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The Russian Football Championship〔ABOUT RUSSIAN FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP (rfpl.org )〕 ((ロシア語:Чемпионат России по футболу)), or Russian Premier League,〔Russian Premier League (uefa.com )〕 currently called SOGAZ Russian Football Championship ((ロシア語:СОГАЗ — Чемпионат России по футболу)) for sponsorship reasons, is the top division professional association football league in Russia. The competition is administered by the Russian Football Premier League〔RFPL (rfpl.org )〕 ((ロシア語:Российская футбольная Премьер-Лига)). There are 16 teams in the competition. The league has two Champions League qualifying spots given to the top two teams at the end of the season and three Europa League spots are allocated to the third, fourth and fifth teams. The last two teams are relegated to the Russian National Football League at the end of the season. The Russian Premier League was established in 2001 and succeeded the ''Top Division''. The Top Division was run by the Professional Football League of Russia. Creation of the Premier League is considered to give the clubs a greater degree of independence. Zenit Saint Petersburg is the current Russian Premier League champion. ==History== After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, starting in 1992, each former Soviet republic organized an independent national championship. In Russia, the six Russian teams who had played in the Soviet Top League in 1991 (CSKA Moscow, Spartak Moscow, Torpedo Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, Spartak Vladikavkaz, and Lokomotiv Moscow) were supplemented with 14 teams from lower divisions to form a 20-team Russian Top Division. The Top Division was further divided into two groups to reduce the total number of matches. The number of teams in the Top Division was gradually reduced to 18 in 1993 and 16 in 1994. Since then, the Russian Top Division (and subsequently the Premier League) has consisted of 16 teams, except for a short-lived experiment with having two more teams in 1996 and 1997. Spartak Moscow was the dominant force in the Top Division, winning nine of the first ten titles. Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz was the only team which managed to break Spartak's dominance, winning the Top Division title in 1995. Lokomotiv Moscow have won the title twice, and CSKA Moscow five times. In 2007, Zenit St. Petersburg climbed to the top, winning the title for the first time in their history in Russian professional football; they had also won a Soviet title in 1984. 2008 brought the pinnacle of the rise of Rubin Kazan, a club entirely new to the Russian top flight, as it had never even competed in the Soviet Top League. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Russian Football Premier League」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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