2007 Russian Premier League

Locations of the teams that participated in the 2007 Russian Premier League

The 2007 Russian Premier League was the 16th season of the Russian Football Championship, and the sixth under the current Russian Premier League name. The league was sponsored by insurance company Rosgosstrakh.

The season started on 10 March 2007 with the match between Luch-Energia and FC Moscow in Vladivostok, with the first goal of the season being scored by FC Moscow striker Héctor Bracamonte. It ended on 11 November 2007, when Zenit St. Petersburg claimed their first title with an away win over Saturn. Zenit became the second non-Moscow club to win the league, after Alania Vladikavkaz in 1995.

Spartak Moscow finished runners-up for the third consecutive season, while defending champions CSKA Moscow finished third.

Tie-breaking criteria

Based on paragraph 15.3 of the Russian Premier League regulations for the current season, if two or more teams are equal on points (without having the highest number), the positions of these teams are determined by:

1. higher number of wins in all matches;
2. higher goal difference in all matches;
3. results of matches between the teams in question (1. higher number of points obtained; 2. higher number of wins; 3. higher goal difference; 4. higher number of goals scored; 5. higher number of away goals scored);
4. higher number of goals scored in all matches;
5. higher number of away goals scored in all matches;
6. drawing of lots.

Based on paragraph 15.4 of the regulations, if two teams are equal on the highest number of points, the first position is determined by:

1. higher number of wins in all matches;
2. results of matches between the two teams (1. higher number of points obtained; 2. higher goal difference; 3. higher number of goals scored; 4. higher number of away goals scored);
3. drawing of lots, or an additional match between the two teams, with extra time and a penalty shoot-out if necessary.

Based on paragraph 15.5 of the regulations, if more than two teams are equal on the highest number of points, the first position and subsequent positions of these teams are determined by:

1. higher number of wins in all matches;
2. higher goal difference in all matches;
3. results of matches between the teams in question (1. higher number of points obtained; 2. higher goal difference; 3. higher number of goals scored; 4. higher number of away goals scored);
4. drawing of lots, or an additional tournament between the teams in question.¹

¹The terms of this additional tournament are determined by the Russian Football Union and the governing body of the Russian Premier League based on suggestions from the participating clubs.

Overview

Team	Head coach
FC Zenit St. Petersburg	Dick Advocaat
FC Spartak Moscow	Vladimir Fedotov (until June) Stanislav Cherchesov (from June)
PFC CSKA Moscow	Valery Gazzaev
FC Moscow	Leonid Slutsky
FC Saturn Moscow Oblast	Vladimír Weiss (until May) Gadzhi Gadzhiyev (from May)
FC Dynamo Moscow	Andrey Kobelev
FC Lokomotiv Moscow	Anatoly Byshovets
FC Amkar Perm	Rashid Rakhimov
FC Khimki	Vladimir Kazachyonok (until September) Slavoljub Muslin (from September)
FC Rubin Kazan	Kurban Berdyev
FC Tom Tomsk	Valery Petrakov
PFC Spartak Nalchik	Yuri Krasnozhan
FC Krylia Sovetov Samara	Sergei Oborin (until August) Aleksandr Tarkhanov (from August)
FC Luch-Energiya Vladivostok	Sergei Pavlov
FC Kuban Krasnodar	Pavlo Yakovenko (until April) Leonid Nazarenko (caretaker) (April to August) Soferbi Yeshugov (August to September) Leonid Nazarenko (caretaker) (from September)
FC Rostov	Sergei Balakhnin (until July) Pavlo Yakovenko (July) Oleg Dolmatov (from July)

Final standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Zenit St. Petersburg (C)	30	18	7	5	54	32	+22	61	2008–09 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2	Spartak Moscow	30	17	8	5	50	30	+20	59	2008–09 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
3	CSKA Moscow	30	14	11	5	43	24	+19	53	2008–09 UEFA Cup First round ^1
4	FC Moscow	30	15	7	8	40	32	+8	52	2008–09 UEFA Cup Second qualifying round
5	Saturn	30	11	12	7	34	28	+6	45	2008 UEFA Intertoto Cup Second round
6	Dynamo Moscow	30	11	8	11	37	35	+2	41
7	Lokomotiv Moscow	30	11	8	11	39	42	−3	41
8	Amkar Perm	30	10	11	9	30	27	+3	41
9	Khimki	30	9	10	11	32	33	−1	37
10	Rubin Kazan	30	10	5	15	31	39	−8	35
11	Tom Tomsk	30	8	11	11	37	35	+2	35
12	Spartak Nalchik	30	8	9	13	29	38	−9	33
13	Krylia Sovetov Samara	30	8	8	14	35	46	−11	32
14	Luch-Energiya Vladivostok	30	8	8	14	26	39	−13	32
15	Kuban Krasnodar (R)	30	7	11	12	27	38	−11	32	Relegation to Russian First Division 2008
16	Rostov (R)	30	2	12	16	18	44	−26	18

Source: RFPL
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd matches won; 3rd goal difference; 4th head-to-head (points, matches won, goal difference, goals scored, away goals scored); 5th goals scored; 6th away goals scored; 7th drawing of lots
¹Qualified as the winner of Russian Cup 2007-08.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Russian Premier League 2007 Winners
FC Zenit Saint Petersburg First title

Top goalscorers

Rank	Nat.	Player	Goals (pen.)	Team
1		Roman Pavlyuchenko	14 (2)	Spartak Moscow
		Roman Adamov	14 (3)	FC Moscow
3		Jô	13 (1)	CSKA Moscow
		Vágner Love	13 (2)	CSKA Moscow
5		Pavel Pogrebnyak	11 (2)	Zenit
		Dmitri Sychev	11 (2)	Lokomotiv Moscow
7		Andrei Arshavin	10	Zenit
		Andrei Karyaka	10 (2)	Saturn
		Martin Kushev	10 (3)	Amkar
10		Konstantin Zyryanov	9	Zenit
		Goran Maznov	9 (1)	Tom
		Dmitri Kirichenko	9 (2)	Saturn
		David Mujiri	9 (3)	Krylya Sovetov
		Denis Kolodin	9 (7)	Dynamo Moscow

Awards

On 30 November 2007 Russian Football Union named its list of 33 top players:^[1]

Goalkeepers

1. Antonín Kinský (Saturn)
2. Vladimir Gabulov (Kuban)
3. Stipe Pletikosa (Spartak Moscow)

Right backs Branislav Ivanović (Lokomotiv Moscow) Aleksandr Anyukov (Zenit) Vasili Berezutskiy (CSKA Moscow)

Right-centre backs Sergei Ignashevich (CSKA Moscow) Denis Kolodin (Dynamo Moscow) Radoslav Kováč (Spartak Moscow)

Left-centre backs Ján Ďurica (Saturn) Martin Stranzl (Spartak Moscow) Nicolas Lombaerts (Zenit)

Left backs Aleksei Berezutskiy (CSKA Moscow) Kim Dong-Jin (Zenit) Emir Spahić (Lokomotiv Moscow)

Defensive midfielders

1. Anatoliy Tymoschuk (Zenit)
2. Dmitri Khokhlov (Dynamo Moscow)
3. Aleksei Igonin (Saturn)

Right wingers Miloš Krasić (CSKA Moscow) Vladimir Bystrov (Spartak Moscow) Aleksei Ivanov (Luch-Energia and Saturn)

Central midfielders Konstantin Zyryanov (Zenit) Yegor Titov (Spartak Moscow) Igor Semshov (Dynamo Moscow)

Left wingers Yuri Zhirkov (CSKA Moscow) Diniyar Bilyaletdinov (Lokomotiv Moscow) Dmitri Torbinsky (Spartak Moscow)

Right forwards Vágner Love (CSKA Moscow) Roman Pavlyuchenko (Spartak Moscow) Danny (Dynamo Moscow)

Left forwards Andrei Arshavin (Zenit) Jô (CSKA Moscow) Dmitri Sychev (Lokomotiv Moscow)

Season results

Home \ Away	CSK	SPM	LOK	ZEN	RUB	MOS	LUE	TOM	SPN	KRY	SAT	ROS	AMK	DYN	KHI	KUB
CSKA Moscow		1–1	2–0	2–0	3–1	2–0	4–0	0–0	2–0	4–2	3–1	4–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	0–0
Spartak Moscow	1-1		1–2	3–1	2–1	3–1	2–1	3–2	2–2	1–0	2–0	3–0	0–0	2–1	2–0	4–0
Lokomotiv Moscow	1–2	4–3		1–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	3–1	5–2	0–2	2–0	0–1	2–2	1–0	2–3
Zenit	2–1	1–3	1–1		2–1	1–0	3–1	2–1	4–3	1–1	1–1	2–0	0–0	3–0	4–1	1–0
Rubin	0–1	3–1	3–0	1–4		1–1	3–0	1–3	2–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	2–2
Moskva	2–1	2–0	1–2	0–3[2]	2–1		3–1	2–0	1–0	3–1	3–2	1–0	3–1	4–1	0–2	1–0
Luch-Energia	4–0	1–1	3–0	0–1	2–0	0–1		0–0	2–1	0–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	1–1	1–0
Tom	0–1	1–1	4–2	0–1	2–0	1–2	3–1		2–0	1–2	1–1	1–1	0–1	1–0	3–1	2–0
Spartak Nalchik	1–1	1–2	0–0	0–3	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–0		0–0	1–3	0–0	0–1	4–1	1–1	1–0
Krylya Sovetov	1–0	0–2	3–1	1–3	3–0	0–0	3–0	1–1	1–2		0–1	0–1	1–0	3–2	1–0	2–3
Saturn	2–2	0–0	1–1	0–1	1–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	1–1	1–1		1–0	2–0	2–1	1–0	2–0
Rostov	1–1	1–3	0–2	2–3	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–2	0–1	1–1	1–3		2–0	0–0	1–1	0–1
Amkar	1–1	0–1	1–0	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	3–3	1–1	4–1	3–1	3–1		1–1	3–1	0–0
Dynamo Moscow	1–1	0–1	2–1	4–2	0–1	0–0	1–0	3–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	3–0	0–0		2–1	1–0
Khimki	1–1	3–0	1–2	2–2	0–0	1–3	3–0	1–1	1–0	4–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–0		1–0
Kuban	0–1	0–0	0–0	1–1	0–1	4–1	1–1	2–1	2–2	3–2	2–2	1–0	1–1	0–4	1–1

Season statistics

• Goals: 562 (average 2.34 per match)
  • From penalties: 57 (10%)
  • Saved/Missed penalties: 17 (23%)
  • Goals scored home: 348 (62%)
  • Goals scored away: 214 (38%)
• Yellow cards: 1080 (average 4.50 per match)
  • For violent conduct: 563 (52%)
  • For unsporting behaviour: 425 (39%)
  • For undisciplined behaviour: 8 (1%)
  • Other: 84 (8%)
• Red cards: 49 (average 0.20 per match)
  • For second yellow card: 27 (55%)
  • For violent conduct: 9 (18%)
  • For unsporting behaviour: 5 (9%)
  • For undisciplined behaviour: 4 (8%)
  • For denying an obvious goal-scoring opportunity: 4 (8%)
• Attendance: 3,147,567 (average 13,114 per match; 104,919 per matchday)

Medal squads

1. FC Zenit St. Petersburg

Goalkeepers: Vyacheslav Malafeev (19), Kamil Čontofalský (13). Defenders: Kim Dong-Jin (24 / 2), Martin Škrtel (23 / 1), Aleksandr Anyukov (22 / 2), Erik Hagen (15), Ivica Križanac (15), Nicolas Lombaerts (13 / 2). Midfielders: Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (29 / 4), Konstantin Zyryanov (27 / 9), Igor Denisov (25 / 3), Alejandro Domínguez (24 / 3), Radek Šírl (22 / 1), Vladislav Radimov (17 / 1), Fernando Ricksen (14), Aleksandr Gorshkov (11), Ilya Maksimov (6), Yuri Lebedev (1). Forwards: Andrei Arshavin (30 / 10), Pavel Pogrebnyak (24 / 11), Fatih Tekke (16 / 4). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets) Manager: Dick Advocaat . Transferred out during the season: none.

2. FC Spartak Moscow

Goalkeepers: Stipe Pletikosa (29), Dmitri Khomich (1). Defenders: Roman Shishkin (26), Martin Stranzl (19 / 2), Florin Şoavă (18), Renat Sabitov (15), Géder (14 / 1), Martin Jiránek (11), Andrei Ivanov (7), Fyodor Kudryashov (7), Ignas Dedura (6 / 1). Midfielders: Yegor Titov (27 / 7), Radoslav Kováč (26 / 1), Dmitri Torbinski (24 / 3), Denis Boyarintsev (24 / 3), Maksym Kalynychenko (22 / 3), Vladimir Bystrov (18 / 3), Mozart (18 / 1), Quincy (6), Aleksei Rebko (3), Serghei Covalciuc (2), Sergei Parshivlyuk (2), Oleg Dineyev (1). Forwards: Roman Pavlyuchenko (22 / 14), Nikita Bazhenov (16 / 4), Artyom Dzyuba (16 / 1), Welliton (12 / 4), Aleksandr Prudnikov (12 / 2). Manager: Vladimir Fedotov (until June), Stanislav Cherchesov (from June). Transferred out during the season: Oleg Dineyev (on loan to FC Shinnik Yaroslavl), Quincy (on loan to Celta de Vigo).

3. PFC CSKA Moscow

Goalkeepers: Veniamin Mandrykin (20), Igor Akinfeev (10), Yevgeny Pomazan (1). Defenders: Sergei Ignashevich (26 / 3), Vasili Berezutski (26 / 1), Aleksei Berezutski (26), Deividas Šemberas (24), Anton Grigoryev (10), Chidi Odiah (4). Midfielders: Yuri Zhirkov (29 / 2), Evgeni Aldonin (27 / 2), Elvir Rahimić (27), Miloš Krasić (22 / 4), Rolan Gusev (16), Dudu (15 / 1), Ivan Taranov (13), Caner Erkin (8), Eduardo Ratinho (6 / 1), Pavel Mamayev (4), Daniel Carvalho (4), Sergei Gorelov (2). Forwards: Jô (27 / 13), Vágner Love (23 / 13), Ramón (18 / 1), Dawid Janczyk (10 / 1), Nikita Burmistrov (6), Dmitry Tikhonov (2). Manager: Valery Gazzaev. Transferred out during the season: none.

See also

2007 in Russian football

References

1. Утвержден список 33 лучших игроков "Росгосстрах Чемпионата России по футболу 2007 года" (in Russian). Russian Football Union. 2007-11-30. Retrieved 2007-12-04.
2. The match was played on 1 July 2007 and originally ended with Moskva's 1–2 loss to Zenit. However, on 15 August 2007, Football Union of Russia decided to hand Moskva a 0–3 technical defeat and fine the club RUB 500,000 ($20,000) for fielding an ineligible player Roman Hubník, who was loaned to the club by Czech Sigma Olomouc until the end of June only, and was therefore ineligible to play in the match. "Moskva punished for oversight". UEFA.com. 2007-08-15. Retrieved 2007-09-24.