2010 Russian First Division

The 2010 Russian First Division was the 19th season of Russia's second-tier football league since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The season began on 27 March 2010.

Russian First Division
Season2010
2009

Teams

As in the previous year, 20 clubs participate in this year championship. It features eleven clubs from 2009 Russian First Division, two clubs relegated from 2009 Russian Premier League, five zone winners from 2009 Russian Second Division, one of the second-placed clubs from 2009 Russian Second Division and one of the third-placed clubs from 2009 Russian Second Division.

Movement between Premier League and First Division

Anzhi Makhachkala as 2009 champions and Sibir Novosibirsk as runners-up have been promoted to the Premier League. They will be replaced by relegated teams Kuban Krasnodar and Khimki.

Movement between First Division and Second Division

Nosta Novotroitsk, Chita, Chernomorets Novorossiysk, Metallurg Lipetsk and MVD Rossii Moscow who placed in the last 5 places respectively in 2009 were relegated to the Russian Second Division.

The relegated teams were replaced by the five 2009 Second Division zone winners. These were Dynamo Saint Petersburg (West), Avangard Kursk (Centre), Zhemchuzhina-Sochi (South), Mordovia Saransk (Ural-Povolzhye) and Irtysh Omsk (East).

Further team changes

Due to financial difficulties, Vityaz Podolsk who placed 11th in 2009, decided to give up their spot in the Russian First Division and participate in the Russian Second Division in 2010.[1]

Pending licensing, their place was taken by FC Volgograd who placed 3rd in the Russian Second Division (South Zone) in 2009. For the occasion the management decided to change the name of the club from FC Volgograd to Rotor Volgograd.

FC Alania Vladikavkaz were promoted into the 2010 Russian Premier League after FC Moscow dropped out due to financial reasons. It was replaced by FC Dynamo Bryansk.[2] Dynamo Bryansk originally refused to be promoted when offered Vityaz's spot, but by the time Alania's spot became available, they found new financial commitments and agreed to participate in the First Division.

Overview

TeamLocationHead CoachCaptainVenueCapacityPosition in 2009
AvangardKursk Aleksandr IgnatenkoTrudovye Rezervy11,3291st, D2 "Centre"
BaltikaKaliningrad Leonid TkachenkoBaltika14,6649th
Dynamo BryanskBryansk Aleksandr SmirnovDynamo10,1002nd, D2 "Centre"
Dynamo St. PetersburgSaint Petersburg Sergey FrantsevMSA Petrovsky2,8351st, D2 "West"
IrtyshOmsk Aleksandr DorofeyevRed Star8,0001st, D2 "East"
KAMAZNaberezhnye Chelny Robert YevdokimovKAMAZ9,2215th
KhimkiKhimki Yevgeni BushmanovNovyye Khimki3,06616th, Premier
KrasnodarKrasnodar Sergei TashuevKuban34,64010th
KubanKrasnodar Dan PetrescuKuban34,64015th, Premier
Luch-EnergiyaVladivostok Francisco ArcosDinamo10,18514th
MordoviaSaransk Fyodor ShcherbachenkoSvetotekhnika14,0001st, D2 "Ural-Povolzhye"
Nizhny NovgorodNizhny Novgorod Viktor ZaidenbergSeverny3,18013th
RotorVolgograd Vitaliy ShevchenkoCentral32,1263rd, D2 "South"
SalyutBelgorod Yuri BykovSalyut11,5007th
ShinnikYaroslavl Aleksandr PobegalovShinnik18,4816th
SKA-EnergiyaKhabarovsk Sergey FeldmanLenin Stadium15,20015th
UralYekaterinburg Vladimir FedotovUralmash13,0008th
VolgaNizhny Novgorod Omari TetradzeLokomotiv17,8564th
Volgar-GazpromAstrakhan Lev IvanovCentralny20,50012th
Zhemchuzhina-SochiSochi Oleg VasilenkoCentral10,2801st, D2 "South"

Managerial changes

TeamOutgoingMannerDateTableIncomingDateTable
Dynamo St. Petersburg Aleksandr AveryanovResigned15 April 2010[3]19th Grigori Mikhalyuk (caretaker)
Dynamo Bryansk Soferbi YeshugovSacked7 May 201020th Sergei Ovchinnikov7 May 2010[4]20th
Volga Nizhny Novgorod Aleksandr PobegalovResigned8 May 201012th Omari Tetradze8 May 2010[5]12th
Shinnik Yaroslavl Igor LediakhovSacked11 May 201018th Aleksandr Pobegalov11 May 2010[6]12th
Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast Vladimir FedotovSacked11 May 20107th Boris Stukalov14 May 20107th
Dynamo St. Petersburg Grigori Mikhalyuk (caretaker)Finished19 May 201010th Boris Zhuravlyov19 May 2010
Salyut Belgorod Miroslav RomaschenkoSacked20 May 201016th Leonid Koutchouk20 May 2010[7]16th
Luch-Energiya Leonid NazarenkoSacked22 May 201013th Francisco Arcos (caretaker)22 May 2010[8]13th
Baltika Ivan LyakhSacked5 June 201013th Leonid Tkachenko
Rotor Vladimir FaizulinSacked26 June 201020th Vitaliy Shevchenko27 June 2010[9]20th
Dynamo St. Petersburg Boris ZhuravlyovSacked22 July 201017th Eduard Malofeyev22 July 2010[10]20th
Khimki Aleksandr Tarkhanov30 July 20109th Yevgeni Bushmanov (caretaker)
Zhemchuzhina-Sochi Oleg Vasilenko2 August 20104th Zurab Sanaya
Avangard Kursk Valery YesipovSacked17 August 201019th Oleg Sergeyev (caretaker)
Dynamo St. Petersburg Eduard MalofeyevSacked20 August 201020th Sergey Frantsev
Salyut Belgorod Leonid KoutchoukSacked23 August 201019th Yuri Bykov23 August 2010[11]19th
Irtysh Omsk Vladimir AraysSacked2 September 201020th Aleksandr Dorofeyev2 September 2010
Avangard Kursk Oleg Sergeyev (caretaker)Finished17 September 201019th Aleksandr Ignatenko
Dynamo Bryansk Sergei OvchinnikovSacked17 September 201018th Aleksandr Smirnov17 September 2010[12]18th
Zhemchuzhina-Sochi Zurab Sanaya27 September 20105th Oleg Vasilenko
SKA-Energiya Sergei GorlukovichSacked28 September 201015th Sergey Feldman

Standings

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsPromotion or relegation
1Kuban Krasnodar (C, P)3824865120+3180Promotion to Premier League
2Volga Nizhny Novgorod (P)38191456225+3771
3Nizhny Novgorod38217106041+1970
4KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny38199105543+1266
5Krasnodar (P)381710116044+1661Promotion to Premier League
6Mordovia Saransk381610125340+1358
7Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast38141683828+1058
8Zhemchuzhina-Sochi38169134544+157
9Volgar-Gazprom Astrakhan38169134548−357
10Shinnik Yaroslavl381413114331+1255
11SKA-Khabarovsk38158153739−253
12Luch-Energiya Vladivostok381313124242052
13Khimki381117103938+150
14Dynamo Bryansk381111165354−144
15Baltika Kaliningrad381110173847−943
16Dynamo St. Petersburg (R)38910193253−2137Relegation to Second Division
17Salyut Belgorod (R)38713183047−1734
18Rotor Volgograd (R)3897222764−3734
19Irtysh Omsk (R)38610222652−2628
20Avangard Kursk (R)3876253167−3627
Source: PFL, Soccerway
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; 5th goals scored; 6th away goals scored
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Results

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Avangard Kursk1–11–20–02–12–10–11–21–21–21–11–51–32–01–61–50–11–01–01–0
Baltika Kaliningrad2–11–22–02–12–43–11–10–11–02–21–03–20–00–11–20–10–01–12–1
Dynamo Bryansk1–00–14–12–14–01–14–30–21–10–01–10–12–20–15–00–20–12–31–0
Dynamo St. Petersburg1–00–20–02–01–10–20–00–01–21–30–14–12–02–52–11–11–11–10–1
Irtysh Omsk2–12–01–40–20–00–00–02–30–30–01–02–01–11–10–11–01–11–40–1
KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny2–02–11–12–01–21–11–01–21–02–13–22–02–11–21–11–11–13–12–0
Khimki3–01–02–24–11–10–20–00–11–10–31–11–31–01–10–01–11–01–13–1
Krasnodar0–03–15–10–02–03–21–10–13–04–14–23–02–02–13–01–03–32–01–1
Kuban Krasnodar2–00–01–02–02–10–11–03–03–00–20–03–00–01–11–03–01–06–10–1
Luch-Energiya Vladivostok4–32–10–31–01–10–10–01–10–12–03–11–12–03–10–01–01–10–12–1
Mordovia Saransk0–11–03–22–12–11–22–11–23–00–03–13–10–11–00–21–12–01–11–1
Nizhny Novgorod3–22–03–11–02–13–12–04–33–13–10–13–03–01–02–01–02–20–00–0
Rotor Volgograd1–01–01–01–20–01–00–10–10–32–20–60–20–11–00–21–21–40–11–0
Salyut Belgorod0–01–14–21–21–02–01–21–21–20–11–10–12–10–02–41–10–01–21–0
Shinnik Yaroslavl2–01–11–00–01–01–20–01–00–13–20–00–11–11–13–01–10–02–00–1
SKA-Khabarovsk2–11–00–00–11–00–21–11–00–00–03–10–12–02–12–30–01–21–02–0
Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast0–01–03–32–01–01–10–23–10–01–01–03–04–00–00–01–00–12–01–1
Volga Nizhny Novgorod3–04–11–13–03–02–22–04–10–02–23–03–00–01–01–02–03–03–13–0
Volgar-Gazprom Astrakhan3–12–23–03–22–00–12–22–12–12–10–32–10–02–00–11–00–01–00–3
Zhemchuzhina-Sochi3–21–22–13–12–13–22–12–00–10–02–12–22–22–22–11–02–20–21–0
Source: PFL (in Russian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

Last updated: 6 November 2010; Source: PFL (in Russian)

RankPlayerTeamGoals
1 Otar MartsvaladzeVolga21
2 Spartak GogniyevKAMAZ / Krasnodar18
3 Sergei DavydovVolgar-Gazprom / Kuban16
4 Dmitri GolubovBaltika15
5 Ruslan MukhametshinMordovia13
Sergei SerdyukovKAMAZ
Aleksandr TikhonovetskyNizhny Novgorod
8 Azamat GonezhukovDynamo St. Petersburg12
9 Maksim DemenkoKrasnodar / Zhemchuzhina-Sochi11
Yevgeni KaleshinKrasnodar
Kirill PanchenkoMordovia
12 Vasiliy KarmazinenkoSKA-Energiya10

Awards

Professional Football League announced the award winners for the season.[13]

See also

References

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