Zenit St Petersburg 29 19 4 6 53 28 61 - champions
Lokomotiv Moscow 29 15 8 6 44 28 53
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Krasnodar 29 15 8 6 54 23 53
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Spartak Moscow 29 14 7 8 36 29 49
CSKA Moscow 29 13 9 7 40 23 48
Arsenal Tula 29 12 9 8 37 30 45
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Rostov 29 10 11 8 25 22 41
Orenburg 29 11 7 11 37 34 40
Akhmat Grozny 29 10 9 10 27 30 39
Rubin Kazan 29 7 15 7 24 29 36
Ural Yekaterinburg 29 9 8 12 31 45 35
Dynamo Moscow 29 6 14 9 25 25 32
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Samara 29 8 4 17 25 40 28
Ufa 29 5 11 13 24 33 26
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Anzhi Makhachkala 29 5 6 18 13 48 21 - relegated
Yenisei Krasnoyarsk 29 4 8 17 23 51 20 - relegated
Note: The top two teams qualify for the Champions League; third-placed team go into the Champions League third qualifying round; fourth, fifth and sixth-placed teams qualify for the Europa League
-- The bottom two teams are relegated automatically
-- The clubs that finish 13th and 14th play a two-legged relegation play-off against the third and fourth-placed teams in the second division.