Statistics of Russian Top League in season 1992.
Overview Twenty clubs of the former Soviet competition took place in this season. The league was combined out of six clubs of the Soviet Top League, 11 - Soviet First League, and the rest out of the promoted from the Buffer League (Center and East). FC Spartak Moscow won the championship.
The composition of groups may seem kind of uneven with four Top League clubs in Group A and two — in Group B. However the seeding was done upon the completion of the previous Soviet season with Rotor being conditionally promoted to the top level.
Group Team Head coachLeague and position in 1991 A PFC CSKA Moscow Pavel Sadyrin (until July) Gennadi Kostylev (from July) Soviet Top League 1 B FC Spartak Moscow Oleg Romantsev 2 B FC Torpedo Moscow Yevgeni Skomorokhov (until August) Yury Mironov (from August) 3 A FC Dynamo Moscow Valery Gazzaev 6 A FC Spartak Vladikavkaz Aleksandr Novikov 11 A FC Lokomotiv Moscow Yuri Syomin 16 B FC Rotor Volgograd Viktor Papayev (until May) Vladimir Faizulin (from May) Soviet First League 1 A FC Uralmash Yekaterinburg Nikolai Agafonov (until August) Viktor Shishkin (from August) 3 B FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don Enver Yulgushov 4 B FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod Valeri Ovchinnikov 8 A FC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin Sergei Pavlov 11 B FC Shinnik Yaroslavl Stanislav Vorotilin (until July) Valeri Frolov (from August) 12 A FC Fakel Voronezh Fyodor Novikov (until July) Valeri Nenenko (from July) 13 A FC Dynamo Stavropol Boris Stukalov (until July) Aleksandr Irkhin (from July) 16 B FC Zenit Saint Petersburg Vyacheslav Melnikov 18 A FC Dynamo-Gazovik Tyumen Serhiy Morozov (until May) Aleksei Petrushin (from May) 20 B FC Kuban Krasnodar Yuri Marushkin (until July) Igor Kaleshin (from July) 21 B FC Asmaral Moscow Konstantin Beskov Soviet Second League, Center 1 B FC Krylia Sovetov Samara Viktor Antikhovich 2 A FC Okean Nakhodka Aleksandr Averyanov Soviet Second League, East 1
First stage
Group A Table
Results
Group B Table
Results
Final stage The results of games played in the first stage were counted in the final stage.
By political agreement with UEFA and Ukraine, Russia inherited the access right of Soviet Union to the European competitions, while Ukraine obtained part of the rights of disbanded East Germany.
Championship Round Tournament for places 1 to 8 Table
Results
Relegation Round Tournament for places 9 to 20 Table
Results
Season statistics Top goalscorers Gasimov was the official top scorer as Matveyev and Garin did not play in the Championship Round.
Rank Player Club Goals1 Yuri MatveyevUralmash202 Oleg GarinOkean16 Vali GasimovDynamo Moscow4 Vladimir KulikZenit13 Kirill RybakovAsmaral6 Dmitri RadchenkoSpartak Moscow12 Nazim SuleymanovSpartak Vladikavkaz8 Rustyam FakhrutdinovKrylia Sovetov10 Aleksandr GrishinCSKA Gennadi GrishinTorpedo Igor LediakhovSpartak Moscow Oleg VeretennikovRotor
Medal squads (league appearances and goals listed in brackets) 1. FC Spartak Moscow Goalkeepers: Stanislav Cherchesov (24), Gintaras Staučė (3), Valeri Chizhov (1). Defenders: Dmitri Khlestov (24), Viktor Onopko (23 / 6), Dmitri Popov (23 / 1), Andrei Chernyshov (22 / 3), Andrei Ivanov (22), Ramiz Mamedov (10 / 1), Kakhaber Tskhadadze (7), Dmitri Ananko (2), Sergei Chudin (1), Aleksandr Shibayev (1). Midfielders: Valery Karpin (26 / 7), Igor Lediakhov (24 / 10), Andrei Piatnitski (23 / 5), Rashid Rakhimov (11), Oleg Kuzhlev (5), Yevgeni Bushmanov (2), Vladimir Baksheyev (1), Aleksandr Karatayev (1), Alexei Kosolapov (1), Hennadiy Perepadenko (1). Forwards: Vladimir Beschastnykh (20 / 7), Dmitri Radchenko (18 / 12), Mikhail Rusyayev (15 / 6), Nikolai Pisarev (10 / 1), Aleksandr Tatarkin (9 / 1), Vali Gasimov (6), Yuri Petrov (5 / 1), Andrey Tikhonov (2).
One own goal scored by Yuri Kovtun (FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don).
Manager: Oleg Romantsev.
Transferred out during the season: Rashid Rakhimov (to Real Valladolid), Kakhaber Tskhadadze , Vali Gasimov (both to FC Dynamo Moscow), Yuri Petrov (to FC Lokomotiv Moscow), Yevgeni Bushmanov (to PFC CSKA Moscow), Aleksandr Shibayev, Alexei Kosolapov (both to FC Dynamo-Gazovik Tyumen), Hennadiy Perepadenko (to Badajoz). 2. FC Spartak Vladikavkaz Goalkeepers: Zaur Khapov (26). Defenders: Inal Dzhioyev (24 / 2), Gennadi Denisov (23), Ali Alchagirov (22 / 1), Sergei Kozhanov (20), Artur Pagayev (17 / 1), Sergei Gazdanov (16 / 1), Sergei Bodak (7), Boris Dobashin (6), Andrei Sosnitskiy (1). Midfielders: Mirjalol Qosimov (25 / 3), Shamil Isayev (24 / 1), Marat Dzoblayev (23 / 3), Bakhva Tedeyev (20 / 8), Igor B. Kachmazov (20 / 1). Forwards: Nazim Suleymanov (26 / 12), Igor A. Kachmazov (19 / 7), Anri Bestayev (13 / 1), Igor Shkvyrin (10 / 5), Stanislav Tskhovrebov (8), Grigori Ivanov (3), Ruslan Suanov (1), Georgi Takhokhov (1).
One own goal scored by Yevgeni Zarva (FC Dynamo-Gazovik Tyumen).
Manager: Aleksandr Novikov.
Transferred out during the season: Igor Shkvyrin (to Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C.), Grigori Ivanov (to FC Avtodor-Olaf Vladikavkaz), Peter Neustädter (to Karlsruher SC). 3. FC Dynamo Moscow Goalkeepers: Valeri Kleymyonov (14), Andrei Smetanin (14). Defenders: Igor Sklyarov (23 / 3), Vyacheslav Tsaryov (22 / 1), Igor Varlamov (13), Sergey Timofeev (12 / 1), Yevgeni Dolgov (12), Sargis Hovhannisyan (12), Kakhaber Tskhadadze (12), Viktor Losev (11), Aleksei Selezov (1). Midfielders: Omari Tetradze (25 / 6), Yuriy Kalitvintsev (22 / 5), Sergei Derkach (21 / 3), Yevgeni Smertin (19 / 2), Andrey Kobelev (16 / 8), Yuri Alekseevich Drozdov (12), Vladimir Kostyuk (11), Vitali But (7), Badri Spanderashvili (7), Igor Gavrilin (6), Aleksei Savchenko (4), Yegor Kiryakov (1). Forwards: Igor Simutenkov (24 / 4), Vali Gasimov (17 / 16), Sergei Kiriakov (8 / 1), Viktor Leonenko (4 / 5), Platon Krivoshchyokov (4), Nikolai Kovardayev (2).
Manager: Valery Gazzaev.
Transferred out during the season: Viktor Losev (retired), Sergei Kiriakov (to Karlsruher SC), Viktor Leonenko (to FC Dynamo Kyiv).
See also 1992 Russian First League 1992 Russian Second League
References
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