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Russian Premier League 2008 team distribution

The Russian Premier League 2008 was the 17th edition of the Russian Football Championship, and the seventh under the current Russian Premier League name. The season started on Friday, 14 March 2008 with a match between Terek and Krylia Sovetov in Grozny. Krylia Sovetov won 3–0. The first goal of the season was scored by Krylia Sovetov's forward Yevgeny Savin.

Due to Russia's participation in UEFA Euro 2008, the season was interrupted from 16 May until 5 July.

The champions were determined on the 27th matchday, 2 November 2008. Rubin claimed their first championship title in Russian Premier League, defeating Saturn 2–1 away, with Savo Milošević scoring in the 89th minute to claim the title for his club. Rubin became the third (and second consecutive) non-Moscow club to become Russian champions.

The last round of matches was played on 22 November 2008.

[edit] Teams

14 clubs placed 1–14 in Russian Premier League 2007 and 2 top clubs from 2007 season of Russian First Division took part in the league:

Team	Place	Head Coach	Team Captain	Venue	Capacity	Avg. Attend.	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
FC Zenit Saint Petersburg	Saint Petersburg	Dick Advocaat	Anatoliy Tymoschuk	Petrovsky Stadium	21,725	20,825	Puma	Gazprom
FC Spartak Moscow	Moscow	Michael Laudrup	Mozart	Luzhniki Stadium	76,000	23,380	Nike	Lukoil
PFC CSKA Moscow	Moscow	Valery Gazzaev	Igor Akinfeev	Luzhniki Stadium	76,000	16,243	Reebok	VTB
FC Moscow	Moscow	Oleg Blokhin	Dmitri Godunok	Eduard Streltsov Stadium	13,422	4,813	Umbro	Norilsk Nickel
FC Saturn Moscow Oblast	Ramenskoye	Jürgen Röber	Aleksei Igonin	Saturn Stadium	16,726	9,480	Adidas
FC Dynamo Moscow	Moscow	Andrey Kobelev	Dmitry Khokhlov	Dynamo Stadium	36,540	13,067	Umbro	Metalloinvest
FC Lokomotiv Moscow	Moscow	Rashid Rakhimov	Diniyar Bilyaletdinov	Lokomotiv Stadium	28,800	14,108	Adidas	Russian Railways
FC Amkar Perm	Perm	Miodrag Božović	Aleksei Popov	Zvezda Stadium	20,000	16,514	Adidas
FC Khimki	Khimki	Sergey Yuran	Roman Berezovsky	Arena Khimki	18,000	8,347	Nike	Mezhregionalnaya Developerskaya Kompania
FC Rubin Kazan	Kazan	Gurban Berdiýew	Sergey Semak	Central Stadium	30,133	18,641	Nike	TAIF
FC Tom Tomsk	Tomsk	Valeri Nepomniachi	Valeri Klimov	Trud Stadium	14,950	12,820	Adidas
PFC Spartak Nalchik	Nalchik	Yuri Krasnozhan	Miodrag Džudović	Spartak Stadium	14,400	10,460	Nike
FC Krylia Sovetov Samara	Samara	Leonid Slutsky	Matthew Paul Booth	Metallurg Stadium	33,220	22,400	Umbro	RosTekhnologii
FC Luch-Energiya Vladivostok	Vladivostok	Semen Altman^[1]	Dmitri Smirnov	Dinamo Stadium	10,200	8,413	Nike	DalEnergo
FC Shinnik Yaroslavl	Yaroslavl	Sergey Pavlov	Denis Boyarintsev	Shinnik Stadium	19,000	10,387	Adidas
FC Terek Grozny	Grozny	Vyacheslav Grozny	Timur Dzhabrailov	Sultan Bilimkhanov Stadium	10,400	8,935	Umbro	RAO UES

[edit] Standings

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation	Head-to-head
1	Rubin Kazan (C)	30	18	6	6	44	26	+18	60	2009–10 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2	CSKA Moscow	30	16	8	6	53	24	+29	56	2009–10 UEFA Champions League Group stage
3	Dynamo Moscow	30	15	9	6	41	29	+12	54	2009–10 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
4	Amkar Perm	30	14	9	7	31	22	+9	51	2009–10 UEFA Europa League Play-off round
5	Zenit St. Petersburg	30	12	12	6	59	37	+22	48	2009–10 UEFA Europa League Play-off round	ZEN 1–1 KRY KRY 0–3 ZEN
6	Krylia Sovetov Samara	30	12	12	6	46	28	+18	48	2009–10 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round ¹	ZEN 1–1 KRY KRY 0–3 ZEN
7	Lokomotiv Moscow	30	13	8	9	37	32	+5	47
8	Spartak Moscow	30	11	11	8	43	39	+4	44
9	Moscow	30	9	11	10	34	36	−2	38
10	Terek Grozny	30	9	8	13	28	42	−14	35
11	Saturn Moscow Oblast	30	7	12	11	26	30	−4	33
12	Spartak Nalchik	30	8	8	14	30	39	−9	32
13	Tom Tomsk	30	7	8	15	23	39	−16	29
14	Khimki	30	6	9	15	34	54	−20	27
15	Shinnik Yaroslavl (R)	30	5	7	18	25	48	−23	22	Relegation to Russian First Division 2009
16	Luch-Energiya Vladivostok (R)	30	3	12	15	24	53	−29	21	Relegation to Russian First Division 2009

Source: RFPL (Russian)
Rules for classification: 1^st points; 2^nd matches won; 3^rd head-to-head (points, matches won, goal difference, goals scored, away goals scored); 4^th goal difference; 5^th goals scored; 6^th away goals scored; 7^th position in previous season or decision game.
¹Since both finalists of Russian Cup 2008–09 qualified for the UEFA Champions League 2009–10, Krylia Sovetov earned a spot in the third qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League 2009–10.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (Q) = Qualified to respective phase of tournament; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.

Russian Premier League 2008 Winners
FC Rubin Kazan First title

[edit] Results

Home \ Away¹	ZEN	SPA	CSK	MOS	SAT	DYN	LOK	AMK	KHI	RUB	TOM	SPN	KRY	LUE	SHI	TER
Zenit St. Petersburg		0–0	1–3	2–1	2–2	1–1	1–1	2–0	1–0	1–3	5–1	3–4	1–1	8–1	1–3	3–1
Spartak Moscow	1–3		1–5	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–1	1–1	1–1	0–1	1–0	2–1	0–1	3–0	4–2	3–1
CSKA Moscow	0–0	0–1		0–2	1–0	0–2	0–0	4–1	4–3	4–0	2–1	0–1	0–0	4–1	1–1	2–0
Moscow	0–2	2–1	1–4		0–0	1–1	0–3	0–1	2–2	1–2	2–1	1–3	1–1	3–0	2–1	0–0
Saturn Moscow Oblast	1–1	0–0	0–4	0–0		2–0	1–2	0–0	2–2	1–2	2–0	1–1	0–0	2–1	4–0	3–1
Dynamo Moscow	1–0	4–3	1–3	1–1	2–1		4–2	1–0	2–0	0–2	2–0	1–0	2–2	2–0	2–0	2–1
Lokomotiv Moscow	0–3	2–2	0–2	3–2	0–0	0–1		0–1	0–2	0–1	2–0	0–0	2–0	2–2	3–0	2–0
Amkar Perm	1–1	1–1	3–3	2–0	1–0	1–2	0–0		3–1	1–2	0–0	0–0	1–0	2–0	2–0	0–0
Khimki	1–4	3–3	1–2	0–2	2–1	1–1	2–2	0–3		0–4	1–1	2–0	1–0	3–1	0–0	0–1
Rubin Kazan	4–1	0–3	0–0	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–2	1–0	2–0		2–1	3–0	3–0	1–0	1–1	1–3
Tom Tomsk	1–1	0–1	0–0	2–1	0–1	0–0	0–1	0–1	3–1	1–2		1–0	0–4	1–1	2–1	2–0
Spartak Nalchik	2–2	1–2	0–0	0–3	2–1	0–2	0–1	0–1	1–2	2–0	1–1		1–1	2–2	2–1	2–0
Krylia Sovetov Samara	0–3	1–1	0–2	1–1	4–0	3–3	2–0	2–0	3–0	2–2	3–0	2–0		2–1	4–0	4–3
Luch-Energiya Vladivostok	0–0	2–2	1–3	1–1	0–0	1–0	2–3	0–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	0–2	0–0		1–0	1–1
Shinnik Yaroslavl	2–2	1–2	1–0	0–1	0–1	2–0	1–2	1–2	3–2	0–2	0–1	2–1	0–0	1–2		1–1
Terek Grozny	1–4	3–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	2–1	0–1	1–0	0–0	1–3	2–1	0–3	2–1	0–0

Source: RFPL (Russian)
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

[edit] Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Goals (pen.)	Team
1	Vágner Love	20 (1)	CSKA
2	Marko Topić	10	Saturn
	Peter Odemwingie	10	Lokomotiv
	Danny	10	Dynamo (5) / Zenit (5)
	Eldar Nizamutdinov	10	Khimki
6	Diniyar Bilyaletdinov	9 (5)	Lokomotiv
7	Alan Dzagoev	8	CSKA
	Fatih Tekke	8	Zenit
	Anton Bober	8 (1)	Krylia Sovetov
	Héctor Bracamonte	8 (1)	Moscow
	Martin Kushev	8 (2)	Amkar