2017–18 Russian Premier League

The **2017–18 Russian Premier League** (Russian: Чемпионат России по футболу 2017/2018, _Chempionat Rossii po futbolu 2017/2018_) was the 16th Russian Premier League season, and the 26th top division football tournament. It was played from 15 July 2017 to 13 May 2018. Spartak Moscow were the defending champions, but Lokomotiv 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="310"|Qualification or relegation|
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|align=left align=center|1|align=left|Lokomotiv Moscow **(C)**||30||18||6||6||41||21||+20||**60**|rowspan=2|Champions League group stage|
|align=left align=center|2|align=left|CSKA Moscow||30||17||7||6||49||23||+26||**58**|||
|align=left align=center|3|align=left|Spartak Moscow||30||16||8||6||51||32||+19||**56**|rowspan=1|Champions League third qualifying round|
|align=left align=center|4|align=left|Krasnodar||30||16||6||8||46||30||+16||**54**|rowspan=1|Europa League group stage|
|align=left align=center|5|align=left|Zenit St. Petersburg||30||14||11||5||46||21||+25||**53**|rowspan=1|Europa League third qualifying round|
|align=left align=center|6|align=left|Ufa||30||11||10||9||34||30||+4||**43**|rowspan=1|Europa League second qualifying round|
|align=left align=center|7|align=left|Arsenal Tula||30||12||6||12||35||41||−6||**42**|rowspan=6||
|align=left align=center|8|align=left|Dynamo Moscow||30||10||10||10||29||30||−1||**40**|||
|align=left align=center|9|align=left|Ahmat Grozny||30||10||9||11||30||34||−4||**39**|||
|align=left align=center|10|align=left|Rubin Kazan||30||9||11||10||32||25||+7||**38**|||
|align=left align=center|11|align=left|Rostov||30||9||10||11||27||28||−1||**37**|||
|align=left align=center|12|align=left|Ural Yekaterinburg||30||8||13||9||31||32||−1||**37**|||
|align=left align=center|13|align=left|Amkar Perm **(R)**||30||9||8||13||20||30||−10||**35**|rowspan=1|Dissolved after the season|
|align=left align=center|14|align=left|Anzhi Makhachkala||30||6||6||18||31||55||−24||**24**|rowspan=1|Relegation play-offs|
|align=left align=center|15|align=left|Tosno **(R)**||30||6||6||18||23||54||−31||**24**|rowspan=1|Dissolved after the season|
|align=left align=center|16|align=left|SKA-Khabarovsk **(R)**||30||2||7||21||16||55||−39||**13**|rowspan=1|Relegation to FNL|

### Relegation play-offs

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Because Amkar Perm was dissolved when the season ended, Anzhi Makhachkala were allowed to stay in the Premier League. Yenisey Krasnoyarsk will be promoted to the Premier League for the first time in the team's history.

### Top goalscorers

**15 goals**

- Quincy Promes (Spartak Moscow)

**14 goals**

- Fyodor Smolov (Kuban Krasnodar)

**10 goals**

- Luiz Adriano (Spartak Moscow)
- Viktor Claesson (Kuban Krasnodar)
- Jefferson Farfán (Lokomotiv Moscow)
- Aleksandr Kokorin (Zenit St Petersburg)
- Vitinho (CSKA Moscow)

**9 goals**

- Yevgeni Markov (Tosno)

**8 goals**

- Eric Bicfalvi (Ural)

## Other websites

- 2017–18 Russian Premier League at Soccerway

## Infobox (football league season)

- **competition**: Russian Premier League
- **season**: 2017–18
- **dates**: 15 July 2017 – 13 May 2018
- **winners**: FC Lokomotiv Moscow, Lokomotiv Moscow
3rd title
- **relegated**: FC Amkar Perm, Amkar Perm
FC Tosno, Tosno
FC SKA-Khabarovsk, SKA-Khabarovsk
- **continentalcup1**: 2018–19 UEFA Champions League, Champions League
- **continentalcup1 qualifiers**: FC Lokomotiv Moscow, Lokomotiv Moscow
PFC CSKA Moscow, CSKA Moscow
FC Spartak Moscow, Spartak Moscow
- **continentalcup2**: 2018–19 UEFA Europa League, Europa League
- **continentalcup2 qualifiers**: FC Krasnodar, Krasnodar
FC Zenit Saint Petersburg, Zenit St. Petersburg
FC Ufa, Ufa
- **league topscorer**: Quincy Promes (15)
- **matches**: 240
- **total goals**: 541
- **average attendance**: 13,971
- **prevseason**: 2016–17 Russian Premier League, 2016–17
- **nextseason**: 2018–19 Russian Premier League, 2018–19