# 2018–19 Russian Football National League

The 2018–19 Russian National Football League was the 27th season of Russia's second-tier football league since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The season began on 17 July 2018 and ended on 25 May 2019.
Winner: Fc tambov with 73 points

## Team changes
### Excluded teams

Amkar Perm and Tosno were excluded from Premier League due to financial problems, but were also refused a license for the 2018–19 Russian Professional Football League, being subsequently dissolved.
Kuban Krasnodar was excluded from championship due to financial problems, then being dissolved.
Ararat Moscow was promoted from 2017–18 PFL, but were refused a license for the 2018–19 Russian National Football League, the club being subsequently dissolved.

### Teams spared from relegation

Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg, Rotor Volgograd, Luch Vladivostok, Tyumen and Fakel Voronezh were spared from relegation due to lack of teams enrolled for the 2018–19 season.

### Other teams

Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk finished on the promotion place at the end of the 2017–18 PFL season, but refused to be promoted.

### Renamed teams

Dynamo Saint Petersburg was moved from Saint Petersburg to Sochi and renamed as PFC Sochi.
Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod was renamed to FC Nizhny Novgorod.
Luch-Energiya Vladivostok was renamed to Luch Vladivostok.

## Stadia by capacity

| Club | City | Stadium | Capacity |
| Armavir | Armavir | Yunost | 5,700 |
| Avangard | Kursk | Trudovye Rezervy | 11,329 |
| Baltika | Kaliningrad | Arena Baltika | 25,000 |
| Chertanovo | Moscow | Arena Chertanovo | 500 |
| Fakel | Voronezh | Tsentralnyi Profsoyuz | 31,793 |
| Khimki | Khimki | Rodina | 5,083 |
| Krasnodar-2 | Krasnodar | Krasnodar Academy | 3,500 |
| Luch | Vladivostok | Dynamo | 10,200 |
| Mordovia | Saransk | Mordovia Arena | 28,000 |
| Nizhny Novgorod | Nizhny Novgorod | Nizhny Novgorod | 44,899 |
| Rotor | Volgograd | Volgograd Arena | 45,568 |
| Shinnik | Yaroslavl | Shinnik | 22,990 |
| Sibir | Novosibirsk | Spartak | 12,500 |
| SKA | Khabarovsk | Lenin | 15,200 |
| Sochi | Sochi | Fisht Olympic | 47,659 |
| Spartak-2 | Moscow | Spartak Academy | 4,000 |
| Tambov | Tambov | Spartak | 8,000 |
| Tom | Tomsk | Trud | 10,028 |
| Tyumen | Tyumen | Geolog | 13,057 |
| Zenit-2 | Saint Petersburg | MSA Petrovsky / Petrovsky | 2,809 / 21,405 |

## Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| Team | Manager | Captain | Kit manufacturer | Shirt sponsor |
| Armavir | Arsen Papikyan | Sergei Miroshnichenko | Adidas | |
| Avangard Kursk | Igor Belyayev | Mikhail Bagayev | Adidas | |
| Baltika Kaliningrad | Valery Nepomnyashchy | Aleksandr Sheshukov | Jako | Sodruzhestvo |
| Chertanovo Moscow | Igor Osinkin | Aleksandr Soldatenkov | Nike | Chertanovo Education Center |
| Fakel Voronezh | Sergei Volgin | Igor Lebedenko | Adidas | TNS Energo |
| Khimki | Igor Shalimov | Aleksandr Dimidko | Puma | |
| Krasnodar-2 | Igor Picușceac | Ivan Taranov | Puma | WAFF! |
| Luch Vladivostok | Rustem Khuzin | Maksim Nasadyuk | Nike | |
| Mordovia Saransk | Marat Mustafin | Ruslan Mukhametshin | Nike | |
| Nizhny Novgorod | Dmitri Cheryshev | Andrei Khripkov | Jako | |
| Rotor Volgograd | Robert Yevdokimov | Ismail Ediyev | Jako | |
| Shinnik Yaroslavl | Aleksandr Pobegalov | Eldar Nizamutdinov | Jako | |
| Sibir Novosibirsk | Sergei Kirsanov | Eugeniu Cebotaru | Jako | |
| SKA-Khabarovsk | Sergei Perednya | Denys Dedechko | Adidas | |
| Sochi | Aleksandr Tochilin | Yevgeni Pesegov | Nike | |
| Spartak-2 Moscow | Viktor Bulatov | Nikolai Tyunin | Nike | Lukoil |
| Tambov | Timur Shipshev | Mladen Kašćelan | Jako | |
| Tom Tomsk | Vasili Baskakov | Sergei Zuykov | Joma | |
| Tyumen | Goran Aleksić | Ivan Chudin | Jako | Sibur |
| Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg | Vladislav Radimov | Sergei Bugriyev | Nike | Gazprom |

## League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Tambov (C, P) | 38 | 21 | 10 | 7 | 55 | 35 | +20 | 73 | Promotion to Premier League |
| 2 | Sochi (P) | 38 | 19 | 12 | 7 | 63 | 34 | +29 | 69 | Promotion to Premier League |
| 3 | Tom Tomsk | 38 | 17 | 13 | 8 | 40 | 25 | +15 | 64 | Qualification to Premier League play-offs |
| 4 | Nizhny Novgorod | 38 | 18 | 8 | 12 | 41 | 31 | +10 | 62 | Qualification to Premier League play-offs |
| 5 | Chertanovo Moscow | 38 | 17 | 10 | 11 | 65 | 53 | +12 | 61 | |
| 6 | Shinnik Yaroslavl | 38 | 16 | 12 | 10 | 42 | 31 | +11 | 60 | |
| 7 | SKA-Khabarovsk | 38 | 15 | 13 | 10 | 46 | 41 | +5 | 58 | |
| 8 | Avangard Kursk | 38 | 16 | 8 | 14 | 48 | 42 | +6 | 56 | |
| 9 | Khimki | 38 | 14 | 11 | 13 | 47 | 49 | −2 | 53 | |
| 10 | Krasnodar-2 | 38 | 12 | 15 | 11 | 45 | 52 | −7 | 51 | Ineligible for promotion |
| 11 | Rotor Volgograd | 38 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 34 | 36 | −2 | 50 | |
| 12 | Mordovia Saransk | 38 | 12 | 11 | 15 | 37 | 46 | −9 | 47 | |
| 13 | Luch Vladivostok | 38 | 10 | 17 | 11 | 29 | 28 | +1 | 47 | |
| 14 | Spartak-2 Moscow | 38 | 12 | 10 | 16 | 45 | 47 | −2 | 46 | Ineligible for promotion |
| 15 | Armavir | 38 | 10 | 14 | 14 | 32 | 44 | −12 | 44 | |
| 16 | Baltika Kaliningrad | 38 | 10 | 12 | 16 | 38 | 52 | −14 | 42 | |
| 17 | Fakel Voronezh | 38 | 9 | 14 | 15 | 36 | 40 | −4 | 41 | |
| 18 | Sibir Novosibirsk | 38 | 8 | 13 | 17 | 28 | 45 | −17 | 37 | Dissolved after the season |
| 19 | Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg | 38 | 7 | 7 | 24 | 33 | 57 | −24 | 28 | Relegation to Professional Football League |
| 20 | Tyumen | 38 | 5 | 16 | 17 | 30 | 46 | −16 | 25 | Relegation to Professional Football League |
* ↑ On 28 May 2019, FC Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk won the East zone of the Russian Professional Football League. As they have not applied for the FNL license, they will not be promoted and Baltika will not be relegated.
* ↑ On 29 May 2019, FC Anzhi Makhachkala, which was relegated to FNL at the end of the 2018–19 Russian Premier League season, recalled their appeal to the Russian Football Union on earlier RFU's decision to deny them the FNL license. Therefore Anzhi will not play in the FNL in the 2019–20 season and Fakel will not be relegated.
* ↑ Team folded after season and phoenix club joined the 2019-2020 Russian Professional Football League season.
* ↑ Tyumen is stripped of six points for CAS requirements fulfillment failure.

## Results

| Home \ Away | ARM | AVA | BAL | CHE | FAK | KHI | KR2 | LUC | MOR | NNO | ROT | SHI | SIB | SKA | SOC | SP2 | TAM | TOM | TYU | ZE2 |
| Armavir | | 0–0 | 2–2 | 1–3 | 4–1 | 0–2 | 3–3 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 0–3 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 |
| Avangard Kursk | 1–0 | | 0–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 |
| Baltika Kaliningrad | 1–1 | 2–1 | | 2–0 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 1–4 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–2 |
| Chertanovo Moscow | 1–1 | 3–2 | 3–1 | | 2–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 2–6 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 4–0 |
| Fakel Voronezh | 0–0 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 |
| Khimki | 2–3 | 3–1 | 3–3 | 3–2 | 1–1 | | 3–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 |
| Krasnodar-2 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 4–2 | | 2–1 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 0–3 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 |
| Luch Vladivostok | 3–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 |
| Mordovia Saransk | 2–1 | 1–4 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 0–0 | | 2–2 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 |
| Nizhny Novgorod | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 3–1 | | 1–3 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 |
| Rotor Volgograd | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 2–1 | | 1–3 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 |
| Shinnik Yaroslavl | 0–0 | 4–2 | 1–0 | 3–3 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 0–0 | | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 |
| Sibir Novosibirsk | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–2 | | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 |
| SKA-Khabarovsk | 3–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | | 2–2 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 3–1 |
| Sochi | 1–0 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 4–2 | 0–0 | 4–1 | 2–0 | | 0–1 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 |
| Spartak-2 Moscow | 1–2 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 2–3 | 2–2 | 4–0 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 1–4 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | | 2–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 |
| Tambov | 0–1 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 3–2 | 0–3 | 2–0 | | 3–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 |
| Tom Tomsk | 3–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 4–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | | 1–0 | 1–0 |
| Tyumen | 1–0 | 0–1 | 4–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 3–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 1–3 | 1–2 | | 1–2 |
| Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg | 1–1 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 5–2 | 0–1 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 1–4 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 0–0 | |

## Statistics
### Top goalscorers

    As of match played 4 May 2019
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Maksim Barsov | Sochi | 19 |
| 2 | Igor Lebedenko | Fakel | 14 |
| 3 | Maksim Glushenkov | Spartak-2 | 12 |
| 3 | Vladimir Obukhov | Tambov | 12 |
| 3 | Vladislav Sarveli | Chertanovo | 12 |
| 6 | Anton Zinkovsky | Chertanovo | 11 |
| 7 | Roman Akbashev | Avangard | 10 |
| 7 | Ilya Kukharchuk | Khimki | 10 |
| 7 | Vladislav Panteleyev | Spartak-2 | 10 |
| 7 | Yevgeni Pesegov | Sochi | 10 |