# 2008 Russian First Division

The 2008 Russian First Division was the 17th edition of Russian First Division. There were 22 teams.

## Teams

15 clubs placed 3–17 in 2007 Russian First Division, 2 clubs relegated from 2007 Russian Premier League and 5 zone winners from 2007 Russian Second Division took part in the league:
| Team | Place |
| FC Kuban Krasnodar | Krasnodar |
| FC Rostov | Rostov-on-Don |
| FC Sibir Novosibirsk | Novosibirsk |
| FC KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny | Naberezhnye Chelny |
| FC Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast | Yekaterinburg |
| FC Torpedo Moscow | Moscow |
| FC Nosta Novotroitsk | Novotroitsk |
| FC Dynamo Bryansk | Bryansk |
| FC Salyut-Energia Belgorod | Belgorod |
| FC Anzhi Makhachkala | Makhachkala |
| FC Zvezda Irkutsk | Irkutsk |
| Team | Place |
| FC Alania Vladikavkaz | Vladikavkaz |
| FC SKA-Energia Khabarovsk | Khabarovsk |
| FC Mashuk-KMV Pyatigorsk | Pyatigorsk |
| FC Baltika Kaliningrad | Kaliningrad |
| FC Metallurg-Kuzbass Novokuznetsk | Novokuznetsk |
| FC SKA Rostov-on-Don | Rostov-on-Don |
| FC Vityaz Podolsk | Podolsk |
| FC Dynamo Barnaul | Barnaul |
| FC Sportakademklub Moscow | Moscow |
| FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk | Novorossiysk |
| FC Volga Ulyanovsk | Ulyanovsk |
On 23 October 2008 FC Zvezda Irkutsk had to stop participation in the league due to lack of funds, their main sponsor Interavia airlines is having financial problems at the time. Zvezda failed to fulfil four last fixtures.

## Standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | Rostov (P) | 42 | 29 | 9 | 4 | 78 | 29 | +49 | 96 | Promotion to Premier League |
| 2 | Kuban Krasnodar (P) | 42 | 27 | 6 | 9 | 84 | 36 | +48 | 87 | Promotion to Premier League |
| 3 | KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny | 42 | 23 | 10 | 9 | 68 | 41 | +27 | 79 | |
| 4 | Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast | 42 | 22 | 9 | 11 | 69 | 39 | +30 | 75 | |
| 5 | Nosta Novotroitsk | 42 | 20 | 13 | 9 | 59 | 37 | +22 | 73 | |
| 6 | Anzhi Makhachkala | 42 | 20 | 12 | 10 | 63 | 35 | +28 | 72 | |
| 7 | Baltika Kaliningrad | 42 | 17 | 14 | 11 | 43 | 34 | +9 | 65 | |
| 8 | SKA-Khabarovsk | 42 | 17 | 10 | 15 | 63 | 60 | +3 | 61 | |
| 9 | Chernomorets Novorossiysk | 42 | 16 | 13 | 13 | 51 | 38 | +13 | 61 | |
| 10 | Alania Vladikavkaz | 42 | 17 | 8 | 17 | 50 | 47 | +3 | 59 | |
| 11 | Vityaz Podolsk | 42 | 17 | 7 | 18 | 49 | 57 | −8 | 58 | |
| 12 | Salyut-Energia Belgorod | 42 | 17 | 7 | 18 | 51 | 51 | 0 | 58 | |
| 13 | SKA Rostov-on-Don | 42 | 15 | 13 | 14 | 52 | 50 | +2 | 58 | |
| 14 | Sibir Novosibirsk | 42 | 14 | 16 | 12 | 51 | 41 | +10 | 58 | |
| 15 | Sportakademklub Moscow | 42 | 16 | 9 | 17 | 55 | 57 | −2 | 57 | |
| 16 | Metallurg-Kuzbass Novokuznetsk (R) | 42 | 14 | 15 | 13 | 44 | 42 | +2 | 57 | Relegation to Second Division |
| 17 | Volga Ulyanovsk (R) | 42 | 15 | 4 | 23 | 50 | 65 | −15 | 49 | Relegation to Second Division |
| 18 | Torpedo Moscow (R) | 42 | 14 | 7 | 21 | 47 | 69 | −22 | 49 | Relegation to Second Division |
| 19 | Mashuk-KMV Pyatigorsk (R) | 42 | 8 | 8 | 26 | 39 | 79 | −40 | 32 | Relegation to Second Division |
| 20 | Dynamo Barnaul (R) | 42 | 6 | 9 | 27 | 31 | 80 | −49 | 27 | Relegation to Second Division |
| 21 | Dynamo Bryansk (R) | 42 | 6 | 4 | 32 | 30 | 81 | −51 | 22 | Relegation to Second Division |
| 22 | Zvezda Irkutsk (R) | 42 | 8 | 5 | 29 | 36 | 95 | −59 | 11 | Relegation to Second Division |
* 1 2 Head-to-head record: Salyut-Energia – Vityaz 0–2, Vityaz – Salyut-Energia 1–0.
* ↑ Zvezda Irkutsk deducted 18 points for failing to pay for player transfers.

## Results

| Home \ Away | ALA | ANZ | BAL | CHE | DBN | DBR | KAM | KUB | KMV | MTK | NOS | ROS | SAL | SKA | SKR | SIB | SAK | TOR | URL | VIT | VOL | ZVE |
| Alania Vladikavkaz | | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 2–2 | 3–0 |
| Anzhi Makhachkala | 2–0 | | 1–1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 5–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 3–2 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 4–2 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 |
| Baltika Kaliningrad | 1–0 | 1–0 | | 1–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 4–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 |
| Chernomorets Novorossiysk | 2–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | | 3–0 | 4–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 3–2 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 4–2 | 3–0 |
| Dynamo Barnaul | 0–2 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 1–0 | | 0–0 | 2–5 | 1–3 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 0–3 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 |
| Dynamo Bryansk | 0–2 | 1–5 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 4–0 | | 1–2 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–4 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 1–3 |
| KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 7–0 | 3–1 | | 3–4 | 2–1 | 4–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–3 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 |
| Kuban Krasnodar | 3–0 | 4–0 | 2–0 | 4–2 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | | 5–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 3–2 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 4–2 | 5–0 |
| Mashuk-KMV Pyatigorsk | 1–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 1–3 | 1–4 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 2–4 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 3–0 |
| Metallurg-Kuzbass Novokuznetsk | 3–3 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–3 | 2–0 | 2–1 |
| Nosta Novotroitsk | 1–0 | 1–3 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 0–0 | | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 |
| Rostov | 3–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 6–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | | 3–1 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 2–3 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 5–0 | 2–0 |
| Salyut-Energia Belgorod | 1–0 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 4–3 | 1–2 | | 3–2 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 4–2 | 3–1 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 3–0 |
| SKA-Khabarovsk | 3–2 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 2–2 | 1–0 | | 4–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 4–0 | 1–4 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 3–0 |
| SKA Rostov-on-Don | 3–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 5–1 | 3–4 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 2–2 | | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–3 | 2–0 | 4–1 |
| Sibir Novosibirsk | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 4–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 5–0 |
| Sportakademklub Moscow | 3–1 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 3–4 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | | 1–2 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 2–1 |
| Torpedo Moscow | 2–2 | 4–2 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–4 | 1–3 | | 2–2 | 2–4 | 3–1 | 3–0 |
| Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 1–3 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | | 4–1 | 2–1 | 5–1 |
| Vityaz Podolsk | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 0–3 | | 2–3 | 2–1 |
| Volga Ulyanovsk | 0–1 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 4–2 | 0–2 | 3–0 | 1–3 | 2–3 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–2 | | 2–1 |
| Zvezda Irkutsk | 2–1 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 5–1 | 2–3 | 0–4 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 1–4 | 1–5 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 0–3 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 0–4 | |
* 1 2 3 4 Zvezda Irkutsk were unable to play these matches and were awarded to the opposing team 3–0.

## Top goalscorers

| Rank | Player | Team | Goals |
| 1 | Denis Popov | Chernomorets / Torpedo | 24 |
| 2 | Vladimir Shishelov | Zvezda / Ural | 23 |
| 3 | Dmitri Akimov | Sibir / Rostov | 22 |
| 4 | Vartan Mazalov | SKA Rostov-on-Don | 21 |
| 4 | Aleksandr Yarkin | SKA-Khabarovsk | 21 |
| 6 | Vadim Yanchuk | Nosta | 20 |
| 7 | Serghei Dadu | Alania | 18 |
| 7 | Denis Zubko | Kuban | 18 |
| 9 | Mikheil Ashvetia | Anzhi | 17 |
| 9 | Spartak Gogniyev | KAMAZ | 17 |