1993 Russian Top League

Statistics of Russian Top League in season 1993.

Teams

18 teams are played in the 1993 season. After the 1992 season, Zenit St.Petersburg, Fakel Voronezh, Kuban Krasnodar, Shinnik Yaroslavl and Dinamo-Gazovik were relegated to the 1993 Russian First League. They were replaced by Zhemchuzhina-Sochi, winners of the 1992 Russian First League.

Venues

Asmaral Moscow	CSKA Moscow	Dynamo Moscow	Dynamo Stavropol
Krasnaya Presnya Stadium	Grigory Fedotov Stadium	Central Dynamo Stadium	Dynamo Stadium
Capacity:	Capacity: 10,000	Capacity: 36,540	Capacity: 15,589
		File:Dynamo Stadium.jpg	File:Dynamo-Stavropol russian stadium.jpg
KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny			Krylia Sovetov
KAMAZ Stadium			Metallurg Stadium
Capacity: 9,056			Capacity: 33,001
File:Стадион "КАМАЗ" в Набережных Челнах.jpg			File:Metallurg Stadium Samara.jpg
Lokomotiv Moscow			Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod
Lokomotiv Stadium			Lokomotiv Stadium
Capacity: 27,084			Capacity: 17,856
			File:Стадион Локомотив в Нижнем Новгороде.jpg
Luch Vladivostok			Okean Nakhodka
Dynamo Stadium			Vodnik Stadium
Capacity: 10,200			Capacity: 4,000
File:Fotbalový zápas.jpg			File:Stadium in Nakhodka.JPG
Rostselmash			Rotor Volgograd
Olimp-2			Central Stadium
Capacity: 15,840			Capacity: 32,120
File:Ростовский стадион во время проведения матча ФК Ростов - ПФК ЦСКА. 2016.jpg			File:Volgograd Central Stadium aerial view.jpg
Spartak Moscow			Spartak Vladikavkaz
Luzhniki Stadium			Republican Spartak Stadium
Capacity: 81,029			Capacity: 32,464
File:Luzhniki Stadium Moscow.jpg			File:Stadium Spartak Vladikavkaz.JPG
Tekstilshchik Kamyshin	Torpedo Moscow	Uralmash Yekaterinburg	Zhemchuzhina-Sochi
Tekstilshchik Stadium	Luzhniki Stadium	SKB-Bank Arena	Sochi Central Stadium
Capacity: 10,000	Capacity: 81,029	Capacity: 10,000	Capacity: 10,200
	File:Luzhniki Stadium Moscow.jpg	File:SKB-Bank Arena 2015 (8).JPG

Personnel and kits

Team	Location	Head coach	Captain
Asmaral Moscow	Moscow	Nikolai Khudiyev
CSKA Moscow	Moscow	Boris Kopeykin
Dynamo Moscow	Moscow	Adamas Golodets
Dynamo Stavropol	Stavropol	Sergei Zimenkov
KAMAZ	Naberezhnye Chelny	Valeri Chetverik
Krylia Sovetov	Samara	Viktor Antikhovich
Lokomotiv Moscow	Moscow	Yuri Semin
Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod	Nizhny Novgorod	Valeri Ovchinnikov
Luch Vladivostok	Vladivostok	Aleksandr Ivchenko
Okean Nakhodka	Nakhodka	Aleksandr Averyanov
Rostselmash	Rostov-on-Don	Enver Yulgushov
Rotor Volgograd	Volgograd	Vladimir Salkov
Spartak Moscow	Moscow	Oleg Romantsev
Spartak Vladikavkaz	Vladikavkaz	Vladimir Fedotov
Tekstilshchik Kamyshin	Kamyshin	Sergei Pavlov
Torpedo Moscow	Moscow	Yury Mironov
Uralmash Yekaterinburg	Yekaterinburg	Viktor Shishkin
Zhemchuzhina-Sochi	Sochi	Arsen Naydyonov

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
CSKA Moscow	Template:Flagicon Gennadi Kostylev		August 1993		Template:Flagicon Boris Kopeykin	August 1993
Dynamo Moscow	Template:Flagicon Valery Gazzaev		September 1993		Template:Flagicon Adamas Golodets	September 1993
Spartak Vladikavkaz	Template:Flagicon Aleksandr Novikov		September 1993		Template:Flagicon Aleksandr Yanovsky	September 1993
Spartak Vladikavkaz	Template:Flagicon Aleksandr Yanovsky		October 1993		Template:Flagicon Vladimir Fedotov	October 1993

Promotion tournament

FC Rostselmash and FC Asmaral were relegated. FC Krylia Sovetov, FC Luch and FC Okean played in a promotion tournament against the winners of the three zones of the 1993 Russian First League, in which three spots in 1994 Russian Top League were contested. FC Krylia Sovetov kept their spot and FC Luch and FC Okean were relegated.

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

As of matches played on 10 November 1993.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Template:Flagicon Victor Panchenko	KAMAZ	21
2	Template:Flagicon Oleg Veretennikov	Rotor	19
3	Template:Flagicon Vladimir Beschastnykh	Spartak Moscow	18
4	Template:Flagicon Igor Simutenkov	Dynamo Moscow	16
5	Template:Flagicon Mikhail Markhel	Spartak Vladikavkaz	14
	Template:Flagicon Nikolai Pisarev	Spartak Moscow
	Template:Flagicon Nazim Suleymanov	Spartak Vladikavkaz
8	Template:Flagicon Gocha Gogrichiani	Zhemchuzhina	13
	Template:Flagicon Valeri Karpin	Spartak Moscow
	Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Vladimir Niederhaus	Rotor

Medal squads

(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

1. FC Spartak Moscow

Goalkeepers: Gintaras Staučė Template:Flagicon (13), Stanislav Cherchesov (13), Oleksandr Pomazun Template:Flagicon (8). Defenders: Viktor Onopko (30 / 9), Ramiz Mamedov (30), Andrei Ivanov (29), Yuriy Nikiforov (23), Dmitri Khlestov (19 / 1), Dmitri Popov (13 / 1), Dmitri Ananko (11), Andrei Chernyshov (4), Aleksandr Bondar (2), Sergei Chudin (2), Dmitri Gradilenko (1). Midfielders: Valery Karpin (30 / 13), Igor Lediakhov (29 / 6), Andrei Piatnitski (29 / 6), Ilya Tsymbalar (26 / 3), Andrei Gashkin (11), Serhiy Pohodin Template:Flagicon (2), Valery Kechinov (1). Forwards: Nikolai Pisarev (33 / 14), Fyodor Cherenkov (32 / 6), Vladimir Beschastnykh (29 / 18), Dmitri Radchenko (14 / 2), Sergey Rodionov (8), Andrey Tikhonov (7 / 2), Andrei Konovalov (1). Manager: Oleg Romantsev. Transferred out during the season: Dmitri Radchenko, Dmitri Popov (both to Template:Flagicon Racing de Santander), Stanislav Cherchesov (to Template:Flagicon Dynamo Dresden), Andrei Chernyshov (to FC Dynamo Moscow), Aleksandr Bondar (to FC Terek Grozny), Dmitri Gradilenko (to FC Interros Moskovsky).

2. FC Rotor Volgograd

Goalkeepers: Andrei Manannikov Template:Flagicon (34), Sergei Gritsenko (1). Defenders: Sergei Nechay (33 / 2), Volodymyr Gerashchenko Template:Flagicon (32 / 2), Aleksandr Shmarko (31 / 1), Valeri Burlachenko (29 / 1), Aleksandr Yeshchenko (5), Sergey Kuznetsov (4). Midfielders: Oleg Veretennikov (33 / 19), Igor Menshchikov (31), Aleksandr Tsarenko (29 / 5), Andrei Kovalenko Template:Flagicon (29 / 3), Aleksandr Zhidkov (29 / 2), Oleg Stogov (21), Aleksei Gerasimenko (14), Andrei Miroshnichenko Template:Flagicon (2). Forwards: Valery Yesipov (31 / 8), Vladimir Niederhaus Template:Flagicon (30 / 13), Oleg Nechayev (13), Aleksandr Nikitin (11), Yevgeni Shkilov (8), Yuri Konovalov (3). Manager: Vladimir Salkov. Transferred out during the season: Yevgeni Shkilov (to Template:Flagicon Hapoel Haifa F.C.), Andrei Miroshnichenko Template:Flagicon (to Template:Flagicon FC Aktyubinets Aktyubinsk).

3. FC Dynamo Moscow

Goalkeepers: Valeri Kleymyonov (29), Andrei Smetanin (8), Dmitriy Kramarenko Template:Flagicon (1). Defenders: Yuri Kovtun (27 / 1), Sergey Timofeev Template:Flagicon (21 / 2), Vyacheslav Tsaryov (19), Aleksei Selezov (18), Andrei Chernyshov (14 / 1), Igor Varlamov (8), Sargis Hovhannisyan Template:Flagicon (8), Igor Sklyarov (7 / 1), Maksim Layushkin (1). Midfielders: Omari Tetradze (32 / 4), Bakhva Tedeyev (30 / 8), Yuriy Kalitvintsev (26 / 3), Yevgeni Smertin (23 / 1), Sergei Krutov (22 / 3), Igor Dobrovolski (18 / 6), Sergei Derkach (12 / 1), Aleksei Savchenko (11), Sergei Nekrasov (10), Aleksei Filippov (6), Igor Gavrilin (2 / 1), Vladimir Kostyuk Template:Flagicon (2). Forwards: Igor Simutenkov (33 / 16), Dmitri Cheryshev (22 / 7), Kirill Rybakov (19 / 5), Yuri Tishkov (16 / 4), Yuriy Hudymenko Template:Flagicon (9 / 1), Nikolai Kovardayev (1). Manager: Valery Gazzaev (until September), Adamas Golodets (caretaker, from September). Transferred out during the season: Sergei Derkach (to Template:Flagicon FC Basel), Nikolai Kovardayev (to FC Interros Moskovsky).

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