1999 Russian Top Division

In this year, Spartak Moscow won their fourth consecutive Russian title, and seventh overall.

Overview

Team	Head coach
FC Spartak Moscow	Oleg Romantsev
FC Lokomotiv Moscow	Yuri Syomin
PFC CSKA Moscow	Oleg Dolmatov
FC Torpedo Moscow	Vitaly Shevchenko
FC Dynamo Moscow	Georgi Yartsev (until June) Aleksei Petrushin (from June)
FC Alania Vladikavkaz	Valery Gazzaev
FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don	Sergey Andreyev
FC Zenit St. Petersburg	Anatoli Davydov
FC Uralan Elista	Pavlo Yakovenko Template:Flagicon (until May) Aleksandr Skrynnikov (caretaker) (May to June) Yevhen Kucherevskyi Template:Flagicon (June) Aleksandr Skrynnikov (caretaker) (June) Aleksandr Averyanov (from June)
FC Saturn Ramenskoye	Sergei Pavlov
FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod	Valeri Ovchinnikov
FC Krylia Sovetov Samara	Aleksandr Tarkhanov
FC Rotor Volgograd	Viktor Prokopenko Template:Flagicon
FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk	Sergei Butenko (until July) Vladimir Fedotov (from July)
FC Zhemchuzhina Sochi	Anatoly Baidachny (until May) Gennadi Afanasyev (caretaker) (May to June) Viktor Antikhovich (from June)
FC Shinnik Yaroslavl	Aleksandr Averyanov (until April) Aleksandr Pobegalov (caretaker) (April to June) Benjaminas Zelkevičius Template:Flagicon (June to October) Aleksandr Pobegalov (caretaker) (from October)

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

As of matches played on 8 November 1999.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Template:Flagicon Georgi Demetradze	Alania	21
2	Template:Flagicon Andrey Tikhonov	Spartak Moscow	19
3	Template:Flagicon Vladimir Kulik	CSKA	15
4	Template:Flagicon Dmitri Loskov	Lokomotiv Moscow	14
	Template:Flagicon Oleg Teryokhin	Dynamo
6	Template:Flagicon Arsen Avakov	Lokomotiv N.N.	13
7	Template:Flagicon Vyacheslav Kamoltsev	Torpedo	12
	Template:Flagicon Sergei Semak	CSKA
	Template:Flagicon Oleg Veretennikov	Rotor
10	Template:Flagicon Egor Titov	Spartak Moscow	11

Awards

On December 2 Russian Football Union named its list of 33 top players:

Goalkeepers

1. Template:Flagicon Aleksandr Filimonov (Spartak Moscow)
2. Template:Flagicon Ruslan Nigmatullin (Lokomotiv Moscow)
3. Template:Flagicon Roman Berezovsky (Zenit)

Right backs

1. Template:Flagicon Dmytro Parfenov (Spartak Moscow)
2. Template:Flagicon Valeri Minko (CSKA Moscow)
3. Template:Flagicon Aleksei Arifullin (Lokomotiv Moscow)

Right-centre backs

1. Template:Flagicon Dmitri Khlestov (Spartak Moscow)
2. Template:Flagicon Igor Cherevchenko (Lokomotiv Moscow)
3. Template:Flagicon Vyacheslav Dayev (Torpedo Moscow)

Left-centre backs

1. Template:Flagicon Igor Chugainov (Lokomotiv Moscow)
2. Template:Flagicon Viktor Bulatov (Spartak Moscow)
3. Template:Flagicon Yevgeni Varlamov (CSKA Moscow)

Left backs

1. Template:Flagicon Sergei Gurenko (Lokomotiv Moscow)
2. Template:Flagicon Yuri Kovtun (Spartak Moscow)
3. Template:Flagicon Oleg Kornaukhov (CSKA Moscow)

Right wingers

1. Template:Flagicon Sergei Semak (CSKA Moscow)
2. Template:Flagicon Albert Sarkisyan (Lokomotiv Moscow)
3. Template:Flagicon Olexandr Gorshkov (Zenit)

Right-center midfielders

1. Template:Flagicon Alexey Smertin (Lokomotiv Moscow)
2. Template:Flagicon Yuri Drozdov (Lokomotiv Moscow)
3. Template:Flagicon Dmitri Khomukha (CSKA Moscow)

Left-center midfielders

1. Template:Flagicon Yegor Titov (Spartak Moscow)
2. Template:Flagicon Dmitri Loskov (Lokomotiv Moscow)
3. Template:Flagicon Artyom Bezrodny (Spartak Moscow)

Left wingers

1. Template:Flagicon Andrey Tikhonov (Spartak Moscow)
2. Template:Flagicon Rolan Gusev (Dynamo Moscow)
3. Template:Flagicon Yevgeni Kharlachyov (Lokomotiv Moscow)

Right forwards

1. Template:Flagicon Aleksandr Panov (Zenit)
2. Template:Flagicon Zaza Janashia (Lokomotiv Moscow)
3. Template:Flagicon Aleksandr Shirko (Spartak Moscow)

Left forwards

1. Template:Flagicon Giorgi Demetradze (Alania)
2. Template:Flagicon Vladimir Kulik (CSKA Moscow)
3. Template:Flagicon Oleg Teryokhin (Dynamo Moscow)

Medal squads

1. FC Spartak Moscow

Goalkeepers: Aleksandr Filimonov (28), Andrei Smetanin (5). Defenders: Dmitri Khlestov (27 / 1), Yuri Kovtun (26 / 2), Eduard Mor (23), Dmytro Parfenov Template:Flagicon (17), Vadim Evseev (11 / 1), Yevgeni Bushmanov (9), Dmitri Ananko (7). Midfielders: Andrey Tikhonov (29 / 19), Yegor Titov (29 / 11), Valery Kechinov (26 / 4), Viktor Bulatov (29 / 4), Vasili Baranov Template:Flagicon (24 / 4), Artyom Bezrodny (19 / 5), Ilya Tsymbalar (11 / 2), Aleksei Zlydnev (2), Aleksei Melyoshin (2), Peniche Template:Flagicon (2). Forwards: Aleksandr Shirko (27 / 9), Luis Robson Template:Flagicon (20 / 7), Sergei Yuran (18 / 3), Maksim Buznikin (6 / 1), Anatoli Kanishchev (1). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets) One own goal each scored by Aleksandr Berketov (FC Rotor Volgograd) and Igor Cherevchenko Template:Flagicon (FC Lokomotiv Moscow). Manager: Oleg Romantsev. Transferred out during the season: Sergei Yuran (to Template:Flagicon SK Sturm Graz), Ilya Tsymbalar (to FC Lokomotiv Moscow), Maksim Buznikin (to FC Saturn Ramenskoye).

2. FC Lokomotiv Moscow

Goalkeepers: Ruslan Nigmatullin (29), Aleksey Polyakov Template:Flagicon (1). Defenders: Igor Chugainov (29 / 4), Andrei Lavrik Template:Flagicon (26), Oleg Pashinin Template:Flagicon (25 / 1), Yuri Drozdov (21), Igor Cherevchenko Template:Flagicon (20 / 2), Sargis Hovhannisyan Template:Flagicon (16 / 2), Aleksei Arifullin (16), Andrei Solomatin (13), Sergei Gurenko Template:Flagicon (6 / 2), Semyon Semenenko (6). Midfielders: Alexey Smertin (29 / 6), Dmitri Loskov (28 / 14), Yevgeni Kharlachyov (27 / 9), Albert Sarkisyan Template:Flagicon (26 / 4), Vladimir Maminov Template:Flagicon (22 / 3), Sergei Neretin (3), Aleksandr Borodyuk (1). Forwards: Dmitri Bulykin (26 / 8), Zaza Janashia Template:Flagicon (20 / 6), Ruslan Pimenov (4 / 1), Mikalay Ryndzyuk Template:Flagicon (4). Manager: Yuri Syomin. Transferred out during the season: Sergei Gurenko Template:Flagicon (to Template:Flagicon A.S. Roma), Mikalay Ryndzyuk Template:Flagicon (to Template:Flagicon FC BATE Borisov), Aleksandr Borodyuk (to FC Torpedo-ZIL Moscow).

3. PFC CSKA Moscow

Goalkeepers: Dmitri Goncharov (18), Andrei Novosadov (12). Defenders: Maksim Bokov (28 / 1), Valeri Minko (28 / 1), Oleg Kornaukhov (26), Yevgeni Varlamov (21 / 5), Igor Aksyonov (16), Denis Pervushin (4), Ante Pešić Template:Flagicon (4), Denis Yevsikov (3). Midfielders: Dmitri Khomukha Template:Flagicon (30 / 8), Sergei Semak (29 / 12), Sergei Filippenkov (29 / 6), Andrei Tsaplin (25), Aleksei Savelyev (24 / 2), Oleg Shishkin Template:Flagicon (15 / 3), Marek Hollý Template:Flagicon (14 / 1), Aleksandr Borodkin (13), Viktor Navochenko (13), Aleksandr Grishin (12), Magomed Adiev (4), Maksim Nizovtsev Template:Flagicon (2), Artyom Kovalenko (1), Andrei Krasnopjorov Template:Flagicon (1), Aleksandr Lebedev (1). Forwards: Vladimir Kulik (30 / 14), Goran Gutalj Template:Flagicon (2 / 1), Sergei Rodin (2), Aleksandr Suchkov (2). One own goal each scored by Konstantin Golovskoy (FC Dynamo Moscow) and Dmitriy Lyapkin Template:Flagicon (FC Saturn Ramenskoye). Manager: Oleg Dolmatov. Transferred out during the season: Aleksandr Borodkin (to FC Torpedo-ZIL Moscow), Magomed Adiev (to FC Sokol Saratov), Ante Pešić Template:Flagicon (to Template:Flagicon NK Vukovar '91), Maksim Nizovtsev Template:Flagicon (to FC Baltika Kaliningrad), Goran Gutalj Template:Flagicon (to Template:Flagicon HIT Gorica), Andrei Krasnopjorov Template:Flagicon (to Template:Flagicon FC Lantana Tallinn).

See also

• 1999 in Russian football

External links

• RSSSF