1997 Russian Top League

6th season of top-tier football league in RussiaFebruary 2024 Russian Top League 1997 1996 1998 In the 1997 season of the Russian Top League, the football team Spartak Moscow successfully defended the championship, winning their fifth Russian title. Overview Team Head coach FC Spartak Moscow Oleg Romantsev FC Rotor Volgograd Ukraine Viktor Prokopenko FC Dynamo Moscow Adamas Golodets FC Shinnik Yaroslavl Anatoli Polosin (until August)Pyotr Shubin (from August) FC Lokomotiv Moscow Yuri Syomin FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk Oleg Dolmatov FC Krylia Sovetov Samara Aleksandr Averyanov FC Zenit St. Petersburg Ukraine Anatoliy Byshovets FC Baltika Kaliningrad Leonid Tkachenko FC Alania Vladikavkaz Valery Gazzaev FC Torpedo-Luzhniki Moscow Aleksandr Tarkhanov PFC CSKA Moscow Pavel Sadyrin FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don Sergey Andreyev FC Zhemchuzhina Sochi Arsen Naydyonov FC Tyumen Aleksandr Irkhin (until April)Aleksandr Ignatenko (from April) FC Fakel Voronezh Sergei Savchenkov FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod Valeri Ovchinnikov FC KAMAZ-Chally Naberezhnye Chelny Lithuania Benjaminas Zelkevičius Standings main WDL QR 5 SPA Spartak Moscow ROT Rotor Volgograd DYN Dynamo Moscow SHI Shinnik Yaroslavl LOK Lokomotiv Moscow CHE Chernomorets Novorossiysk KRY Krylia Sovetov Samara ZEN Zenit St. Petersburg BAL Baltika Kaliningrad ALA Alania Vladikavkaz TOR Torpedo Moscow CSK CSKA Moscow ROS Rostselmash ZHE Zhemchuzhina Sochi TYU Tyumen FAK Fakel Voronezh LNN Lokomotiv N.N. KNC KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny 22 7 5 67 30 C 20 8 6 54 27 19 11 4 50 20 15 10 9 38 35 15 9 10 47 37 13 14 7 40 26 14 7 13 32 30 13 10 11 28 29 11 16 7 38 33 14 4 16 52 42 13 6 15 50 46 11 9 14 31 42 9 14 11 34 38 11 7 16 38 51 9 7 18 28 46 7 5 22 25 49 R 6 5 23 26 60 R 8 3 23 38 75 -6 R KAMAZ-Chally were docked 6 points for failing to pay a transfer fee. green1 Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round CL2 blue1 Qualification to UEFA Cup second qualifying round UC2 UC2 #CCCCFF Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round IC2 yellow1 Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round CWC1 #CCCCFF Qualification to Intertoto Cup first round IC1 red1 Relegation to First Division R R R 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored. complete rsssf.com Results main FBR grey ALA BAL CHE CSK DYN FAK KAM KRY LOK LNN ROS ROT SHI SPA TOR TYU ZEN ZHE Spartak Moscow 3–2 1–2 3–0 4–2 3–0 2–0 2–0 4–1 2–1 0–1 0–0 2–0 2–0 2–0 4–2 1–0 6–2 Rotor Volgograd 0–2 3–1 1–0 1–0 1–1 1–1 3–0 2–1 1–0 1–2 1–0 0–2 3–1 5–2 2–0 2–0 3–1 Dynamo Moscow 1–1 0–0 3–0 3–1 0–0 0–1 0–0 1–1 1–0 1–1 2–0 1–0 1–0 2–0 4–1 3–0 6–1 Shinnik Yaroslavl 1–1 1–1 0–0 2–1 1–0 1–0 2–0 4–0 3–0 1–3 0–1 1–1 2–1 1–0 2–1 0–0 1–0 Lokomotiv Moscow 1–3 0–1 2–1 1–1 2–1 2–1 0–0 1–1 1–0 3–0 1–3 2–1 4–1 3–1 2–0 1–1 2–0 Chernomorets Novorossiysk 1–0 2–1 1–1 1–0 1–1 3–0 2–0 2–2 1–2 2–1 0–1 0–0 2–2 4–0 3–0 3–0 1–0 Krylia Sovetov Samara 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–0 1–0 1–0 1–0 0–0 1–3 0–1 1–0 3–0 0–1 1–0 1–0 4–0 4–0 Zenit St. Petersburg 0–0 0–1 0–0 1–1 2–0 0–0 0–0 0–1 1–0 3–2 2–0 0–0 2–0 2–0 0–1 1–0 0–3 Baltika Kaliningrad 1–1 0–1 0–2 1–1 0–0 1–1 2–0 2–2 1–2 1–0 1–1 0–0 2–1 2–0 1–0 1–0 4–1 Alania Vladikavkaz 2–0 3–2 0–1 5–2 1–2 1–3 1–1 0–2 0–0 2–1 3–0 0–0 4–1 0–0 2–0 3–1 5–0 Torpedo Moscow 0–3 1–1 0–1 1–2 1–3 0–0 0–1 1–2 1–0 2–1 3–0 0–1 3–1 1–1 4–2 2–2 2–0 CSKA Moscow 0–0 0–2 1–1 0–0 1–2 0–1 1–2 2–0 1–1 2–1 0–5 2–0 1–1 0–3 1–0 3–0 1–0 Rostselmash 3–5 1–1 1–3 1–2 2–2 0–0 1–1 2–3 0–0 1–0 1–1 1–1 0–0 3–1 2–0 3–1 2–1 Zhemchuzhina Sochi 0–1 0–2 2–2 2–1 0–0 3–1 0–1 1–0 0–0 1–0 4–3 2–3 2–1 1–3 1–0 2–0 1–0 Tyumen 2–2 0–0 1–0 1–2 0–0 0–0 1–0 0–1 0–1 1–4 2–1 2–0 0–1 2–2 1–0 2–1 1–0 Fakel Voronezh 0–1 0–0 0–1 1–2 1–0 0–0 2–2 0–1 0–2 2–1 2–3 1–1 0–0 2–1 1–0 2–0 4–0 Lokomotiv N.N. 2–3 1–2 0–1 0–1 1–3 2–3 0–1 2–2 1–4 1–3 1–0 3–1 0–1 1–0 1–0 1–0 2–1 KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny 2–1 0–5 1–3 3–0 0–2 0–0 3–0 0–1 3–3 4–2 1–3 0–3 3–2 2–3 2–1 3–0 1–1 complete Season statistics Top goalscorers matches played on 9 November 1997.Russia 1997 https://www.rsssf.org/tablesr/rus97.html RSSSF The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation 23 February 2024 Rank Player Club Goals1RUS Oleg VeretennikovRotor222RUS Oleg TeryokhinDynamo173RUS Igor YanovskiyAlania134RUS Lev BereznerChernomorets11RUS Aleksandr ZernovRotorRUS Valery KechinovSpartak Moscow7RUS Andrey TikhonovSpartak Moscow10LTU 1988 Edgaras JankauskasTorpedo-Luzhniki9RUS Aleksandr GerasimovShinnik9RUS Aleksei KosolapovLokomotiv MoscowRUS Vladimir KulikCSKARUS Dmitry KhokhlovTorpedo-Luzhniki Medal squads 1. FC Spartak Moscow Goalkeepers: Aleksandr Filimonov (33), Ruslan Nigmatullin (2). Defenders: Sergei Gorlukovich (31 / 2), Dmitri Khlestov (27 / 1), Dmitri Ananko (25), Miroslav Romaschenko BLR (24 / 4), Ramiz Mamedov (19 / 1), Vadim Evseev (18), Konstantin Golovskoy (14), Vasili Kulkov (6). Midfielders: Dmitri Alenichev (33 / 2), Yegor Titov (31 / 8), Aleksei Bakharev (30 / 2), Aleksei Melyoshin (26 / 2), Andrey Tikhonov (24 / 10), Valery Kechinov (22 / 11), Ilya Tsymbalar (11 / 4), Andrei Konovalov (11 / 1), Robert Yevdokimov (4 / 1). Forwards: Aleksandr Shirko (26 / 7), Maksim Buznikin (20 / 8), Luis Robson BRA (10 / 1), Sergey Dmitriev (6 / 1), Sergei Lutovinov (6).(league appearances and goals listed in brackets) One own goal scored by Vladimir Klontsak (FC KAMAZ-Chally Naberezhnye Chelny). Manager: Oleg Romantsev. Transferred out during the season: Vasili Kulkov (to FC Zenit St. Petersburg), Robert Yevdokimov (to FC KAMAZ-Chally Naberezhnye Chelny). 2. FC Rotor Volgograd Goalkeepers: Platon Zakharchuk (34). Defenders: Aleksandr Shmarko (33), Volodymyr Gerashchenko UKR (27), Sergei Zhunenko KAZ (23), Valeri Burlachenko (22 / 1), Nikolai Olenikov (19), Albert Borzenkov (15). Midfielders: Oleg Veretennikov (34 / 22), Aleksandr Berketov (33 / 3), Valery Yesipov (32 / 3), Vitaliy Abramov KAZ (30 / 1), Andrei Krivov (25), Maksim Tishchenko (20), Ihor Korniyets UKR (12), Vladimir Smirnov (4), Mikhail Mysin (1), Hennadiy Orbu UKR (1). Forwards: Denis Zubko (34 / 4), Vladimir Niederhaus KAZ (33 / 8), Aleksandr Zernov (31 / 11), Sergei Ilyushin (1). One own goal scored by Denis Koberskiy (FC Zhemchuzhina Sochi). Manager: Viktor Prokopenko UKR. Transferred out during the season: Ihor Korniyets UKR, Sergei Ilyushin (both to FC Arsenal Tula), Hennadiy Orbu UKR (to UKR FC Shakhtar Donetsk). 3. FC Dynamo Moscow Goalkeepers: Dmytro Tyapushkin UKR (23), Andrei Smetanin (14). Defenders: Sergei Shtanyuk BLR (33 / 2), Andrei Ostrovskiy BLR (32 / 4), Yuri Kovtun (28), Erik Yakhimovich BLR (16), Mikhail Zharinov (9), Yevgeni Korablyov (9), Vyacheslav Tsaryov (4), Maksim Povorov (1). Midfielders: Andrey Kobelev (33 / 7), Vladimir Skokov (32 / 5), Sergei Nekrasov (32 / 1), Sergey Grishin (28 / 1), Aliaksandr Kulchiy BLR (26 / 3), Aleksandr Tochilin (23), Andrei Gordeyev (7 / 1), Rolan Gusev (7), Vitali Kulyov (6), Maksim Romaschenko BLR (4 / 4), Yuri Kuznetsov (4). Forwards: Oleg Teryokhin (33 / 17), Aleksei Kutsenko (19 / 4), Eduard Kosolapov (8 / 1), Yuri Tishkov (4), Sergei Artyomov (2), Andrei Dyomkin (1), Oleg Sergeyev (1). Manager: Adamas Golodets. Transferred out during the season: Erik Yakhimovich BLR (on loan to TUR Vanspor), Andrei Dyomkin (to BEL R.S.C. Anderlecht). Attendances Rank Club Average 1 Alania 27,176 2 Rotor 20,529 3 Krylia Sovetov 18,294 4 Fakel 17,253 5 Baltika 17,059 6 Spartak Moscow 11,941 7 Novorossiysk 11,882 8 Shinnik 10,741 9 Rostov 10,653 10 Zenit 10,471 11 KAMAZ 7,618 12 Nizhny Novgorod 6,312 13 Dynamo Moscow 6,000 14 PFC CSKA 5,176 15 Zhemchuzhina 5,118 16 Tyumen 4,029 17 Torpedo Moscow 3,606 18 Lokomotiv Moscow 3,118Source:https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/rus/averus97.htm Historical attendances www.european-football-statistics.co.uk July 31, 2026 See also 1997 in Russian football References External links RSSSF 1997 1 Russia