# 1995 Russian Top League

Statistics of Russian Top League in season 1995.

## Overview

16 teams participated, and Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz won the championship.
| Team | Head coach |
| FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz | Valery Gazzaev |
| FC Lokomotiv Moscow | Yuri Syomin |
| FC Spartak Moscow | Oleg Romantsev |
| FC Dynamo Moscow | Konstantin Beskov (until August) Adamas Golodets (from September) |
| FC Torpedo Moscow | Valentin Ivanov |
| PFC CSKA Moscow | Aleksandr Tarkhanov |
| FC Rotor Volgograd | Viktor Prokopenko |
| FC Uralmash Yekaterinburg | Vladimir Kalashnikov |
| FC KAMAZ-Chally Naberezhnye Chelny | Valeri Chetverik |
| FC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin | Sergei Pavlov |
| FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk | Oleg Dolmatov (until September) Sergei Butenko (caretaker, from September) |
| FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod | Valeri Ovchinnikov |
| FC Zhemchuzhina Sochi | Arsen Naydyonov |
| FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don | Enver Yulgushov (until May) Sergey Andreyev (from May) |
| FC Krylia Sovetov Samara | Aleksandr Averyanov |
| FC Dynamo-Gazovik Tyumen | Aleksandr Bubnov (until March) Sergei Rozhkov (March to April) Aleksandr Irkhin (April to July) Eduard Malofeyev (from August) |

## League standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz (C) | 30 | 22 | 5 | 3 | 63 | 21 | +42 | 71 | Qualification to Champions League qualifying round |
| 2 | Lokomotiv Moscow | 30 | 20 | 5 | 5 | 52 | 23 | +29 | 65 | Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round |
| 3 | Spartak Moscow | 30 | 19 | 6 | 5 | 76 | 26 | +50 | 63 | Qualification to UEFA Cup qualifying round |
| 4 | Dynamo Moscow | 30 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 45 | 29 | +16 | 56 | Qualification to UEFA Cup qualifying round |
| 5 | Torpedo Moscow | 30 | 16 | 7 | 7 | 40 | 30 | +10 | 55 | Qualification to UEFA Cup qualifying round |
| 6 | CSKA Moscow | 30 | 16 | 5 | 9 | 56 | 34 | +22 | 53 | Qualification to UEFA Cup qualifying round |
| 7 | Rotor Volgograd | 30 | 11 | 7 | 12 | 62 | 49 | +13 | 40 | Qualification to Intertoto Cup group stage |
| 8 | Uralmash Yekaterinburg | 30 | 12 | 3 | 15 | 43 | 47 | −4 | 39 | Qualification to Intertoto Cup group stage |
| 9 | KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny | 30 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 34 | 30 | +4 | 38 | Qualification to Intertoto Cup group stage |
| 10 | Tekstilshchik Kamyshin | 30 | 9 | 7 | 14 | 37 | 41 | −4 | 34 | |
| 11 | Chernomorets Novorossiysk | 30 | 10 | 2 | 18 | 32 | 62 | −30 | 32 | |
| 12 | Lokomotiv N.N. | 30 | 6 | 11 | 13 | 28 | 42 | −14 | 29 | |
| 13 | Rostselmash | 30 | 8 | 4 | 18 | 35 | 56 | −21 | 28 | |
| 14 | Zhemchuzhina Sochi | 30 | 8 | 4 | 18 | 36 | 69 | −33 | 28 | |
| 15 | Krylia Sovetov Samara | 30 | 6 | 8 | 16 | 34 | 65 | −31 | 26 | |
| 16 | Dynamo-Gazovik Tyumen (R) | 30 | 3 | 6 | 21 | 28 | 77 | −49 | 15 | Relegation to First League |

## Results

| Home \ Away | SAL | CHE | CSK | DYN | DGT | KAM | KRY | LOK | LNN | ROS | ROT | SPA | TEK | TOR | URA | ZHE |
| Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz | | 3–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 4–1 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 4–2 | 5–0 |
| Chernomorets Novorossiysk | 0–3 | | 1–3 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 2–4 | 2–3 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 3–2 | 4–0 |
| CSKA Moscow | 1–2 | 4–0 | | 1–3 | 3–1 | 2–2 | 4–1 | 0–1 | 4–0 | 4–0 | 1–4 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 4–0 |
| Dynamo Moscow | 1–2 | 2–0 | 0–1 | | 1–0 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 4–3 |
| Dynamo-Gazovik Tyumen | 0–4 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 2–2 | | 0–0 | 3–2 | 2–3 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 1–6 | 0–6 | 0–3 | 1–3 | 0–2 | 1–2 |
| KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 5–2 | 1–1 | | 1–0 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 4–0 | 3–0 |
| Krylia Sovetov Samara | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1–4 | 6–3 | 2–1 | | 0–4 | 1–1 | 2–6 | 3–3 | 1–6 | 0–3 | 0–2 | 3–2 | 0–0 |
| Lokomotiv Moscow | 4–1 | 5–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | | 1–0 | 2–1 | 4–3 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 |
| Lokomotiv N.N. | 2–4 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–2 | | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 4–1 | 2–3 | 3–1 | 2–2 |
| Rostselmash | 0–1 | 0–2 | 1–3 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 2–1 | | 0–4 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 1–4 |
| Rotor Volgograd | 1–1 | 5–1 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 5–4 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 4–1 | | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 7–0 |
| Spartak Moscow | 1–2 | 5–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 2–0 | 5–1 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 1–2 | | 4–2 | 5–0 | 5–1 | 6–0 |
| Tekstilshchik Kamyshin | 0–1 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–2 | | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 |
| Torpedo Moscow | 1–4 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | | 3–0 | 3–0 |
| Uralmash Yekaterinburg | 0–1 | 6–0 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 5–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 5–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 1–2 | | 4–3 |
| Zhemchuzhina Sochi | 0–2 | 2–1 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 4–2 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 3–1 | 4–1 | |

## Season statistics
### Top goalscorers

    As of matches played on 26 October 1995.
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Oleg Veretennikov | Rotor | 25 |
| 2 | Aleksandr Maslov | Rostselmash | 18 |
| 3 | Valeri Shmarov | Spartak Moscow | 16 |
| 4 | Vladimir Niederhaus | Rotor | 14 |
| 5 | Oleg Garin | Lokomotiv Moscow | 13 |
| 6 | Mikhail Kavelashvili | Spartak-Alania | 12 |
| 7 | Yevgeni Kharlachyov | Lokomotiv Moscow | 11 |
| 7 | Oleg Teryokhin | Dynamo Moscow | 11 |
| 9 | Garnik Avalyan | Krylia Sovetov | 10 |
| 9 | Timur Bogatyryov | Zhemchuzhina | 10 |
| 9 | Dmitri Karsakov | CSKA | 10 |
| 9 | Sergei Natalushko | Tekstilshchik | 10 |
| 9 | Mirjalol Qosimov | Spartak-Alania | 10 |
| 9 | Bakhva Tedeyev | Spartak-Alania | 10 |

## Medal squads

* 1. FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz
* Goalkeepers: Zaur Khapov (29), Dmitriy Kramarenko (21) , Soso Grishikashvili (3).
* Defenders: Omari Tetradze (30), Artur Pagayev (28 / 2), Sergey Timofeev (24 / 2), Murtaz Shelia (22 / 4), Inal Dzhioyev (22 / 2), Oleg Kornienko (19), Aslan Datdeyev (18 / 1), Igor Gorelov (9), Alan Agayev (7 / 1), Ali Alchagirov (7), Sergei Gorlukovich (5).
* Midfielders: Igor Yanovskiy (29 / 2), Bakhva Tedeyev (28 / 10), Sergei Derkach (26 / 5), Mirjalol Qosimov (22 / 10), Georgi Botsiyev (9), Shamil Isayev (1), Zaza Revishvili (1).
* Forwards: Anatoli Kanishchev (26 / 7), Mikhail Kavelashvili (24 / 12), Nazim Suleymanov (13 / 4), Tamerlan Sikoyev (3), Aslan Goplachev (2). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets)
* One own goal scored by Stanislav Bondarev (FC Zhemchuzhina Sochi).
* Manager: Valery Gazzaev.
* Transferred out during the season: Igor Gorelov (to FC Dynamo-Gazovik Tyumen), Aslan Goplachev, Shamil Isayev (both to PFC Spartak Nalchik).
* 2. FC Lokomotiv Moscow
* Goalkeepers: Sergei Ovchinnikov (27), Khasanbi Bidzhiyev (3).
* Defenders: Igor Chugainov (30 / 1), Andrei Solomatin (27 / 4), Sargis Hovhannisyan (23 / 2), Aleksei Arifullin (21), Oleg Pashinin (14), Sergei Gurenko (13), Vyacheslav Tsaryov (4).
* Midfielders: Yuri Alekseevich Drozdov (30), Alexei Kosolapov (29 / 9), Yevgeni Kharlachyov (26 / 11), Oleg Elyshev (26 / 2), Aleksandr Smirnov (16 / 2), Ansar Ayupov (14 / 1), Vladimir Maminov (11 / 1), Yevgeni Kuznetsov (10 / 1), Yuri Baturenko (3), Sergei Zhukov (1).
* Forwards: Oleg Garin (28 / 13), Aleksandr Katasonov (13 / 1), Vitaliy Parakhnevych (10), Aleksei Snigiryov (9 / 3), Aleksandr Tatarkin (6), Serhiy Perepadenko (4).
* One own goal scored by Andrey Shkurin (FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk).
* Manager: Yuri Syomin.
* Transferred out during the season: Ansar Ayupov (to FC Twente), Vitaliy Parakhnevych (to Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors).
* 3. FC Spartak Moscow
* Goalkeepers: Ruslan Nigmatullin (15), Dmytro Tyapushkin (8), Stanislav Cherchesov (8).
* Defenders: Ramiz Mamedov (30 / 3), Viktor Onopko (29 / 6), Dmitri Khlestov (26 / 1), Yuriy Nikiforov (22 / 9), Andrei Afanasyev (19 / 1), Andrei Ivanov (9), Sergei Chudin (5), Dmitri Ananko (3).
* Midfielders: Dmitri Alenichev (27 / 4), Ilya Tsymbalar (21 / 8), Valery Kechinov (21 / 4), Andrey Tikhonov (20 / 7), Nikolai Pisarev (14 / 2), Yegor Titov (12 / 1), Vasili Kulkov (12), Andrei Konovalov (11 / 2), Andrei Piatnitski (10).
* Forwards: Valeri Shmarov (20 / 16), Mukhsin Mukhamadiev (15 / 7), Serhiy Nahornyak (10), Sergey Rodionov (9 / 3), Sergei Yuran (8 / 2), Valery Vyalichka (2), Valeri Masalitin (1), Aleksandr Shirko (1).
* Manager: Oleg Romantsev.
* Transferred out during the season: Nikolai Pisarev (to Mérida), Serhiy Nahornyak (to FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk).