Fixtures

DateRHjemme vs Borte-
03/29 16:30 22 Dinamo Moskva vs Rostov View
03/30 11:00 22 Krylia Sovetov vs Zenit St Petersburg View
03/30 13:30 22 PFC Sochi vs CSKA Moskva View
03/30 14:30 22 Baltika Kaliningrad vs FC Nizhny Novgorod View
03/30 16:00 22 Spartak Moskva vs Ural View
03/31 11:00 22 Fakel Voronezh vs FC Orenburg View
03/31 13:30 22 Rubin Kazan vs FC Akhmat Grozny View
03/31 16:30 22 Lokomotiv Moskva vs Krasnodar View
04/06 11:00 23 Ural vs Krylia Sovetov View
04/06 13:30 23 FC Nizhny Novgorod vs Krasnodar View
04/06 17:00 23 Rostov vs PFC Sochi View
04/07 11:00 23 CSKA Moskva vs Fakel Voronezh View

Results

Date R Hjemme vs Borte -
03/10 16:00 20 Spartak Moskva vs Fakel Voronezh 0-2
03/10 13:30 20 Lokomotiv Moskva vs PFC Sochi 2-2
03/10 11:00 20 FC Orenburg vs Baltika Kaliningrad 1-0
03/09 16:00 20 Dinamo Moskva vs FC Akhmat Grozny 2-0
03/09 13:30 20 Rubin Kazan vs FC Nizhny Novgorod 0-1
03/09 11:00 20 Ural vs Zenit St Petersburg 1-4
03/08 15:30 20 Rostov vs Krasnodar 2-1
03/08 11:00 20 Krylia Sovetov vs CSKA Moskva 0-2
03/03 16:00 19 Baltika Kaliningrad vs PFC Sochi 0-0
03/03 13:30 19 Dinamo Moskva vs Lokomotiv Moskva 2-1
03/03 11:00 19 FC Nizhny Novgorod vs Fakel Voronezh 1-1
03/02 16:30 19 Zenit St Petersburg vs Spartak Moskva 0-0

The Russian Premier League (RPL; Russian: Российская премьер-лига; РПЛ), also written as Russian Premier Liga, is the top division professional association football league in Russia. It was established at the end of 2001 as the Russian Football Premier League (RFPL; Russian: Российская футбольная премьер-лига; РФПЛ) and was rebranded with its current name in 2018. From 1992 through 2001, the top level of the Russian football league system was the Russian Football Championship (Russian: Чемпионат России по футболу, Chempionat Rossii po Futbolu).

There are 16 teams in the competition. As of the 2021/22 season, the league had two Champions League qualifying spots for the league winners and league runners-up, and two spots in the UEFA Conference League were allocated to the third- and fourth-placed teams. However, those have all been suspended due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, along with the national team's participation in international competitions. The last two teams are relegated to the Russian First League at the end of the season, while the 13th and 14th placed teams compete against the National League's 4th and 3rd teams respectively in a two-legged playoff.

The Russian Premier League succeeded the Top Division including history and records. The Top Division was run by the Professional Football League of Russia. Since July 2022, the league is currently called Mir Russian Premier League (Russian: Мир Российская премьер-лига), also written as Mir Russian Premier Liga (after the Mir payment system), for sponsorship reasons.

Since the introduction of the Russian Premier League in 2002, Zenit Saint Petersburg (9 times), CSKA Moscow (6 times), Lokomotiv Moscow (3 times), Rubin Kazan (2 times) and Spartak Moscow (1 time) have won the title. Zenit Saint Petersburg are the current champions winning the competition since 2018–19 until 2022–23 consecutively.

History

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, starting in 1992, each former Soviet republic organized an independent national championship. In Russia, the six Russian teams who had played in the Soviet Top League in 1991 (CSKA Moscow, Spartak Moscow, Torpedo Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, Spartak Vladikavkaz, and Lokomotiv Moscow) were supplemented with 14 teams from lower divisions to form a 20-team Russian Top Division. The Top Division was divided into two groups to reduce the total number of matches. The number of teams in the Top Division was reduced to 18 in 1993 and 16 in 1994. Since then, the Russian Top Division (and the Premier League since 2002) has consisted of 16 teams, except for a short-lived experiment with having two more teams in 1996 and 1997.[]

Spartak Moscow won nine of the first ten titles. Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz was the only team which managed to break Spartak's dominance, winning the top division title in 1995. Lokomotiv Moscow have won the title three times, and CSKA Moscow six times.[] In 2007, Zenit St. Petersburg won the title for the first time in their history in Russian professional football; they had also won a Soviet title in 1984. 2008 brought the rise of Rubin Kazan, a club entirely new to the Russian top flight, as it had never competed in the Soviet Top League.[]

In preparation for the 2018–19 season, it was decided to hold a rebranding in which a new logo was presented.

As a result of the Russia's invasion of Ukraine, all Russian club and national teams were banned from European competition indefinitely. Spartak Moscow, who were competing in the UEFA Europa League and were the only Russian club team remaining in European competition at the time, were disqualified from their tie against RB Leipzig, who advanced on a walkover.

Russland - Premier League

Russland – Premier Liga er den øverste fotballdivisjonen i Russland. Ligaen ble etablert i 1992 etter oppløsningen av Sovjetunionen, og erstattet den sovjetiske toppdivisjonen. Premier Liga består av 16 lag, og spillerne hverandre to ganger i løpet av en sesong. De to øverste lagene ved sesongslutt kvalifiserer seg til Mesterligaen, mens lagene på tredje- og fjerdeplass kvalifiserer seg til Europaligaen. Det siste laget på tabellen rykker ned til den nest øverste divisjonen, National Football League.

Noen av de mest suksessrike lagene i Russlands Premier Liga er CSKA Moskva (13 titler), Zenit Saint Petersburg (8 titler) og Spartak Moskva (10 titler). Ligaen er kjent for sin høye kvalitet, med mange talentfulle spillere fra både Russland og utlandet.