2003 Russian First Division

The Russian First Division 2003 was the 12th edition of Russian First Division. There were 22 teams.

Russian First Division

Season	2003
Champions	Amkar Perm
Promoted	Amkar Perm Kuban Krasnodar
Relegated	Dynamo St.Petersburg Expelled Fakel Voronezh Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast Kristall Smolensk Volgar Astrakhan Lada-Togliatti
Top goalscorer	Aleksandr Panov (23)
← 2002 2004 →

Teams

Amkar

Anzhi

Baltika

Chita

Dynamo

Fakel

Izhevsk

Khimki

Kuban

Lada

Lipetsk

Metallurg

Mordovia

Neftekhimik

SKA-Energiya

Smolensk

Sokol

Spartak N

Terek

Tom

Ural

Volgar

Location of teams in Russian First Division 2003

Team Place Amkar Perm Perm Anzhi Makhachkala Makhachkala Baltika Kaliningrad Kaliningrad Chita Chita Dynamo St.Petersburg Saint Petersburg Fakel Voronezh Voronezh SOYUZ-Gazprom Izhevsk Izhevsk Khimki Khimki Kuban Krasnodar Krasnodar Lada-Togliatti Tolyatti Metallurg Lipetsk Lipetsk

Team Place Metallurg Novokuznetsk Novokuznetsk Lisma-Mordovia Saransk Saransk Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk Nizhnekamsk SKA-Energiya Khabarovsk Khabarovsk Kristall Smolensk Smolensk Sokol Saratov Saratov Spartak Nalchik Nalchik Terek Grozny Grozny Tom Tomsk Tomsk Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast Yekaterinburg Volgar Astrakhan Astrakhan

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Amkar Perm (P)	42	25	12	5	50	20	+30	87	Promotion to Premier League
2	Kuban Krasnodar (P)	42	27	5	10	75	38	+37	86
3	Tom Tomsk	42	25	10	7	55	23	+32	85[lower-alpha 1]
4	Terek Grozny	42	25	10	7	56	21	+35	85[lower-alpha 1]
5	Dynamo St. Petersburg (R)	42	23	8	11	66	37	+29	77	Relegation to Second Division[lower-alpha 2]
6	Anzhi Makhachkala	42	19	13	10	52	33	+19	70
7	Baltika Kaliningrad	42	18	10	14	58	49	+9	64
8	Metallurg Lipetsk	42	17	11	14	53	38	+15	62
9	Sokol Saratov	42	16	14	12	52	36	+16	62
10	SKA-Khabarovsk	42	16	12	14	51	47	+4	60
11	Chita	42	19	0	23	55	66	−11	57
12	Khimki	42	16	9	17	36	46	−10	57
13	Metallurg-Kuzbass Novokuznetsk	42	14	12	16	42	47	−5	54
14	Mordovia Saransk	42	15	8	19	54	60	−6	53
15	Spartak Nalchik	42	14	10	18	34	49	−15	52
16	Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk	42	14	9	19	50	60	−10	51
17	SOYUZ-Gazprom Izhevsk	42	12	14	16	44	56	−12	50
18	Fakel Voronezh (R)	42	13	10	19	44	56	−12	49	Relegation to Second Division
19	Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast (R)	42	11	8	23	43	65	−22	41
20	Kristall Smolensk (R)	42	10	5	27	40	72	−32	35
21	Volgar Astrakhan (R)	42	6	11	25	28	60	−32	29
22	Lada-Togliatti (R)	42	5	3	34	27	86	−59	18

Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd matches won; 3rd head-to-head (points, matches won, goal difference, goals scored, away goals scored); 4th goal difference; 5th goals scored; 6th away goals scored
(P) Promoted; (R) Relegated.
Notes:

1. TOM 2–1 TER; TER 0–1 TOM
2. Dynamo Saint Petersburg were expelled from the league due to financial irregularities

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Goals	Team
1	Aleksandr Panov	23	Dynamo St.Petersburg
2	Konstantin Paramonov	21	Amkar Perm
	Aleksandr Petukhov	21	Metallurg Lipetsk
4	Oleg Veretennikov	18	Lisma-Mordovia Saransk
5	Aleksandr Antipenko	17	Kristall Smolensk/Khimki
	Andrey Dementyev	17	Baltika Kaliningrad
7	Andrei Fedkov	16	Sokol Saratov
8	Denis Kiselyov	15	Khimki
	Pavel Pogrebnyak	15	Baltika Kaliningrad
10	Oleg Lidrik	14	Metallurg-Kuzbass
	Andrei Salnikov	14	Ural

See also

• Russian Premier League 2003

References

• PFL