2006 Russian Premier League - Awards

Awards

Russian Football Union named Andrei Arshavin the best Premier League player of the season. Arshavin was also ranked best by major Russian sports newspapers, Sport-Express and Soviet Sports and became the Russian Footballer of the Year.

On December 18 Russian Football Union named its list of 33 top players:

Goalkeepers
  1. Igor Akinfeev (CSKA Moscow)
  2. Vyacheslav Malafeev (Zenit)
  3. Antonín Kinský (Saturn)
Right backs
  1. Vasili Berezutskiy (CSKA Moscow)
  2. Aleksandr Anyukov (Zenit)
  3. Roman Shishkin (Spartak Moscow)
Right-centre backs
  1. Sergei Ignashevich (CSKA Moscow)
  2. Martin Jiránek (Spartak Moscow)
  3. Erik Hagen (Zenit)
Left-centre backs
  1. Denis Kolodin (Dynamo Moscow)
  2. Deividas Šemberas (CSKA Moscow)
  3. Martin Škrtel (Zenit)
Left backs
  1. Aleksei Berezutskiy (CSKA Moscow)
  2. Oleg Kuzmin (Moskva)
  3. Orlando Calisto (Rubin)
Defensive midfielders
  1. Elvir Rahimić (CSKA Moscow)
  2. Evgeni Aldonin (CSKA Moscow)
  3. Mozart (Spartak Moscow)
Right wingers
  1. Vladimir Bystrov (Spartak Moscow)
  2. Miloš Krasić (CSKA Moscow)
  3. Valeri Klimov (Tom)
Central midfielders
  1. Dmitri Loskov (Lokomotiv Moscow)
  2. Yegor Titov (Spartak Moscow)
  3. Daniel Carvalho (CSKA Moscow)
Left wingers
  1. Yuri Zhirkov (CSKA Moscow)
  2. Diniyar Bilyaletdinov (Lokomotiv Moscow)
  3. Sergei Gurenko (Lokomotiv Moscow)
Right forwards
  1. Andrei Arshavin (Zenit)
  2. Pavel Pogrebnyak (Tom)
  3. Jô (CSKA Moscow)
Left forwards
  1. Roman Pavlyuchenko (Spartak Moscow)
  2. Alejandro Domínguez (Rubin)
  3. Vágner Love (CSKA Moscow)

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