2012–13 Russian Football National League
# 2012–13 Russian Football National League

The 2012–13 Russian National Football League was the 21st season of Russia's second-tier football league since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The season began on 9 July 2012 and ended on 26 May 2013.

## League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast (C, P) | 32 | 19 | 11 | 2 | 61 | 18 | +43 | 68 | Promotion to Premier League |
| 2 | Tom Tomsk (P) | 32 | 19 | 8 | 5 | 57 | 34 | +23 | 65 | Promotion to Premier League |
| 3 | Spartak Nalchik | 32 | 15 | 8 | 9 | 32 | 27 | +5 | 53 | Qualification for promotion play-offs |
| 4 | SKA-Khabarovsk | 32 | 13 | 13 | 6 | 36 | 26 | +10 | 52 | Qualification for promotion play-offs |
| 5 | Baltika Kaliningrad | 32 | 14 | 8 | 10 | 40 | 33 | +7 | 50 | |
| 6 | Ufa | 32 | 13 | 9 | 10 | 31 | 30 | +1 | 48 | |
| 7 | Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk | 32 | 13 | 8 | 11 | 44 | 40 | +4 | 47 | |
| 8 | Sibir Novosibirsk | 32 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 34 | 38 | −4 | 45 | |
| 9 | Rotor Volgograd | 32 | 11 | 8 | 13 | 27 | 26 | +1 | 41 | |
| 10 | Yenisey Krasnoyarsk | 32 | 9 | 12 | 11 | 30 | 31 | −1 | 39 | |
| 11 | Shinnik Yaroslavl | 32 | 9 | 12 | 11 | 28 | 33 | −5 | 39 | |
| 12 | Petrotrest St. Petersburg | 32 | 10 | 5 | 17 | 28 | 43 | −15 | 35 | |
| 13 | Salyut Belgorod | 32 | 8 | 11 | 13 | 25 | 31 | −6 | 35 | |
| 14 | Torpedo Moscow | 32 | 6 | 15 | 11 | 29 | 38 | −9 | 33 | |
| 15 | Metallurg-Kuzbass Novokuznetsk | 32 | 8 | 6 | 18 | 19 | 40 | −21 | 30 | |
| 16 | Khimki (R) | 32 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 23 | 40 | −17 | 28 | Relegation to Professional Football League |
| 17 | Volgar Astrakhan (R) | 32 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 23 | 39 | −16 | 26 | Relegation to Professional Football League |

* 1 2 YEN 2–1 SHI; SHI 0–0 YEN

## Results

| Home \ Away | BAL | KHI | MET | NEF | PET | ROT | SAL | SHI | SIB | SKA | SPN | TOM | TOR | UFA | URA | VOL | YEN |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Baltika Kaliningrad | | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 0–3 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 3–0 |
| Khimki | 1–2 | | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 2–4 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 2–4 | 1–2 |
| Metallurg-Kuzbass Novokuznetsk | 2–5 | 0–0 | | 3–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–3 | 1–3 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 |
| Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2–1 | | 2–0 | 0–2 | 3–0 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 3–3 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 1–0 |
| Petrotrest St. Petersburg | 0–1 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 0–1 | | 0–3 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 3–2 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 |
| Rotor Volgograd | 3–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | | 0–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–4 | 3–1 | 0–1 |
| Salyut Belgorod | 2–2 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 2–1 |
| Shinnik Yaroslavl | 0–2 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | | 0–0 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 |
| Sibir Novosibirsk | 3–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 | | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 0–3 |
| SKA-Khabarovsk | 1–0 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–3 | 2–0 | 1–2 | | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 3–1 | 1–0 |
| Spartak Nalchik | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 3–2 | 2–0 | 1–0 | | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 3–1 | 0–2 |
| Tom Tomsk | 2–2 | 3–2 | 2–0 | 4–3 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | | 2–1 | 0–0 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 2–0 |
| Torpedo Moscow | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–3 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | | 2–2 | 2–3 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Ufa | 0–2 | 3–2 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 3–0 | | 0–2 | 1–1 | 1–2 |
| Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast | 1–0 | 1–0 | 6–0 | 3–0 | 4–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 5–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 4–0 | | 1–0 | 1–1 |
| Volgar Astrakhan | 0–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 | | 1–1 |
| Yenisey Krasnoyarsk | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | |

## Statistics

### Top goalscorers

| # | Scorer | Goals | Team |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Spartak Gogniyev | 17 | Ural |
| 2 | Igor Portnyagin | 16 | Neftekhimik |
| 3 | Andrei Myazin | 14 | Petrotrest |
| 4 | Aleksei Medvedev | 12 | Sibir/Spartak |
| 5 | Aleksandr Dimidko | 10 | Tom |
