Russian Football Championship 2019-2020

The Russian Football Championship 2019-2020 is the 28th season of the top division of the Russian football league system. At the moment, the St. Petersburg team Zenit owns the championship, which will defend the title. Within the framework of the Russian Championship, this event is only the 8th season, conducted according to the autumn-spring scheme. Its start is scheduled for July 12, 2019, and completion is scheduled for May 30, 2020.

Updates

Starting this year, a new approach will be applied to the games, taking into account the conditions in which players will have to conduct a match. The calendar of the Russian football championship 2019-2020 is designed in such a way that in winter competitions were held in the southern regions with a warm climate. Also, the list of cities hosting the winter games will include St. Petersburg, which has a stadium with a roof.

Each round will now include only one top match, which will be attended by a team that included five of the best FC last season. In addition, clubs from different European competitions are not eligible to participate in the weeks of the European Cup competitions.

Regulations

The Russian Championship 2019-2020, the calendar for which will be published below, will be held according to the standard scheme. A pair of teams will hold between themselves two games, at home and away. Clubs that take the last places will lose their positions:

• 16 and 15 places - transfer to the FNL Championship, exclusion from the Premier League;
• 14th and 13th places - holding two transitional matches (in the home arena and away) with the teams of the FNL Championship, located in the third and fourth positions.

FC, who scored the most goals in such matches, will take first place. If both teams score the same number of points, 15 additional minutes of the game will be added. In the case of a similar result and after such a measure, the winner is the team playing away. The winner can also be determined on the basis of a penalty shoot-out from an 11-meter length. Teams from the FNL Championship, who took the first and second positions at the end of the competition, will be able to take part in the Russian Championship next year.

Members

The Russian football championship with clubs from the FNL 2019-2020 will include 16 teams. The list of participants will immediately include 4 Moscow FCs. The remaining 12 participants will represent one city:

• Terrible;
• Ufa
• Yekaterinburg;
• Krasnodar;
• Kazan;
• Orenburg
• Rostov-on-Don;
• St. Petersburg;
• Samara
• Sochi
• Tambov;
• Tula.

The list of participants has changed slightly since last year. “Anji” and “Yenisei”, who took 15th and 16th place, returned to the FNL. They were replaced by Tambov and Sochi, who took 1st and 2nd place, which ensured access to the Premier League.

Competition Venues

Football matches will be held at stadiums located in the following cities:

• Krasnodar;
• Rostov-on-Don (Rostov Arena);
• St. Petersburg (Zenit); \
• Tula (Arsenal);
• Kazan (Rubin);
• Grozny (Akhmat);
• Samara (Wings of the Soviets);
• Orenburg
• Tambov;
• Ufa
• Sochi
• Yekaterinburg (Ural);
• Moscow (Spartak, CSKA, Dynamo, Lokomotiv).

The stadiums “Mordovia Arena” in Saransk and “Khimki Arena” in Khimki will be used as substitutes.

Seat allocation

The Russian Championship 2019-2020 will begin in the coming days, so the standings and scheduled matches are already known. Arsenal took the first position, and Akhmat took the second. Both teams are in the group stage of the Champions League.Tambov and the Urals, located at 13 and 14 places, will hold butt games for maintaining a place in the Premier League. Ufa and CSKA complete the standings, so they can retire to the FNL.

Classification is carried out according to the following achievements:

• match results (number of points, difference in goals scored and conceded, number of wins);
• the best difference between goals scored and goals conceded;
• the largest number of victories;
• the highest number of goals;
• balls sent to the opponent’s goal during the away game.

The listed results are taken into account on the basis of all matches played. If two teams have the same results in the table, an additional game is played between them.

European League distribution

The start of the Russian Football Championship 2019-2020 serves as a starting point for participation in the Europa League. The football club that has won the championship of the Russian Federation automatically passes into the group stage of the Europa League. The main condition is that the team must finish the competition, being in 1st, 2nd or 3rd place. If the owners of the Russian Cup retained their 4th or 5th position, the place in the second qualifying round will be given to FC, located in 6th place. A similar rule applies if champions are not allowed to compete for certain reasons. The third qualifying round will be able to get the team remaining in 5th place.

schedule

Football lovers will be able to watch the Russian Championship 2019-2020 using the following schedule:

See videowhat the new cup will look like:

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