2004 in Russian football was marked with Lokomotiv's second championship, Terek's cup victory, and

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playing at

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National team

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participated in the final tournament of

, where they finished last in group A. Later they started qualification for the

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. , Russia's 1–7 defeat from Portugal in a qualifier is their worst result in history. # Russia score given first ;Key * H = Home match * A = Away match * N = Neutral ground * F = Friendly * EC = 2004 European Football Championship, Group A * WCQ = 2006 FIFA World Cup, European Qualifying, Group 3

Leagues

Premier League

First Division

Terek Grozny Republican Football Club Akhmat (; ), commonly known as Akhmat Grozny, and formerly as Terek Grozny from 1958 to 2017, is a Russian professional football club based in Grozny that plays in the Russian Premier League. History The club was foun ...

and

Tom Tomsk FC Tom Tomsk () was a Russian professional football club, based in the Siberian city of Tomsk. The team played in Trud Stadium (Tomsk) before being dissolved in 2022. History The team was previously named ''Burevestnik'' (1957), ''Tomich'' (195 ...

were promoted to the

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for the first time. Terek set a new record, scoring 100 points in a season. Andrey Fedkov of Terek became the top goalscorer with 38 goals.

Second Division

The following clubs have earned promotion by winning tournaments in their respective

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zones: *

FC Torpedo Vladimir Football Club Torpedo Vladimir () is a Russian football club from Vladimir, founded in 1959. In 2011, they played in the Russian First Division after winning their zone of the Russian Second Division in 2010. The club has been called Trud (195 ...

(''West'') *

FC Fakel Voronezh FC Fakel Voronezh () is a Russian professional association football, football club based in Voronezh. Founded in 1947, the club has played in the Soviet Top League and the Russian Premier League. The club will return to the Russian First League i ...

(''Centre'') *

FC Dynamo Stavropol 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 Second League, the third league in the na ...

(''South'') *

FC Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast FC Ural Yekaterinburg () is a Russian professional association football club based in Yekaterinburg that plays in the Russian First League. History The club was founded in 1930 and was known as Avangard (1930–1948, 1953–1957), Zenit (1944� ...

(''Ural-Povolzhye'') *

FC Chkalovets-1936 Novosibirsk FC Sibir Novosibirsk () was a Russian association football club based in Novosibirsk, playing at the Spartak Stadium. They played their first-ever season in the Russian Premier League in 2010, and ended with relegation to the Russian First Div ...

(''East'') Prior to start of the 2005 season three clubs (Rotor Volgograd, Torpedo Vladimir, and Arsenal Tula) refused participation in the First Division, and two more clubs (Dynamo Stavropol and Chernomorets Novorossiysk) were denied licences. This made way for the runners-up of all five zones: * FC Petrotrest Saint Petersburg (''West'') *

FC Avangard Kursk FC Avangard Kursk is an association football club based in Kursk, Russia, currently playing in the third tier of Russian football. The team's colors are: home all blue, and away all white. History The club has been known under the following nam ...

(''Centre'') *

FC Volgar-Gazprom Astrakhan Volgar FC () is an association football club based in Astrakhan, Russia. They play in the Russian Second League Division A (third tier). History The club has been known under following names: *''Pishchevik'' (food industry worker) (1925−1958) * ...

(''South'') *

FC Lukoil Chelyabinsk FC Spartak Nizhny Novgorod were a Russian football club based in Nizhny Novgorod. History The club was founded as '' Lukoil Chelyabinsk'' in 2000. The futsal Futsal is a variant of association football played between two teams of five players e ...

(''Ural-Povolzhye'') *

FC Amur Blagoveshchensk FC Amur Blagoveshchensk () was a Russian football club from Blagoveshchensk, founded in 1960 and dissolved in 2010. The club played on the second-highest level (Soviet First League and Russian First Division) in 1960–1962, 1992 and 2005. Betwe ...

(''East'')

Cups

The

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match between

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and

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was won by CSKA 3–1. The Russian Cup was won by

, who beat

Krylya Sovetov Samara PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara () is a Russian professional football club based in Samara that plays in the Russian Premier League. In 2004, they finished third in the Russian Premier League. History Krylia Sovetov was founded in Kuybyshev (now Sama ...

in the final 1–0, with Andrey Fedkov scoring the only goal in the injury time. This was the first time the Cup was won by a team from the

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UEFA club competitions

2003–04 UEFA Champions League

Lokomotiv Moscow FC Lokomotiv Moscow (, ) is a Russian professional association football, football club based in Moscow. Lokomotiv have won the Russian Premier League on three occasions; the Soviet Cup twice; and the Russian Cup (football), Russian Cup a record ...

qualified for the round of 16 of the

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, where they met

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. Lokomotiv won the home match 2–1, but lost on away goals after Monaco won the second leg 1–0.

2003–04 UEFA Cup

qualified for the third round of the

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, where they lost 3–1 on aggregate to

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2004 UEFA Intertoto Cup

started in the first round of the

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and defeated

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and

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. Shinnik Yaroslavl started in the second round and defeated

FK Teplice FK Teplice is a Czech professional football club based in the city of Teplice. The club competes in Czech First League, the top tier of Czech football. The club was founded after World War II in 1945. The club advanced to the Czechoslovak First ...

. Both Spartak and Shinnik were knocked out in the third round by

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and

UD Leiria União Desportiva de Leiria (), commonly known as União de Leiria, is a Portuguese professional football club based in Leiria. Founded on 6 June 1966, it currently plays in the Liga Portugal 2, holding home matches at Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pe ...

, respectively.

2004–05 UEFA Champions League

were the only Russian club to play in the

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. They started in the second qualifying round and reached the group stage by beating

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and

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In Group H, they finished third behind

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and

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but ahead of

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The third position allowed CSKA to qualify for the

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, a competition they eventually won.

2004–05 UEFA Cup

(as the Russian Cup winners),

Zenit Saint Petersburg 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 (or in 1914, according to some Russian sources), the club plays in the Russian Pr ...

and

Rubin Kazan FC Rubin Kazan (; ) is a Russian professional football club based in the city of Kazan. They play in the Russian Premier League. Founded in 1958, Rubin played its first-ever top flight season in 2003. It has remained there through the 2021–2 ...

started in the second qualifying round of the

. Terek and Zenit qualified for the first round by defeating

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and

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, respectively, while Rubin were knocked out by

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. In the first round, Terek lost to

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, and Zenit beat

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and reached the group stage. In the group with

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Alemannia Aachen Aachener Turn- und Sportverein Alemannia 1900 e. V., short Alemannia Aachen (), is a German football club from the western city of Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia. A long-term fixture of the country's second division, Alemannia enjoyed a three- ...

, and

AEK Athens FC A.E.K. Football Club (), known simply as A.E.K. (; ) in Greece and AEK Athens internationally, is a Greek professional football club based in Nea Filadelfeia, Attica, Greece. Established in Athens by Greek refugees from Constantinople in the ...

, Zenit finished fourth and were eliminated.

References

National team fixtures

* UEFA Champions League results

* UEFA Cup results

{{2004 in Russian football Seasons in Russian football