From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Dec 2028
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 4 goals in 3 appearances for Rostov 2.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2028
Marked 8.05 across it, 4 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Rostov 2 have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2028
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Angusht
Arkhip Kazantsev was marked 7.47 and had a hand in 3 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Dec 2028
“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.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2028
Nobody made more than James Rodrigues this month
3 assists, 7.63, and a Nart 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.
Market1 Dec 2028
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Timofey Kashitsyn will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Spartak Nalchik the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2028
Kirill Cheburakov is the division's best-marked player — 8.05
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.05 across 3 matches for Rostov 2.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2028
A productive month at Dinamo Makhachkala 2 — 2 goals from 3 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2028
3 in 4 for Sevastopol. 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 Dec 2028
Denis Rubanov up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Dinamo Stavropol — 2 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2028
3 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Market1 Dec 2028
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Angusht, another week without a signature from Aman Babakhanov.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Nov 2028
The month closes with Denis Rubanov out in front — 5 goals in 3 games, and Dinamo Stavropol have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2028
Marked 8.78 across it, 5 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Dinamo Stavropol have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2028
Arkhip Kazantsev is the month's best young player — 7.91
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.91 over the month and 3 goal contributions, from a Angusht player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Nov 2028
“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.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2028
Nobody made more than Krystian Mucha this month
4 assists, 7.75, and a Nart 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.
Market1 Nov 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Nart is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2028
Highest marks in the league belong to a Dinamo Stavropol man
Denis Rubanov averaged 8.78 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 Nov 2028
2 goals in 4 appearances for Pobeda, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2028
5 in 4 for Rostov 2. 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 2028
3 goals in 4 appearances for Pobeda, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2028
2 appearances, 2 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Market1 Nov 2028
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Oct 2028
The month closes with Magomed Nasibov out in front — 4 goals in 4 games, and Pobeda have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2028
Magomed Nasibov is the division's player of the month — 7.82
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Pobeda man on 7.82 with 4 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2028
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Angusht
Arkhip Kazantsev was marked 7.91 and had a hand in 3 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Oct 2028
Anzor Tokaev hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Legion can pretend not to have heard.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2028
Nobody made more than Anton Gurylev this month
3 assists, 7.73, and a Pobeda 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.
Market1 Oct 2028
Nart say no — this time
The offer from Strogino for Krystian Mucha 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.
Market1 Oct 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Spartak Nalchik is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2028
Arkhip Kazantsev is the division's best-marked player — 7.91
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 7.91 across 4 matches for Angusht.
Market1 Oct 2028
The name of Renat Tlyashok has come up in conversations Druzhba were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2028
2 in 5 for Dinamo Stavropol. 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 2028
A productive month at Rubin Yalta — 2 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2028
Zaid Koblev up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Druzhba — 2 goals from 5 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Sep 2028
Marked 8.20 across it, 5 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Dinamo Stavropol have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2028
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Angusht
Arkhip Kazantsev was marked 7.39 and had a hand in 3 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Sep 2028
Maxim Yedapin hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Rubin Yalta can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Sep 2028
Rostov 2 say no — this time
The offer from Rotor for Eyad El Askalany 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 Sep 2028
Ibrahim Ajasa leads the division for assists — 7.53
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 3 of them made by a Rostov 2 player marked 7.53, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Market1 Sep 2028
Only the photograph left for Magomed Piriev
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Magomed Piriev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Kuban Holding the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market1 Sep 2028
Add another name to the list: Strogino have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Amirkhan Selyaev. The answer from Spartak Nalchik has not changed — yet.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2028
Denis Rubanov is the division's best-marked player — 8.20
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.20 across 4 matches for Dinamo Stavropol.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2028
A productive month at Dinamo Makhachkala 2 — 2 goals from 3 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2028
Denis Rubanov up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Dinamo Stavropol — 5 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2028
Krystian Mucha up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Nart — 2 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Aug 2028
The month closes with James Rodrigues out in front — 4 goals in 3 games, and Nart have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2028
James Rodrigues is the division's player of the month — 7.86
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Nart man on 7.86 with 5 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2028
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Angusht
Arkhip Kazantsev was marked 8.13 and had a hand in 3 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Aug 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dinamo Makhachkala 2 can pretend not to have heard.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2028
Nobody made more than Krystian Mucha this month
3 assists, 7.44, and a Nart 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.
Market1 Aug 2028
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Timofey Kashitsyn will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Spartak Nalchik the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market1 Aug 2028
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2028
Arkhip Kazantsev is the division's best-marked player — 8.13
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.13 across 2 matches for Angusht.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2028
1 goals in 3 appearances for Angusht, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2028
2 in 3 for Pobeda. 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 Aug 2028
2 in 2 for Dinamo Stavropol. 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 Aug 2028
1 goals in 2 appearances for Angusht, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Jul 2028
“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 Jul 2028
Ural come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Dinamo Stavropol did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market1 Jul 2028
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alexandr Khvataev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Rubin Yalta the goodbyes have quietly begun.
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Market1 Jun 2028
Danil Khromov hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dinamo Stavropol can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Jun 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Astrakhan is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market1 Jun 2028
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 May 2028
“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 May 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Nart is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market1 May 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Rostov 2 know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
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Market1 Apr 2028
“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 Sevastopol, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Apr 2028
Only the photograph left for Ibragim Umarov
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ibragim Umarov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Pobeda the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market1 Apr 2028
“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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Mar 2028
“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 Rostov 2, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Mar 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Pobeda is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market1 Mar 2028
The name of Krystian Mucha has come up in conversations Nart were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Feb 2028
The month closes with Oleg Kozachenko out in front — 3 goals in 2 games, and Legion have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2028
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Legion
Matvey Zakharzhevskiy was marked 7.28 and had a hand in 1 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Feb 2028
“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 Dinamo Stavropol, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Feb 2028
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2028
2 assists, 7.48, and a Legion 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.
Market1 Feb 2028
Add another name to the list: Kolomna have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Aslan Dashaev. The answer from Kuban Holding has not changed — yet.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2028
Oleg Kozachenko is the division's best-marked player — 8.45
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.45 across 2 matches for Legion.
Market1 Feb 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Spartak Nalchik is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2028
A productive month at Rostov 2 — 1 goals from 2 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2028
1 goals in 2 appearances for Dinamo Stavropol leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2028
2 goals in 2 appearances for Dinamo Stavropol, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2028
2 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Jan 2028
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 3 goals in 4 appearances for Rostov 2.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2028
Magomed Nasibov is the division's player of the month — 8.15
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Pobeda man on 8.15 with 5 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2028
Arkhip Kazantsev is the month's best young player — 7.49
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.49 over the month and 1 goal contributions, from a Angusht player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Jan 2028
“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.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2028
Rustam Khalnazarov leads the division for assists — 7.64
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 3 of them made by a Rostov 2 player marked 7.64, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Market1 Jan 2028
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Rostov 2 have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2028
Magomed Nasibov is the division's best-marked player — 8.15
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.15 across 3 matches for Pobeda.
Market1 Jan 2028
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Arseny Vasilenko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dinamo Stavropol the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2028
4 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2028
3 goals in 3 appearances for Pobeda leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2028
4 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2028
4 appearances, 2 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.