The 2022–23 Russian First League is the 31st season of Russia's second-tier football league since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The season will begin on 16 July 2022, and will have a 3 month winter break between game weeks 20 and 21 (November to March). For the first time, 18 teams will participate instead of 20 On 23 June 2022, the league was renamed from Russian Football National League to Russian First League.

Stadia by capacity

Team changes

To FNL

; Promoted from FNL2 * Dynamo Makhachkala * Rodina Moscow *

Volga Ulyanovsk Volga Ulyanovsk may refer to * Volga Ulyanovsk Bandy Club * FC Volga Ulyanovsk FC Volga Ulyanovsk (russian: ФК «Во́лга» Улья́новск) is a professional association football club based in Ulyanovsk, Russia. In the 2022–23 seas ...

Shinnik Yaroslavl FC Shinnik Yaroslavl (russian: Футбольный клуб «Шинник» Ярославль) is a Russian football club, based in Yaroslavl. From 1957 to 1960 the team was called Khimik (russian: Химик - "the chemist"). In the USSR ...

; Relegated from

Premier League The Premier League (legal name: The Football Association Premier League Limited) is the highest level of the men's English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Foo ...

* Arsenal Tula *

Rubin Kazan FC Rubin Kazan (russian: Футбо́льный клуб Руби́н Каза́нь, ''Futbolny klub Rubin Kazan'' , Tatar: Рубин Казан) is a Russian professional football club based in the city of Kazan. They play in the second-tier ...

Ufa Ufa ( ba, Өфө , Öfö; russian: Уфа́, r=Ufá, p=ʊˈfa) is the largest city and capital of Bashkortostan, Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Belaya and Ufa rivers, in the centre-north of Bashkortostan, on hills forming the ...

From FNL

; Relegated to Second League *

Metallurg Lipetsk FC Metallurg Lipetsk (russian: Футбольный клуб «Металлург» Липецк) is an association football club in Lipetsk, Russia, formed in 1957. Their home, Metallurg Stadium, is located on Pervomayskaya Street, 59, in Lipetsk ...

Rotor Volgograd SC Rotor Volgograd (russian: СK Ротор) is a Russian professional football club from the large city of Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast (formerly Stalingrad). The club will play in the third-tier Russian Football National League 2 in the 2022– ...

* Tekstilshchik Ivanovo ; Dissolved *

FC Spartak-2 Moscow FC Spartak-2 Moscow (russian: ФК «Спартак-2» Москва) was a Russian football team from Moscow, founded in 1964. It was a farm club for the Russian Premier League team FC Spartak Moscow. History The club has participated in profes ...

* Olimp-Dolgoprudny *

Tom Tomsk FC Tom Tomsk (russian: Футбольный клуб Томь Томск) is a Russian professional football club, based in the Siberian city of Tomsk. The team plays in Trud Stadium (Tomsk). History The team was previously named ''Burevestnik'' ...

; Promoted to

Torpedo Moscow Football Club Torpedo Moscow (russian: link=no, ФК "Торпедо" Москва, ''FK Torpedo Moskva''), known as Torpedo Moscow, is a Russian professional football club based in Moscow that was founded in 1924 and returned to the Russian Pre ...

Orenburg Orenburg (russian: Оренбу́рг, ), formerly known as Chkalov (1938–1957), is the administrative center of Orenburg Oblast, Russia. It lies on the Ural River, southeast of Moscow. Orenburg is also very close to the Kazakhstan-Russia bor ...

Fakel Voronezh FC Fakel Voronezh (russian: Футбольный клуб "Факел" Воронеж) is a Soviet and Russian professional football club based in Voronezh. Founded in 1947, the club has played in the Soviet Top League and the Russian Premier Lea ...

Stadia by locations

League table

Positions by round

Results by round

Results

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Discipline

* Most yellow cards: 71 ** Volgar Astrakhan * Most red cards: 6 ** Rodina Moscow

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:2022-23 Russian Football National League 2022–23 in Russian football leagues Russian First League seasons

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Current association football seasons