Russian Football National League

Russian Football National League

Founded	1992 (1992)
Country	Russia
Confederation	UEFA
Number of teams	20 (2016–17)
Level on pyramid	2
Promotion to	Premier League
Relegation to	Second Division
Domestic cup(s)	Russian Cup
Most championships	Chernomorets Tyumen Shinnik Yaroslavl Luch-Energiya Anzhi (2 titles)
Website	http://www.1fnl.ru/
2017–18 Russian National Football League

The Russian Football National League (FNL) (Russian: Первенство Футбольной Национальной Лиги, Pervenstvo Futbol'noy Natsional'noy Ligi; complete official name FONBET-Russian Football Championship among the club teams of FNL, Russian: ФОНБЕТ-Первенство России по футболу среди команд клубов ФНЛ^[1] for sponsorship reasons), formerly called Russian First Division (Russian: Первый дивизион) is the second level of Russian professional football.

The Professional Football League used to run the division. Since 2011, it has been managed by the Football National League.

The league consists of 20 clubs. After each season the two top clubs are promoted to the Premier League, and the bottom five clubs are relegated to the Russian Professional Football League.

History

Due to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, all Russian clubs of the former Soviet Top League and Soviet First League unified into the Russian Top Division, which meant that the new second tier of Russian football would remain regionalized. For the first two seasons three regional groups were formed for the second tier, until 1994 when a single division was formed.

Clubs 2016–17

Winners and top scorers

Season	Winners	Also promoted	Top scorer
1992	Zhemchuzhina-Amerus (West) KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny (Centre) Luch Vladivostok (East)	–	Gocha Gogrichiani (Zhemchuzhina-Amerus, West) – 26 Oleg Teryokhin (Sokol Saratov, Centre) – 27 Vyacheslav Kartashov (Irtysh Omsk, East) – 19
1993	Chernomorets Novorossiysk (West, not promoted) Lada Togliatti (Centre) Dinamo-Gazovik Tyumen (East)	–	Sergey Burdin (Chernomorets Novorossiysk, West) – 25 Vladimir Filimonov (Zvezda Perm, Centre) – 37 Vyacheslav Kamoltsev (Dinamo-Gazovik Tyumen, East) – 22
1994	Chernomorets Novorossiysk	Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don	Dmitri Silin (Baltika Kaliningrad) – 35
1995	Baltika Kaliningrad	Lada Togliatti Zenit Saint Petersburg	Sergei Bulatov (Baltika Kaliningrad) – 29
1996	Dinamo-Gazovik Tyumen	Shinnik Yaroslavl Fakel Voronezh	Varlam Kilasonia (Lokomotiv Saint Petersburg) – 22
1997	Uralan Elista	–	Aleksei Chernov (Lada-Grad Dimitrovgrad) – 29
1998	Saturn Moscow Region	Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod	Andradina (Arsenal Tula) – 27
1999	Anzhi Makhachkala	Fakel Voronezh	Konstantin Paramonov (Amkar Perm) – 23
2000	Sokol Saratov	Torpedo-ZIL Moscow	Andrei Fedkov (Sokol Saratov) – 26
2001	Shinnik Yaroslavl	Uralan Elista	Vitaly Kakunin (Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk) – 20
2002	Rubin Kazan	Chernomorets Novorossiysk	Vyacheslav Kamoltsev (Chernomorets Novorossiysk) – 20 David Chaladze (Rubin Kazan) – 20
2003	Amkar Perm	Kuban Krasnodar	Aleksandr Panov (Dynamo Saint Petersburg) – 23
2004	Terek Grozny	Tom Tomsk	Andrei Fedkov (Terek Grozny) – 38
2005	Luch-Energia Vladivostok	Spartak Nalchik	Yevgeni Alkhimov (Lokomotiv Chita) – 24
2006	Khimki	Kuban Krasnodar	Yevgeni Alkhimov (Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast) – 25
2007	Shinnik Yaroslavl	Terek Grozny	Dmitri Akimov (Sibir Novosibirsk) – 34
2008	FC Rostov	Kuban Krasnodar	Denis Popov (Torpedo Moscow/Chernomorets Novorossiysk) – 24
2009	Anzhi Makhachkala	Sibir Novosibirsk Alania Vladikavkaz	Aleksei Medvedev (Sibir Novosibirsk) – 18
2010	Kuban Krasnodar	Volga Nizhny Novgorod Krasnodar	Otar Martsvaladze (Volga Nizhny Novgorod) – 21
2011–12	Mordovia Saransk	Alania Vladikavkaz	Ruslan Mukhametshin (Mordovia Saransk) – 31
2012–13	Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast	Tom Tomsk	Spartak Gogniyev (Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast) – 17
2013–14	Mordovia Saransk	Arsenal Tula Torpedo Moscow Ufa	Aleksandr Kutyin (Arsenal Tula) – 19
2014–15	Krylia Sovetov	Anzhi Makhachkala	Yannick Boli (Anzhi Makhachkala) – 15
2015–16	Gazovik Orenburg	Arsenal Tula Tom Tomsk	Artyom Delkin (Gazovik Orenburg) – 16 Khasan Mamtov (Tyumen) – 16 Maksim Zhitnev (Sibir Novosibirsk) – 16

See also

• List of attendance figures at domestic professional sports leagues

External links

• (in Russian) Football National League official website

References