2011–12 FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod season

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Vitali Astakhov
3	DF	Leilton
4	DF	Lasha Salukvadze
7	MF	Sanzhar Tursunov
8	DF	Gia Grigalava
9	MF	Aleksandr Shulenin
11	FW	Mate Vatsadze
13	DF	Miklós Gaál
14	MF	Gogita Gogua
15	MF	Maksim Zyuzin
16	FW	Anton Khazov
17	MF	Maksim Burchenko
18	MF	Sergei Yashin
19	FW	Mersudin Ahmetović

No.	Position	Player
20	MF	Marc Crosas
21	MF	Ruslan Adzhindzhal
22	MF	Artyom Anisimov
23	MF	Mihăiţă Pleşan
25	DF	Andrei Buivolov
26	DF	Sergei Bendz
27	DF	Aleksei Aravin
29	MF	Shota Bibilov
31	GK	Ilya Abayev
33	DF	Inal Getigezhev
41	GK	Mikhail Kerzhakov
63	DF	Aleksandr Belozyorov
77	FW	Otar Martsvaladze (captain)
99	MF	Gocha Khojava

Transfers

In: Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Position	Player
3	DF	Leilton (from Krylia Sovetov Samara)
4	DF	Lasha Salukvadze (from Rubin Kazan)
8	DF	Gia Grigalava (from SKA Rostov-on-Don)^[1]
11	FW	Mate Vatsadze (from Dinamo Tbilisi)
13	DF	Miklós Gaál (from Amkar Perm)
14	MF	Gogita Gogua (from Spartak Nalchik)
15	DF	Maksim Zyuzin (from Nizhny Novgorod)^[2]
17	MF	Maksim Burchenko (from Luch-Energiya Vladivostok)^[3]
19	FW	Mersudin Ahmetović (from Rostov)
20	MF	Marc Crosas (from Celtic)^[4]
21	MF	Ruslan Adzhindzhal (from Krylia Sovetov Samara)
22	MF	Artyom Anisimov (from Saturn Moscow Oblast)
24	MF	Ruslan Pashtov (from Dynamo Moscow)
26	DF	Sergei Bendz (from Nizhny Novgorod)
27	MF	Aleksei Aravin (from Sibir Novosibirsk)
28	MF	Aleksandr Semyachkin (from Saturn Moscow Oblast)
29	MF	Shota Bibilov (from Alania Vladikavkaz)
30	GK	Aleksandr Sholokhman
31	GK	Ilya Abayev (from Anzhi Makhachkala)
35	MF	Roman Boldyrev (from Nika Moscow)
37	DF	Aleksandr Kodenets
40	MF	Vladislav Gudoshnikov (free agent)
41	GK	Mikhail Kerzhakov (from Zenit St. Petersburg)
44	DF	Vladislav Rikovskiy
47	MF	Dmitri Vershinin
51	MF	Roman Dzhigkayev
52	FW	Mikhail Sorochkin
53	DF	Pavel Averin (from Tekstilshchik Ivanovo)
55	DF	Pavel Pashin
62	DF	Vasili Samokhvalov
63	DF	Aleksandr Belozyorov (from Krylia Sovetov Samara)
66	FW	Alan Kadzhayev
71	GK	Mikhail Malyshev
73	FW	Vladislav Chernikov
77	FW	Otar Martsvaladze (from Anzhi Makhachkala)
79	FW	Shamil Kurbanov (from Saturn Moscow Oblast)
80	MF	Artyom Bragin (from Saturn Moscow Oblast)
88	DF	David Kokhiya
91	DF	Artyom Abramov
92	MF	Ilya Syomin
93	MF	Ivan Strelov
99	MF	Gocha Khojava (from Anzhi Makhachkala)

Out: Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Position	Player
2	DF	Aslan Zaseev (to Chernomorets Novorossiysk)
5	DF	Edik Sadzhaya (to Khimki)
6	MF	Dmitri Polyanin (on loan to Nizhny Novgorod)
8	MF	Sergei Rashevsky (to Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast)^[5]
10	FW	Petar Jelić (on loan to Dinamo Tbilisi)^[6]
11	MF	Vitali Volkov (released)
13	MF	Maksim Semakin (to Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast)
14	FW	Aleksandr Salugin (to Nizhny Novgorod)
17	MF	Sergei Vinogradov (released)
19	FW	Oleg Kozhanov (to KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny)
20	MF	Ihar Stasevich (to Gomel)
30	GK	Anton Kochenkov (on loan to Rostov)
36	GK	Mikhail Levashov (released)
88	DF	Giorgi Navalovski (to Khimki)
	GK	Oleg Smirnov (released)
	DF	Dmitry Aydov (to Nizhny Novgorod)^[7]
	DF	Alli N'Dri (to Shinnik Yaroslavl)
	MF	Marat Khairullin (released)
	MF	Yevgeni Malakhov (released)
	MF	Rinat Mavletdinov (on loan to Khimki)
	MF	Sergei Osadchuk (to Ufa)
	MF	Serhiy Pylypchuk (released)
	MF	Oleg Trifonov (released)
	MF	Nikolay Vdovichenko (on loan to Tekstilshchik Ivanovo)
	FW	Mikhail Mysin (to SKA-Energiya Khabarovsk)

Matches

Russian Premier League

1 14 March 2011	Volga	2 – 0	Tom Tomsk	Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
15:45	Martsvaladze 5' Bendz 15'	Summary		Stadium: Lokomotiv Stadium Attendance: 14,000 Referee: Vladimir Kazmenko

2 21 March 2011	Spartak	1 – 0	Volga	Moscow
17:45	Welliton 50'	Summary		Stadium: Luzhniki Stadium Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Vladimir Pettay

3 2 April 2011	Volga	3 - 0	Dynamo	Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
13:15	Pleşan 63' Khojava 65' Ahmetović 75'	Summary		Stadium: Lokomotiv Stadium Attendance: 17,500 Referee: Aleksandr Egorov

4 10 April 2011	Rostov	1 - 3	Volga	Rostov
11:00	Okoronkwo 81'	Summary	Khojava 45' Khazov 52' Tursunov 75' Khojava 32', 82'	Stadium: Olimp - 2 Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Timur Arslanbekov

5 17 April 2011	Lokomotiv	1 - 0	Volga	Moscow
11:30	Ozdoyev 82'	Summary		Stadium: Lokomotiv Stadium Attendance: 13,064 Referee: Sergey Lapochkin

6 22 April 2011	Volga	0 - 1	Kuban Krasnodar	Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
		Summary	Kulik 72'	Stadium: Lokomotiv Stadium Attendance: 12,300 Referee: Yuri Baskakov

7 29 April 2011	Terek	1 - 0	Volga	Grozny, Chechnya
	Mguni 75'	Summary		Stadium: Sultan Bilimkhanov Stadium Referee: Sergey Karasev

8 6 May 2011	Volga	1 - 2	Anzhi	Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
	Shulenin 28'	Summary	Holenda 55' Lakhiyalov 67'	Stadium: Lokomotiv Stadium Attendance: 9,500 Referee: Maxim Layushkin

9 13 May 2011	Spartak Nalchik	1 - 1	Volga	Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria
	Milic 59'	Summary	Vatsadze 90'	Stadium: Spartak Stadium Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Aleksey Eskov

10 20 May 2011	Volga	Postponed¹	CSKA	Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
		0 -2		Stadium: Lokomotiv Stadium

11 29 May 2011	Amkar	1 - 0	Volga	Perm, Perm Krai
				Stadium: Zvezda Stadium

12 09 June 2011	Volga	2 - 0	Krylia Sovetov	Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
				Stadium: Lokomotiv Stadium

13 13 June 2011	Krasnodar	4 - 2	Volga	Krasnodar, Krasnodar Krai
				Stadium: Kuban Stadium

14 17 June 2011	Volga	0 - 2	Zenit	Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
				Stadium: Lokomotiv Stadium

15 21 June 2011	Rubin	2 - 0	Volga	Kazan, Tatarstan
				Stadium: Central Stadium

16 25 June 2011	Tom Tomsk	0 - 3	Volga	Tomsk, Tomsk Oblast
				Stadium: Trud Stadium

17 23 July 2011	Volga	0 - 2	Spartak Moscow	Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
				Stadium: Lokomotiv Stadium

18 30 July 2011	Dynamo Moscow	2 - 0	Volga	Moscow
				Stadium: Arena Khimki

19 05 August 2011	Volga	v	Rostov	Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
				Stadium: Lokomotiv Stadium

20 13 August 2011	Volga	v	Lokomotiv	Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
				Stadium: Lokomotiv Stadium

21 20 August 2011	Kuban Krasnodar	v	Volga	Krasnodar, Krasnodar Krai
				Stadium: Kuban Stadium

22 26 August 2011	Volga	v	Terek	Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
				Stadium: Lokomotiv Stadium

23 10 September 2011	Anzhi	v	Volga	Makhachkala, Dagestan
				Stadium: Dynamo Stadium

24 16 September 2011	Volga	v	Spartak Nalchik	Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
				Stadium: Lokomotiv Stadium

25 23 September 2011	CSKA	v	Volga	Moscow
				Stadium: Arena Khimki

26 30 September 2011	Volga	v	Amkar	Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
				Stadium: Lokomotiv Stadium

27 14 October 2011	Krylia Sovetov	v	Volga	Samara, Samara Oblast
				Stadium: Metallurg Stadium

28 21 October 2011	Volga	v	Krasnodar	Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
				Stadium: Lokomotiv Stadium

29 27 October 2011	Zenit	v	Volga	Saint Petersburg
				Stadium: Petrovsky Stadium

30 05 November 2011	Volga	v	Rubin	Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
				Stadium: Lokomotiv Stadium

Notes

The Russian Championship tenth match-day fixture Volga vs CSKA was postopned due to a clash with the CSKA's participation in the Russian Cup Final

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation	Head-to-head
1	Zenit St. Petersburg	30	17	10	3	59	25	+34	61	Qualification to the Championship group
2	CSKA Moscow	30	16	11	3	58	29	+29	59
3	Dynamo Moscow	30	16	7	7	51	30	+21	55
4	Spartak Moscow	30	15	8	7	48	33	+15	53		LOK 0–2 SPA SPA 3–0 LOK
5	Lokomotiv Moscow	30	15	8	7	49	30	+19	53		LOK 0–2 SPA SPA 3–0 LOK
6	Kuban Krasnodar	30	14	7	9	38	27	+11	49
7	Rubin Kazan	30	13	10	7	40	27	+13	49
8	Anzhi Makhachkala	30	13	9	8	38	32	+6	48
9	Krasnodar	30	10	8	12	38	43	−5	38	Qualification to the Relegation group
10	Rostov	30	8	8	14	31	45	−14	32
11	Terek Grozny	30	8	7	15	29	45	−16	31
12	Volga Nizhny Novgorod	30	8	4	18	24	40	−16	28
13	Amkar Perm	30	6	9	15	20	39	−19	27		AMK 1–1 KRY KRY 1–1 AMK
14	Krylia Sovetov Samara	30	6	9	15	21	43	−22	27		AMK 1–1 KRY KRY 1–1 AMK
15	Spartak Nalchik	30	5	9	16	23	40	−17	24
16	Tom Tomsk	30	4	8	18	19	58	−39	20

Updated to games played on 6 November 2011
Source: Russian Premier League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) number of wins; 3) head-to-head points; 4) number of head-to-head wins; 5) head-to-head goal difference; 6) number of head-to-head goals scored; 7) number of head-to-head away goals scored; 8) goal difference; 9) number of goals scored; 10) number of away goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Goal scorers

Player	League	Goals
Gocha Khojava	2	2
Otar Martsvaladze	1	1
Sergei Bendz	1	1
Sergei Bendz	1	1
Mersudin Ahmetović	1	1
Anton Khazov	1	1
Sanzhar Tursunov	1	1

updated to 12/04/11

References

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2011–12 in Russian football

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Domestic leagues	Premier League · National League Championship · Second Division

Domestic cups	Russian Cup · Super Cup

European competitions	UEFA Champions League · UEFA Europa League

National teams	UEFA Euro 2012 qualification · 2013 UEFA Under-21 qualification · 2013 UEFA Women's Euro qualification

Club seasons

Premier League	Anzhi · CSKA · Rostov · Rubin Kazan · Spartak Moscow · Tom Tomsk · Volga · Zenit Saint Petersburg

Winter 2010–11 transfers · Summer 2011 transfers · Winter 2011–12 transfers · Summer 2012 transfers