Football and Poker
Footballers often play various card games, in hotels during pre-season training sessions, in planes during lasting flights. No wonder, a few football players have some connections with poker world. Read more
Russian Premier League season 2009
The 2009 Russian Premier League season has come to its end. Rubin (Kazan) are the new old champions, Khimki and Kuban are heading to First division, CSKA have a new coach, Lokomotiv have a new old coach and Zenit hire a new star-coach. Read more
Russian clubs’ financial status
FC Zenit
Owners: Gazprom (over 95% of stock), a number of Saint Petersburg-based companies
Budget: 100 mln $ (2008), 90 mln $ (2009)
Shirt logo (commercial): Gazprom Read more
FC Moscow
FC Moscow is a Russian football club based in Moscow. With 27 points they are currently holding the third position in Russian Premier League table. Rubin (Kazan), current champion, are toping the table with 28 points. Read more
Zvezda 2005
Zvezda 2005 (Perm) is currently the best women’s football club in Russia. They are also ranked 3 in women’s football clubs ranking (compiled by www.womensworldfootball.com). Zvezda 2005 is also the only Russian club in the ranking. Read more
What’s wrong with Zenit?
So far Zenit (Saint Petersburg) are doing not so well in the title chase. Zenit has played 10 games in Russian Premier League (20 games are left to play). With 15 points Zenit occupies 7th place in the table. Read more
Russian football in blogs
A number of Russian football people have their own blogs, in the following article we’ll take a look on the most notable. Read more
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