1996 Russian Top League

5th season of top-tier football league in Russia Russian Top League 1996 1995 1997 In 1996 the Russian Top League was extended to 18 clubs. The following is a summary of 1996 teams and people. Overview Team Head coach FC Spartak Moscow Georgi Yartsev FC Alania Vladikavkaz Valery Gazzaev FC Rotor Volgograd Ukraine Viktor Prokopenko FC Dynamo Moscow Adamas Golodets PFC CSKA Moscow Aleksandr Tarkhanov FC Lokomotiv Moscow Yuri Syomin FC Baltika Kaliningrad Leonid Tkachenko FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod Valeri Ovchinnikov FC Krylia Sovetov Samara Aleksandr Averyanov FC Zenit St. Petersburg Pavel Sadyrin FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don Sergey Andreyev FC Torpedo-Luzhniki Moscow Valentin Ivanov FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk Oleg Dolmatov FC KAMAZ-Chally Naberezhnye Chelny Valeri Chetverik (until August)Ivan Butaliy (caretaker, from August) FC Zhemchuzhina Sochi Arsen Naydyonov FC Uralmash Yekaterinburg Valeri Voytenko (until April)Vitaliy Shevchenko (from May) FC Energiya-Tekstilshchik Kamyshin Sergei Pavlov FC Lada Togliatti Viktor Tishchenko Standings main WDL QR 5 SPA Spartak Moscow ALA Alania Vladikavkaz ROT Rotor Volgograd DYN Dynamo Moscow CSK CSKA Moscow LOK Lokomotiv Moscow BAL Baltika Kaliningrad LNN Lokomotiv N.N. KRY Krylia Sovetov Samara ZEN Zenit St. Petersburg ROS Rostselmash TLM Torpedo-Luzhniki Moscow CHE Chernomorets Novorossiysk KNC KAMAZ-Chally Naberezhnye Chelny ZHE Zhemchuzhina Sochi URA Uralmash Yekaterinburg ETK Energiya-Tekstilshchik Kamyshin LAD Lada-Togliatti 21 9 4 70 34 C 22 6 6 64 35 21 7 6 58 27 20 7 7 60 35 20 6 8 58 35 15 10 9 46 31 12 10 12 44 35 13 6 15 39 50 12 9 13 31 38 13 4 17 32 37 11 8 15 58 60 10 11 13 42 51 11 6 17 38 51 10 6 18 43 57 10 6 18 38 57 8 9 17 38 57 R 4 12 18 25 48 R 4 6 24 18 64 R FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz renamed to FC Alania FC Torpedo Moscow renamed to FC Torpedo-Luzhniki FC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin renamed to FC Energiya-Tekstilshchik green1 Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round CL2 The title was decided in a championship playoff as Spartak Moscow and Alania Vladikavkaz finished with equal points. blue1 Qualification to UEFA Cup second qualifying round UC2 UC2 #CCCCFF Qualification to Intertoto Cup group stage ICGS ICGS ICGS yellow1 Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round CWC1 red1 Relegation to First League R R R 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored. complete rsssf.com Championship play-off 16 November 1996 Spartak Moscow 2–1 Report Alania Vladikavkaz Tsymbalar 6Tikhonov 84 Kanishchev 88 Petrovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg 24,000 Taras Bezubyak Results main FBR grey ALA BAL CHE CSK DYN ETK KAM KRY LAD LOK LNN ROS ROT SPA TOR URA ZEN ZHE Spartak Moscow 4–1 2–0 3–1 3–1 3–2 0–0 4–0 2–0 0–2 1–1 2–2 1–0 3–1 2–0 3–0 4–2 1–0 Alania Vladikavkaz 2–2 3–2 4–2 0–1 1–0 4–0 3–1 1–0 3–1 3–2 4–1 2–1 3–0 3–1 3–0 2–1 3–0 Rotor Volgograd 4–3 3–0 0–1 2–0 2–1 1–0 2–0 1–1 1–0 4–2 2–2 3–1 3–1 4–1 2–1 0–0 2–0 Dynamo Moscow 2–1 1–1 0–1 2–3 4–2 3–1 4–1 2–1 1–0 2–2 1–0 1–1 1–0 2–1 2–0 2–0 4–0 CSKA Moscow 0–0 2–0 1–0 1–1 1–3 0–0 2–0 1–2 1–0 4–2 2–0 1–3 4–2 3–0 1–1 2–2 3–1 Lokomotiv Moscow 0–2 0–0 2–0 0–0 1–2 3–1 0–0 1–1 3–1 2–1 2–1 3–1 2–0 2–1 5–1 1–0 0–0 Baltika Kaliningrad 1–0 2–0 0–1 0–0 2–1 0–1 1–3 5–0 2–0 0–0 2–2 2–2 0–0 2–0 2–0 4–1 2–0 Lokomotiv N.N. 1–1 1–2 0–0 2–0 1–3 0–0 1–0 1–0 2–1 2–3 1–0 2–0 2–1 4–1 2–2 3–1 1–0 Krylia Sovetov Samara 1–1 1–1 0–3 0–2 1–0 1–0 3–1 2–1 1–0 0–2 3–0 1–0 2–0 0–3 1–1 1–0 3–1 Zenit St. Petersburg 1–2 1–0 0–1 1–0 1–1 1–1 2–2 2–0 1–0 0–2 0–0 1–0 2–1 2–0 1–0 2–0 2–1 Rostselmash 2–4 1–2 0–2 1–2 0–5 0–2 0–1 2–3 1–0 2–0 2–2 4–0 4–5 1–1 2–1 2–1 2–1 Torpedo-Luzhniki Moscow 3–4 2–2 1–0 2–5 2–3 1–2 2–2 0–0 1–0 2–1 0–0 0–2 2–1 1–0 1–1 2–1 3–1 Chernomorets Novorossiysk 0–3 1–2 0–0 1–2 2–1 1–1 1–0 3–0 0–1 0–2 2–1 0–1 4–1 3–1 2–2 1–0 4–1 KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny 1–2 0–1 0–0 3–2 0–2 0–0 0–0 3–1 0–0 3–1 2–7 2–1 5–0 4–0 2–1 1–0 2–0 Zhemchuzhina Sochi 1–3 0–0 0–0 1–3 0–1 1–3 2–1 1–0 2–2 1–0 3–3 1–2 1–0 3–0 3–2 1–1 2–1 Uralmash Yekaterinburg 0–2 1–3 2–4 1–4 0–1 2–1 2–1 3–0 1–1 1–3 2–1 1–0 4–0 1–0 2–1 0–0 0–0 Energiya-Tekstilshchik Kamyshin 1–1 0–2 1–4 0–0 1–2 0–0 0–2 2–1 2–1 2–0 1–1 1–1 0–1 2–2 0–1 0–0 1–0 Lada-Togliatti 1–1 0–3 1–4 0–1 0–2 1–0 0–5 1–2 0–0 1–0 0–2 0–2 1–1 1–0 0–3 3–2 1–1 complete Season statistics Top goalscorers matches played on 3 November 1996.Russia 1996 https://www.rsssf.org/tablesr/rus96.html RSSSF The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation 23 February 2024 Rank Player Club Goals1RUS Aleksandr MaslovRostselmash232RUS Oleg VeretennikovRotor193RUS Dmitri CheryshevDynamo174KAZRUS Vladimir NiederhausRotor16RUS Andrey TikhonovSpartak Moscow6RUS Valery KechinovSpartak Moscow13RUS Oleg TeryokhinDynamo8RUS Sergei BulatovBaltika12RUS Andrey KobelevDynamo10UZBRUS Mirjalol QosimovAlania11TJKRUS Mukhsin MukhamadievLokomotiv N.N.AZE Nazim SuleymanovAlaniaRUS Bakhva TedeyevAlania Medal squads 1. FC Spartak Moscow Goalkeepers: Aleksandr Filimonov (26), Ruslan Nigmatullin (10). Defenders: Sergei Gorlukovich (31 / 2), Dmitri Ananko (30 / 1), Vadim Evseev (27 / 2), Aleksandr Lipko (24), Vladislav Duyun (18 / 1), Yuriy Nikiforov (14 / 5), Ramiz Mamedov (14), Konstantin Golovskoy (9), Sergei Chudin (6). Midfielders: Andrey Tikhonov (34 / 16), Dmitri Alenichev (32 / 7), Yegor Titov (31 / 5), Valery Kechinov (30 / 13), Aleksei Melyoshin (24 / 2), Ilya Tsymbalar (21 / 9), Andrei Piatnitski (13), Andrei Konovalov (11), Artyom Bezrodny (10), Aleksandr Pavlenko (2), Yevgeni Toloknov (1). Forwards: Vladimir Dzhubanov (25 / 3), Aleksandr Shirko (22 / 5), Valeri Shmarov (3), Konstantin Kovalenko BLR (2 / 1), Serhiy Nahornyak UKR (2).(league appearances and goals listed in brackets) Manager: Georgi Yartsev. Transferred out during the season: Yuriy Nikiforov (to ESP Sporting Gijón), Valeri Shmarov (to KOR Chunnam Dragons), Serhiy Nahornyak UKR (to UKR FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk). 2. FC Alania Vladikavkaz Goalkeepers: Dmitriy Kramarenko AZE (22), Zaur Khapov (16). Defenders: Omari Tetradze (31 / 1), Artur Pagayev (30 / 1), Alan Agayev (29 / 3), Inal Dzhioyev (29 / 1), Murtaz Shelia GEO (27 / 5), Oleg Kornienko KAZ (22), Aslan Datdeyev (11 / 1). Midfielders: Igor Yanovskiy (34 / 5), Bakhva Tedeyev (28 / 11), Sergey Timofeev KAZ (25), Zaza Revishvili GEO (19 / 1), Mirjalol Qosimov UZB (17 / 11), Georgi Botsiyev (16), Robert Bitarov (13 / 1), Sergei Derkach (12 / 1), Gocha Jamarauli GEO (9), Vitaliy Skysh UKR (6). Forwards: Anatoli Kanishchev (33 / 7), Nazim Suleymanov AZE (25 / 11), Oleg Sergeyev (13 / 2), Tamerlan Sikoyev (8 / 1), Valeri Klimov (6 / 1). One own goal scored by Albert Oskolkov (FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod). Manager: Valery Gazzaev. Transferred out during the season: Gocha Jamarauli GEO (to GEO FC Dinamo Tbilisi), Valeri Klimov (to FC Arsenal Tula). 3. FC Rotor Volgograd Goalkeepers: Andrei Samorukov (34). Defenders: Albert Borzenkov (33), Valeri Burlachenko (28 / 1), Aleksandr Shmarko (28 / 1), Volodymyr Gerashchenko UKR (21), Sergei Zhunenko KAZ (16), Ihor Zhabchenko UKR (3), Aleksandr Yeshchenko (1), Sergei Khramtsov (1). Midfielders: Oleg Veretennikov (33 / 19), Aleksandr Berketov (33 / 5), Valery Yesipov (33 / 1), Ihor Korniyets UKR (33), Maksim Tishchenko (31 / 4), Hennadiy Orbu UKR (20 / 2), Vitaliy Abramov KAZ (11 / 1), Aleksandr Tsarenko (7), Andrei Krivov (6 / 1), Ilya Borodin (3 / 1), Emil Tsatskin (3). Forwards: Vladimir Niederhaus KAZ (31 / 16), Aleksandr Zernov (30 / 3), Sergei Ilyushin (18 / 2), Mikhail Potylchak (3). One own goal scored by Sergei Makeyev (FC Krylia Sovetov Samara). Manager: Viktor Prokopenko UKR. Transferred out during the season: Aleksandr Tsarenko (to FC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin), Emil Tsatskin (to FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don), Mikhail Potylchak (to FC Torpedo Volzhsky), Aleksandr Yeshchenko (to FC Zhemchuzhina Sochi). Attendances # Club Average Attendance Change 1 Alania 27,547 -17,7% 2 Baltika 17,294 2,4% 3 Rotor 16,676 -3,4% 4 Zenit 15,382 106,7% 5 Krylia Sovetov 11,588 72,1% 6 Novorossiysk 10,853 11,1% 7 KAMAZ 10,353 -17,0% 8 Nizhny Novgorod 9,765 53,4% 9 Spartak Moscow 9,506 -23,8% 10 Rostselmash 7,859 -8,6% 11 Torpedo 7,388 218,4% 12 Tekstilshchik 6,753 -33,9% 13 Uralmash 5,935 -38,0% 14 PFC CSKA 5,624 -2,4% 15 Zhemchuzhina 3,900 72,0% 16 Lada 3,653 54,1% 17 Dynamo Moscow 3,476 -6,4% 18 Lokomotiv Moscow 3,088 -7,7%Source:https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/rus/averus96.htm Historical attendances European-football-statistics.co.uk September 28, 2026 See also 1996 Russian First League 1996 Russian Second League 1996 Russian Third League References External links RSSSF 1996 1 Russia