2005 Russian Premier League

Overview

Team	Head coach
PFC CSKA Moscow	Valery Gazzaev
FC Spartak Moscow	Aleksandrs Starkovs
FC Lokomotiv Moscow	Yuri Syomin (until May) Vladimir Eshtrekov (from May)
FC Rubin Kazan	Kurban Berdyev
FC Moscow	Valery Petrakov (until July) Leonid Slutsky (from July)
FC Zenit St. Petersburg	Vlastimil Petržela
FC Torpedo Moscow	Sergei Petrenko
FC Dynamo Moscow	Oleg Romantsev (until May) Andrey Kobelev (caretaker) (May to July) Ivo Wortmann (July to November) Andrey Kobelev (caretaker) (from November)
FC Shinnik Yaroslavl	Oleg Dolmatov
FC Tom Tomsk	Boris Stukalov (until August) Anatoliy Byshovets (from August)
FC Saturn Ramenskoye	Aleksandr Tarkhanov (until May) Vladimir Shevchuk (from May)
FC Amkar Perm	Sergei Oborin
FC Rostov	Gennadi Styopushkin (until April) Paul Ashworth (caretaker) (April to May) Gennadi Styopushkin (May to July) Valeriy Petrakov (July to August) Sergei Balakhnin (from August)
FC Krylia Sovetov Samara	Gadzhi Gadzhiyev
FC Spartak Vladikavkaz	Bakhva Tedeyev (until April) Edgar Gess (April to July) Aleksandr Yanovsky (caretaker) (July) Itzhak Shum (July to October) Aleksandr Yanovsky (caretaker) (from October)
FC Terek Grozny	Vait Talgayev (until October) Aleksandr Tarkhanov (from October)

Final standings

Russian Premier League 2005 Winners
PFC CSKA Moscow Second Title

Top goalscorers

Rank	Nat.	Player	Goals (pen.)	Club
1		Dmitri Kirichenko	14 (4)	Moskva
2		Derlei	13 (3)	Dynamo Moscow
3		Igor Semshov	12	Torpedo Moscow
4		Roman Pavlyuchenko	11	Spartak Moscow
5		Aleksandr Panov	10	Torpedo Moscow
		Ivica Olić	10 (4)	CSKA Moscow
7		Andrei Arshavin	9 (1)	Zenit
		Dzhambulad Bazayev	9 (2)	Alania
9		Diniyar Bilyaletdinov	8 (2)	Lokomotiv Moscow
10		Maksim Buznikin	7	Rostov
		Vágner Love	7	CSKA Moscow
		Tomáš Čížek	7	Rubin
		Roman Adamov	7 (1)	Terek
		Aleksandr Kerzhakov	7 (1)	Zenit
		Andriy Husin	7 (3)	Krylya Sovetov

Season statistics

• Goals: 539 (average 2.25 per match)
  • From penalties: 58 (11%)
  • Saved/Missed penalties: 17 (23%)
  • Goals scored home: 324 (60%)
  • Goals scored away: 215 (40%)
• Yellow cards: 962 (average 4.01 per match)
  • For violent conduct: 603 (63%)
  • For unsporting behaviour: 287 (30%)
  • For undisciplined behaviour: 21 (2%)
  • Other: 51 (5%)
• Red cards: 32 (average 0.13 per match)
  • For second yellow card: 20 (63%)
  • For denying an obvious goal-scoring opportunity: 3 (9%)
  • For unsporting behaviour: 3 (9%)
  • For insulting language: 3 (9%)
  • For attack wrecking: 1 (3%)
  • For violent conduct: 1 (3%)
• Attendance: 2,881,674 (average 12,006 per match; 96,048 per matchday)

Awards

On December 9 Russian Football Union named its list of 33 top players:

Goalkeepers

1. Igor Akinfeev (CSKA Moscow)
2. Wojciech Kowalewski (Spartak Moscow)
3. Sergei Ovchinnikov (Lokomotiv Moscow)

Right backs

1. Vasili Berezutski (CSKA Moscow)
2. Aleksandr Anyukov (Krylya Sovetov / Zenit)
3. Jerry-Christian Tchuissé (FC Moscow)

Right-centre backs

1. Sergei Ignashevich (CSKA Moscow)
2. Malkhaz Asatiani (Lokomotiv Moscow)
3. Antônio Géder (Saturn)

Left-centre backs

1. Nemanja Vidić (Spartak Moscow)
2. Dmitri Sennikov (Lokomotiv Moscow)
3. Erik Hagen (Zenit)

Left backs

1. Aleksei Berezutski (CSKA Moscow)
2. Calisto (Rubin)
3. Pavel Mareš (Zenit)

Defensive midfielders

1. Elvir Rahimić (CSKA Moscow)
2. Francisco Lima (Lokomotiv Moscow)
3. MacBeth Sibaya (Rubin)

Right wingers

1. Chidi Odiah (CSKA Moscow)
2. Marat Izmailov (Lokomotiv Moscow)
3. Vladimir Bystrov (Spartak Moscow)

Central midfielders

1. Daniel Carvalho (CSKA Moscow)
2. Igor Semshov (Torpedo Moscow)
3. Dmitri Loskov (Lokomotiv Moscow)

Left wingers

1. Yuri Zhirkov (CSKA Moscow)
2. Diniyar Bilyaletdinov (Lokomotiv Moscow)
3. Pyotr Bystrov (Saturn)

Right forwards

1. Andrei Arshavin (Zenit)
2. Dmitri Sychev (Lokomotiv Moscow)
3. Aleksandr Kerzhakov (Zenit)

Left forwards

1. Dmitri Kirichenko (FC Moscow)
2. Vágner Love (CSKA Moscow)
3. Derlei (Dynamo Moscow)

Medal squads

1. PFC CSKA Moscow

Goalkeepers: Igor Akinfeev (29), Veniamin Mandrykin (1). Defenders: Deividas Šemberas (28), Aleksei Berezutski (27 / 2), Vasili Berezutski (27 / 2), Sergei Ignashevich (22 / 5), Bohdan Shershun (1). Midfielders: Elvir Rahimić (30 / 1), Daniel Carvalho (29 / 4), Evgeni Aldonin (29 / 1), Chidi Odiah (27 / 2), Miloš Krasić (27 / 2), Rolan Gusev (25 / 4), Dudu (21 / 3), Yuri Zhirkov (20 / 2), Juris Laizāns (3 / 1), Osmar Ferreyra (2), Ivan Taranov (1). Forwards: Vágner Love (21 / 7), Ivica Olić (20 / 10), Sergey Samodin (12), Aleksandr Salugin (5 / 1), Sergei Pravosud (5). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets) One own goal scored by Denis Kovba (FC Krylia Sovetov Samara). Manager: Valery Gazzaev. Transferred out during the season: Juris Laizāns (to FC Torpedo Moscow), Osmar Ferreyra (on loan to PSV Eindhoven), Bohdan Shershun (to FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk).

2. FC Spartak Moscow

Goalkeepers: Wojciech Kowalewski (29), Aleksei Zuev (1). Defenders: Nemanja Vidić (27 / 2), Clemente Rodríguez (25 / 1), Martin Jiránek (22), Ignas Dedura (18 / 1), Adrian Iencsi (13 / 1), Emanuel Pogatetz (11), Florin Şoavă (7), Dmytro Parfenov (2). Midfielders: Yegor Titov (28 / 4), Denis Boyarintsev (27 / 4), Radoslav Kováč (27 / 4), Serghei Covalciuc (21 / 2), Maksym Kalynychenko (18 / 4), Vladimir Bystrov (15 / 3), Aleksandr Samedov (11), Dmitri Alenichev (8), Mozart (7), Andrejs Rubins (5). Forwards: Roman Pavlyuchenko (25 / 11), Fernando Cavenaghi (25 / 6), Mihajlo Pjanović (17 / 1), Aleksandr Pavlenko (14 / 2), Nikita Bazhenov (10 / 1). Manager: Aleksandrs Starkovs . Transferred out during the season: Aleksandr Samedov (to FC Lokomotiv Moscow), Emanuel Pogatetz (to Middlesbrough).

3. FC Lokomotiv Moscow

Goalkeepers: Sergei Ovchinnikov (29), Aleksei Poliakov (1). Defenders: Dmitri Sennikov (29 / 1), Malkhaz Asatiani (28 / 3), Sergei Gurenko (26), Vadim Evseev (21 / 2), Oleg Pashinin (18 / 1), Sergei Omelyanchuk (13), Dmitri Kruglov (8), Aleksei Bugayev (8). Midfielders: Dmitri Khokhlov (30 / 3), Diniyar Bilyaletdinov (29 / 8), Francisco Lima (26), Dmitri Loskov (22 / 6), Vladimir Maminov (20), Marat Izmailov (16 / 4), André Bikey (9), Aleksandr Samedov (9). Forwards: Igor Lebedenko (23 / 6), Dmitri Sychev (21 / 6), Francesco Ruopolo (7), Winston Parks (5), Essau Kanyenda (3), Maksim Buznikin (2), Mikheil Ashvetia (2), Giorgi Chelidze (2), Ruslan Pimenov (1). One own goal scored by Mykhaylo Starostyak (FC Shinnik Yaroslavl). Manager: Yuri Syomin (until April), Vladimir Eshtrekov (from April). Transferred out during the season: Winston Parks (on loan to FC Saturn Moscow Oblast), Essau Kanyenda (on loan to FC Rostov), Maksim Buznikin (to FC Rostov), Mikheil Ashvetia (to FC Rostov), Ruslan Pimenov (to FC Alania Vladikavkaz).

See also

2005 in Russian football

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