2010 Russian First Division

Russian First Division
Season	2010
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The 2010 Russian First Division was the 19th season of Russia's second-tier football league since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The season began on 27 March 2010.

Teams

As in the previous year, 20 clubs participate in this year championship. It features eleven clubs from 2009 Russian First Division, two clubs relegated from 2009 Russian Premier League, five zone winners from 2009 Russian Second Division, one of the second-placed clubs from 2009 Russian Second Division and one of the third-placed clubs from 2009 Russian Second Division.

Movement between Premier League and First Division

Anzhi Makhachkala as 2009 champions and Sibir Novosibirsk as runners-up have been promoted to the Premier League. They will be replaced by relegated teams Kuban Krasnodar and Khimki.

Movement between First Division and Second Division

Nosta Novotroitsk, Chita, Chernomorets Novorossiysk, Metallurg Lipetsk and MVD Rossii Moscow who placed in the last 5 places respectively in 2009 were relegated to the Russian Second Division.

The relegated teams were replaced by the five 2009 Second Division zone winners. These were Dynamo Saint Petersburg (West), Avangard Kursk (Centre), Zhemchuzhina-Sochi (South), Mordovia Saransk (Ural-Povolzhye) and Irtysh Omsk (East).

Further team changes

Due to financial difficulties, Vityaz Podolsk who placed 11th in 2009, decided to give up their spot in the Russian First Division and participate in the Russian Second Division in 2010.^[1]

Pending licensing, their place was taken by FC Volgograd who placed 3rd in the Russian Second Division (South Zone) in 2009. For the occasion the management decided to change the name of the club from FC Volgograd to Rotor Volgograd.

FC Alania Vladikavkaz were promoted into the 2010 Russian Premier League after FC Moscow dropped out due to financial reasons. It was replaced by FC Dynamo Bryansk.^[2] Dynamo Bryansk originally refused to be promoted when offered Vityaz's spot, but by the time Alania's spot became available, they found new financial commitments and agreed to participate in the First Division.

Overview

Location of teams in 2010 Russian First Division

Team	Location	Head Coach	Venue	Capacity	Position in 2009
Avangard	Kursk	Aleksandr Ignatenko	Trudovye Rezervy	11,329	1st, D2 "Centre"
Baltika	Kaliningrad	Leonid Tkachenko	Baltika	14,664	9th
Dynamo Bryansk	Bryansk	Aleksandr Smirnov	Dynamo	10,100	2nd, D2 "Centre"
Dynamo St. Petersburg	Saint Petersburg	Sergey Frantsev	MSA Petrovsky	2,835	1st, D2 "West"
Irtysh	Omsk	Aleksandr Dorofeyev	Red Star	8,000	1st, D2 "East"
KAMAZ	Naberezhnye Chelny	Robert Yevdokimov	KAMAZ	9,221	5th
Khimki	Khimki	Yevgeni Bushmanov	Novyye Khimki	3,066	16th, Premier
Krasnodar	Krasnodar	Sergei Tashuev	Kuban	34,640	10th
Kuban	Krasnodar	Dan Petrescu	Kuban	34,640	15th, Premier
Luch-Energiya	Vladivostok	Francisco Arcos	Dinamo	10,185	14th
Mordovia	Saransk	Fyodor Shcherbachenko	Svetotekhnika	14,000	1st, D2 "Ural-Povolzhye"
Nizhny Novgorod	Nizhny Novgorod	Viktor Zaidenberg	Severny	3,180	13th
Rotor	Volgograd	Vitaliy Shevchenko	Central	32,126	3rd, D2 "South"
Salyut	Belgorod	Yuri Bykov	Salyut	11,500	7th
Shinnik	Yaroslavl	Aleksandr Pobegalov	Shinnik	18,481	6th
SKA-Energiya	Khabarovsk	Sergey Feldman	Lenin Stadium	15,200	15th
Ural	Yekaterinburg	Vladimir Fedotov	Uralmash	13,000	8th
Volga	Nizhny Novgorod	Omari Tetradze	Lokomotiv	17,856	4th
Volgar-Gazprom	Astrakhan	Lev Ivanov	Centralny	20,500	12th
Zhemchuzhina-Sochi	Sochi	Oleg Vasilenko	Central	10,280	1st, D2 "South"

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing	Manner	Date	Table	Incoming	Date	Table
Dynamo St. Petersburg	Aleksandr Averyanov	Resigned	15 April 2010^[3]	19th	Grigori Mikhalyuk (caretaker)
Dynamo Bryansk	Soferbi Yeshugov	Sacked	7 May 2010	20th	Sergei Ovchinnikov	7 May 2010^[4]	20th
Volga Nizhny Novgorod	Aleksandr Pobegalov	Resigned	8 May 2010	12th	Omari Tetradze	8 May 2010^[5]	12th
Shinnik Yaroslavl	Igor Lediakhov	Sacked	11 May 2010	18th	Aleksandr Pobegalov	11 May 2010^[6]	12th
Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast	Vladimir Fedotov	Sacked	11 May 2010	7th	Boris Stukalov	14 May 2010	7th
Dynamo St. Petersburg	Grigori Mikhalyuk (caretaker)	Finished	19 May 2010	10th	Boris Zhuravlyov	19 May 2010
Salyut Belgorod	Miroslav Romaschenko	Sacked	20 May 2010	16th	Leonid Koutchouk	20 May 2010^[7]	16th
Luch-Energiya	Leonid Nazarenko	Sacked	22 May 2010	13th	Francisco Arcos (caretaker)	22 May 2010^[8]	13th
Baltika	Ivan Lyakh	Sacked	5 June 2010	13th	Leonid Tkachenko
Rotor	Vladimir Faizulin	Sacked	26 June 2010	20th	Vitaliy Shevchenko	27 June 2010^[9]	20th
Dynamo St. Petersburg	Boris Zhuravlyov	Sacked	22 July 2010	17th	Eduard Malofeyev	22 July 2010^[10]	20th
Khimki	Aleksandr Tarkhanov		30 July 2010	9th	Yevgeni Bushmanov (caretaker)
Zhemchuzhina-Sochi	Oleg Vasilenko		2 August 2010	4th	Zurab Sanaya
Avangard Kursk	Valery Yesipov	Sacked	17 August 2010	19th	Oleg Sergeyev (caretaker)
Dynamo St. Petersburg	Eduard Malofeyev	Sacked	20 August 2010	20th	Sergey Frantsev
Salyut Belgorod	Leonid Koutchouk	Sacked	23 August 2010	19th	Yuri Bykov	23 August 2010^[11]	19th
Irtysh Omsk	Vladimir Arays	Sacked	2 September 2010	20th	Aleksandr Dorofeyev	2 September 2010
Avangard Kursk	Oleg Sergeyev (caretaker)	Finished	17 September 2010	19th	Aleksandr Ignatenko
Dynamo Bryansk	Sergei Ovchinnikov	Sacked	17 September 2010	18th	Aleksandr Smirnov	17 September 2010^[12]	18th
Zhemchuzhina-Sochi	Zurab Sanaya		27 September 2010	5th	Oleg Vasilenko
SKA-Energiya	Sergei Gorlukovich	Sacked	28 September 2010	15th	Sergey Feldman

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Kuban Krasnodar (C, P)	38	24	8	6	51	20	+31	80	Promotion to Premier League
2	Volga Nizhny Novgorod (P)	38	19	14	5	62	25	+37	71	Promotion to Premier League
3	Nizhny Novgorod	38	21	7	10	60	41	+19	70
4	KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny	38	19	9	10	55	43	+12	66
5	Krasnodar (P)	38	17	10	11	60	44	+16	61	Promotion to Premier League
6	Mordovia Saransk	38	16	10	12	53	40	+13	58
7	Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast	38	14	16	8	38	28	+10	58
8	Zhemchuzhina-Sochi	38	16	9	13	45	44	+1	57
9	Volgar-Gazprom Astrakhan	38	16	9	13	45	48	−3	57
10	Shinnik Yaroslavl	38	14	13	11	43	31	+12	55
11	SKA-Khabarovsk	38	15	8	15	37	39	−2	53
12	Luch-Energiya Vladivostok	38	13	13	12	42	42	0	52
13	Khimki	38	11	17	10	39	38	+1	50
14	Dynamo Bryansk	38	11	11	16	53	54	−1	44
15	Baltika Kaliningrad	38	11	10	17	38	47	−9	43
16	Dynamo St. Petersburg (R)	38	9	10	19	32	53	−21	37	Relegation to Second Division
17	Salyut Belgorod (R)	38	7	13	18	30	47	−17	34
18	Rotor Volgograd (R)	38	9	7	22	27	64	−37	34
19	Irtysh Omsk (R)	38	6	10	22	26	52	−26	28
20	Avangard Kursk (R)	38	7	6	25	31	67	−36	27

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
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	AVA	BAL	DBR	DSP	IRT	KAM	KHI	KRA	KUB	LUE	MOR	NN	ROT	SAL	SHI	SKA	URA	VNN	VGA	ZHE
Avangard Kursk		1–1	1–2	0–0	2–1	2–1	0–1	1–2	1–2	1–2	1–1	1–5	1–3	2–0	1–6	1–5	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–0
Baltika Kaliningrad	2–1		1–2	2–0	2–1	2–4	3–1	1–1	0–1	1–0	2–2	1–0	3–2	0–0	0–1	1–2	0–1	0–0	1–1	2–1
Dynamo Bryansk	1–0	0–1		4–1	2–1	4–0	1–1	4–3	0–2	1–1	0–0	1–1	0–1	2–2	0–1	5–0	0–2	0–1	2–3	1–0
Dynamo St. Petersburg	1–0	0–2	0–0		2–0	1–1	0–2	0–0	0–0	1–2	1–3	0–1	4–1	2–0	2–5	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–1
Irtysh Omsk	2–1	2–0	1–4	0–2		0–0	0–0	0–0	2–3	0–3	0–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	1–0	1–1	1–4	0–1
KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny	2–0	2–1	1–1	2–0	1–2		1–1	1–0	1–2	1–0	2–1	3–2	2–0	2–1	1–2	1–1	1–1	1–1	3–1	2–0
Khimki	3–0	1–0	2–2	4–1	1–1	0–2		0–0	0–1	1–1	0–3	1–1	1–3	1–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	3–1
Krasnodar	0–0	3–1	5–1	0–0	2–0	3–2	1–1		0–1	3–0	4–1	4–2	3–0	2–0	2–1	3–0	1–0	3–3	2–0	1–1
Kuban Krasnodar	2–0	0–0	1–0	2–0	2–1	0–1	1–0	3–0		3–0	0–2	0–0	3–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	3–0	1–0	6–1	0–1
Luch-Energiya Vladivostok	4–3	2–1	0–3	1–0	1–1	0–1	0–0	1–1	0–1		2–0	3–1	1–1	2–0	3–1	0–0	1–0	1–1	0–1	2–1
Mordovia Saransk	0–1	1–0	3–2	2–1	2–1	1–2	2–1	1–2	3–0	0–0		3–1	3–1	0–1	1–0	0–2	1–1	2–0	1–1	1–1
Nizhny Novgorod	3–2	2–0	3–1	1–0	2–1	3–1	2–0	4–3	3–1	3–1	0–1		3–0	3–0	1–0	2–0	1–0	2–2	0–0	0–0
Rotor Volgograd	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–2	0–0	1–0	0–1	0–1	0–3	2–2	0–6	0–2		0–1	1–0	0–2	1–2	1–4	0–1	1–0
Salyut Belgorod	0–0	1–1	4–2	1–2	1–0	2–0	1–2	1–2	1–2	0–1	1–1	0–1	2–1		0–0	2–4	1–1	0–0	1–2	1–0
Shinnik Yaroslavl	2–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–2	0–0	1–0	0–1	3–2	0–0	0–1	1–1	1–1		3–0	1–1	0–0	2–0	0–1
SKA-Khabarovsk	2–1	1–0	0–0	0–1	1–0	0–2	1–1	1–0	0–0	0–0	3–1	0–1	2–0	2–1	2–3		0–0	1–2	1–0	2–0
Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast	0–0	1–0	3–3	2–0	1–0	1–1	0–2	3–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	3–0	4–0	0–0	0–0	1–0		0–1	2–0	1–1
Volga Nizhny Novgorod	3–0	4–1	1–1	3–0	3–0	2–2	2–0	4–1	0–0	2–2	3–0	3–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	3–0		3–1	3–0
Volgar-Gazprom Astrakhan	3–1	2–2	3–0	3–2	2–0	0–1	2–2	2–1	2–1	2–1	0–3	2–1	0–0	2–0	0–1	1–0	0–0	1–0		0–3
Zhemchuzhina-Sochi	3–2	1–2	2–1	3–1	2–1	3–2	2–1	2–0	0–1	0–0	2–1	2–2	2–2	2–2	2–1	1–0	2–2	0–2	1–0

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

Top scorers

Last updated: 6 November 2010; Source: PFL (in Russian)

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Otar Martsvaladze	Volga	21
2	Spartak Gogniyev	KAMAZ / Krasnodar	18
3	Sergei Davydov	Volgar-Gazprom / Kuban	16
4	Dmitri Golubov	Baltika	15
5	Ruslan Mukhametshin	Mordovia	13
	Sergei Serdyukov	KAMAZ
	Aleksandr Tikhonovetsky	Nizhny Novgorod
8	Azamat Gonezhukov	Dynamo St. Petersburg	12
9	Maksim Demenko	Krasnodar / Zhemchuzhina-Sochi	11
	Yevgeni Kaleshin	Krasnodar
	Kirill Panchenko	Mordovia
12	Vasiliy Karmazinenko	SKA-Energiya	10