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2006 Russian Premier League

The 2006 Russian Premier League was the 15th season of the Russian Football Championship, and the fifth under the current Russian Premier League name.

The season started on 17 March 2006 and ended on 26 November 2006. Defending champions CSKA Moscow claimed their second successive title on 18 November 2006 with an away win over Luch-Energiya Vladivostok.^[1] Spartak Moscow finished runners-up, level on points with CSKA but ranked behind due to fewer wins (see Tie-breaking criteria below). Lokomotiv Moscow finished third.

Torpedo Moscow and Shinnik were relegated. It was the first time in Torpedo Moscow's history that the club was relegated.

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
PFC CSKA Moscow	Valery Gazzaev
FC Spartak Moscow	Aleksandrs Starkovs (until April) Vladimir Fedotov (from April)
FC Lokomotiv Moscow	Slavoljub Muslin (until October) Oleg Dolmatov (from October)
FC Zenit St. Petersburg	Vlastimil Petržela (until May) Vladimír Borovička (caretaker) (May to July) Dick Advocaat (from July)
FC Rubin Kazan	Kurban Berdyev
FC Moscow	Leonid Slutsky
FC Luch-Energiya Vladivostok	Sergei Pavlov
FC Tom Tomsk	Valery Petrakov
PFC Spartak Nalchik	Yuri Krasnozhan
FC Krylia Sovetov Samara	Gadzhi Gadzhiyev
FC Saturn Ramenskoye	Vladimír Weiss
FC Rostov	Sergei Balakhnin
FC Amkar Perm	Sergei Oborin (until August) Igor Uralyov (caretaker) (August to September) Rashid Rakhimov (from September)
FC Dynamo Moscow	Yuri Semin (until August) Andrey Kobelev (from August)
FC Torpedo Moscow	Sergei Petrenko (until September) Aleksandr Gostenin (caretaker) (from September)
FC Shinnik Yaroslavl	Oleg Dolmatov (until September) Boris Gavrilov (caretaker) (from September)

Final standings

Top goalscorers

Rank	Nat.	Player	Goals (pen.)	Club
1		Roman Pavlyuchenko	18 (4)	Spartak Moscow
2		Jô	14 (4)	CSKA Moscow
3		Alejandro Domínguez	13 (4)	Rubin
		Pavel Pogrebnyak	13 (4)	Tom
		Dmitri Loskov	13 (6)	Lokomotiv Moscow
6		Dmitri Kirichenko	12 (4)	Moskva
		Mikhail Osinov	12 (6)	Rostov
8		Vágner Love	9	CSKA Moscow
		Ivica Olić	9 (1)	CSKA Moscow
10		Yegor Titov	8	Spartak Moscow
		Roman Adamov	8 (2)	Moskva

Awards

Russian Football Union named Andrey Arshavin the best Premier League player of the season. Arshavin was also ranked best by major Russian sports newspapers, Sport-Express^[2] and Soviet Sports^[3] and became the Russian Footballer of the Year.

On December 18, the Russian Football Union named its list of 33 top players:^[4]

Season statistics

• Goals: 585 (average 2.44 per match)
  • From penalties: 69 (12%)
  • Saved/Missed penalties: 19 (22%)
  • Goals scored home: 337 (58%)
  • Goals scored away: 247 (42%)
• Yellow cards: 1202 (average 5.01 per match)
  • For violent conduct: 730 (61%)
  • For unsporting behaviour: 387 (32%)
  • For undisciplined behaviour: 3 (0%)
  • Other: 82 (7%)
• Red cards: 62 (average 0.26 per match)
  • For second yellow card: 41 (66%)
  • For undisciplined behaviour: 7 (11%)
  • For denying an obvious goal-scoring opportunity: 6 (10%)
  • For violent conduct: 6 (10%)
  • For unsporting behaviour: 1 (2%)
  • For handball: 1 (2%)
• Attendance: 2,948,996 (average 12,287 per match; 98,300 per matchday)

Medal squads

See also

2006 in Russian Football

References

External links

• RSSSF
• RFPL.org^{[permanent dead link]} (in Russian)