2003 Russian Premier League

The **2003 Russian Premier League** (Russian: Чемпионат России по футболу 2003, _Chempionat Rossii po futbolu 2003_) was the 2nd Russian Premier League season, and the 12th top division football tournament. CSKA Moscow won their 1st title, and Dmitri Loskov was the top scorer with 14 goals.

## Table

|width="30"||width="210"|Team|width="32"||width="32"||width="32"||width="32"||width="32"||width="32"||width="32"||width="32"||width="420"|Qualification or relegation|
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|align=left align=center|1|align=left|CSKA Moscow **(C)**||30||17||8||5||56||32||+24||**59**|rowspan=1|2004–05 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round|
|align=left align=center|2|align=left|Zenit St Petersburg||30||16||8||6||48||32||+16||**56**|rowspan=2|UEFA Cup 2004–05 First round|
|align=left align=center|3|align=left|Rubin Kazan||30||15||8||7||44||29||+15||**53**|||
|align=left align=center|4|align=left|Lokomotiv Moscow||30||15||7||8||54||33||+21||**52**|rowspan=11||
|align=left align=center|5|align=left|Shinnik Yaroslavl||30||12||11||7||43||34||+9||**47**|||
|align=left align=center|6|align=left|Dynamo Moscow||30||12||10||8||42||29||+13||**46**|||
|align=left align=center|7|align=left|Saturn Ramenskoye||30||12||9||9||40||37||+3||**45**|||
|align=left align=center|8|align=left|Torpedo Moscow||30||11||10||9||42||38||+4||**43**|||
|align=left align=center|9|align=left|Krylia Sovetov Samara||30||11||9||10||38||33||+5||**42**|||
|align=left align=center|10|align=left|Spartak Moscow||30||10||6||14||38||48||−10||**36**|||
|align=left align=center|11|align=left|Rostov||30||8||10||12||30||42||−12||**34**|||
|align=left align=center|12|align=left|Rotor Volgograd||30||9||5||16||33||44||−11||**32**|||
|align=left align=center|13|align=left|Spartak Vladikavkaz||30||9||4||17||23||43||−20||**31**|||
|align=left align=center|14|align=left|Torpedo-ZIL Moscow||30||8||5||17||25||39||−14||**29**|||
|align=left align=center|15|align=left|Elista||30||6||10||14||23||47||−24||**28**|rowspan=2|Relegation to Russian First Division|
|align=left align=center|16|align=left|Chernomorets Novorossiysk||30||6||6||18||30||49||−19||**24**|||

### Top goalscorers

**14 goals**

- Dmitri Loskov (Lokomotiv Moscow)

**13 goals**

- Aleksandr Kerzhakov (Zenit St Petersburg)
- Valery Yesipov (Rotor Volgograd)

**11 goals**

- Aleksei Medvedev (Saturn Ramenskoye)
- Rôni (Rubin Kazan)

**10 goals**

- Roman Pavlyuchenko

## Other websites

- RSSSF

## Infobox (football league season)

- **competition**: Russian Premier League
- **season**: 2003
- **winners**: PFC CSKA Moscow, CSKA Moscow
1st title
- **relegated**: FC Elista, Elista
FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk, Chernomorets Novorossiysk
- **continentalcup1**: 2004–05 UEFA Champions League, Champions League
- **continentalcup1 qualifiers**: PFC CSKA Moscow, CSKA Moscow
- **continentalcup2**: 2004–05 UEFA Cup, UEFA Cup
- **continentalcup2 qualifiers**: Zenit St Petersburg
F.C. Rubin Kazan, Rubin Kazan
- **league topscorer**: Dmitri Loskov (14)
- **matches**: 232
- **total goals**: 609
- **prevseason**: 2002 Russian Premier League, 2002
- **nextseason**: 2004 Russian Premier League, 2004