The 2024–25 Russian First League was the 33rd season of Russia's second-tier football league since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The season began on 13 July 2024, and had a 3-month winter break between game weeks 21 and 22 (1 December 2024 to 1 March 2025).
Team changes To First League Promoted from Second League Division A Ufa Chayka Peschanokopskoye Rotor Volgograd
Relegated from Premier League Ural Yekaterinburg Baltika Kaliningrad Sochi
From First League Relegated to Second League Leningradets Volgar Astrakhan Kuban Krasnodar
Promoted to Premier League Khimki Dynamo Makhachkala Akron Tolyatti
Stadiums by locations
League table
Positions by round
Results by round
Results
Season statistics
Top goalscorers RankPlayerClubGoals 1 Martin SekulićUral 14 2 Georgi GongadzeSKA-Khabarovsk 12 3 Martin KramaričSochi 11 Artyom MaksimenkoRodina Pavel MelyoshinSochi Aleksandr YushinRodina 7 Roman AkbashevChernomorets 98 Aleksandr LomakinYenisey8 Zakhar FyodorovShinnik10 Gedeon GuzinaChernomorets7 Rashid MagomedovNeftekhimik Yordy ReynaRodina Vladislav RudenkoChayka Maksim TurishchevRotor Merabi UridiaChernomorets Aleksandr KhokhlachyovChayka
Attendances
# Football club Average attendancehttps://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/rus/averus25.htm 1 Rotor Volgograd 14,392 2 Baltika Kaliningrad 14,200 3 Ural Yekaterinburg 9,010 4 Chernomorets Novorossiysk 5,988 5 PFC Sochi 4,105 6 Yenisey Krasnoyarsk 3,641 7 Arsenal Tula 3,203 8 Sokol Saratov 2,832 9 Shinnik Yaroslavl' 2,712 10 FC Tyumen' 2,613 11 FC KAMAZ 1,807 12 FK Ufa 1,687 13 Torpedo Moscow 1,516 14 SKA Khabarovsk 1,421 15 Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk 1,038 16 Rodina Moscow 988 17 Chayka 987 18 Alania Vladivazkaz 475
Managerial Changes Club Outgoing head coach Reason for leaving Time of leaving New head coach Date of appointment Previous club / role Alania Yevgeny Kaleshin Contract terminated Pre-season period Sultan Tazabayev 12 July 2024 Volga Ulyanovsk, senior coach SKA-Khabarovsk Roman Sharonov Dmitry Voyetskiy 18 June 2024 — Baltika Sergei Ignashevich Contract expired Aleksandr Grishchenko 17 June 2024 Veles Moscow Rodina Fran Artiga Vladimir Gazzaev 12 June 2024 — KAMAZ Vladimir Klontsak Akhmetzyanov begins studies for the PRO coaching licence Ildar Akhmetzyanov 11 July 2024 KAMAZ, senior coach Chayka Dmitry Pyatibratov Contract terminated; move to Fakel After Matchday 5 Yevgeny Kaleshin 15 August 2024 — SKA-Khabarovsk Dmitry Voyetskiy Contract terminated After Matchday 6 Aleksei Poddubsky 21 August 2024 SKA-Khabarovsk, senior coach Chernomorets Vadim Garanin After Matchday 7 Oleg Vasilenko 28 August 2024 Telavi (Georgia) Rodina Vladimir Gazzaev After Matchday 8 Filipp Sokolinsky (caretaker) 4 September 2024 Rodina-2, head coach Baltika Aleksandr Grishchenko Andrey Talalaev 6 September 2024 — Alania Sultan Tazabayev After Matchday 10 Spartak Gogniyev 17 September 2024 — Rodina Filipp Sokolinsky (caretaker) End of caretaker period After Matchday 13 Vladimir Beschastnykh 8 October 2024 Rodina, forwards coach Ural Yevgeny Averyanov Contract terminated After Matchday 17 Oleg Shatov (caretaker) 6 November 2024 Ural, senior coach Sokol Aleksei Baga After Matchday 19 Aleksei Stukalov 19 November 2024 — Shinnik Dmitry Cheryshev After Matchday 21 Aleksandr Pobegalov 17 December 2024 Shinnik, sports coordinator Ural Oleg Shatov (caretaker) End of caretaker period Sergei Tomarov 14 January 2025 Ural, assistant coach Ufa Yevgeny Kharlachyov Contract terminated Omari Tetradze 18 January 2025 — Rodina Vladimir Beschastnykh Zoran Zeljković 24 February 2025 — Sokol Aleksei Stukalov After Matchday 26 Mladen Kašćelan 1 April 2025 — Chayka Yevgeny Kaleshin After Matchday 27 Sergei Pervushin 8 April 2025 Fakel Voronezh, assistant coach Shinnik Aleksandr Pobegalov Start of Buloychik's PRO licence studies Artyom Buloychik 11 April 2025 Shinnik, senior coach
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