From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Jan 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market1 Jan 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Rodina 2 they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market1 Jan 2027
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
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Steady
Market1 Dec 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Irtysh, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Dec 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Rodina 2 is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market1 Dec 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Ruslan Bolov’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 4 goals in 4 appearances for Murom.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Marked 8.16 across it, 7 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Murom have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Young player of the month: Mikhail Ryadno — 7.46
7.46 across the month and 2 goal contributions from a Kaluga player everybody else in the division now has a file on. His price rose this month without anybody at his club lifting a finger.
Market1 Nov 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Rodina 2 they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market1 Nov 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Irtysh, and it is not being withdrawn.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Nobody made more than Ruslan Bolov this month
3 assists, 8.16, and a Murom player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
2 goals in 4 appearances for Kuban leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
4 appearances, 2 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
3 in 4 for Murom. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
3 in 4 for Torpedo Miass. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
A place in the eleven for Anton Shitov
6.38 over 4 games. Nobody frames a team-of-the-month selection and everybody who has been in one remembers the month they were.
Market1 Nov 2026
Dmitry Yugaldin is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Kaluga has been clear about where Dmitry Yugaldin stands, which is more than many ever get.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
The month closes with Mikhail Ageev out in front — 6 goals in 3 games, and Kuban have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Player of the month: Mikhail Ageev — 8.85
Everybody in the division was measured and a Kuban man came out on top: 8.85 across the month and 6 goal contributions. There is no serious case for anybody else.
Market1 Oct 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Rodina 2 people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market1 Oct 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Ruslan Maltsev had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Young player of the month: Gleb Knyazev — 7.11
7.11 across the month and 1 goal contributions from a Rodina 2 player everybody else in the division now has a file on. His price rose this month without anybody at his club lifting a finger.
Market1 Oct 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market1 Oct 2026
Rodina 2 say no — this time
The offer from Amkar for Alexandr Stenyakin was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
The division’s top provider is Mikhail Yakovlev — 7.81
3 assists across the month from a Kuban player marked 7.81. Somebody has to open the door before anybody walks through it, and nobody in the league opened more.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Best marks in the division for Mikhail Ageev — 8.85
8.85 on average across 3 matches for Kuban. The chart that notices the players a goal tally never does, and this month it noticed him.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
2 goals in 3 appearances for Murom leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
3 in 3 for Dinamo Vladivostok. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
3 appearances, 2 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
The month closes with Ilja Grischenko out in front — 4 goals in 3 games, and Kaluga have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Everybody in the division was measured and a Kaluga man came out on top: 8.40 across the month and 4 goal contributions. There is no serious case for anybody else.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Nikita Kuzin is the month's best young player — 7.33
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.33 over the month and 4 goal contributions, from a Kaluga player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Sep 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Rodina 2 have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market1 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Kuban, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Sep 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Alexandr Lazarev had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Ilja Bykovskiy leads the division for assists — 6.98
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 3 of them made by a Kuban player marked 6.98, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Market1 Sep 2026
Pobeda come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Rodina 2 did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Highest marks in the league belong to a Kaluga man
Ilja Grischenko averaged 8.40 over 3 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Ilja Yurchenko up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Dinamo Vladivostok — 3 goals from 5 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
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Ilja Moseichuk up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Kuban — 2 goals from 5 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Nikita Khlynov up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Torpedo Miass — 3 goals from 5 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Mikhail Maltsev’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Market1 Aug 2026
Kirill Roschin is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Murom has been clear about where Kirill Roschin stands, which is more than many ever get.
Market1 Aug 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Mikhail Maltsev’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.