# 2017–18 Russian Football National League

The 2017–18 Russian National Football League was the 26th season of Russia's second-tier football league since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The season began on 8 July 2017 and ended on 12 May 2018.

## Teams
### Stadiums, personnel and sponsorship

| Team | Head coach | Captain | Kitmaker | Sponsor | Stadium | Capacity |
| Avangard | Igor Belyayev | Denis Sinyayev | Adidas | | Trudovye Rezervy, Kursk | 11,329 |
| Baltika | Igor Cherevchenko | Aleksandr Sheshukov | Jako | Sodruzhestvo | Kaliningrad Stadium, Kaliningrad | 35,212 |
| Dynamo | Aleksandr Tochilin | Yevgeni Pesegov | Nike | | MSA Petrovskiy, Saint Petersburg | 2,809 |
| Fakel | Pavel Gusev | | Adidas | TNS Energo | Tsentralnyi Profsoyuz, Voronezh | 32,750 |
| Khimki | Aleksandr Irkhin | | Macron | - | Rodina Stadium, Khimki | 5,083 |
| Krylia Sovetov | Andrey Tikhonov | Ivan Taranov | Nike | | Cosmos Arena, Samara | 44,918 |
| Kuban | Yevgeni Kaleshin | Sergei Bendz | Adidas | - | Kuban Stadium, Krasnodar | 35,200 |
| Luch-Energiya | Aleksandr Grigoryan | | Nike | - | Dynamo, Vladivostok | 10,200 |
| Olimpiyets | Nikolai Pisarev | Andrei Khripkov | Jako | | Nizhny Novgorod Stadium, Nizhny Novgorod | 44,899 |
| Orenburg | Vladimir Fedotov | Dmitri Andreyev | Nike | | Gazovik Stadium, Orenburg | 7,500 |
| Rotor | Sergei Pavlov | Roman Kontsedalov | Adidas | | Volgograd Arena, Volgograd | 45,568 |
| Shinnik | Aleksandr Pobegalov | Eldar Nizamutdinov | Jako | - | Shinnik, Yaroslavl | 22,990 |
| Sibir | Sergei Kirsanov | Eugeniu Cebotaru | Joma | - | Spartak, Novosibirsk | 12,500 |
| Spartak-2 | Dmitri Gunko | Artyom Samsonov | Nike | Lukoil | Spartak Academy, Moscow | 2,700 |
| Tambov | Andrei Talalayev | Aleksei Rybin | Jako | TBS | Spartak Stadium, Tambov | 5,000 |
| Tom | Vasili Baskakov | Dmitri Sasin | Joma | | Trud Stadium, Tomsk | 10,028 |
| Tyumen | Vladimir Maminov | | Jako | Sibur | Geolog, Tyumen | 13,057 |
| Volgar | Yuri Gazzayev | Stanislav Buchnev | Adidas | Gazprom | Tsentralny, Astrakhan | 17,712 |
| Yenisey | Dmitri Alenichev | Aleksandr Kharitonov | Nike | - | Tsentralny, Krasnoyarsk | 22,500 |
| Zenit-2 | Konstantin Zyryanov | Yegor Baburin | Nike | Gazprom | MSA Petrovsky, Saint Petersburg | 2,809 |

## League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Orenburg (C, P) | 38 | 26 | 6 | 6 | 59 | 26 | +33 | 84 | Promotion to Premier League |
| 2 | Krylia Sovetov Samara (P) | 38 | 26 | 4 | 8 | 60 | 23 | +37 | 82 | Promotion to Premier League |
| 3 | Yenisey Krasnoyarsk (O, P) | 38 | 25 | 6 | 7 | 68 | 32 | +36 | 81 | Qualification to Premier League play-offs |
| 4 | Tambov | 38 | 20 | 8 | 10 | 57 | 36 | +21 | 68 | Qualification to Premier League play-offs |
| 5 | Baltika Kaliningrad | 38 | 19 | 7 | 12 | 44 | 35 | +9 | 64 | |
| 6 | Dynamo Saint Petersburg | 38 | 13 | 16 | 9 | 52 | 47 | +5 | 55 | |
| 7 | Sibir Novosibirsk | 38 | 14 | 11 | 13 | 38 | 31 | +7 | 53 | |
| 8 | Shinnik Yaroslavl | 38 | 14 | 11 | 13 | 45 | 45 | 0 | 53 | |
| 9 | Kuban Krasnodar (D) | 38 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 47 | 47 | 0 | 49 | Dissolved after the season |
| 10 | Volgar Astrakhan (R) | 38 | 12 | 9 | 17 | 40 | 46 | −6 | 45 | Relegation to Professional Football League |
| 11 | Avangard Kursk | 38 | 10 | 15 | 13 | 43 | 46 | −3 | 45 | |
| 12 | Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod | 38 | 11 | 11 | 16 | 37 | 50 | −13 | 44 | |
| 13 | Khimki | 38 | 12 | 7 | 19 | 33 | 49 | −16 | 43 | |
| 14 | Spartak-2 Moscow | 38 | 11 | 9 | 18 | 47 | 64 | −17 | 42 | Ineligible for promotion |
| 15 | Tom Tomsk | 38 | 10 | 11 | 17 | 36 | 56 | −20 | 41 | |
| 16 | Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg | 38 | 11 | 7 | 20 | 43 | 59 | −16 | 40 | Ineligible for promotion |
| 17 | Rotor Volgograd | 38 | 10 | 10 | 18 | 38 | 45 | −7 | 40 | |
| 18 | Luch-Energiya Vladivostok | 38 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 40 | 52 | −12 | 40 | |
| 19 | Tyumen | 38 | 9 | 12 | 17 | 41 | 54 | −13 | 39 | |
| 20 | Fakel Voronezh | 38 | 9 | 8 | 21 | 27 | 52 | −25 | 35 | |
* 1 2 3 4 On 30 May 2018, the league announced that FC Kuban Krasnodar (9th place), FC Tosno (relegated from the 2017–18 Russian Premier League) and FC Ararat Moscow (promoted from the 2017–18 Russian Professional Football League, zone Center) failed in their appeal to get the FNL license for the 2018–19 season. According to league regulation, 18th, 19th and 20th-placed teams will not be relegated.
* 1 2 On 28 May 2018, the league announced that FC Volgar Astrakhan chose to get relegated voluntarily due to lack of financial opportunities. According to league regulations, Rotor Volgograd will not be relegated.
* ↑ Russian Football Union announced on 11 May 2018, that none of the teams from the East zone of the 2017–18 Russian Professional Football League applied for the FNL license for the 2018–19 season. According to the league regulations, 16th-placed team will not be relegated.

## Results

| Home \ Away | AVA | BAL | DSP | FAK | KHI | KRY | KUB | LUE | ONN | ORE | ROT | SHI | SIB | SP2 | TAM | TOM | TYU | VOL | YEN | ZE2 |
| Avangard Kursk | | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 2–4 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 2–3 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 3–3 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–4 | 1–1 |
| Baltika Kaliningrad | 1–0 | | 3–2 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 5–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 6–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 0–5 | 0–1 |
| Dynamo St. Petersburg | 1–2 | 3–1 | | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 2–2 | 3–2 | 3–1 | 0–1 | 0–3 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 3–3 |
| Fakel Voronezh | 0–4 | 0–1 | 0–0 | | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 3–1 | 4–1 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 0–1 |
| Khimki | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–3 | | 0–2 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 |
| Krylia Sovetov Samara | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 3–3 | 3–0 | 5–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 |
| Kuban Krasnodar | 0–3 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 2–1 | | 0–0 | 0–0 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–3 | 0–0 | 3–3 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 |
| Luch-Energiya Vladivostok | 2–2 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–2 | | 1–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 4–2 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 |
| Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod | 2–2 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–3 | 1–0 | | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 0–1 |
| Orenburg | 1–1 | 0–1 | 4–3 | 5–0 | 5–2 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | | 2–2 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 |
| Rotor Volgograd | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 0–2 | | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 4–1 |
| Shinnik Yaroslavl | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 2–3 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 3–1 | | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–3 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 2–1 |
| Sibir Novosibirsk | 0–2 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 | | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 3–1 |
| Spartak-2 Moscow | 0–1 | 0–2 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–3 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 2–1 | | 0–3 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 2–3 | 1–2 | 3–1 |
| Tambov | 0–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 4–1 | 3–0 | | 3–1 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 5–0 | 3–1 |
| Tom Tomsk | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–4 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 0–0 | | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 |
| Tyumen | 4–0 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 1–1 | | 3–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 |
| Volgar Astrakhan | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 1–0 | | 1–2 | 3–2 |
| Yenisey Krasnoyarsk | 3–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 3–1 | 2–1 | | 2–1 |
| Zenit-2 St. Petersburg | 0–4 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 4–1 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 3–3 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 0–3 | |

## Statistics
### Top goalscorers

| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Andrei Kozlov | Yenisey | 15 |
| 2 | Andrei Panyukov | Zenit-2 | 12 |
| 3 | Sergei Kornilenko | Krylia Sovetov | 10 |
| 3 | Dmitri Skopintsev | Baltika | 10 |
| 3 | Artyom Kulishev | Dynamo | 10 |
| 6 | Aleksei Sutormin | Volgar | 9 |
| 7 | Sergey Samodin | Krylia Sovetov | 8 |
| 7 | Fashion Sakala | Spartak-2 | 8 |
| 7 | Denis Popović | Orenburg | 8 |
Last updated: 25 November 2017