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The Russian Premier League ( RPL ; russian : Российская премьер-лига ; РПЛ ), besides written as Russian Premier Liga, [ 1 ] is the top division professional association football league in Russia. [ 2 ] 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 stream mention in 2018. [ 3 ] From 1992 through 2001, the acme tied of the Russian football league system was the Russian Football Championship ( russian : Чемпионат России по футболу, Chempionat Rossii po Futbolu ). [ 4 ] There are 16 teams in the contest. The league has three Champions League qualifying spots given to the top three teams at the end of the season and the two Europa League spots will be allocated to the one-fourth and fifth placed teams. The last two teams are relegated to the russian National Football League at the end of the season. The russian Premier League succeeded the Top Division including history and records. The acme Division was run by the Professional Football League of Russia. creation of the Premier League is considered to give the clubs a greater degree of independence. The league is presently called Tinkoff Russian Premier League ( russian : Тинькофф Российская Премьер-Лига ), besides written as Tinkoff Russian Premier Liga, for sponsorship reasons. [ 5 ]

Since the initiation of the Russian Premier League in 2002, Zenit Saint Petersburg ( 7 times ), CSKA Moscow ( 6 times ), Lokomotiv Moscow ( 3 times ), Rubin Kazan ( 2 times ) and Spartak Moscow ( 1 time ) have won the title. Zenit Saint Petersburg are the stream russian Premier League champions .

history [edit ]

After the profligacy of the Soviet Union, starting in 1992, each former Soviet republic organized an mugwump home 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 further divided into two groups to reduce the entire numeral of matches. The number of teams in the Top Division was gradually 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 ephemeral experiment with having two more teams in 1996 and 1997. Spartak Moscow was the prevailing wedge in the clear class, winning 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 climbed to the top, winning the claim for the first fourth dimension in their history in russian master football ; they had besides won a soviet title in 1984. 2008 brought the arise of Rubin Kazan, a golf club wholly new to the russian top escape, as it had never competed in the soviet Top League. In training for the 2018–19 season, it was decided to hold a rebranding in which a newfangled logo was presented. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ]

contest [edit ]

russian Premier League match between Zenit and Dynamo ( the end Zenit match at the Kirov Stadium, stadium had been already partially demolished. ) Teams in the russian Premier League play each early doubly, once at home and once away, for a entire of 30 matches. Three points are awarded for a win, one for a draw, and none for a loss. If teams are grade on points, the tie-breakers are the issue of wins, then the goal dispute, followed by several other factors. If the teams are tied for the first situation, the tie-breakers are the number of wins, then neck and neck results. If the teams tied for the foremost place can not be separated by these tie-breakers, a championship play-off is ordered .
As of 2020–21 season, the champions qualify for the UEFA Champions League group degree. The runner-up qualifies for the Champions League third qualifying round. The third base and fourth-place teams qualify for the UEFA Europa Conference League. If the winner of russian Cup ends in first or second on the championship in lapp season, then the third-place team qualifies to UEFA Europa League group stage, while fourthly and fifth-place teams qualify for the UEFA Europa Conference League alternatively. The bottom two teams are relegated to the National League. Starting on the 2020–21 season the teams ranked in 13th and 14th-place play a two leg relegation play-off against 4th and 3rd-place team from National League. The two winners of this play-off secures the right to play in Premier League in following season. Unlike most other european football leagues, the league traditionally used to ran in summer, from March to November, to avoid playing games in the cold and snow-clad upwind in winter. This was altered ahead of the 2012–13 season, with the league plan to run the season from fall to spring. The transitional season of the contest began in early 2011 and continued until summer of 2012. After the 16 Premier League teams played each other twice over the course of the 2011 calendar class, they were split into two groups of eight, and the teams played other teams in their groups two more times for a entire of 44 games ( 30 in 2011 and 14 in 2012 ). Those two groups were contested in form 2012, with the top eight clubs playing for the entitle and european places. The other sides vied to avoid delegating : the bed two went depressed while the following two played off against the sides third and fourth in the National Football League, with the two losers being relegated ( or denied promotion ). [ 11 ] Under the current autumn-spring calendar, the league takes a three-month winter break from mid-december until mid-march. Merging the calendar with other UEFA leagues however, has increased numbers of games in winter. This has resulted in the Russian Far East and siberian teams being forced to play more home games in hostile weather conditions which affected the Premier League when SKA Khabarovsk took separate. [ 12 ]

Youth backing [edit ]

The Youth championship ( russian : Молодежное первенство ), besides known as Youth teams championship ( russian : Первенство молодёжных команд ), Reserve team tournament ( russian : Турнир дублирующих составов ) or Reserves tournament ( russian : Турнир дублёров ), full name Youth football championship of Russia among teams of clubs of the Premier League ( russian : Молодёжное Первенство России по футболу среди команд клубов Премьер-Лиги ), is a league that runs in twin to the russian Premier League and includes the youth or reservation teams of the Russian Premier League teams. The number of players a team can have on the pitch at a time that are over 21 years of age or without a russian citizenship is limited. 16 teams participate in the league. Matches are normally played a day before the match of the senior teams of the respective teams. All of the Russian Premier League teams are obliged to have a youth team that would participate in the Youth backing. The teams that are promoted from the National Football League and do not have a youth team must create one. The teams in the league are not relegated based on their final league position, but on the league position of their respective clubs ‘ aged teams. It has to be noted however that some Premier League clubs have three teams. apart from the senior team and the team that plays in the Youth championship a team might have another elder team that plays in a lower division of russian football and serves as the farm team for the main team. Some examples include Spartak-2 and Zenit-2, playing in the Russian Football National League .

UEFA club rankings [edit ]

Russia are presently seventh in the UEFA coefficient rankings. The following are the best rate russian teams in Europe as of December 2020 : [ 13 ]

current clubs [edit ]

The follow teams are competing in the 2021–22 temper :

Champions and top scorers [edit ]

operation by club [edit ]

russian all-time champions [edit ]

UEFA ranking [edit ]

UEFA League Ranking at the end of the 2018–19 season:
A total of 50 teams had competed in at least one temper at the acme part. Spartak Moscow, CSKA Moscow and Lokomotiv Moscow are the entirely teams to have played in the top part in every season since the league ‘s origin at 1992. The teams in bold participate in the 2021–22 Premier League .

all-time table [edit ]

As of the end of the 2017–18 season. Teams in bold compete in 2018–19 Premier League.
Competing in RPL
Competing in FNL (2nd tier)
Competing in PFL (3rd tier)
Competing in amateur leagues (below 3rd tier)
Defunct (see notes)
Notes
  1. For clubs that have been renamed, their name at the time of their most recent season in the Russian League is given. The current members are listed in bold.
  2. Includes championship play-offs, does not include relegation play-offs.
  3. For the purposes of this table, each win is worth 3 points. The three-point system was adopted in 1995.
  4. Terek were deducted 6 points in 2005.
  5. KAMAZ-Chally were deducted 6 points in 1997.

player records [edit ]

Most appearances [edit ]

As of 11 December 2021 [1] [2] [3] [4]

Most goals [edit ]

As of 12 December 2021

Champions ( players ) [edit ]

Media coverage [edit ]

2020–21 and 2021–22 [edit ]

Russia and CIS [edit ]

Channel Summary Ref
Match TV 60 matches per season live [19]
Match Premier All 240 matches live

the Super Cup matches for viewers in Russia are excluded .

Worldwide ( excluding Russia, CIS, and China ) [edit ]

All 240 matches are aired know globally on YouTube with a necessitate subscription. There will be two membership levels for the viewers outside Russia, CIS, and China. The beginning level includes two matches with English commentary each matchday and will cost a monthly fee of $ 2.99. The second gear charge, for $ 4.99 a calendar month, gives subscribers access to all eight matches in russian and two matches with English comment deoxyadenosine monophosphate well. [ 20 ] In 2018–19 season, YouTube broadcast four live matches per week for free ( in matchweek 30, aired all final eight matches ). [ 21 ] From 2020–21, YouTube besides broadcast the FTA coverage of Super Cup before airing the league .

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