1993 Russian Top League

Russian Top League
Season	1993
	← 1992 1994 →

Statistics of Russian Top League in season 1993.

Teams

18 teams are played in the 1993 season. After the 1992 season, Zenit St.Petersburg, Fakel Voronezh, Kuban Krasnodar, Shinnik Yaroslavl and Dinamo-Gazovik were relegated to the 1993 Russian First League. They were replaced by Zhemchuzhina-Sochi, winners of the 1992 Russian First League.

Venues

Asmaral Moscow	CSKA Moscow	Dynamo Moscow	Dynamo Stavropol
Krasnaya Presnya Stadium	Grigory Fedotov Stadium	Central Dynamo Stadium	Dynamo Stadium
Capacity:	Capacity: 10,000	Capacity: 36,540	Capacity: 15,589

KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny	Asmaral CSKA Dynamo Lokomotiv Spartak Torpedo Dynamo Stavropol KAMAZ Krylia Sovetov Lokomotiv N.N Rostselmash Rotor Volgograd Spartak Vladikavkaz Tekstilshchik Kamyshin Uralmash Yekaterinburg Zhemchuzhina-Sochi class=notpageimage\| Locations of teams in the 1993 Top League Moscow Luch Vladivostok Okean Nakhodka class=notpageimage\| Locations of teams in the 1993 Top League Asmaral CSKA Dynamo Lokomotiv Spartak Torpedo class=notpageimage\| Locations of the teams from Moscow in the 1993 Top League		Krylia Sovetov
KAMAZ Stadium			Metallurg Stadium
Capacity: 9,056			Capacity: 33,001

Lokomotiv Moscow			Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod
Lokomotiv Stadium			Lokomotiv Stadium
Capacity: 27,084			Capacity: 17,856

Luch Vladivostok			Okean Nakhodka
Dynamo Stadium			Vodnik Stadium
Capacity: 10,200			Capacity: 4,000

Rostselmash			Rotor Volgograd
Olimp-2			Central Stadium
Capacity: 15,840			Capacity: 32,120

Spartak Moscow			Spartak Vladikavkaz
Luzhniki Stadium			Republican Spartak Stadium
Capacity: 81,029			Capacity: 32,464

Tekstilshchik Kamyshin	Torpedo Moscow	Uralmash Yekaterinburg	Zhemchuzhina-Sochi
Tekstilshchik Stadium	Luzhniki Stadium	SKB-Bank Arena	Sochi Central Stadium
Capacity: 10,000	Capacity: 81,029	Capacity: 10,000	Capacity: 10,200

Personnel and kits

Team	Location	Head coach
Asmaral Moscow	Moscow	Nikolai Khudiyev
CSKA Moscow	Moscow	Boris Kopeykin
Dynamo Moscow	Moscow	Adamas Golodets
Dynamo Stavropol	Stavropol	Sergei Zimenkov
KAMAZ	Naberezhnye Chelny	Valeri Chetverik
Krylia Sovetov	Samara	Viktor Antikhovich
Lokomotiv Moscow	Moscow	Yuri Semin
Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod	Nizhny Novgorod	Valeri Ovchinnikov
Luch Vladivostok	Vladivostok	Aleksandr Ivchenko
Okean Nakhodka	Nakhodka	Aleksandr Averyanov
Rostselmash	Rostov-on-Don	Enver Yulgushov
Rotor Volgograd	Volgograd	Vladimir Salkov
Spartak Moscow	Moscow	Oleg Romantsev
Spartak Vladikavkaz	Vladikavkaz	Vladimir Fedotov
Tekstilshchik Kamyshin	Kamyshin	Sergei Pavlov
Torpedo Moscow	Moscow	Yury Mironov
Uralmash Yekaterinburg	Yekaterinburg	Viktor Shishkin
Zhemchuzhina-Sochi	Sochi	Arsen Naydyonov

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
CSKA Moscow	Gennadi Kostylev	August 1993	Boris Kopeykin	August 1993
Dynamo Moscow	Valery Gazzaev	September 1993	Adamas Golodets	September 1993
Spartak Vladikavkaz	Aleksandr Novikov	September 1993	Aleksandr Yanovsky	September 1993
Spartak Vladikavkaz	Aleksandr Yanovsky	October 1993	Vladimir Fedotov	October 1993

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Spartak Moscow (C)	34	21	11	2	81	18	+63	53	Qualification to Champions League group stage
2	Rotor Volgograd	34	17	8	9	56	35	+21	42	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
3	Dynamo Moscow	34	16	10	8	65	38	+27	42
4	Tekstilshchik Kamyshin	34	14	11	9	45	34	+11	39
5	Lokomotiv Moscow	34	14	11	9	45	29	+16	39
6	Spartak Vladikavkaz	34	16	6	12	49	45	+4	38
7	Torpedo Moscow	34	15	8	11	35	40	−5	38
8	Uralmash Yekaterinburg	34	16	4	14	51	52	−1	36
9	KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny	34	12	6	16	45	53	−8	30
10	CSKA Moscow	34	12	6	16	43	45	−2	30	Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round
11	Lokomotiv N.N.	34	12	6	16	34	49	−15	30
12	Dynamo Stavropol	34	11	8	15	39	49	−10	30
13	Zhemchuzhina Sochi	34	10	10	14	52	62	−10	30
14	Krylia Sovetov Samara	34	9	12	13	37	47	−10	30	Qualification to Promotion tournament
15	Luch Vladivostok	34	11	7	16	29	56	−27	29
16	Okean Nakhodka	34	10	8	16	28	40	−12	28
17	Rostselmash (R)	34	8	12	14	35	52	−17	28	Relegation to First League
18	Asmaral Moscow (R)	34	7	6	21	28	53	−25	20	Relegation to First League

Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	ASM	CSK	DYN	DST	KAM	KRY	LOK	LNN	LUC	OKN	ROS	ROT	SPA	SPV	TEK	TOR	URA	ZHE
Asmaral Moscow		1–2	0–1	2–1	2–1	0–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	4–0	1–0	0–3	2–3	0–1	0–1	2–1	3–5
CSKA Moscow	1–0		1–1	2–0	1–1	4–0	3–1	3–0	3–1	0–0	2–3	2–0	0–3	4–0	3–0	1–1	2–1	1–1
Dynamo Moscow	4–0	2–1		4–0	4–3	3–0	1–1	3–0	7–1	3–0	2–0	0–0	1–1	2–2	1–1	3–2	1–1	6–3
Dynamo Stavropol	3–1	1–1	0–2		2–0	3–1	0–0	2–0	3–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–2	2–0	1–1	3–0	1–2	2–1
KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny	3–0	1–0	0–2	3–0		1–1	1–0	2–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	0–1	5–2	3–1	4–1	3–1	1–0
Krylia Sovetov Samara	1–0	2–0	1–0	3–1	4–0		1–1	1–0	2–2	3–0	1–1	1–1	1–3	1–1	2–1	1–2	0–0	3–0
Lokomotiv Moscow	2–0	2–0	3–0	1–1	1–1	1–0		4–1	5–0	0–0	5–2	2–1	0–0	0–2	1–2	0–1	3–0	1–0
Lokomotiv N.N.	1–0	1–4	1–1	4–1	1–0	1–1	2–0		2–1	2–0	1–0	3–2	0–0	1–0	1–2	0–1	1–2	2–1
Luch Vladivostok	3–2	2–1	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–0		1–0	2–1	0–0	0–3	3–1	0–0	1–0	2–1	2–2
Okean Nakhodka	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	2–0	0–1	2–0	0–1		2–0	3–1	1–1	3–0	0–0	0–1	0–1	0–2
Rostselmash	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	0–0	3–3	1–3	1–1	2–1	1–1		0–2	2–0	3–3	0–2	0–1	2–1	3–0
Rotor Volgograd	2–0	3–0	3–2	2–1	4–1	2–0	1–0	4–0	2–0	5–1	2–1		1–0	1–0	1–1	2–2	3–2	3–1
Spartak Moscow	5–1	6–0	3–0	3–1	6–1	3–0	3–0	2–0	4–0	1–1	3–0	1–1		5–1	2–0	0–0	2–0	3–0
Spartak Vladikavkaz	2–0	2–0	2–1	1–1	2–0	2–0	1–0	1–2	2–0	2–0	3–0	2–0	1–1		3–1	1–0	1–0	4–0
Tekstilshchik Kamyshin	1–1	3–0	1–1	2–3	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–3	4–0	2–1	2–0	3–1	0–0	1–0		0–0	5–1	3–1
Torpedo Moscow	1–1	2–1	0–4	0–1	1–0	2–2	2–3	2–0	1–0	3–1	0–0	2–1	1–1	2–0	0–2		1–0	2–1
Uralmash Yekaterinburg	2–1	1–0	1–0	3–1	4–1	3–0	1–3	1–1	3–1	3–1	1–1	0–3	2–8	2–0	1–0	5–0		3–2
Zhemchuzhina Sochi	0–0	1–0	4–1	4–2	5–4	3–1	0–0	1–1	0–0	3–2	1–1	2–2	2–2	2–2	3–1	1–0	0–1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Promotion tournament

FC Rostselmash and FC Asmaral were relegated. FC Krylia Sovetov, FC Luch and FC Okean played in a promotion tournament against the winners of the three zones of the 1993 Russian First League, in which three spots in 1994 Russian Top League were contested. FC Krylia Sovetov kept their spot and FC Luch and FC Okean were relegated.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Krylia Sovetov Samara	5	3	1	1	10	8	+2	7	Promotion to Top League
2	Lada-Togliatti (P)	5	2	3	0	8	3	+5	7
3	Dynamo-Gazovik Tyumen (P)	5	3	0	2	8	5	+3	6
4	Luch Vladivostok (R)	5	2	2	1	11	9	+2	6	Relegation to First League
5	Chernomorets Novorossiysk	5	1	1	3	7	10	−3	3
6	Okean Nakhodka (R)	5	0	1	4	5	14	−9	1

Source: RSSSF
(P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

As of matches played on 10 November 1993.^[1]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Victor Panchenko	KAMAZ	21
2	Oleg Veretennikov	Rotor	19
3	Vladimir Beschastnykh	Spartak Moscow	18
4	Igor Simutenkov	Dynamo Moscow	16
5	Mikhail Markhel	Spartak Vladikavkaz	14
	Nikolai Pisarev	Spartak Moscow
	Nazim Suleymanov	Spartak Vladikavkaz
8	Gocha Gogrichiani	Zhemchuzhina	13
	Valeri Karpin	Spartak Moscow
	Vladimir Niederhaus	Rotor

Medal squads

(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

1. FC Spartak Moscow
Goalkeepers: Gintaras Staučė (13), Stanislav Cherchesov (13), Oleksandr Pomazun (8). Defenders: Viktor Onopko (30 / 9), Ramiz Mamedov (30), Andrei Ivanov (29), Yuriy Nikiforov (23), Dmitri Khlestov (19 / 1), Dmitri Popov (13 / 1), Dmitri Ananko (11), Andrei Chernyshov (4), Aleksandr Bondar (2), Sergei Chudin (2), Dmitri Gradilenko (1). Midfielders: Valery Karpin (30 / 13), Igor Lediakhov (29 / 6), Andrei Piatnitski (29 / 6), Ilya Tsymbalar (26 / 3), Andrei Gashkin (11), Serhiy Pohodin (2), Valery Kechinov (1). Forwards: Nikolai Pisarev (33 / 14), Fyodor Cherenkov (32 / 6), Vladimir Beschastnykh (29 / 18), Dmitri Radchenko (14 / 2), Sergey Rodionov (8), Andrey Tikhonov (7 / 2), Andrei Konovalov (1). Manager: Oleg Romantsev. Transferred out during the season: Dmitri Radchenko, Dmitri Popov (both to Racing de Santander), Stanislav Cherchesov (to Dynamo Dresden), Andrei Chernyshov (to FC Dynamo Moscow), Aleksandr Bondar (to FC Terek Grozny), Dmitri Gradilenko (to FC Interros Moskovsky).
2. FC Rotor Volgograd
Goalkeepers: Andrei Manannikov (34), Sergei Gritsenko (1). Defenders: Sergei Nechay (33 / 2), Volodymyr Gerashchenko (32 / 2), Aleksandr Shmarko (31 / 1), Valeri Burlachenko (29 / 1), Aleksandr Yeshchenko (5), Sergey Kuznetsov (4). Midfielders: Oleg Veretennikov (33 / 19), Igor Menshchikov (31), Aleksandr Tsarenko (29 / 5), Andrei Kovalenko (29 / 3), Aleksandr Zhidkov (29 / 2), Oleg Stogov (21), Aleksei Gerasimenko (14), Andrei Miroshnichenko (2). Forwards: Valery Yesipov (31 / 8), Vladimir Niederhaus (30 / 13), Oleg Nechayev (13), Aleksandr Nikitin (11), Yevgeni Shkilov (8), Yuri Konovalov (3). Manager: Vladimir Salkov. Transferred out during the season: Yevgeni Shkilov (to Hapoel Haifa F.C.), Andrei Miroshnichenko (to FC Aktyubinets Aktyubinsk).
3. FC Dynamo Moscow
Goalkeepers: Valeri Kleymyonov (29), Andrei Smetanin (8), Dmitriy Kramarenko (1). Defenders: Yuri Kovtun (27 / 1), Sergey Timofeev (21 / 2), Vyacheslav Tsaryov (19), Aleksei Selezov (18), Andrei Chernyshov (14 / 1), Igor Varlamov (8), Sargis Hovhannisyan (8), Igor Sklyarov (7 / 1), Maksim Layushkin (1). Midfielders: Omari Tetradze (32 / 4), Bakhva Tedeyev (30 / 8), Yuriy Kalitvintsev (26 / 3), Yevgeni Smertin (23 / 1), Sergei Krutov (22 / 3), Igor Dobrovolski (18 / 6), Sergei Derkach (12 / 1), Aleksei Savchenko (11), Sergei Nekrasov (10), Aleksei Filippov (6), Igor Gavrilin (2 / 1), Vladimir Kostyuk (2). Forwards: Igor Simutenkov (33 / 16), Dmitri Cheryshev (22 / 7), Kirill Rybakov (19 / 5), Yuri Tishkov (16 / 4), Yuriy Hudymenko (9 / 1), Nikolai Kovardayev (1). Manager: Valery Gazzaev (until September), Adamas Golodets (caretaker, from September). Transferred out during the season: Sergei Derkach (to FC Basel), Nikolai Kovardayev (to FC Interros Moskovsky).

References

^ "Russia 1993". RSSSF. The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 23 February 2024.

External links

RSSSF

[Russia_1993-1] "Russia 1993". RSSSF. The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 23 February 2024.

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