Russian Premier League 2009 title challengers

While CSKA (Moscow) and Zenit (Saint Petersburg) are clearly the favorites of the race for the Russian Premier League title, a number of other clubs may achieve a major success this season. Read more

Russian Premier League 2009 title challengers: CSKA

CSKA (Moscow)

CSKA, established in 1911, is one of the best football clubs in Russia. CSKA holds 3 Russian Premier League titles, 4 Russian Cups and 4 Russian Super Cups. The recent Super Cup has been already won with a new manager, Zico. Read more

Russian Premier League 2009 title challengers: Zenit

Zenit (Saint Petersburg)

FC Zenit, founded in 1925, is one of the best teams in Russia. Since 2007 Zenit dominates Russian football, it has gathered a great bunch of players, including a number of remarkable international players. Since the departure of Andrei Arshavin Zenit is still trying to align its attacking game. Read more

USSR team managers

USSR team has been managed by a number of brilliant managers, most of them were successful enough to enter the World Cup or European Championship with the team. Read more

Russian team in 2009: what’s new?

Russian team played two competitive games, facing Azerbaijan and Lichtenstein. Russia gained two shaggy victories, scoring just 3 goals against the weakest opponents in the group. But the most important thing is that Russia collected 6 points and still occupies second place in the group. Read more