1997 Russian First League

Russian First League
Season	1997
	← 1996 1998 →

The 1997 Russian First League was the 6th edition of the Russian First Division.

Overview

Team	Head coach
FC Uralan Elista	Pavlo Yakovenko
FC Metallurg Lipetsk	Valeri Tretyakov
FC Sokol-PZhD Saratov	Nikolay Kiselyov
PFC Spartak Nalchik	Viktor Kumykov
FC Lokomotiv St. Petersburg	Givi Nodia
FC Lada-Grad Dimitrovgrad	Vladimir Yevsyukov
FC CSK VVS-Kristall Smolensk	Valeri Nenenko
FC Lokomotiv Chita	Aleksandr Kovalyov
FC Saturn Ramenskoye	Vladimir Mukhanov (until April) Vladimir Shevchuk (from April)
FC Dynamo Stavropol	Sergei Zimenkov (until June) Boris Stukalov (from July)
FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk	Viktor Antikhovich (until July)
FC Gazovik-Gazprom Izhevsk	Vitaliy Shevchenko (until September) Aleksandr Kishinevsky (from September)
FC Anzhi Makhachkala	Eduard Malofeyev
FC Lada-Togliatti-VAZ Togliatti	Viktor Tishchenko (until June) Vladimir Dergach (from June)
FC Druzhba Maykop	Soferbi Yeshugov (until August) Vitali Aksyonov (from August)
FC Kuban Krasnodar	Vladimir Brazhnikov
FC Irtysh Omsk	Aleksandr Ivchenko
FC Zarya Leninsk-Kuznetsky	Sergei Vasyutin
FC Energiya Kamyshin	Sergei Pavlov
FC Uralmash Yekaterinburg	Viktor Yerokhin
FC Torpedo Volzhsky	Oleg Dudarin
FC Luch Vladivostok	Vitali Koberskiy

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Uralan Elista (P)	42	29	5	8	67	22	+45	92	Promotion to Top Division
2	Metallurg Lipetsk	42	26	6	10	80	41	+39	84
3	Sokol-PZhD Saratov	42	21	11	10	58	35	+23	74
4	Spartak Nalchik	42	23	3	16	74	53	+21	72
5	Lokomotiv St. Petersburg	42	19	13	10	55	38	+17	70
6	Lada-Grad Dimitrovgrad^[a]	42	20	9	13	80	71	+9	69
7	CSK VVS-Kristall Smolensk	42	19	11	12	70	45	+25	68
8	Lokomotiv Chita	42	21	2	19	62	63	−1	65^[b]
9	Saturn Ramenskoye	42	19	6	17	65	55	+10	63
10	Dynamo Stavropol	42	18	8	16	54	58	−4	62
11	Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk	42	19	4	19	53	54	−1	61
12	Gazovik-Gazprom Izhevsk	42	18	7	17	42	39	+3	61
13	Anzhi Makhachkala	42	18	6	18	66	72	−6	60
14	Lada-Togliatti-VAZ Togliatti^[c]	42	16	12	14	61	56	+5	60
15	Druzhba Maykop	42	17	6	19	51	62	−11	57
16	Kuban Krasnodar	42	16	9	17	63	66	−3	57
17	Irtysh Omsk	42	15	12	15	52	53	−1	57
18	Zarya Leninsk-Kuznetsky (R)	42	12	9	21	39	58	−19	45	Relegation to Second Division
19	Energiya Kamyshin^[d] (R)	42	10	8	24	46	67	−21	38
20	Uralmash Yekaterinburg (R)	42	9	8	25	43	77	−34	35
21	Torpedo Volzhsky (R)	42	9	3	30	29	72	−43	30
22	Luch Vladivostok (R)	42	3	12	27	23	76	−53	21^[e]

Source: RSSSF
(P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ FC Lada Dimitrovgrad renamed to FC Lada-Grad
^ FC Lokomotiv Chita awarded 2 home wins
^ FC Lada Togliatti renamed to FC Lada-Togliatti-VAZ
^ FC Energiya-Tekstilshchik Kamyshin renamed to FC Energiya
^ FC Luch Vladivostok awarded 1 home win.

Results

Home \ Away	ANZ	DRU	DST	ENE	GGI	IRT	KRI	KUB	LGD	LTV	LCH	LSP	LUC	MTL	NEF	SAT	SOK	SPN	TVO	URE	URA	ZAR
Anzhi Makhachkala		5–1	3–2	4–1	2–1	3–2	4–2	0–0	4–4	0–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	0–2	2–1	4–1	1–0	2–0	2–0	0–1	5–2	4–0
Druzhba Maykop	2–1		0–1	2–2	1–4	3–1	0–0	3–0	1–3	1–0	3–1	3–1	1–0	2–0	0–1	3–0	1–0	1–0	3–0	1–4	2–0	1–1
Dynamo Stavropol	0–3	1–0		3–0	1–0	3–0	2–2	3–1	2–2	2–1	3–1	4–0	3–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	3–1	3–0	1–2	1–0	0–0
Energiya Kamyshin	2–0	1–2	2–0		1–1	0–2	0–1	2–0	1–2	0–2	2–0	0–1	1–0	1–1	1–2	5–0	0–1	2–1	4–2	2–2	1–1	0–2
Gazovik-Gazprom	1–0	2–1	0–0	1–0		0–0	1–0	2–0	4–0	1–1	2–1	2–1	2–1	0–1	1–0	3–1	0–2	0–0	1–0	0–1	2–1	2–0
Irtysh Omsk	1–1	2–0	2–2	0–0	1–0		1–0	4–2	3–2	0–0	3–2	1–1	2–0	2–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	5–2	2–0	0–2	4–0	1–0
CSK VVS-Kristall Smolensk	5–3	2–0	6–0	1–0	2–0	2–1		0–0	1–3	3–0	5–1	0–0	4–0	5–2	3–0	2–0	0–0	4–1	4–2	2–0	2–0	1–1
Kuban Krasnodar	3–0	1–1	1–3	5–1	2–0	3–0	1–1		3–1	1–1	5–0	2–2	1–1	0–3	2–1	2–0	1–1	4–2	1–0	2–0	5–3	3–0
Lada-Grad Dimitrovgrad	1–1	5–2	1–0	4–1	2–0	1–0	5–2	2–0		3–3	1–0	2–2	6–0	0–2	2–2	3–1	1–2	3–1	3–0	0–0	2–1	3–1
Lada-Togliatti-VAZ	2–2	3–1	0–0	1–2	0–2	5–1	1–0	2–0	3–1		2–0	2–2	5–0	2–1	0–1	4–2	0–1	2–0	3–0	0–4	1–1	2–1
Lokomotiv Chita	3–1	3–0	1–0	3–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	2–1	4–2	4–1		1–0	1–0	0–1	5–3	2–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	3–0	2–0
Lokomotiv St. Petersburg	7–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–1	1–1	0–0	2–1		4–0	3–1	2–0	0–0	0–1	3–0	2–0	2–1	2–0	1–0
Luch Vladivostok	0–1	2–2	2–1	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	1–2	0–2	1–1	1–2	1–2		1–1	0–2	1–1	0–0	0–0	3–0	0–0	0–2	0–1
Metallurg Lipetsk	5–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	3–2	1–1	3–1	6–0	3–0	3–0	5–2	4–0	4–1		1–0	1–0	3–1	1–0	2–0	1–0	4–2	3–1
Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk	2–0	1–0	2–0	1–0	0–1	3–2	2–1	3–1	1–2	4–1	3–1	0–0	2–0	0–0		0–5	3–1	2–1	1–0	0–1	1–2	3–1
Saturn Ramenskoye	4–0	5–0	2–0	4–1	2–0	2–1	1–0	3–1	3–0	3–3	3–2	2–0	2–1	2–0	1–1		0–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	5–0	2–0
Sokol-PZhD Saratov	1–0	3–0	6–1	1–1	2–1	2–1	0–0	3–3	2–2	0–0	2–0	0–1	5–0	0–1	3–1	3–0		1–0	2–0	1–0	2–0	1–0
Spartak Nalchik	5–2	0–3	2–0	1–0	2–0	2–0	2–0	3–0	6–0	4–1	2–1	2–1	2–1	2–1	2–1	4–1	2–0		2–0	1–0	7–0	3–1
Torpedo Volzhsky	1–0	0–1	3–1	0–3	0–0	1–0	1–2	0–1	2–0	0–2	1–0	1–1	2–0	3–2	0–2	0–1	3–2	1–2		1–3	0–2	3–2
Uralan Elista	3–0	2–1	4–0	3–1	1–0	3–0	3–0	1–0	3–0	1–0	2–1	2–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	4–0	3–2	2–0		2–0	1–0
Uralmash Yekaterinburg	1–2	0–1	4–1	3–2	2–0	0–0	1–0	1–2	1–3	2–3	1–1	0–0	3–1	0–1	3–0	1–1	0–2	0–1	1–1	0–1		0–0
Zarya Leninsk-Kuznetsky	1–0	1–1	0–1	3–3	1–2	1–1	0–1	2–0	2–0	1–0	0–2	0–2	2–0	3–2	2–0	2–1	1–1	1–3	1–0	0–0	3–2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Aleksei Chernov	Lada-Grad	29
2	Valeri Solyanik	CSK VVS-Kristall	23
3	Marat Mulashev	Irtysh	18
4	Rustyam Fakhrutdinov	Neftekhimik	17
	Ibragim Gasanbekov	Anzhi
	Aleksandrs Jelisejevs	Metallurg
	Oleg Nechayev	Lada-Grad
8	Igor Menshchikov	Metallurg	15
	Valeri Shushlyakov	Kuban
	Narvik Sirkhayev	Anzhi

v t e Russian First League seasons
Russian First League	1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997
Russian First Division	1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Football National League	2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21
Russian First Division/League	2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25

Overview

Standings

Results

Top goalscorers

See also