Awards
On 16 December 2008 Russian Football Union named its list of 33 top players:
- Goalkeepers
- Igor Akinfeev (CSKA)
- Sergei Ryzhikov (Rubin)
- Vyacheslav Malafeev (Zenit)
- Right backs
- Aleksandr Anyukov (Zenit)
- Cristian Ansaldi (Rubin)
- Vasili Berezutskiy (CSKA)
|
- Right-centre backs
- Denis Kolodin (Dynamo)
- Rodolfo (Lokomotiv)
- Dmitri Belorukov (Amkar)
|
- Left-centre backs
- Sergei Ignashevich (CSKA)
- Leandro Fernández (Dynamo)
- Aleksei Popov (Amkar/Rubin)
|
- Left backs
- Radek Šírl (Zenit)
- Aleksei Berezutskiy (CSKA)
- Renat Yanbaev (Lokomotiv)
|
- Defensive midfielders
- Anatoliy Tymoschuk (Zenit)
- Sergei Semak (Rubin)
- Dmitri Khokhlov (Dynamo)
- Right wingers
- Miloš Krasić (CSKA)
- Igor Denisov (Zenit)
- Kirill Kombarov (Dynamo)
|
- Central midfielders
- Danny (Dynamo/Zenit)
- Igor Semshov (Dynamo)
- Alan Dzagoev (CSKA)
|
- Left wingers
- Yuri Zhirkov (CSKA)
- Konstantin Zyryanov (Zenit)
- Diniyar Bilyaletdinov (Lokomotiv)
|
- Right forwards
- Vágner Love (CSKA)
- Pavel Pogrebnyak (Zenit)
- Roman Pavlyuchenko (Spartak M.)
|
- Left forwards
- Andrei Arshavin (Zenit)
- Marko Topić (Saturn)
- Gökdeniz Karadeniz (Rubin)
|