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Russian league is very competitive and have great teams, mostly from Moscow.
Although Spartak Moscow has the most championship these are from early years of the league. Zenit won last four seasons and they have eight championships total.
If you count Soviet days Spartak Moscow still got the crown with twenty two championships, CSKA Moscow has thirteen and Dynamo Moscow has eleven titles.
St. Petersburg team Zenit lately put an embargo on the league. They also won UEFA Cup and Super Cup in 2008.

I hope this year we will watch a good season where we don't feel the effects of the war and the players play freely in their teams. I wish that the unfair situation applied in European cups will be corrected as soon as possible.

This is the first time I am finding out about Russian Premier League, did some research and found out that the most dominating team is Zenit as the OP also mentioned in the post.
They have already played the first match against Khimki and it was a draw, so let's see who wins this but my vote goes towards the strongest team in the league, i.e. Zenit.

The funny thing is that they got a draw against a team who was at bottom last year when they won the league so that may be the factor to consider or maybe just the first game.
Might need some more matches to get control and lead the league, happens in other leagues too.

It's a joke? The Russian championship is completely destroyed by the sanctions (foreign players have the right to unilaterally terminate the contract and leave) and will not be of any interest next season, since its level will be very low. As for the return of Russian clubs to the Euro Cups, this can be forgotten in the coming years - even if the war ends tomorrow. This is a long process, plus the championship has fallen very much in its level and it will take years to return at least to the previous level.

When I saw this thread, I went to check for Russian Premier League on the Livescore site that I am using but I did not see anything like Russia again, not to talk of Russian Premier League. In one way or the other, Russian Premier League will be affected by the sanctions placed on them by FiFA and UEFA. Lack of information will likely make this thread not to be an active one.

Today already 3 matches finished
Khimki 1 - 1 Zenit
CSKA Moscow 2 - 0 Ural
Orenburg 2 - 4 Krilia Sovetov
and there's another one match soon in the next few minutes
Akhmat Grozny - Spartak Moscow

Zenit already dominated this match at the half time and scored one goal but unfortunately Mirzov he can hit a goal in 84 minute, looking at the statistics Zenit should have got 3 points but this match look a difficult too because start of the season was something interesting and more surprises.

Off course there is! Don't Fvck with LiveScore alone, guess you didn't using other football Applications. I did take a look out and some games are on. Sanctions has them roles to play they also must have created a level of awareness for the Russian Premier League.

Zenith Saint Petersburg use to be my best team, as I won couple of my major best. I can recall sometime 2018 during May, I had one of my biggest wins from gambling and Zenith Saint Petersburg contributed to it. They won with the total number if goals I placed my on.

So in conclusion, go take a good look with other Apps they are present.

Well this dosent mean that the Russian league wont be intresting at all. All clubs in Russia have gotten some good transfers and players arent leaving their clubs. The only thing is that you cannot fight for europian place but you can fight for the title and not to get relegated. Also you can follow on flashscore

I would also like to understand how this season will go, considering that Russia will play its championship by itself because of war effects, so, they will be excluded from any kind of european competition. I haven't followed

Transfer market of Russian Championship this summer, but I think that a championship without european competition is less attractive than one that has it.

I am happy to see that there's a topic about another European dominating league (Russian League), from this topic we'll get various insights and pov regarding condition of the league and also the matches there. I just vote for CSKA Moscow (I hope they win the league title this season). Even though Zenit have dominated this league for the last 4 seasons, but I'm not sure they will win it for the fifth time. They also didn't make a good result in their opening match against Khimki, the match ended in a draw which means Zenit only get 1 point. How about you guys? Which team do you think will win the Russian league this season?

The Russian league this time plays only locally as Russia is devastated from the ongoing sanctions which day by day are making Russia more isolated.It is only natural that teams from a country which wage an unjustified war of aggression are not permitted to take part in International Competitions like the Champions League and other related competitions.

I know Zenit St Petersburg being one of the best teams lately together with CSKA Moscow but before the big history if I am not mistaken is made by Spartak Moscow which I believe to be the most well known team from the Russian Premier League.

No matter how this season go it is of no real importance except to make the local fans happy but I know as a fan you can't be happy when your team is not allowed to take part in the above mentioned competitions.

Making my own prediction in advance already for next weekend fixtures.
CSKA Moscow will be up against Sochi next week both sides won respective game's this week.
CSKA MOSCOW kept clean sheets while Scohi won by two goals ahead conceding a single goal.
Next week my prediction for them would be to draw.

Even I am not in favor of this conflict which is creating problems for World specially European Union, but I am still feeling the decision from UEFA about sports is completely unfair and devastated because they can't do these things with sports here they have dual policy and this is surely big setback for Russian clubs which are doing good in UEFA for many decades. Here is no good place for talking more about politics but still feeling bad for these great clubs and their fans which are having serious problems due to this ban which is surely unfair for me and millions others.

I just check new season started, and first matches are going to be interested as defending champions Zenit is held by Khimki even they take early lead in this match and now CSKA Moscow already won his first match and Spartak Moscow is also held by Akhmat Grozny with the same score.

Because of the sanctions, wasn't the players (from FIFA) to unilaterally terminate their contracts without consequences?  Does anyone know how many players took advantage of this?  I only know Russian teams from the CL and Europa League, basically CSKA and Zenit. And I only know a few players, for example Dzyuba, although he is now also without a club.

What's a joke to you? Do you think UEFA ban will go on for years? Eventually they will remove it and justice will be served. For now Russian players can play, I don't know why some players stop playing. There is no problem with war at the moment. My friends living in Russia also continue their normal lives. There is no obstacle to play the league. There are only problems with foreign players but this can be tolerated for another year.

I'm from Russia, but I don't follow the local championship because by and large it is garbage (and even more so now). I know that many legionnaires fled from the clubs and at the end of the last championship the teams had real problems in order to find a full-fledged team for the game. As you can imagine, the level of the tournament has gone down a lot. Rich clubs like Zenit seem to have kept greedy players on their roster, but the overall standings in the league are terrible.

when you say justice will be done what do you mean? you expected UEFA to also say: "yes russia did well to be exterminated citizens of ukraine, force russia, kill all women, children and babies in ukraine" if ukraine were to invade russia and commit atrocities and uefa did not banish ukraine would you be happy? I think it's wrong and cruel to invade other people's country, nothing justifies this kind of behavior and we have to punish the governments that do this, they are not punishing the people of russia because there are certain people from russia with a good heart and that they are suffering from these sanctions and are against this current Russian regime. but uefa made a good decision, Is a decision against the russian government, uefa is not against the people of russia, at least that's my opinion.

And let's be honest, is it possible to have a good championship without foreign players? I doubt that this russian league will prosper like this and it will also take years for uefa to reconsider its decision

What does this have to do with the Russian league and its players? Did the players start the war? Are the players fighting in war? Just as the sanctions against Russia in all areas of life are unfair, the punishments given in sports are also completely unjust. Those who oppose it justify injustice. Not only in football, but in all sports, Russian athletes are treated unfairly, you have to be blind to not see this. UEFA's decisions are just a big joke. In fact, Russian teams should seek their rights against the law, otherwise this mafia order will continue.

I hope foreign players will play again as soon as possible. Some players didn't leave the league last season, players like Yusuf Yazıcı continued to play. Players who wanted to run away just got their contracts terminated but I don't blame them. Not everyone wants to play in such difficult conditions.

An important win for cska moskow its allways good to start the season with a win and what make it better is that their usual title contenders all failed to win which will give them a moral boost, on the other hand zenit team only managed a draw which was disapointing but a fair score in my opinion.

This is the first open discussion about RPL in this forum that I've seen. I have to admit that I only watched their teams in the Champions League when they were drawn against PL and La Liga teams. It should be an interesting season for them as it will showcase their local talents more.

Do they have a huge following from the rest of Europe to begin with? The number of interest is probably not that significant compared to the other leagues so there's no real difference now and then.

Here I agree with you this all is completely unfair if you are feeling bad then just put this all on political level banning all sports and players is never been fair and this all is just joke which is going to be pranked for this UEFA and other European sports authorities because they are supporting Israel's all crimes as justice and hitting back here on Russia for Ukraine war is dual policy from them.

I am not happy to talk all about this here because this all is just related to sport, and we need to talk about this, but peoples are reacting unfairly which is never been good and ideal situation. They need to be fair and balanced for all policies and commitments but here they are doing all things which are completely nonsense I personally against war and things like this, but you also have to accept realities and just give punishment things which are involved in politics.

Zenit in the Russian Premier League is like PSG in France, they have no equal, there are no other title contenders. But on the other hand no one knows what awaits Russian football after Russia's exclusion from all international tournaments. It is possible that the quality of the game will badly deteriorate.

It seems to me that this season in the Russian Premier League to predict something now is fortune-telling on coffee grounds, very big changes in the lineups that have occurred in clubs can completely change the picture of the leaderboard.

You write nonsense. It is very interesting to hear from you the opinions of "friends from Russia who are doing well" given the fact that I myself am from Russia and I see with my own eyes what is happening. “We need to be patient a little and the sanctions will be lifted,” I have been hearing since 2014, when Russia started a war against Ukraine, but for some reason, since then, the sanctions have been getting tougher and tougher.
As I said, the Russian football championship is almost destroyed/turned into a circus. There are no prospects for correcting this situation in the coming years.

As Russian clubs were excluded from international tournaments, their income decreased significantly. In the past, they were able to bring important stars to the Russian League. They can't do this anymore. Therefore, the quality of the league will decrease. Clubs will have to give more chances to Russian players. Perhaps this will expand the pool of players of the Russian national team.

Even if they do so the national team is also out of the International competitions so it is worthless.Unless Russia stops this unjustified war of aggression killing a lot of children and innocent people by aiming at civilian buildings and not military targets that is how the situation for the soccer of the country of Russia will remain.I doubt that even after they stop the war,they will immediately be accepted in International competitions,the crimes of Russia are of a nature that cannot be forgotten or forgiven that easily that is why is worthless even if they expand the pool of players for the national team.

With the things that Russia have been doing i do think that the whole premium league won't be working that fine at all, at the same time there won't be many international people who would be participating in it considering the fact that there have been a new idea of banning all the Russian sports as well from the major platforms, i do urge people to not support anything from Russia, see the thing is ofcourse people did not do anything but at the end of the day, the government have revenues in every single sports or leagues like that as well therefore i do think that we can all do our bit to support Ukrainians.

It is nice to have a thread for the Russian league also. Thank you for opening the topic. We can clearly see that Zenit have had a big dominance over the years. They became the champions for four times in a row. It was a quite comfortable championship last season too by a nine point gap with Sochi. It was surprising to see Sochi finishing the league as the 2nd by the way. Teams like CSKA Moscow and especially Spartak Moscow didn't have a good season at all. I wonder what kind of a season is waiting for us and the league has already started by the first week.

I also hope so, we all here can see good results in the Russian Premier League this year, unfortunately not many gambling sites place bets for Russian league teams, only a few online gambling sites do.

As far as I know it's like CSKA Moscow vs FC Sochi, which is scheduled for 23/07/22, it seems a shame to miss, I watched the two teams compete last month 2/3/22, which was won by CSKA Moscow (2-1), as you said CSKA Moscow has good hopes.

If I may suggest, you should consider some other Russian League football teams, I think they are good like: Krylya Sovetov, Dynamo Moscow, FK Khimki, I think these three teams have a good chance for the future in the Russian League this year.

The first week matches were completed and only three teams were able to win. All other matches ended in draw, it was an interesting opening week.
Zenit conceded a goal in the last minutes of the match and ended the match in a draw. Likewise, Dinamo Moscow couldn't maintain its superiority in the match in which they took the lead. Lokomotiv Moscow also failed to win the game in which they took the lead. The fate of all three teams this week was the same.
The winning team of the week was CSKA Moscow. They won by scoring two goals against their weak opponent.

For the most part, this is a false statement. The peculiarity of the Russian championship is that absolutely all clubs are unprofitable (I'm talking about the situation before the war). Russian football is either a toy in the hands of local oligarchs or a burden on regional budgets. It has nothing to do with football as a business. These are rather PR projects that should demonstrate that there are "achievements" in such a backward country as Russia. It makes no sense to apply here the reasoning that is relevant for other European countries.

I cannot imagine same thing happening to my country's league or any of the other big leagues like germany or spain. I mean, can you imagine that foreigner players from a big league to had to terminate their contracts and going to other league. We are also witnessing the same situation for Euroleague basketball. From the big teams of Russian league, good players have gone to other big teams. Euroleague will be even more crazy in this sense. I just wish that while the governments do crazy things, regular people would not suffer..

I watched Krasnodar-Fakel match in RPL this week and i must say that if all the matches will be like this a good league is waiting for us. Safonov became a giant in this match. The draw was named after him. If Safonov continues like this, he may go to Europe. Krasnodar’s defense was weak. Without Safonov it would have been a defeat. Congratulations to both teams. It was a good and very competitive match.

uefa banned russia, that means russian teams will not participate in european competitions. and with that these russia games are already doomed to failure, although even before the war i didn't see these teams getting far in anything, and it's all the fault of the current regime, russia could be very good in soccer, but it's not. it doesn't even seem that russia is a rich country and is in europe and asia, they don't have a good performance in soccer, honestly i couldn't watch these games for 90 minutes

There is no doubt Russia is big country with too many inner issues and having too many controversies which are giving them some negative impact, but their recent adventure in Ukraine are going to big impact on them because now most of the European countries are feeling trouble with them and now trying to set better examples with united boycotted but until now Russia is going on and feeling no pressure from any country which is good enough.

Zenit is one of the best team in Russia and still peoples are feeling they can handle this situation even things could be the worst but still too many options having for them with most chances, few teams can manage in positive way.

We have already seen the first matches in the Russian Premiere League, and it is quite surprising to see the results in those matches. Currently Krylya Sovetov, PFC Sochi and CSKA Moscow lead the standings in the first to third positions.

What do you think? will Zenit and Spartak be able to win their next match? Zenit will face Krylya Sovetov while Spartak will face Krasnodar.

They sit comfortably at the top of the Russian Premier League table with a total of four points winning today's game and drew the last  fixtures. Today's fixtures showed they really wanted all three points as they both dominated the first half and second half. A player scored brace and sits as the second highest goal scorer already with the both goal placed at the back of the net.
They should have another game coming next up on the 30th of June they should be headed for all three points and nothing less.

Zenit won easily and already made up for the draw in the first round. Spartak Moscow has a really difficult matchup against Krasnodar i think they might even lose more points in this match. CSKA should win against Sochi without much problems

yep. At least for few years from now

And yep, the main problem that after this trusted books like 365bet will remove russian league from betting and you will be need to use some shady books like 1xbet or something like that. So just forget about russian league, it was not interesting even in better days

Zenit won easily after Mostoyov and Kuzyayev scored a total of 3 goals, I think this is a normal thing because Krylya Sovetov is one of the teams that is not strong enough in the Russian Premiere League.

For Spartak and CSKA, I think they will find it difficult to get a win in their next match. That's because Spartak will face Krasnodar which is one of the strong teams. Also Sochi, they managed to finish in second place last season which indicates that they are also a team that deserves to be reckoned with.

Referee disaster occurred in Krasnodar-Spartak match. It must be admitted that Krasnodar did not play a good football, but the referee kicked the Krasnodar player from the game instead of kicking the Spartak player from the game. The referee cut the match. Although Spartak was the dominant side throughout the match, i think they cannot be champions with this squad. Krasnodar continued its bad football.

An excelent beginning for cska moscow team, they started the season with two home wins scoring five goals and conceiding none they seem to be playing well at home now we will have to see them when they play away and after few rounds we can judge if they can compete for the title.

Hahaha, that's not surprising. The whole country, including football, returned in its development decades ago when there were many fixed games and scandals arose after each round due to biased referees. Taking into account the fact that the Russian championship is excluded from the area of interest of UEFA and FIFA, and what happens inside is controlled only by local corrupt functionaries, there will be many more similar games ahead. I'm surprised that anyone else is watching these games, I know that the fans of many clubs have declared a boycott because of the FanID scandal.

It's only the start of the season, but CSKA have still got off to a good start. But Dynamo, Spartak and Zenit have also shown good football, although they haven't won their first two games, but they haven't lost either. However, these teams are always at the top of the standings, so the battle for the lead between them will continue throughout the season.

I watched some RPL matches to be honest, to put it mildly, it does not cause optimism, if earlier they somehow left due to the constant increase in the limit of legionnaires, now this is the path of stagnation and a game for a decrease. Of course, now we will have to pay attention to young players and they have a real chance to be noticed by football agents while the clubs have financial opportunities.

There way more foreign players in RPL remaining that I expected. Now there is 92 foreign players registered, 85 if we don't count Belarussians who doesn't count as foreign players there. After all, it's about 20% of players.
Without UEFA tournaments league lost much interest. Yeah, becoming champion is still big deal, but remaining places like 2nd, 3rd, 4th doesn't matters without places in UEFA tournaments.

I don't see nothing unfair in sanctions against Russia in all areas, including sports. It would difficult to understand decision to allow Russian clubs to play in UEFA competitions like nothing didn't happened. Probably you're going to say that sports and politics shouldn't be mixed, but it always been mixed. For example, remember 1936, 1980 or 1984 Olympics. And this time it's not even politics, it's war

Ural will play tonight against Krasnodar. I think Krasnodar will beat them easily because Ural miraculously stayed in the Premier League this season, while Krasnodar finished last season in 4th place. I don't think it will be a difficult match for them and they should beat such an easy opponent to get points.

Today there is a big and interesting game between zenit and lokomotiv moscow, lokomotive team is one of the big teams in russia and they usually compete for the top spots i think this game will be close but i think zenit will win this one lokomotiv have been performing poorly in the first two games especially in the finishing departement and if they miss the chances they get against such a good team they will surely lose.

the result of the match between Fakel - Dinamo Moscow 3:3 and the referee issued 1 red card in the last minute for Dynamo, and 2 yellow cards for two team , a game that was quite entertaining

Anyway this match was at home of Zenit, it can be expected that Zenit will win with that chance as their current stats have also dominated this match. The first half ended in a draw, quite impressive so far there have been no substitutions between the both, it was a tough match to predict lucky I think if Zenit can steal points from lokomotiv.

Not a very interesting game so far between the leaders of the standings. Zenit can't score against Lokomotiv, but they still play at home and should win. As I was typing, Zenit managed to score. But that's not the end of the game. Lokomotiv is not a bad club and can even the score, but still Zenit have no serious rivals in Russia.

If you think differently about this, we can never agree. The racism of athletes just because of their nationality has become exactly what UEFA supposedly tried to prevent, but actually did. This is very sad. The fact that these sanctions will not be lifted soon shows the hypocrisy of UEFA.
The absence of the right to participate in the European competitions destroys all the excitement in the league, except for the championship race.
CSKA Moscow is doing well so far. Zenit is also trying to make up for the loss of points in their first match. It looks like they will beat Lokomotiv Moscow as well.

Zenit destroyed Lokomotiv Moscow with 5-0 at home. This one of the derbies in Russia and it was just one sided today. Zenit keeps on showing that no body is close to them in this championship. If Lokomotiv wants to win the title and be at the top they cannot lose against direct rivals by this much.

Zenith has indeed achieved a very clear victory. But Zenith was also the absolute star team in Russia a few years ago, only they were overtaken by a team from Moscow. I don't know to what extent Zenith will participate for the championship, but they will also want to achieve more internationally. And I think the war still has a big influence on these Russian teams. Are there actually still foreign players who had to leave Russian clubs because of the freezing of bank accounts, for example?

Although Zenit scored the first goal very late, they scored 5 goals in a short time. Barinov was shown a red card at the last minute and Lokomotiv Moscow had 10 players left and Zenit scored the 4th from the penalty spot. Then they scored a total of 5 goals with Sergeev's goal in extra time. With this result, Zenit reached 7 points in 3 games and is sitting in the leadership seat for now. If CSKA Moscow wins their match tomorrow, they will be the leader again.

Zenith is having very impressive record in Russian Premier League even right now they are at top with most chances tomorrow CSKA Moscow will overtake them as they are going to face a weak side which is already at bottom and CSKA Moscow can win this match which will give them full 9 points from 3 games and Zenith is having 7 points from three games with their first game of this season against Khimki ended in a 1 - 1 draw.

Currently, only CSKA Moscow is only team in Premier League which no concede any goal from their first two games and now going to face Nizhny Novgorod which having only one point from two games and already concede four goals in firs two games.

We saw two promising young Russian goalkeepers in the Zenith-Lokomotiv game. Zenith dominated the match from start to finish. I see that Zenith is easily on the way to the championship. Easy walking. The last goal should have been cancelled. The ball had crossed the line but in the Russian league i’m used to this kind of refereeing mistakes. Lokomotiv's young goalkeeper is in a position to be at the top level. The only positive thing for Lokomotiv was their goalkeeper.

Currently Spartak and CSKA are in 1st and 2nd position in the Russian Premiere League standings with 10 points. While Zenith is currently playing against Akhmat Grozny as an away match.

If they lose to Akhmat Grozny, that result will make Zenit's distance with Spartak/CSKA even further. What do you think? will Zenit be able to win their match against Akhmat Grozny?

FYI, currently the match between Akhmat Grozny Vs Zenit is still 0 - 0.

Cska moscow and Spartak Moscow are playing really good at the start of the season and now Zenit will need to work a lot harder to win the title and now they are behind two points that is much,but the draw against Akhmat costed them the points to be tied for first place.

I don't believe Zenit can be held to a draw by Akhmat Grozny. Referring to their last 3 matches, Zenit should have won by at least 0 - 1. But this result may have happened because Zenit couldn't play optimally after Odoevski got a red card at the end of the first half.

With this result, Zenit is 2 points away from Spartak and CSKA. I think if they repeat this result in 3 or 4 more games, we'll not be able to see Zenit win the Russian Premiere League title.