2003 Russian Premier League

CSKA won their first Russian title. It was their first championship since the last edition of the Soviet Top League in 1991. Newly promoted Rubin got the bronze.

Russian Premier League
Season2003
ChampionsCSKA Moscow
RelegatedUralan Elista
Chernomorets Novorossiysk
Champions LeagueCSKA Moscow
UEFA CupZenit St.Petersburg
Rubin Kazan
Intertoto CupShinnik Yaroslavl
Spartak Moscow
Matches played240
Goals scored609 (2.54 per match)
Top goalscorerDmitri Loskov (14)
← 2002
2004 →

Overview
Team Head coach
PFC CSKA Moscow Valery Gazzaev
FC Zenit St. Petersburg Vlastimil Petržela
FC Rubin Kazan Kurban Berdyev
FC Lokomotiv Moscow Yuri Syomin
FC Shinnik Yaroslavl Aleksandr Pobegalov
FC Dynamo Moscow Viktor Prokopenko
FC Saturn-RenTV Ramenskoye Vitaliy Shevchenko (until September)
Oleg Romantsev (from September)
FC Torpedo Moscow Sergei Petrenko
FC Krylia Sovetov Samara Alexander Tarkhanov
FC Spartak Moscow Oleg Romantsev (until June)
Andrey Chernyshov (June to September)
Vladimir Fedotov (caretaker) (from September)
FC Rostov Sergei Balakhnin (until August)
Sergei Butenko (caretaker) (August)
Sergei Balakhnin (from August)
FC Rotor Volgograd Vladimir Faizulin
FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz Revaz Dzodzuashvili (until May)
Aleksandr Yanovskiy (caretaker) (June)
Nikolai Khudiyev (June to July)
Bakhva Tedeyev (from July)
FC Torpedo-Metallurg Moscow Sergei Aleinikov (until May)
Valentin Ivanov (May to August)
Aleksandr Ignatenko (caretaker) (from August)
FC Uralan Elista Igor Shalimov
FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk Valeri Chetverik (until March)
Igor Gamula (March to July)
Sergei Pavlov (July to October)
Igor Gamula (caretaker) (from October)

Standings
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 CSKA Moscow (C) 30 17 8 5 56 32 +24 59 Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2 Zenit St. Petersburg 30 16 8 6 48 32 +16 56 Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round
3 Rubin Kazan 30 15 8 7 44 29 +15 53
4 Lokomotiv Moscow 30 15 7 8 54 33 +21 52
5 Shinnik Yaroslavl 30 12 11 7 43 34 +9 47 Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round
6 Dynamo Moscow 30 12 10 8 42 29 +13 46
7 Saturn 30 12 9 9 40 37 +3 45
8 Torpedo Moscow 30 11 10 9 42 38 +4 43
9 Krylia Sovetov Samara 30 11 9 10 38 33 +5 42
10 Spartak Moscow 30 10 6 14 38 48 −10 36 Qualification to Intertoto Cup first round
11 Rostov 30 8 10 12 30 42 −12 34
12 Rotor Volgograd 30 9 5 16 33 44 −11 32
13 Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz 30 9 4 17 23 43 −20 31
14 Torpedo-Metallurg Moscow 30 8 5 17 25 39 −14 29
15 Uralan Elista (R) 30 6 10 14 23 47 −24 28 Relegation to First Division
16 Chernomorets Novorossiysk (R) 30 6 6 18 30 49 −19 24
Source: RFPL
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd matches won; 3rd head-to-head (points, matches won, goal difference, goals scored, away goals scored); 4th goal difference
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated.

Top goalscorers
RankNameGoalsTeam
1Dmitri Loskov14Lokomotiv
2Aleksandr Kerzhakov13Zenit
Valery Yesipov13Rotor
4Aleksey Medvedev11Saturn-REN-TV
Roni 11Rubin
6Roman Pavlyuchenko10Spartak
7Egor Titov9Spartak
Dmitri Bulykin9Dynamo
Andrei Karyaka9Krylya Sovetov
Martin Kushev 9Shinnik
Rolan Gusev9CSKA
Andrey Tikhonov9Krylya Sovetov

Awards

On November 14 Russian Football Union named its list of 33 top players:[1]

Goalkeepers
  1. Sergei Ovchinnikov (Lokomotiv Moscow)
  2. Vyacheslav Malafeev (Zenit)
  3. Sergei Kozko (Rubin)
Defensive midfielders
  1. Evgeni Aldonin (Rotor)
  2. Vladimir Maminov (Lokomotiv Moscow)
  3. Elvir Rahimić (CSKA Moscow)

Medal squads
1. PFC CSKA Moscow

Goalkeepers: Veniamin Mandrykin (19), Igor Akinfeev (13).
Defenders: Aleksei Berezutski (30), Bohdan Shershun (27 / 1), Denis Yevsikov (24), Vasili Berezutski (23), Deividas Šemberas (21), Andrei Solomatin (20).
Midfielders: Elvir Rahimić (28 / 1), Jiří Jarošík (27 / 7), Rolan Gusev (26 / 9), Igor Yanovsky (25 / 5), Sergei Semak (24 / 7), Juris Laizāns (21 / 1), Spartak Gogniyev (11 / 2), Alan Kusov (11), Artur Tlisov (3 / 1).
Forwards: Denis Popov (22 / 8), Dmitri Kirichenko (22 / 5), Ivica Olić (10 / 7), Alexander Geynrikh (2 / 1), Sergey Samodin (2), Vardan Mazalov (1).
(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

One own goal scored by Andrés Scotti (FC Rubin Kazan).

Manager: Valery Gazzaev.

Transferred out during the season: Alan Kusov (on loan to FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz).

2. FC Zenit St. Petersburg

Goalkeepers: Vyacheslav Malafeev (27), Kamil Čontofalský (3).
Defenders: Milan Vještica (28), Pavel Mareš (26 / 2), Martin Horák (21 / 2), Daniel Chiriţă (21 / 1), Aleksei Katulsky (17 / 1), Aleksei Igonin (11), Sargis Hovsepyan (10), Konstantin Lobov (9), Valeri Tsvetkov (8), Igor Nedorezov (1).
Midfielders: Andrei Arshavin (27 / 5), Aleksandr Spivak (26 / 6), Vladislav Radimov (21 / 3), Vladimir Bystrov (19 / 4), Igor Denisov (19 / 2), Radek Šírl (18 / 1), Konstantin Konoplyov (15 / 1), Oleg Vlasov (13 / 2), Sergei Osipov (8).
Forwards: Aleksandr Kerzhakov (27 / 13), Dmitri Makarov (12 / 2), Lukáš Hartig (12 / 1), Andrei Nikolayev (6 / 2), Maksim Astafyev (4), Predrag Ranđelović (3).

Manager: Vlastimil Petržela .

Transferred out during the season: Sargis Hovsepyan (to FC Torpedo-Metallurg Moscow), Sergei Osipov (to FC Torpedo Moscow), Predrag Ranđelović (free agent).

3. FC Rubin Kazan

Goalkeepers: Sergei Kozko (24), Pavel Kharchik (4), Valeri Aleskarov (2).
Defenders: Jiří Novotný (29 / 6), Mikhail Sinyov (27), Calisto (23 / 1), Roman Sharonov (18 / 1), Andrei Fyodorov (17 / 1), Leandro Samaroni (9), Sergei Kharlamov (7), Andrei Streltsov (1), Pape Magatte Kebe (1).
Midfielders: Denis Boyarintsev (28 / 7), Andrés Scotti (27 / 4), Tomáš Čížek (25 / 1), MacBeth Sibaya (24 / 1), Andrei Konovalov (23 / 2), Ebrima Sillah (12 / 2), Abdelkarim Kissi (5), Dmitri Michkov (5), Carlos Castro (4), Baye Gueye Ndiaga (2 / 1).
Forwards: Roni (29 / 11), Oleg Nechayev (25 / 2), David Chaladze (20 / 3), Aloísio (6), Wladimir Baýramow (1).

Manager: Kurban Berdyev.

One own goal scored by Denis Yevsikov (PFC CSKA Moscow).

Transferred out during the season: Leandro Samaroni , Wladimir Baýramow (both to FC Terek Grozny).

See also

2003 in Russian football

References
  1. ОБНАРОДОВАН СПИСОК 33 ЛУЧШИХ (in Russian). Sport Express. 2003-11-15. Archived from the original on 2005-02-25. Retrieved 2011-07-28.
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