2008 Russian First Division

The 2008 Russian First Division was the 17th edition of Russian First Division. There were 22 teams.

Russian First Division

Season	2008
← 2007 2009 →

Teams

15 clubs placed 3–17 in 2007 Russian First Division, 2 clubs relegated from 2007 Russian Premier League and 5 zone winners from 2007 Russian Second Division took part in the league:

Kuban

Rostov, SKA

Sibir

Nab. Chelny

Ural

Sportakademklub, Torpedo

Nosta

Dyn. Br

Salyut

Anzhi

Zvezda

Alania

SKA-Ener.

Mashuk-KMV

Baltika

Metallurg

Vityaz

Dyn. Ba

Ch'morets

Volga

Location of teams in 2008 Russian First Division

Team Place FC Kuban Krasnodar Krasnodar FC Rostov Rostov-on-Don FC Sibir Novosibirsk Novosibirsk FC KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny Naberezhnye Chelny FC Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast Yekaterinburg FC Torpedo Moscow Moscow FC Nosta Novotroitsk Novotroitsk FC Dynamo Bryansk Bryansk FC Salyut-Energia Belgorod Belgorod FC Anzhi Makhachkala Makhachkala FC Zvezda Irkutsk Irkutsk

Team Place FC Alania Vladikavkaz Vladikavkaz FC SKA-Energia Khabarovsk Khabarovsk FC Mashuk-KMV Pyatigorsk Pyatigorsk FC Baltika Kaliningrad Kaliningrad FC Metallurg-Kuzbass Novokuznetsk Novokuznetsk FC SKA Rostov-on-Don Rostov-on-Don FC Vityaz Podolsk Podolsk FC Dynamo Barnaul Barnaul FC Sportakademklub Moscow Moscow FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk Novorossiysk FC Volga Ulyanovsk Ulyanovsk

On 23 October 2008 FC Zvezda Irkutsk had to stop participation in the league due to lack of funds, their main sponsor Interavia airlines is having financial problems at the time.^[1] Zvezda failed to fulfil four last fixtures.

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Rostov (P)	42	29	9	4	78	29	+49	96	Promotion to Premier League
2	Kuban Krasnodar (P)	42	27	6	9	84	36	+48	87
3	KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny	42	23	10	9	68	41	+27	79
4	Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast	42	22	9	11	69	39	+30	75
5	Nosta Novotroitsk	42	20	13	9	59	37	+22	73
6	Anzhi Makhachkala	42	20	12	10	63	35	+28	72
7	Baltika Kaliningrad	42	17	14	11	43	34	+9	65
8	SKA-Khabarovsk	42	17	10	15	63	60	+3	61
9	Chernomorets Novorossiysk	42	16	13	13	51	38	+13	61
10	Alania Vladikavkaz	42	17	8	17	50	47	+3	59
11	Vityaz Podolsk	42	17	7	18	49	57	−8	58[a]
12	Salyut-Energia Belgorod	42	17	7	18	51	51	0	58[a]
13	SKA Rostov-on-Don	42	15	13	14	52	50	+2	58
14	Sibir Novosibirsk	42	14	16	12	51	41	+10	58
15	Sportakademklub Moscow	42	16	9	17	55	57	−2	57
16	Metallurg-Kuzbass Novokuznetsk (R)	42	14	15	13	44	42	+2	57	Relegation to Second Division
17	Volga Ulyanovsk (R)	42	15	4	23	50	65	−15	49
18	Torpedo Moscow (R)	42	14	7	21	47	69	−22	49
19	Mashuk-KMV Pyatigorsk (R)	42	8	8	26	39	79	−40	32
20	Dynamo Barnaul (R)	42	6	9	27	31	80	−49	27
21	Dynamo Bryansk (R)	42	6	4	32	30	81	−51	22
22	Zvezda Irkutsk[b] (R)	42	8	5	29	36	95	−59	11

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
(P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Head-to-head record: Salyut-Energia – Vityaz 0–2, Vityaz – Salyut-Energia 1–0.
2. Zvezda Irkutsk deducted 18 points for failing to pay for player transfers.

Results

Home \ Away	ALA	ANZ	BAL	CHE	DBN	DBR	KAM	KUB	KMV	MTK	NOS	ROS	SAL	SKA	SKR	SIB	SAK	TOR	URL	VIT	VOL	ZVE
Alania Vladikavkaz		1–0	2–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	0–1	1–0	2–0	1–0	0–2	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	2–0	1–2	1–0	4–1	2–2	3–0[a]
Anzhi Makhachkala	2–0		1–1	3–0	3–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	5–2	0–0	0–0	3–2	2–0	4–0	2–1	0–0	4–2	3–0	1–1	1–0	2–1	0–0
Baltika Kaliningrad	1–0	1–0		1–1	1–0	3–0	3–0	0–1	3–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	2–1	0–0	0–1	1–1	2–1	2–1	1–1	4–1	2–0	2–0
Chernomorets Novorossiysk	2–0	0–1	2–0		3–0	4–0	0–0	0–1	3–2	0–1	1–0	0–1	0–1	2–0	2–0	1–2	2–1	4–1	1–3	1–0	4–2	3–0
Dynamo Barnaul	0–2	1–3	1–0	1–0		0–0	2–5	1–3	2–0	0–1	2–2	1–2	1–2	2–2	0–2	0–0	3–1	1–2	0–3	0–0	2–0	2–1
Dynamo Bryansk	0–2	1–5	0–1	1–2	4–0		1–2	0–2	0–1	0–1	1–4	0–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	0–1	0–1	1–3	2–1	1–2	1–3
KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny	2–1	1–0	1–1	2–2	7–0	3–1		3–4	2–1	4–2	0–0	1–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	2–3	1–0	3–0	2–1	1–0	2–0	0–1
Kuban Krasnodar	3–0	4–0	2–0	4–2	3–0	3–0	3–0		5–0	2–0	0–1	1–1	2–2	2–0	3–0	2–0	3–0	3–2	0–0	0–1	4–2	5–0
Mashuk-KMV Pyatigorsk	1–2	1–1	2–1	0–0	1–1	3–1	1–1	2–0		1–0	0–1	0–1	2–2	1–3	1–4	0–0	2–1	0–1	2–4	0–1	0–1	3–0[a]
Metallurg-Kuzbass Novokuznetsk	3–3	1–1	0–0	0–0	1–0	3–0	1–1	0–1	2–1		1–1	0–1	0–2	1–1	2–2	3–1	1–0	2–0	1–0	2–3	2–0	2–1
Nosta Novotroitsk	1–0	1–3	0–0	0–0	3–1	2–1	0–1	1–0	3–1	0–0		1–1	1–0	1–1	4–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	2–2	1–0	2–1	0–0
Rostov	3–2	2–1	1–0	2–1	4–1	3–0	1–0	1–0	6–0	1–1	1–1		3–1	3–1	2–0	2–3	1–0	1–0	3–1	3–1	5–0	2–0
Salyut-Energia Belgorod	1–0	1–0	4–0	0–0	1–0	1–2	2–0	0–2	3–1	0–0	4–3	1–2		3–2	0–1	2–0	1–2	4–2	3–1	0–2	1–1	3–0
SKA-Khabarovsk	3–2	1–0	0–0	2–2	1–0	2–1	0–1	1–2	3–2	2–1	3–2	2–2	1–0		4–1	1–1	0–1	4–0	1–4	3–0	2–1	3–0
SKA Rostov-on-Don	3–1	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	5–1	3–4	0–1	1–0	1–1	0–3	0–1	3–0	2–2		0–0	1–1	0–0	1–0	2–3	2–0	4–1
Sibir Novosibirsk	2–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	2–1	3–1	1–2	4–0	2–2	1–0	1–2	0–0	0–1	2–1	1–1		1–1	1–1	2–0	2–2	1–0	5–0
Sportakademklub Moscow	3–1	1–2	0–2	1–1	1–1	3–1	0–0	2–2	2–0	3–4	1–0	2–1	1–0	3–1	1–2	1–0		1–2	3–2	1–1	3–1	2–1
Torpedo Moscow	2–2	4–2	0–2	0–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–3	3–0	0–0	1–3	0–2	1–2	2–1	1–0	1–4	1–3		2–2	2–4	3–1	3–0
Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast	0–0	0–0	0–1	2–0	3–1	2–0	1–3	2–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	3–0	0–0	1–0	2–0	2–0		4–1	2–1	5–1
Vityaz Podolsk	1–0	0–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	1–3	2–0	3–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	0–3	2–1	1–1	3–0	0–1	0–3		2–3	2–1
Volga Ulyanovsk	0–1	1–0	4–0	0–2	1–0	0–1	0–0	2–1	1–2	2–0	4–2	0–2	3–0	1–3	2–3	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–2		2–1
Zvezda Irkutsk	2–1	0–3[a]	1–2	1–2	5–1	2–3	0–4	2–2	1–1	1–3	1–4	1–5	1–0	1–2	0–0	2–1	0–3[a]	2–0	1–2	1–0	0–4

Source: PFL (in Russian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

1. Zvezda Irkutsk were unable to play these matches and were awarded to the opposing team 3–0.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Denis Popov	Chernomorets / Torpedo	24
2	Vladimir Shishelov	Zvezda / Ural	23
3	Dmitri Akimov	Sibir / Rostov	22
4	Vartan Mazalov	SKA Rostov-on-Don	21
	Aleksandr Yarkin	SKA-Khabarovsk
6	Vadim Yanchuk	Nosta	20
7	Serghei Dadu	Alania	18
	Denis Zubko	Kuban
9	Mikheil Ashvetia	Anzhi	17
	Spartak Gogniyev	KAMAZ

See also

• 2008 Russian Premier League