1992 Russian Top League

Location of Russian Top League clubs in 1992

Statistics of Russian Top League in season 1992.

Overview

Twenty clubs of the former Soviet competition took place in this season. The league was combined out of six clubs of the Soviet Top League, 11 - Soviet First League, and the rest out of the Buffer League (Center and East). FC Spartak Moscow won the championship.

The composition of groups may seem kind of uneven with four Top League clubs in Group A and two — in Group B. However the seeding was done upon the completion of the previous Soviet season with Rotor being conditionally promoted to the top level.

Group	Team	Head coach	League and position in 1991
A	PFC CSKA Moscow	Pavel Sadyrin (until July) Gennadi Kostylev (from July)	Soviet Top League	1
B	FC Spartak Moscow	Oleg Romantsev		2
B	FC Torpedo Moscow	Yevgeni Skomorokhov (until August) Yury Mironov (from August)		3
A	FC Dynamo Moscow	Valery Gazzaev		6
A	FC Spartak Vladikavkaz	Aleksandr Novikov		11
A	FC Lokomotiv Moscow	Yuri Syomin		16
B	FC Rotor Volgograd	Viktor Papayev (until May) Vladimir Faizulin (from May)	Soviet First League	1
A	FC Uralmash Yekaterinburg	Nikolai Agafonov (until August) Viktor Shishkin (from August)		3
B	FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don	Enver Yulgushov		4
B	FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod	Valeri Ovchinnikov		8
A	FC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin	Sergei Pavlov		11
B	FC Shinnik Yaroslavl	Stanislav Vorotilin (until July) Valeri Frolov (from August)		12
A	FC Fakel Voronezh	Fyodor Novikov (until July) Valeri Nenenko (from July)		13
A	FC Dynamo Stavropol	Boris Stukalov (until July) Aleksandr Irkhin (from July)		16
B	FC Zenit Saint Petersburg	Vyacheslav Melnikov		18
A	FC Dynamo-Gazovik Tyumen	Serhiy Morozov (until May) Aleksei Petrushin (from May)		20
B	FC Kuban Krasnodar	Yuri Marushkin (until July) Igor Kaleshin (from July)		21
B	FC Asmaral Moscow	Konstantin Beskov	Soviet Second League, Center	1
B	FC Krylia Sovetov Samara	Viktor Antikhovich		2
A	FC Okean Nakhodka	Aleksandr Averyanov	Soviet Second League, East	1

Final stage

The results of games played in the first stage were counted in the final stage.

Championship Round

Tournament for places 1 to 8

Relegation Round

Tournament for places 9 to 20

Top scorers

Gasimov was the official top scorer as Matveyev and Garin did not play in the Championship Round.

20 goals

• Yuri Matveyev (Uralmash)

16 goals

• Oleg Garin (Okean)
• Vali Gasimov (Dynamo Moscow)

13 goals

• Vladimir Kulik (Zenit)
• Kirill Rybakov (Asmaral)

12 goals

• Dmitri Radchenko (Spartak Moscow)
• Nazim Suleymanov (Spartak Vladikavkaz)

10 goals

• Rustyam Fakhrutdinov (Krylya Sovetov)
• Aleksandr Grishin (CSKA Moscow)
• Gennadi Grishin (Torpedo Moscow)
• Igor Lediakhov (Spartak Moscow)
• Oleg Veretennikov (Rotor)

Medal squads

(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

1. FC Spartak Moscow

Goalkeepers: Stanislav Cherchesov (24), Gintaras Staučė (3), Valeri Chizhov (1). Defenders: Dmitri Khlestov (24), Viktor Onopko (23 / 6), Dmitri Popov (23 / 1), Andrei Chernyshov (22 / 3), Andrei Ivanov (22), Ramiz Mamedov (10 / 1), Kakhaber Tskhadadze (7), Dmitri Ananko (2), Sergei Chudin (1), Aleksandr Shibayev (1). Midfielders: Valery Karpin (26 / 7), Igor Lediakhov (24 / 10), Andrei Piatnitski (23 / 5), Rashid Rakhimov (11), Oleg Kuzhlev (5), Yevgeni Bushmanov (2), Vladimir Baksheyev (1), Aleksandr Karatayev (1), Alexei Kosolapov (1), Hennadiy Perepadenko (1). Forwards: Vladimir Beschastnykh (20 / 7), Dmitri Radchenko (18 / 12), Mikhail Rusyayev (15 / 6), Nikolai Pisarev (10 / 1), Aleksandr Tatarkin (9 / 1), Vali Gasimov (6), Yuri Petrov (5 / 1), Andrey Tikhonov (2). One own goal scored by Yuri Kovtun (FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don). Manager: Oleg Romantsev. Transferred out during the season: Rashid Rakhimov (to Real Valladolid), Kakhaber Tskhadadze , Vali Gasimov (both to FC Dynamo Moscow), Yuri Petrov (to FC Lokomotiv Moscow), Yevgeni Bushmanov (to PFC CSKA Moscow), Aleksandr Shibayev, Alexei Kosolapov (both to FC Dynamo-Gazovik Tyumen), Hennadiy Perepadenko (to Badajoz).

2. FC Spartak Vladikavkaz

Goalkeepers: Zaur Khapov (26). Defenders: Inal Dzhioyev (24 / 2), Gennadi Denisov (23), Ali Alchagirov (22 / 1), Sergei Kozhanov (20), Artur Pagayev (17 / 1), Sergei Gazdanov (16 / 1), Sergei Bodak (7), Boris Dobashin (6), Andrei Sosnitskiy (1). Midfielders: Mirjalol Qosimov (25 / 3), Shamil Isayev (24 / 1), Marat Dzoblayev (23 / 3), Bakhva Tedeyev (20 / 8), Igor B. Kachmazov (20 / 1). Forwards: Nazim Suleymanov (26 / 12), Igor A. Kachmazov (19 / 7), Anri Bestayev (13 / 1), Igor Shkvyrin (10 / 5), Stanislav Tskhovrebov (8), Grigori Ivanov (3), Ruslan Suanov (1), Georgi Takhokhov (1). One own goal scored by Yevgeni Zarva (FC Dynamo-Gazovik Tyumen). Manager: Aleksandr Novikov. Transferred out during the season: Igor Shkvyrin (to Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C.), Grigori Ivanov (to FC Avtodor-Olaf Vladikavkaz), Peter Neustädter (to Karlsruher SC).

3. FC Dynamo Moscow

Goalkeepers: Valeri Kleymyonov (14), Andrei Smetanin (14). Defenders: Igor Sklyarov (23 / 3), Vyacheslav Tsaryov (22 / 1), Igor Varlamov (13), Sergey Timofeev (12 / 1), Yevgeni Dolgov (12), Sargis Hovhannisyan (12), Kakhaber Tskhadadze (12), Viktor Losev (11), Aleksei Selezov (1). Midfielders: Omari Tetradze (25 / 6), Yuriy Kalitvintsev (22 / 5), Sergei Derkach (21 / 3), Yevgeni Smertin (19 / 2), Andrey Kobelev (16 / 8), Yuri Alekseevich Drozdov (12), Vladimir Kostyuk (11), Vitali But (7), Badri Spanderashvili (7), Igor Gavrilin (6), Aleksei Savchenko (4), Yegor Kiryakov (1). Forwards: Igor Simutenkov (24 / 4), Vali Gasimov (17 / 16), Sergei Kiriakov (8 / 1), Viktor Leonenko (4 / 5), Platon Krivoshchyokov (4), Nikolai Kovardayev (2). Manager: Valery Gazzaev. Transferred out during the season: Viktor Losev (retired), Sergei Kiriakov (to Karlsruher SC), Viktor Leonenko (to FC Dynamo Kyiv).

See also

• Russian First League 1992
• Russian Second League 1992

References

• Russia - List of final tables (RSSSF)