2019 Russian Women's Football Championship

Russian Women's Football Championship
Season	2019
Dates	11 April – 23 November
Champions	CSKA Moscow; (1st title)
Champions League	CSKA Moscow
Matches played	82
Goals scored	223 (2.72 per match)
Best Player	Nadezhda Smirnova
Top goalscorer	Nelli Korovkina; (20 goals)
	← 2018 2020 →

The 2019 Russian Women's Football Championship was the 28th season of the Russian women's football top level league. Ryazan-VDV were the defending champions.

Teams

(not on map)

Location of teams

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Chertanovo	Moscow	Arena Chertanovo	490
CSKA	Moscow	Oktyabr Stadium	3,060
CSKA	Moscow	Novye Khimki Stadium, Khimki	3,066
Kubanochka	Krasnodar	Andrey Arena, Afipsky
Kubanochka	Krasnodar	Kuban Stadium	35,200
Lokomotiv	Moscow	Sapsan Arena	10,000
Ryazan-VDV	Ryazan	Spartak Stadium	6,000
Torpedo	Izhevsk	Kupol Stadium	3,000
Yenisey	Krasnoyarsk	Football-Arena Yenisey	3,000
Zvezda-2005	Perm	Zvezda Stadium	17,000

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	CSKA	21	18	2	1	52	8	+44	56	Champions League qualifying round
2	Lokomotiv	21	14	2	5	50	12	+38	44
3	Kubanochka	21	10	5	6	22	22	0	35
4	Zvezda-2005	21	9	4	8	31	20	+11	31
5	Ryazan-VDV	21	8	7	6	25	20	+5	31
6	Chertanovo	21	5	5	11	25	37	−12	20
7	Yenisey	21	3	3	15	16	44	−28	12
8	Torpedo	21	1	4	16	8	66	−58	7

Source: RFS
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Number of wins; 3) Head-to-head points; 4) Head-to-head wins; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head goals; 7) Head-to-head away goals; 8) Goal difference; 9) Goals scored; 10) Drawing of lots^[2]

Results

Matches 1–14

Home \ Away	CHE	CSK	KUB	LOK	RYA	TOR	YEN	ZVE
Chertanovo		2–6	2–2	0–5	0–1	1–1	2–1	3–2
CSKA	3–1		2–0	1–0	4–0	4–0	4–0	3–1
Kubanochka	3–2	0–1		1–0	2–2	1–1	1–0	1–0
Lokomotiv	2–0	1–1	3–0		0–0	5–0	4–0	0–1
Ryazan-VDV	1–1	1–1	0–1	0–3		3–0	1–0	0–1
Torpedo	0–3	0–4	0–2	1–4	0–5		1–0	1–1
Yenisey	1–1	0–2	0–1	0–3	1–1	6–1		0–6
Zvezda-2005	2–2	1–2	0–0	0–1	0–0	2–0	1–0

Source: RFS
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Matches 15–21

Home \ Away	CHE	CSK	KUB	LOK	RYA	TOR	YEN	ZVE
Chertanovo			0–1	1–0		3–0^[a]
CSKA	2–0			0–1			2–0	2–0
Kubanochka		0–2			2–0	3–0^[b]		1–2
Lokomotiv			5–0		0–2	7–0
Ryazan-VDV	1–0	0–2					5–1	1–0
Torpedo		0–4			1–1			0–5
Yenisey	1–0		0–0	3–4		2–1
Zvezda-2005	2–1			1–2			3–0

Source: RFS
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

^ Torpedo forfeited a match.
^ Torpedo forfeited a match.

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals^[3]
1	Nelli Korovkina	Lokomotiv	20
2	Ksenia Tsybutovich	CSKA	11
3	Ekaterina Pantyukhina	Zvezda-2005	10
4	Nadezhda Smirnova	CSKA	9
4	Olesya Kurochkina	Zvezda-2005	9
6	Darya Yakovleva	CSKA	8
7	Marija Vuković	Ryazan-VDV	7

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Nelli Korovkina	Lokomotiv	Yenisey	4–0 (h)	7 June 2019
Marija Vuković	Ryazan-VDV	Torpedo	5–0 (a)	3 August 2019
Nelli Korovkina⁴	Lokomotiv	Kubanochka	5–0 (h)	8 September 2019