# 1994 Russian First League

The 1994 Russian First League was the 3rd edition of Russian First Division. It was the first season after conversion from 3 zones in the First League into one zone of 22 teams.

## Overview

| Team | Head coach |
| FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk | Oleg Dolmatov |
| FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don | Enver Yulgushov |
| FC Baltika Kaliningrad | Anatoli Ivanov |
| FC Sokol Saratov | Aleksandr Koreshkov |
| FC Shinnik Yaroslavl | Igor Volchok |
| FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk | Gennadi Sarychev |
| FC Zarya Leninsk-Kuznetsky | Sergei Vasyutin |
| FC Druzhba Maykop | Soferbi Yeshugov |
| FC Lokomotiv Chita | Aleksandr Kovalyov |
| FC Asmaral Moscow | Valentin Ivanov (until August) Vladimir Belousov (from August) |
| FC Uralan Elista | Viktor Lidzhiyev |
| FC Luch Vladivostok | Igor Sayenko |
| FC Zenit St. Petersburg | Vyacheslav Melnikov |
| FC Zvezda Irkutsk | Sergei Muratov |
| FC Okean Nakhodka | Ishtvan Sekech |
| FC Irtysh Omsk | Artyom Amirdzhanov |
| FC Smena-Saturn St. Petersburg | Oleg Tereshonkov |
| FC Avtodor Vladikavkaz | Igor Tsakoyev |
| FC Torpedo Vladimir | Yuri Pyanov |
| FC Erzu Grozny | Vait Talgayev |
| FC Zvezda Perm | Viktor Slesarev |
| FC Tekhinvest-M Moskovsky | Aleksandr Novikov |

## Standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | Chernomorets Novorossiysk (P) | 42 | 29 | 7 | 6 | 103 | 31 | +72 | 65 | Promotion to Top League |
| 2 | Rostselmash (P) | 42 | 27 | 8 | 7 | 92 | 44 | +48 | 62 | Promotion to Top League |
| 3 | Baltika Kaliningrad | 42 | 26 | 10 | 6 | 89 | 41 | +48 | 62 | |
| 4 | Sokol Saratov | 42 | 21 | 11 | 10 | 65 | 48 | +17 | 53 | |
| 5 | Shinnik Yaroslavl | 42 | 21 | 8 | 13 | 69 | 44 | +25 | 50 | |
| 6 | Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk | 42 | 18 | 11 | 13 | 56 | 40 | +16 | 47 | |
| 7 | Zarya Leninsk-Kuznetsky | 42 | 20 | 4 | 18 | 80 | 64 | +16 | 44 | |
| 8 | Druzhba Maykop | 42 | 18 | 8 | 16 | 51 | 57 | −6 | 44 | |
| 9 | Lokomotiv Chita | 42 | 17 | 10 | 15 | 59 | 56 | +3 | 44 | |
| 10 | Asmaral Moscow | 42 | 17 | 8 | 17 | 57 | 55 | +2 | 42 | |
| 11 | Uralan Elista | 42 | 16 | 9 | 17 | 69 | 67 | +2 | 41 | |
| 12 | Luch Vladivostok | 42 | 15 | 11 | 16 | 44 | 53 | −9 | 41 | |
| 13 | Zenit St. Petersburg | 42 | 14 | 12 | 16 | 44 | 49 | −5 | 40 | |
| 14 | Zvezda Irkutsk | 42 | 15 | 9 | 18 | 57 | 64 | −7 | 39 | |
| 15 | Okean Nakhodka | 42 | 16 | 6 | 20 | 58 | 60 | −2 | 38 | |
| 16 | Irtysh Omsk | 42 | 15 | 7 | 20 | 50 | 79 | −29 | 37 | |
| 17 | Smena-Saturn St. Petersburg | 42 | 16 | 4 | 22 | 47 | 66 | −19 | 36 | |
| 18 | Avtodor Vladikavkaz (R) | 42 | 13 | 6 | 23 | 48 | 67 | −19 | 32 | Relegation to Second League |
| 19 | Torpedo Vladimir (R) | 42 | 13 | 5 | 24 | 52 | 81 | −29 | 31 | Relegation to Second League |
| 20 | Erzu Grozny (R) | 42 | 11 | 8 | 23 | 33 | 73 | −40 | 30 | Relegation to Second League |
| 21 | Zvezda Perm (R) | 42 | 11 | 5 | 26 | 46 | 81 | −35 | 27 | Relegation to Second League |
| 22 | Tekhinvest-M Moskovsky (R) | 42 | 4 | 11 | 27 | 55 | 104 | −49 | 19 | Relegation to Third League |
* ↑ FC Zvezda-Yunis-Sib Irkutsk renamed to FC Zvezda Irkutsk
* ↑ FC Avtodor-Olaf Vladikavkaz renamed to FC Avtodor Vladikavkaz FC Avtodor Vladikavkaz were awarded 2 home wins when opponents did not arrive for the game.
* ↑ FC Erzu Grozny was excluded from the league after playing 19 games (4 more games scheduled to be played in Grozny before Erzu's exclusion were awarded to Erzu with a score of 3:0 because the opponents did not arrive to the game due to security concerns on the brink of First Chechen War). Erzu did not play professionally in 1995.
* ↑ FC Interros Moscow renamed to FC Tekhinvest-M and moved to Moskovsky

## Results

| Home \ Away | ASM | AVT | BAL | CHE | DRU | ERZ | IRT | LCH | LUC | NEF | OKE | ROS | SHI | SME | SOK | TMM | TVL | URE | ZAR | ZEN | ZZI | ZZP |
| Asmaral Moscow | | 2–1 | 2–3 | 0–2 | 4–0 | 3–0 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 1–3 | 4–2 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 3–4 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 |
| Avtodor Vladikavkaz | 0–2 | | 0–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 5–2 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 1–1 |
| Baltika Kaliningrad | 5–0 | 2–0 | | 1–1 | 6–1 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 5–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 5–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 2–2 | 4–0 | 5–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 4–2 |
| Chernomorets Novorossiysk | 1–3 | 4–1 | 3–3 | | 0–1 | 3–0 | 6–0 | 4–0 | 5–0 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 3–1 | 3–0 | 8–1 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 5–0 | 3–1 | 4–0 | 6–0 | 2–0 | 4–1 |
| Druzhba Maykop | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | | 3–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 |
| Erzu Grozny | 3–0 | 0–0 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 2–0 | | 0–3 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 3–0 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 3–0 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 3–0 | 3–0 |
| Irtysh Omsk | 1–0 | 3–2 | 0–4 | 0–4 | 1–0 | 0–2 | | 0–1 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 3–0 | 0–4 | 4–0 | 3–1 | 0–3 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 4–1 |
| Lokomotiv Chita | 4–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | | 0–0 | 3–2 | 4–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 3–2 | 5–2 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 |
| Luch Vladivostok | 0–2 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | | 0–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 |
| Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk | 2–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | | 3–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 4–2 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 4–1 | 1–1 |
| Okean Nakhodka | 2–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 4–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 | | 0–3 | 4–1 | 4–1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 3–0 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 4–0 |
| Rostselmash | 1–0 | 4–2 | 6–0 | 3–1 | 6–2 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | | 1–0 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 5–2 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 3–2 | 1–0 |
| Shinnik Yaroslavl | 2–2 | 7–3 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 4–0 | 2–0 | | 3–0 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 4–1 | 4–0 |
| Smena-Saturn St. Petersburg | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 4–0 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 |
| Sokol Saratov | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 4–0 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 4–2 | 2–0 | | 2–1 | 4–1 | 4–2 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 3–1 |
| Tekhinvest-M Moskovsky | 1–3 | 5–0 | 1–3 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2–5 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 2–2 | | 2–4 | 2–2 | 0–3 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 1–2 |
| Torpedo Vladimir | 3–4 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–4 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–3 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 6–1 | | 1–1 | 1–3 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 5–1 |
| Uralan Elista | 3–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 4–1 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 5–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 4–4 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 3–1 | | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 |
| Zarya Leninsk-Kuznetsky | 0–2 | 4–0 | 4–1 | 0–1 | 2–4 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 0–2 | 4–1 | 1–1 | 4–1 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 4–2 | 3–0 | 7–1 | 6–1 | 2–2 | | 3–2 | 4–2 | 1–0 |
| Zenit St. Petersburg | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 5–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | | 1–1 | 0–2 |
| Zvezda Irkutsk | 0–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 8–3 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | | 3–2 |
| Zvezda Perm | 1–2 | 2–0 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–4 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 1–5 | |

## Top goalcorers

| Rank | Player | Team | Goals |
| 1 | Dmitri Silin | Baltika | 35 |
| 2 | Aleksandr Maslov | Rostselmash | 32 |
| 3 | Sergei Burdin | Chernomorets | 30 |
| 4 | Dmitri Vyazmikin | Torpedo (Vld) | 24 |
| 5 | Sergei Toporov | Zarya | 21 |
| 5 | Valeriy Yablochkin | Shinnik | 21 |
| 7 | Khazret Dyshekov | Chernomorets | 19 |
| 8 | Lev Matveyev | Zvezda (P) | 17 |
| 9 | Leonid Markevich | Sokol | 16 |
| 9 | Yevgeni Yastrebinskiy | Uralan | 16 |