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 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
Championship play-off
Results
Season statistics Top goalscorers
Rank Player Club Goals1 Aleksandr MaslovRostselmash232 Oleg VeretennikovRotor193 Dmitri CheryshevDynamo174 Vladimir NiederhausRotor16 Andrey TikhonovSpartak Moscow6 Valery KechinovSpartak Moscow13 Oleg TeryokhinDynamo8 Sergei BulatovBaltika12 Andrey KobelevDynamo10 Mirjalol QosimovAlania11 Mukhsin MukhamadievLokomotiv N.N. Nazim SuleymanovAlania 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 (2 / 1), Serhiy Nahornyak (2).(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)
Manager: Georgi Yartsev.
Transferred out during the season: Yuriy Nikiforov (to Sporting Gijón), Valeri Shmarov (to Chunnam Dragons), Serhiy Nahornyak (to FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk). 2. FC Alania Vladikavkaz Goalkeepers: Dmitriy Kramarenko (22), Zaur Khapov (16). Defenders: Omari Tetradze (31 / 1), Artur Pagayev (30 / 1), Alan Agayev (29 / 3), Inal Dzhioyev (29 / 1), Murtaz Shelia (27 / 5), Oleg Kornienko (22), Aslan Datdeyev (11 / 1). Midfielders: Igor Yanovskiy (34 / 5), Bakhva Tedeyev (28 / 11), Sergey Timofeev (25), Zaza Revishvili (19 / 1), Mirjalol Qosimov (17 / 11), Georgi Botsiyev (16), Robert Bitarov (13 / 1), Sergei Derkach (12 / 1), Gocha Jamarauli (9), Vitaliy Skysh (6). Forwards: Anatoli Kanishchev (33 / 7), Nazim Suleymanov (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 (to 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 (21), Sergei Zhunenko (16), Ihor Zhabchenko (3), Aleksandr Yeshchenko (1), Sergei Khramtsov (1). Midfielders: Oleg Veretennikov (33 / 19), Aleksandr Berketov (33 / 5), Valery Yesipov (33 / 1), Ihor Korniyets (33), Maksim Tishchenko (31 / 4), Hennadiy Orbu (20 / 2), Vitaliy Abramov (11 / 1), Aleksandr Tsarenko (7), Andrei Krivov (6 / 1), Ilya Borodin (3 / 1), Emil Tsatskin (3). Forwards: Vladimir Niederhaus (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 .
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:
See also 1996 Russian First League 1996 Russian Second League 1996 Russian Third League
References
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