2009 Russian Premier League

Teams

Team	Location	Head Coach	Team Captain	Venue	Capacity	Position in 2008
	Perm	Rashid Rakhimov	Martin Kushev	Zvezda	19,500
	Moscow	Leonid Slutsky	Igor Akinfeev	Luzhniki	78,304
	Moscow	Andrei Kobelev	Dmitri Khokhlov	Arena Khimki	18,840
	Khimki	Igor Chugainov	Dragan Blatnjak	Arena Khimki	18,840
	Samara	Yuri Gazzaev	Ruslan Adzhindzhal	Metallurg	33,001
	Krasnodar	Poghos Galstyan	Andrei Topchu	Kuban	34,640
	Moscow	Yuri Semin	Rodolfo	Lokomotiv	28,810
	Moscow	Miodrag Božović	Yuri Zhevnov	Eduard Streltsov	13,422
	Rostov-on-Don	Oleg Dolmatov	Mikhail Osinov	Olimp-2	15,842
	Kazan	Gurban Berdiýew	Sergei Semak	Centralny	28,856
	Ramenskoye	Andrei Gordeev	Aleksei Igonin	Saturn	16,726
	Moscow	Valeri Karpin	Martin Jiránek	Luzhniki	78,304
	Nalchik	Yuri Krasnozhan	Miodrag Džudović	Spartak	14,194
	Grozny	Shahin Diniyev	Timur Dzhabrailov	Sultan Bilimkhanov	10,400
	Tomsk	Valeri Nepomniachi	Sergei Pareiko	Trud	14,950
	St. Petersburg	Anatoli Davydov	Aleksandr Anyukov	Petrovskiy	21,358

• Dynamo Moscow play their 2009 home games at Arena Khimki because their own Dynamo Stadium is undergoing renovation.

  Managerial changes

• Valeri Karpin managed Spartak Moscow, while being the executive director of the team. At the same time, assistant manager Sergei Rodionov was registered as the first coach in the official match reports and was responsible for visiting official press conferences.
• Anatoli Davydov was registered as caretaker of Zenit St. Petersburg before being confirmed as head coach on 2 October.
• Since the start of the season Mariano Barreto was officially registered as head coach of Kuban Krasnodar because Sergei Ovchinnikov, who was registered as assistant coach, did not own a UEFA Pro Licence. On 30 May Barreto left the club, and Ovchinnikov was registered as caretaker.

  League table

Results

Top scorers

• Welliton

• Aleksandr Bukharov '
• Alejandro Domínguez

• Vladimir Bystrov '

• Tomáš Necid '
• Miloš Krasić '
• Jan Koller

  Awards

Medal squads

1. FC Rubin Kazan

Goalkeepers: Sergei Ryzhikov, Nukri Revishvili . Defenders: César Navas , Cristian Ansaldi , Roman Sharonov, Vitali Kaleshin, Lasha Salukvadze , Aleksei Popov, Dato Kvirkvelia , Aleksandr Orekhov, Stjepan Tomas . Midfielders: Sergei Semak, Gökdeniz Karadeniz , MacBeth Sibaya , Christian Noboa , Aleksandr Ryazantsev, Yevgeni Balyaikin, Andrei Gorbanets, Pyotr Bystrov, Alan Kasaev, Rafał Murawski , Serhiy Rebrov , Makhach Gadzhiyev, Aleksei Kotlyarov. Forwards: Alejandro Domínguez , Aleksandr Bukharov, Hasan Kabze , Roman Adamov, Igor Portnyagin, Davron Mirzayev . ' Manager: Kurban Berdyev. Transferred out during the season: Roman Adamov, Serhiy Rebrov , Makhach Gadzhiyev.

2. FC Spartak Moscow

Goalkeepers: Soslan Dzhanayev, Stipe Pletikosa . Defenders: Martin Jiránek , Sergei Parshivlyuk, Martin Stranzl , Malik Fathi , Fyodor Kudryashov, Clemente Rodríguez , Egor Filipenko , Ignas Dedura . Midfielders: Alex , Rafael Carioca , Yevgeni Makeyev, Vladimir Bystrov, Denis Boyarintsev, Renat Sabitov, Serghei Covalciuc , Ivan Saenko, Aleksandr Pavlenko, Zhano Ananidze , Quincy , Ibson , Vladislav Ryzhkov, Maksim Grigoryev, Artur Maloyan, Igor Gorbatenko. Forwards: Welliton , Nikita Bazhenov, Pavel Yakovlev, Artyom Dzyuba, Eldar Nizamutdinov. Manager: Michael Laudrup , Valery Karpin. Transferred out during the season: Vladimir Bystrov, Aleksandr Pavlenko, Artyom Dzyuba, Clemente Rodríguez , Artur Maloyan.

3. FC Zenit St. Petersburg

Goalkeepers: Vyacheslav Malafeev, Kamil Čontofalský . Defenders: Aleksandr Anyukov, Fernando Meira , Ivica Križanac , Kim Dong-Jin , Nicolas Lombaerts , Tomáš Hubočan . Midfielders: Konstantin Zyryanov, Igor Denisov, Igor Semshov, Roman Shirokov, Szabolcs Huszti , Radek Šírl , Viktor Fayzulin, Anatoliy Tymoshchuk , Vladimir Bystrov, Aleksei Ionov, Alessandro Rosina , Danny . Forwards: Fatih Tekke , Pavel Pogrebnyak, Sergei Kornilenko , Mateja Kežman , Maksim Kanunnikov. Manager: Dick Advocaat , Anatoli Davydov. Transferred out during the season:''' Pavel Pogrebnyak, Anatoliy Tymoshchuk .