Russian First League table 2026/27 season: Russia, points and home and away records
updated 2026-09-01The Russian First League table covers 18 clubs over 9 matches each. Points run three for a win and one for a draw, so the order follows points first, then goal difference and goals scored.
| # | Club | P | W | D | L | Goals | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nizhny Novgorod | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 27 | +14 | 22 |
| 2 | Veles Moscow | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 13 | +3 | 21 |
| 3 | Sochi | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 18 | +7 | 19 |
| 4 | Torpedo Moscow | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 15 | +10 | 16 |
| 5 | Ural Yekaterinburg | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 14 | +10 | 15 |
| 6 | Spartak Kostroma | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 12 | +4 | 15 |
| 7 | Ufa | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 12 | +4 | 15 |
| 8 | Shinnik Yaroslavl | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 12 | +3 | 13 |
| 9 | Arsenal Tula | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | -5 | 12 |
| 10 | Rotor Volgograd | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 10 |
| 11 | Yenisey Krasnoyarsk | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 11 | -1 | 10 |
| 12 | Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 5 | -8 | 9 |
| 13 | Chelyabinsk | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 | -6 | 7 |
| 14 | Volga Ulyanovsk | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 | -5 | 7 |
| 15 | Tekstilshchik Ivanovo | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | -6 | 6 |
| 16 | Leningradets Leningrad Oblast | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | -6 | 6 |
| 17 | KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | -7 | 5 |
| 18 | SKA-Khabarovsk | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | -11 | 3 |
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Russian First League table: how to read points and goal difference
The gap from top to bottom is 19 points. Nizhny Novgorod lead on 22 with a difference of +14; SKA-Khabarovsk sit last on 3. Veles Moscow are second, 1 points behind.
Nizhny Novgorod score most with 27 goals. Ural Yekaterinburg defend best, conceding 4, while SKA-Khabarovsk have shipped 17 — the spread between those two says how uneven the league is at the back.
A club takes 1.39 points per match on average and scores 11.2 goals across the season. The median is 12 points (Arsenal Tula), with 8 clubs above it. The median describes a league better than the mean does: one runaway side pulls the mean up and barely moves the median.
The drop zone is 3 points from safety: Tekstilshchik Ivanovo sit 15th on 6, against SKA-Khabarovsk on 3. Those are the numbers that decide the closing weeks.
Russian First League home and away: split points
The Russian First League table recomputes separately for home fixtures and for away ones. They are the same matches split by venue, so points in the two tables always sum back to the overall one.
Veles Moscow take the most at home, 15 points from 5 matches, while Sochi lead away on 10 — more often different clubs than you would expect.
Veles Moscow depend on their ground most: 15 points at home against 6 away, a gap of 9. KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny show the smallest split at -5. Across the league a club takes 1.5 more points at home than away.
Russian First League: goals, averages and difference
Across 76 matches the league has produced 202 goals, 2.66 per game. Home sides win 45% of the time, both teams score in 50%, and 54% finish over 2.5.
Rotor Volgograd carry the flattest goal difference at 0 — clubs on those numbers usually sit mid-table, equally far from the title and the drop.
How the Russian First League table looked in earlier seasons is in the archive: Russia, year by year, with final tables for every division and zone.
Russian First League: division size and what it changes
The size of a division changes how its figures read. With 18 clubs each plays 9 matches, and a run of three or four results moves a position further than it would in a league twice the size: the sample is smaller, so chance weighs more.
For the same reason the points gap between neighbouring places tends to be narrower here and the middle of the table reorders more often. Goal difference is especially useful in a division this size, because it accumulates across every match and depends less on who a club happened to face recently.
Comparing this division with others on absolute numbers — goals scored, points taken — means little where the number of rounds differs. What compares is the relative measures: points per match, scoring rate, the share of draws.
Russia: the divisions and where Russian First League sits
We cover 7 divisions in Russia. Above this one sit Russian Premier League. Below it run Russian Second League Division A, Gold Group, Russian Second League Division A, Silver Group, Russian Second League Division B, Group 1, Russian Second League Division B, Group 2, Russian Second League Division B, Group 3, computed on the same rules.
Shinnik Yaroslavl have drawn most at 4, Veles Moscow fewest at 0. Torpedo Moscow defend best on the road, conceding 1 away from home.
Russian First League: match results and head-to-head
The widest result of the season is Sochi against Arsenal Tula, 5-0, a margin of 5. The highest-scoring match is Nizhny Novgorod against Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk at 5-1, 6 goals in all.
17 of 76 matches ended level, 22%. The draw rate is among the steadiest numbers a league produces: it moves less from season to season than goals scored or final positions do.
Any two clubs can be compared in the panel alongside, which reads the same results grid the home and away tables are computed from.
Common questions
How are points awarded in the Russian First League table?
Three points for a win, one for a draw, none for a defeat. A side with more wins can still sit below one that draws often, but only where the number of matches played differs.
What separates clubs level on points?
Goal difference first, then goals scored. Nizhny Novgorod currently lead Russian First League on 22 points with a difference of +14.
How does the home table differ from the overall one?
The home table counts only matches played at home and the away table only those on the road. They are the same fixtures, so the two sets of points add back to the overall table. A mid-table club is often in the top three of one of them.
How many goals does a match produce on average?
2.66 per game across 76 matches. Both teams score in 50% of them and 54% finish over 2.5 goals.
Where are previous seasons?
In the country archive: Russia, final tables year by year, split by division and, where they existed, by territorial zone.
How can two clubs be compared?
Through the head-to-head panel: pick two sides and it returns the score of their meetings this season, read from the same results grid the home and away tables are computed from.
Season metrics
- Goals per match
- 2.66
- Home wins
- 45%
- Both scored
- 50%
- Over 2.5
- 54%
Head to head
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