Russian Premier League/import

==History==
After the break-up of the USSR, starting in 1992, each former Soviet republic organized an independent national championship. In Russia, the six Russian teams who had played in the Soviet Top League in 1991 (CSKA Moscow, Spartak Moscow, Torpedo Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, Spartak Vladikavkaz, and Lokomotiv Moscow) were supplemented with 14 teams from lower USSR divisions to organize a 20-team Russian Top Division. The Top Division was further divided into two groups to reduce the total number of matches in the first season. The number of teams in the Top Division was gradually reduced to 18 in 1993 and 16 in 1994. Since then, the Russian Top Division (and subsequently the Premier League) has consisted of 16 teams, except for a short-lived experiment with having two more teams in 1996 and 1997 seasons.
 
Spartak Moscow was the dominant force in the Top Division, winning nine of the first ten titles. Alania Vladikavkaz was the only team which managed to break Spartak's first ten years of dominance, winning the Top Division title in 1995.
Since 2002 there has been 4 different winners with the teams being Lokomotiv Moscow twice, CSKA Moscow three times, Rubin Kazan twice and Zenit St. Petersburg.
===League champions===
 Russian Premier League champions
Season 	Winner
1992 	Spartak Moscow
1993 	Spartak Moscow
1994 	Spartak Moscow
1995 	Alania Vladikavkaz
1996 	Spartak Moscow
1997 	Spartak Moscow
1998 	Spartak Moscow
1999 	Spartak Moscow
2000 	Spartak Moscow
2001 	Spartak Moscow
2002 	Lokomotiv Moscow
2003 	CSKA Moscow
2004 	Lokomotiv Moscow
2005 	CSKA Moscow
2006 	CSKA Moscow
2007 	Zenit St. Petersburg
2008 	Rubin Kazan
2009 	Rubin Kazan
2010 	Zenit St. Petersburg
2011-12	Zenit St. Petersburg
===Play-off finals===
===Top Russian Premier League scorers===
===Top 10 Russian Premier League scorers of all-time===
==External links==
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