Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich is a billionaire Russian oligarch and politician, and also holds Israeli and Portuguese citizenship.
Vágner Silva de Souza, known as Vágner Love, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Danish Superliga team Midtjylland. He is a forward who has been described by World Soccer Magazine as possessing "mobility, flair, awareness and powerful shooting".
Football Club Zenit, also known as Zenit Saint Petersburg or simply Zenit, is a Russian professional football club based in Saint Petersburg. Founded in 1925, the club plays in the Russian Premier League. Zenit are the reigning champions of the Russian Premier League. Previously they won the 2007, 2010, 2011–12, 2014–15, 2018–19, 2019–20 and the 2020-21 seasons of the Russian Premier League, as well as the 2007–08 UEFA Cup and the 2008 UEFA Super Cup. The club is owned and sponsored by the Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom. The team play its home matches at the Gazprom Arena. In March 2022, the club was expelled from all European club competitions due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
FC Dynamo Moscow is a Russian football club based in Moscow. Dynamo returned to the Russian Premier League for the 2017–18 season after one season in the second-tier Russian Football National League.
Aleksey Gennadyevich Smertin is a Russian football official and a former player. He was a fairly versatile player and was able to play in defence as well as midfield. He works in the Russian Football Union in two positions - "director of regional policies and international relations" and "anti-discrimination and anti-racism officer".
Anatoliy Oleksandrovych Tymoshchuk is a Ukrainian football coach and a former midfielder, currently an assistant coach of the Russian Premier League club Zenit Saint Petersburg. Tymoshchuk is regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of Shakhtar Donetsk and Zenit Saint Petersburg, and is also a former captain of the Ukraine national team.
PFC Dynamo Stavropol is an association football club from Stavropol, south Russia, best known for winning the 1949 RSFSR championship in one of the 9 zones. In recent years it played mostly in Russian Professional Football League, the third league in the national hierarchy. Due to severe financial difficulties, Dynamo missed the opportunity to be promoted to the First Division in 2005. After that, it was formally liquidated two times and resurrected again as an amateur team, eventually redeeming the professional status. As of the season 2013–14, the team played in the amateur championship of Stavropol krai under the name Dynamo UOR. A separate club was renamed FC Dynamo GTS Stavropol for the 2014–15 season in the Russian Professional Football League. Before the 2015–16 season, FC Dynamo GTS was renamed FC Dynamo Stavropol.
Andriy Viktorovych Voronin is a Ukrainian professional football manager and a former player.
Igor Petrovich Semshov is a Russian professional football coach and a former player.
Andrey Sergeyevich Arshavin is a Russian former professional footballer who played as a forward or midfielder.
Roman Anatolyevich Pavlyuchenko is a Russian footballer who plays as a striker for FC Znamya Noginsk.
JK Narva Trans, commonly known as Narva Trans, or simply as Trans, is a professional football club, based in Narva, Estonia, that competes in the Meistriliiga, the top flight of Estonian football. The club's home ground is Narva Kreenholm Stadium.
Igor Vladimirovich Kolyvanov is a Russian football manager and a former player. During his playing career, he played as a striker, accumulating 90 goals scored in 333 games at the top level in the Soviet Union as well as in Italy.
Moubarak "Mbark" Boussoufa is a professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder. He won the Belgian Golden Shoe for the second time in 2010. Born in the Netherlands, he represented the Morocco national team from 2006 to 2019 making 70 appearances and scoring eight goals.
Stanislav Salamovich Cherchesov is a Russian football manager and former international footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Soviet Union and Russia, he's currently managing Hungarian team Ferencváros. In August 2016 he was appointed as head coach of the Russia national team and helped his team reach the quarter-finals of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. He was dismissed from the Russian national team after the team was eliminated in the UEFA Euro 2020 group stage.
Shamakhi FK is an Azerbaijani professional football club based in Shamakhi, that currently competes in the Azerbaijan Premier League. The club has won the Premier League title twice.
Igor Mihailovich Shalimov is a Russian football manager and former player who manages Ural Yekaterinburg. During his playing career, he played as a midfielder, primarily in the wide position.
Yuri Valentinovich Zhirkov is a Russian footballer who plays for Khimki.
The 2015–16 Russian Premier League was the 24th season of the premier football competition in Russia since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the 14th under the current Russian Premier League name.
