1998 Russian First Division

The 1998 Russian First Division was the seventh edition of the Russian First Division. The competition was renamed from Russian First League to Russian First Division this year.

Overview

Team	Head coach
FC Saturn Ramenskoye	Sergei Pavlov
FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod	Valeri Ovchinnikov
FC Sokol Saratov	Anatoli Radenko Template:Flagicon (until May) Anatoli Aslamov (caretaker, May–June) Vladimir Fedotov (from June)
FC Kristall Smolensk	Valeri Nenenko
FC Arsenal Tula	Yevhen Kucherevskyi Template:Flagicon
FC Lada-Grad Dimitrovgrad	Vladimir Yevsyukov
FC Rubin Kazan	Igor Volchok (until May) Miodrag Radanović Template:Flagicon (caretaker, May) Aleksandr Irkhin (from June)
FC Dynamo Stavropol	Boris Stukalov
FC Gazovik-Gazprom Izhevsk	Vyacheslav Melnikov (until April) Aleksandr Salnov (caretaker, April–August) Viktor Slesarev (from August)
FC Fakel Voronezh	Sergei Savchenkov
FC Lokomotiv Chita	Aleksandr Kovalyov
FC Anzhi Makhachkala	Eduard Malofeyev Template:Flagicon (until June) Aleksandr Reshetnyak (caretaker, June–August) Pyotr Shubin (September) Aleksandr Reshetnyak (caretaker, from September)
FC Metallurg Lipetsk	Vladimir Fedotov (until June) Yuri Shishlov (caretaker, June) Valeri Tretyakov (from June)
FC Tom Tomsk	Vladimir Yurin
PFC Spartak Nalchik	Viktor Kumykov (until July) Viktor Zernov (July to October) Aslanbek Khantsev (from October)
FC Lokomotiv St. Petersburg	Givi Nodia Template:Flagicon
FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk	Gennadi Sarychev (until June) Vladimir Morozov (caretaker, June) Boris Sinitsyn (from June)
FC Druzhba Maykop	Vitali Aksyonov (until July) Soferbi Yeshugov (from July)
FC Lada-Togliatti-VAZ Togliatti	Vladimir Dergach (until October) Igor Golubtsov (October) Aleksandr Garmashov (from November)
FC Kuban Krasnodar	Valeri Sinau (until May) Adolf Poskotin (from May)
FC Irtysh Omsk	Aleksandr Ivchenko (until July) Gennadi Kostylev (from July)
FC KAMAZ-Chally Naberezhnye Chelny	Ivan Butaliy

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Template:Flagicon Andradina	Arsenal	27
2	Template:Flagicon Igor Gavrilin	Saturn	19
3	Template:Flagicon Vladyslav Zubkov	Lokomotiv N.N.	18
4	Template:Flagicon Gurban Gurbanov	Dynamo (St)	17
	Template:Flagicon Valeri Shushlyakov	Kristall
6	Template:Flagicon Aleksei Chernov	Lada-Grad	16
7	Template:Flagicon Oleg Garin	Lokomotiv N.N.	15
	Template:Flagicon Ibragim Gasanbekov	Anzhi
	Template:Flagicon Aleksandr Kuzmichyov	Rubin
	Template:Flagicon Vladimir Lebed	Sokol

Promotion play-offs

FC Torpedo-ZIL Moscow promoted to the Russian First Division for 1999 on aggregate, FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk relegated to the Russian Second Division.

See also

• 1998 Russian Top Division
• 1998 Russian Second Division