# 2011–12 Russian Football National League

The 2011–12 Russian National Football League the 20th season of Russia's second-tier football league since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The season began on 4 April.

## Overview

FC Zhemchuzhina-Sochi officially withdrew from the competition on 7 August 2011 due to lack of financing. Because they played more than half of their games, all their remaining opponents will be awarded a 3–0 victory.
| Team | Location | Head Coach | Team Captain | Venue | Capacity | 2010 | Kit Maker |
| Alania | Vladikavkaz | Vladimir Gazzayev | Georgy Gabulov | Republican Spartak | 32,464 | PL 15th | Umbro |
| Baltika | Kaliningrad | Yevgeni Perevertailo | Yegor Kryshtafovich | Baltika | 14,664 | 15th | Nike |
| Chernomorets | Novorossiysk | Igor Cherniy | Konstantin Belkov | Trud | 12,500 | D2 "South" 1st | Adidas |
| Dynamo Bryansk | Bryansk | Valeriy Petrakov | Aleksandr Fomichyov | Dynamo | 10,100 | 14th | Umbro |
| Fakel | Voronezh | Konstantin Sarsania | Aleksandr Cherkes | Tsentralnyi Profsoyuz (Voronezh) | 31,793 | D2 "Center" 4th | Adidas |
| Gazovik | Orenburg | Konstantin Galkin | Sergei Dymov | Gazovik | 4,950 | D2 "Ural-Povolzhye" 1st | Nike |
| KAMAZ | Naberezhnye Chelny | Robert Yevdokimov | — | KAMAZ | 9,221 | 4th | Adidas |
| Khimki | Khimki | Oleg Dolmatov | Sergei Miroshnichenko | Novye Khimki | 5,083 | 13th | Nike |
| Luch-Energiya | Vladivostok | Sergei Pavlov | Aleksandr Tikhonovetsky | Dynamo | 10,185 | 12th | Puma |
| Mordovia | Saransk | Fyodor Shcherbachenko | Aleksei Muldarov | Start | 7,400 | 6th | Adidas |
| Nizhny Novgorod | Nizhny Novgorod | Vladimir Kazakov | Dmitri Kudryashov | Severny | 3,180 | 3rd | Adidas |
| Sibir | Novosibirsk | Dmitri Radyukin | Veliče Šumulikoski | Spartak | 12,500 | PL 16th | Erreà |
| Shinnik | Yaroslavl | Yuri Gazzaev | Roman Voydel | Shinnik | 22,990 | 10th | Puma |
| SKA-Energiya | Khabarovsk | Aleksandr Grigoryan | Vyacheslav Zapoyaska | Lenin Stadium | 15,200 | 11th | Erreà |
| Torpedo | Moscow | Igor Chugainov | Andrei Konovalov | Eduard Streltsov | 13,400 | D2 "Center" 1st | Umbro |
| Torpedo | Vladimir | Yevgeni Durnev | Ivan Karatygin | Torpedo | 26,000 | D2 "West" 1st | Adidas |
| Ural | Yekaterinburg | Yuri Matveyev | Sergei Rashevsky | Uralmash | 13,000 | 7th | Adidas |
| Volgar-Gazprom | Astrakhan | Khazret Dyshekov | Maksim Volkov | Central | 18,500 | 9th | Adidas |
| Yenisey | Krasnoyarsk | Aleksandr Alfyorov | Sergei Pyatikopov | Central | 22,500 | D2 "East" 1st | Adidas |
| Zhemchuzhina | Sochi | Stanislav Cherchesov | Maksim Demenko | Central | 10,280 | 8th | Adidas |

### Managerial changes

| Team | Outgoing | Manner | Date | Table | Incoming | Date | Table |
| Luch-Energiya | Francisco Arcos | Sacked | 6 May 2011 | 19th | Sergei Pavlov | 7 May 2011 | 19th |
| Volgar-Gazprom | Lev Ivanov | Sacked | 7 May 2011 | 17th | Aleksandr Krotov | 7 May 2011 | 19th |
| Sibir | Igor Kriushenko | Resigned | 9 May 2011 | 10th | Dmitri Radyukin | 9 May 2011 | 10th |
| Dynamo | Aleksandr Smirnov | Sacked | 20 May 2011 | 18th | Oleg Garin (caretaker) | 20 May 2011 | 19th |
| Dynamo | Oleg Garin (caretaker) | Caretaking spell over | 26 May 2011 | 18th | Valeriy Petrakov | 26 May 2011 | 18th |
| Ural | Dmitriy Ogai | Sacked | 30 May 2011 | 10th | Yuri Matveyev (caretaker) | 26 May 2011 | 10th |
| Shinnik | Aleksandr Pobegalov | Sacked | 6 June 2011 | 11th | Galimdzhan Khayrulin (caretaker) | 6 June 2011 | 11th |
| Shinnik | Galimdzhan Khayrulin (caretaker) | Caretaking spell over | 21 June 2011 | 11th | Yuri Gazzaev | 21 June 2011 | 11th |
| Baltika | Sergey Frantsev | Resigned | 28 June 2011 | 18th | Aleksandr Gorbachyov (caretaker) | 28 June 2011 | 18th |
| Khimki | Aleksandr Grigoryan | Resigned | 4 July 2011 | 15th | Oleg Dolmatov | 5 July 2011 | 15th |
| Baltika | Aleksandr Gorbachyov (caretaker) | Caretaking spell over | 20 July 2011 | 18th | Yevgeni Perevertailo | 20 July 2011 | 18th |
| Chernomorets | Khazret Dyshekov | Resigned | 4 September 2011 | 14th | Igor Cherniy | 4 September 2011 | 14th |
| Volgar-Gazprom | Aleksandr Krotov | Sacked | 7 September 2011 | 18th | Khazret Dyshekov | 7 September 2011 | 18th |
| SKA-Energiya | Igor Protasov | Sacked | 11 October 2011 | 11th | Aleksandr Grigoryan | 11 October 2011 | 11th |

## First phase
### Standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | Alania Vladikavkaz | 38 | 21 | 10 | 7 | 50 | 24 | +26 | 73 | Qualification for Championship group |
| 2 | Mordovia Saransk | 38 | 21 | 10 | 7 | 64 | 44 | +20 | 73 | Qualification for Championship group |
| 3 | Shinnik Yaroslavl | 38 | 21 | 6 | 11 | 61 | 42 | +19 | 69 | Qualification for Championship group |
| 4 | Nizhny Novgorod | 38 | 21 | 5 | 12 | 53 | 40 | +13 | 68 | Qualification for Championship group |
| 5 | Sibir Novosibirsk | 38 | 16 | 13 | 9 | 61 | 39 | +22 | 61 | Qualification for Championship group |
| 6 | Dynamo Bryansk | 38 | 17 | 9 | 12 | 48 | 40 | +8 | 60 | Qualification for Championship group |
| 7 | Torpedo Moscow | 38 | 16 | 12 | 10 | 50 | 30 | +20 | 60 | Qualification for Championship group |
| 8 | Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast | 38 | 15 | 15 | 8 | 51 | 35 | +16 | 60 | Qualification for Championship group |
| 9 | KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny | 38 | 17 | 8 | 13 | 48 | 36 | +12 | 59 | Qualification for Relegation group |
| 10 | Yenisey Krasnoyarsk | 38 | 14 | 11 | 13 | 45 | 43 | +2 | 53 | Qualification for Relegation group |
| 11 | Khimki | 38 | 13 | 9 | 16 | 47 | 61 | −14 | 48 | Qualification for Relegation group |
| 12 | Volgar-Gazprom Astrakhan | 38 | 12 | 11 | 15 | 36 | 49 | −13 | 47 | Qualification for Relegation group |
| 13 | SKA-Khabarovsk | 38 | 12 | 11 | 15 | 46 | 57 | −11 | 47 | Qualification for Relegation group |
| 14 | Torpedo Vladimir | 38 | 12 | 7 | 19 | 45 | 61 | −16 | 43 | Qualification for Relegation group |
| 15 | Luch-Energiya Vladivostok | 38 | 9 | 15 | 14 | 30 | 32 | −2 | 42 | Qualification for Relegation group |
| 16 | Chernomorets Novorossiysk | 38 | 11 | 8 | 19 | 32 | 36 | −4 | 41 | Qualification for Relegation group |
| 17 | Baltika Kaliningrad | 38 | 9 | 14 | 15 | 31 | 45 | −14 | 41 | Qualification for Relegation group |
| 18 | Gazovik Orenburg | 38 | 8 | 14 | 16 | 40 | 48 | −8 | 38 | Qualification for Relegation group |
| 19 | Fakel Voronezh | 38 | 6 | 12 | 20 | 26 | 46 | −20 | 30 | Qualification for Relegation group |
| 20 | Zhemchuzhina-Sochi (R) | 38 | 8 | 2 | 28 | 22 | 81 | −59 | 26 | Excluded from professional football |
* 1 2 Head-to-head record: Alania – Mordovia 4–0, Mordovia – Alania 1–2.
* 1 2 Head-to-head record: Volgar-Gazprom – SKA 2–0, SKA – Volgar-Gazprom 1–1.
* ↑ FC Zhemchuzhina-Sochi excluded from professional football for financial reasons.

### Results

| Home \ Away | ALA | BAL | CHM | DBR | FAK | GAZ | KAM | KHI | LUE | MOR | NN | SHI | SIB | SKA | TOR | TOV | URA | VGA | YEN | ZHE |
| Alania Vladikavkaz | | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 3–0 |
| Baltika Kaliningrad | 0–2 | | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 4–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–3 | 1–3 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 |
| Chernomorets Novorossiysk | 0–1 | 1–2 | | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 |
| Dynamo Bryansk | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 4–2 | 1–1 | 4–1 | 3–2 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 0–3 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 3–0 |
| Fakel Voronezh | 1–1 | 2–3 | 1–0 | 0–1 | | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0–3 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 3–0 |
| Gazovik Orenburg | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 3–4 | 0–2 |
| KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny | 2–0 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 1–3 | | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 3–2 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 |
| Khimki | 0–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 0–3 | | 1–0 | 0–6 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 1–3 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 |
| Luch-Energiya Vladivostok | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 |
| Mordovia Saransk | 1–2 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 3–2 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | | 3–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 4–2 | 3–4 | 2–3 | 2–1 |
| Nizhny Novgorod | 0–3 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 1–1 | | 3–2 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–5 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 3–0 |
| Shinnik Yaroslavl | 2–2 | 0–3 | 1–0 | 5–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 4–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 4–1 | | 3–3 | 1–2 | 0–4 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 |
| Sibir Novosibirsk | 3–0 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 4–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | | 2–2 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 5–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 |
| SKA-Khabarovsk | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–5 | 4–4 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–2 | | 0–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 4–3 | 3–1 |
| Torpedo Moscow | 0–0 | 4–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 2–1 |
| Torpedo Vladimir | 0–3 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 3–2 | 3–3 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–3 | 1–2 | 3–2 | 3–1 | 3–1 | | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 3–0 |
| Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast | 0–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–3 | 5–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 3–2 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 3–2 | | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–3 |
| Volgar-Gazprom Astrakhan | 3–0 | 2–2 | 2–2 | 1–5 | 2–0 | 1–3 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–3 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 0–3 | | 1–0 | 3–0 |
| Yenisey Krasnoyarsk | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | | 4–2 |
| Zhemchuzhina-Sochi | 0–1 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 2–4 | 0–0 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 1–0 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 1–0 | 2–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 0–3 | 1–0 | 0–3 | |

## Second phase
### Promotion Group
#### Standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | Mordovia Saransk (C, P) | 52 | 29 | 13 | 10 | 91 | 56 | +35 | 100 | Promotion to Premier League |
| 2 | Alania Vladikavkaz (P) | 52 | 28 | 13 | 11 | 66 | 39 | +27 | 97 | Promotion to Premier League |
| 3 | Nizhny Novgorod (R) | 52 | 29 | 7 | 16 | 76 | 58 | +18 | 94 | Qualification for promotion play-offs |
| 4 | Shinnik Yaroslavl | 52 | 25 | 10 | 17 | 70 | 56 | +14 | 85 | Qualification for promotion play-offs |
| 5 | Dynamo Bryansk (R) | 52 | 22 | 12 | 18 | 62 | 57 | +5 | 78 | Excluded from professional football |
| 6 | Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast | 52 | 19 | 21 | 12 | 71 | 52 | +19 | 78 | |
| 7 | Sibir Novosibirsk | 52 | 19 | 19 | 14 | 76 | 57 | +19 | 76 | |
| 8 | Torpedo Moscow | 52 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 63 | 53 | +10 | 68 | |
* ↑ FC Nizhny Novgorod excluded from professional football for financial reasons.
* ↑ FC Dynamo Bryansk excluded from professional football for financial reasons.

#### Results

| Home \ Away | ALA | DBR | MOR | NN | SHI | SIB | TOR | URA |
| Alania Vladikavkaz | | 2–0 | 2–4 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 |
| Dynamo Bryansk | 1–2 | | 1–0 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 |
| Mordovia Saransk | 2–0 | 3–1 | | 3–1 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 2–2 |
| Nizhny Novgorod | 2–0 | 3–1 | 0–2 | | 1–0 | 4–3 | 3–2 | 1–1 |
| Shinnik Yaroslavl | 0–1 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 1–1 | | 1–2 | 1–0 | 2–1 |
| Sibir Novosibirsk | 1–2 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 0–3 | 1–1 | | 1–1 | 0–1 |
| Torpedo Moscow | 0–1 | 2–3 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | | 2–6 |
| Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast | 2–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | |

### Relegation Group
#### Standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny (R) | 48 | 19 | 10 | 19 | 53 | 46 | +7 | 67 | Relegation to Second Division |
| 2 | Yenisey Krasnoyarsk | 48 | 17 | 15 | 16 | 53 | 53 | 0 | 66 | |
| 3 | SKA-Khabarovsk | 48 | 16 | 14 | 18 | 57 | 66 | −9 | 62 | |
| 4 | Torpedo Vladimir (R) | 48 | 17 | 10 | 21 | 62 | 73 | −11 | 61 | Excluded from professional football |
| 5 | Khimki | 48 | 16 | 11 | 21 | 54 | 74 | −20 | 59 | |
| 6 | Volgar-Gazprom Astrakhan | 48 | 15 | 14 | 19 | 44 | 57 | −13 | 59 | |
| 7 | Baltika Kaliningrad | 48 | 14 | 17 | 17 | 42 | 54 | −12 | 59 | |
| 8 | Gazovik Orenburg (R) | 48 | 14 | 17 | 17 | 54 | 52 | +2 | 59 | Relegation to Second Division |
| 9 | Luch-Energiya Vladivostok (R) | 48 | 11 | 21 | 16 | 37 | 39 | −2 | 54 | Relegation to Second Division |
| 10 | Chernomorets Novorossiysk (R) | 48 | 14 | 10 | 24 | 40 | 45 | −5 | 52 | Relegation to Second Division |
| 11 | Fakel Voronezh (R) | 48 | 9 | 13 | 26 | 34 | 59 | −25 | 40 | Relegation to Second Division |
* ↑ FC KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny relegated to Second Division for financial reasons.
* ↑ FC Torpedo Vladimir excluded from professional football for financial reasons.
* 1 2 Head-to-head record: Gazovik – Baltika 1–1, Baltika – Gazovik 0–0, Baltika – Gazovik 2–1.

#### Results

| Home \ Away | BAL | CHM | FAK | GAZ | KAM | KHI | LUE | SKA | TOV | VGA | YEN |
| Baltika Kaliningrad | | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | | | 1–1 | | | | 0–1 |
| Chernomorets Novorossiysk | | | | | 1–0 | 1–0 | | 1–2 | 3–0 | 0–0 | |
| Fakel Voronezh | | 0–0 | | 0–2 | | | 0–1 | 2–1 | | | 1–0 |
| Gazovik Orenburg | | 2–0 | | | 2–0 | 3–0 | | 1–0 | | 1–0 | |
| KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny | 0–1 | | 2–0 | | | | 0–0 | | 0–1 | | 2–1 |
| Khimki | 1–1 | | 1–3 | | 1–0 | | | | 0–2 | | 0–0 |
| Luch-Energiya Vladivostok | | 2–1 | | 0–0 | | 1–2 | | 1–2 | | 0–0 | |
| SKA-Khabarovsk | 0–0 | | | | 2–0 | 2–1 | | | 1–1 | 0–1 | |
| Torpedo Vladimir | 5–2 | | 2–1 | 1–1 | | | 1–1 | | | | 3–0 |
| Volgar-Gazprom Astrakhan | 0–1 | | 2–1 | | 1–1 | 0–1 | | | 3–1 | | |
| Yenisey Krasnoyarsk | | 2–1 | | 1–1 | | | 0–0 | 1–1 | | 2–1 | |

## Top scorers

Source: Onedivision.ru (in Russian)
| Rank | Player | Team | Goals |
| 1 | Ruslan Mukhametshin | Mordovia | 31 |
| 2 | Dmitri Golubov | Baltika / Dynamo | 22 |
| 3 | Dmitri Akimov | Sibir | 20 |
| 3 | Maksim Astafyev | Sibir | 16 |
| 4 | Kirill Panchenko | Mordovia | 15 |
| 5 | Artyom Delkin | Torpedo Vladimir | 14 |
| 5 | Eldar Nizamutdinov | Shinnik | 14 |