League since 2002) has consisted of 16 teams, except for a short-lived experiment with having two more teams in 1996 and 1997.[]
Spartak Moscow won nine of the first ten titles. Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz was the only team which managed to break Spartak's dominance, winning the top division title in 1995. Lokomotiv Moscow have won the title three times, and CSKA Moscow six times.[] In 2007, Zenit St. Petersburg won the title for the first time in their history in Russian professional football; they had also won a Soviet title in 1984. 2008 brought the rise of Rubin Kazan, a club entirely new to the Russian top flight, as it had never competed in the Soviet Top League.[]
In preparation for the 2018–19 season, it was decided to hold a rebranding in which a new logo was presented.
As a result of the Russia's invasion of Ukraine, all Russian club and national teams were banned from European competition indefinitely. Spartak Moscow, who were competing in the UEFA Europa League and were the only Russian club team remaining in European competition at the time, were disqualified from their tie against RB Leipzig, who advanced on a walkover.