2016–17 Russian Premier League

The **2016–17 Russian Premier League** (Russian: Чемпионат России по футболу 2016/2017, _Chempionat Rossii po futbolu 2016/2017_) was the 15th Russian Premier League season, and the 25th top division football tournament. It was played from 30 July 2016 to 21 May 2017. Spartak Moscow won the tournament.

## Table

|width="20"||width="180"|Team|width="32"||width="32"||width="32"||width="32"||width="32"||width="32"||width="32"||width="32"||width="320"|Qualification or relegation|
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|align=left align=center|1|align=left|Spartak Moscow **(C)**||30||22||3||5||46||27||+19||**69**|rowspan=1|UEFA Champions League group stage|
|align=left align=center|2|align=left|CSKA Moscow||30||18||8||4||47||15||+32||**62**|rowspan=1|UEFA Champions League third qualifying round|
|align=left align=center|3|align=left|Zenit St Petersburg||30||18||7||5||50||19||+31||**61**|rowspan=2|UEFA Europa League third qualifying round|
|align=left align=center|4|align=left|Krasnodar||30||12||13||5||40||22||+18||**49**|||
|align=left align=center|5|align=left|Terek Grozny||30||14||6||10||38||35||+3||**48**|rowspan=3||
|align=left align=center|6|align=left|Rostov||30||13||9||8||36||18||+18||**48**|||
|align=left align=center|7|align=left|Ufa||30||12||7||11||22||25||−3||**43**|||
|align=left align=center|8|align=left|Lokomotiv Moscow||30||10||12||8||39||27||+12||**42**|UEFA Europa League group stage||
|align=left align=center|9|align=left|Rubin Kazan||30||10||8||12||30||34||−4||**38**|rowspan=4||
|align=left align=center|10|align=left|Amkar Perm||30||8||11||11||25||29||−4||**35**|||
|align=left align=center|11|align=left|Ural Yekaterinburg||30||8||6||16||24||44||−20||**30**|||
|align=left align=center|12|align=left|Anzhi Makhachkala||30||7||9||14||24||38||−14||**30**|||
|align=left align=center|13|align=left|Orenburg **(R)**||30||7||9||14||25||36||−11||**30**|rowspan=2|Relegation play-offs|
|align=left align=center|14|align=left|Arsenal Tula||30||7||7||16||18||40||−22||**28**|||
|align=left align=center|15|align=left|Krylia Sovetov **(R)**||30||6||10||14||31||39||−8||**28**|rowspan=2|Relegation to FNL|
|align=left align=center|16|align=left|Tom Tomsk **(R)**||30||3||5||22||17||64||−47||**14**|||

### Top goalscorers

**18 goals**

- Fyodor Smolov (Krasnodar)

**13 goals**

- Artem Dzyuba (Zenit St Petersburg)

**12 goals**

- Quincy Promes (Spartak Moscow)

**10 goals**

- Ari (Krasnodar and Lokomotiv Moscow)

**9 goals**

- Jonathas (Rubin Kazan)
- Bekim Balaj (Terek Grozny)

**8 goals**

- Denis Glushakov (Spartak Moscow)
- Sergei Kornilenko (Krylia Sovetov)
- Giuliano (Zenit St Petersburg)

## Other websites

- 2016–17 Russian Premier League at Soccerway

## Infobox (football league season)

- **competition**: Russian Premier League
- **season**: 2004
- **dates**: 12 March – 12 November 2004
- **winners**: FC Spartak Moscow, Spartak Moscow
10th title
- **relegated**: FC Orenburg, Orenburg
FC Krylia Sovetov Samara, Krylia Sovetov
FC Tom Tomsk, Tom Tomsk
- **continentalcup1**: 2017–18 UEFA Champions League, Champions League
- **continentalcup1 qualifiers**: FC Spartak Moscow, Spartak Moscow
PFC CSKA Moscow, CSKA Moscow
- **continentalcup2**: 2017–18 UEFA Europa League, Europa League
- **continentalcup2 qualifiers**: F.C. Lokomotiv Moscow, Lokomotiv Moscow
Zenit St Petersburg, Zenit St. Petersburg
FC Krasnodar, Krasnodar
- **league topscorer**: Fyodor Smolov (18)
- **matches**: 216
- **total goals**: 445
- **average attendance**: 11,246
- **prevseason**: 2015–16 Russian Premier League, 2015–16
- **nextseason**: 2017–18 Russian Premier League, 2017–18