2003 in Russian football

2003 season
2003 season
	← 2002 2004 →

2003 in Russian football saw the first title for PFC CSKA Moscow. Spartak Moscow, the Cup winners, had the worst league finish since 1976. The national team qualified for Euro 2004.

Date	Venue	Opponents	Score¹	Competition	Russia scorers	Match report
12 February 2003	Tsirion Stadium, Limassol (A)	Cyprus	1–0	FT	Dmitry Khokhlov	rsssf
13 February 2003	Tsirion Stadium, Limassol (N)	Romania	4–2	FT	Andrei Karyaka, Andrei Arshavin, Rolan Gusev, 1 own goal	rsssf
29 March 2003	Loro-Boriçi Stadium, Shkodër (A)	Albania	1–3	ECQ	Andrei Karyaka	uefa
30 April 2003	Locomotive Stadium, Tbilisi (A)	Georgia	0–1	ECQ		uefa
7 June 2003	St. Jakob-Park, Basel (A)	Switzerland	2–2	ECQ	Sergey Ignashevich (2)	uefa^{[dead link]}
20 August 2003	Lokomotiv Stadium, Moscow (H)	Israel	1–2	F	Sergei Semak	rsssf
6 September 2003	Lansdowne Road, Dublin (A)	Republic of Ireland	1–1	ECQ	Sergey Ignashevich	uefa^{[dead link]}
10 September 2003	Lokomotiv Stadium, Moscow (H)	Switzerland	4–1	ECQ	Dmitri Bulykin (3), Alexander Mostovoi	uefa
11 October 2003	Lokomotiv Stadium, Moscow (H)	Georgia	3–1	ECQ	Dmitri Bulykin, Egor Titov, Dmitri Sychev	uefa
15 November 2003	Lokomotiv Stadium, Moscow (H)	Wales	0–0	ECQP		uefa
19 November 2003	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff (A)	Wales	1–0	ECQP	Vadim Evseev	uefa

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	CSKA Moscow (C)	30	17	8	5	56	32	+24	59	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2	Zenit St. Petersburg	30	16	8	6	48	32	+16	56	Qualification to UEFA Cup second qualifying round
3	Rubin Kazan	30	15	8	7	44	29	+15	53	Qualification to UEFA Cup second qualifying round
4	Lokomotiv Moscow	30	15	7	8	54	33	+21	52
5	Shinnik Yaroslavl	30	12	11	7	43	34	+9	47	Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round
6	Dynamo Moscow	30	12	10	8	42	29	+13	46
7	Saturn	30	12	9	9	40	37	+3	45
8	Torpedo Moscow	30	11	10	9	42	38	+4	43
9	Krylia Sovetov Samara	30	11	9	10	38	33	+5	42
10	Spartak Moscow	30	10	6	14	38	48	−10	36	Qualification to Intertoto Cup first round
11	Rostov	30	8	10	12	30	42	−12	34
12	Rotor Volgograd	30	9	5	16	33	44	−11	32
13	Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz	30	9	4	17	23	43	−20	31
14	Torpedo-Metallurg Moscow	30	8	5	17	25	39	−14	29
15	Uralan Elista (R)	30	6	10	14	23	47	−24	28	Relegation to First Division
16	Chernomorets Novorossiysk (R)	30	6	6	18	30	49	−19	24	Relegation to First Division

Pos	Team v t e	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	Promotion to Premier League
3	Tom Tomsk	42	25	10	7	55	23	+32	85^[a]
4	Terek Grozny	42	25	10	7	56	21	+35	85^[a]	Qualification to UEFA Cup second qualifying round^[b]
5	Dynamo St. Petersburg (R)	42	23	8	11	66	37	+29	77	Relegation to Second Division^[c]
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	Lokomotiv 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	Lisma-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-Gazprom Astrakhan (R)	42	6	11	25	28	60	−32	29
22	Lada-Togliatti (R)	42	5	3	34	27	86	−59	18

2003 in Russian football

Leagues

Premier League

First Division

Second Division

Cups

UEFA club competitions

2002–03 UEFA Champions League

2003–04 UEFA Champions League

2003–04 UEFA Cup

References

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