Season trivia for Premjer-Liga 2016/2017
It's not all about becoming the top scorer or winning matches - there's also a wealth of fascinating information related to goalscorers and other remarkable records. Below, you'll find trivia and interesting facts from the 2016/2017 Premjer-Liga season in Russia.
Best scoring couple
The top goal-scoring pair, in other words two players where one scored the goal and the other player assisted to it, were Cristian Pasquato and Gianni Bruno. Together they were behind 5 goals for Krylia Sovetov in the 2016/2017 season.
Fastest goalscorer
These players all scored goals in the first minute of a match during the 2016/2017 season:
Fastest hat-trick
Arsen Khubulov, playing for Anzhi Makhachkala, was the player who scored the fastest hat-trick. In the space of 68 minutes, he scored three goals in the match between Anzhi Makhachkala-Tom Tomsk.
Top goalscorer by calendar month
In August 2016, Fedor Smolov (Krasnodar) scored 6 goals, which was the most goals in a calendar month of the 2016/2017 season.
Most braces by player
Most braces (at least two goals in a match) were scored 3 times during this season, and the players who managed that were these:
Artem Dzyuba (Zenit St.Petersburg)
Fedor Smolov (Krasnodar)
Most first goals in a match
The player who scored the first goal in a match the most times during the 2016/2017 season was Fedor Smolov in Krasnodar, in total he did it 6 times.
Most last goals in a match
The last goal of the match was scored the most times by Fedor Smolov in Krasnodar during the 2016/2017 season, in total he did this 7 times.
Most penalty goals by player
The best penalty taker in the league during the 2016/2017 season was Fedor Smolov, in total he scored 5 penalties for his Krasnodar.
Most penalty goals by team
Most goals from the penalty spot was a feat shared by 2 teams, and the teams that each scored 8 penalty goals were Zenit St.Petersburg and Lokomotiv Moscow.
Most stoppage time goals by player
In total, 3 players scored 2 goals in added time, and the players who did so were:
Bernard Berisha (Anzhi Makhachkala/Akhmat Groznyi)
Aleksandr Sukhov (Ufa)
Quincy Promes (Spartak Moscow)
Most stoppage time goals by team
The highest number of goals in added time by a team was 4 goals, which 3 teams managed to do, and these were Krasnodar, Spartak Moscow and Akhmat Groznyi.
Most own goals by team
Akhmat Groznyi scored 3 own goals in all their matches, making them the "best" at it in the entire league during the 2016/2017 season.
Players with goals in most consecutive matches
There were 5 players who scored in 4 consecutive matches during the 2016/2017 season, and the players who achieved this were:
Quincy Promes (Spartak Moscow)
Fedor Smolov (Krasnodar)
Ablaye Mbengue (Akhmat Groznyi)
Artem Dzyuba (Zenit St.Petersburg)
Jonathas (Rubin Kazan)
Players with goals or assists in most consecutive matches
The players who were involved in goals in the most consecutive matches during the 2016/2017 season were Quincy Promes (Spartak Moscow) and Roman Eremenko (CSKA Moscow), with a streak of 5 matches in a row with at least one goal and/or assist.
Players with most goals in the first half
It was Artem Dzyuba in Zenit St.Petersburg who scored the most goals in the first half, with a total of 9 goals in the first half of the match.
Players with most goals in the second half
Fedor Smolov in Krasnodar scored a total of 13 goals in the second half, including stoppage time, which was the best in Premjer-Liga during the 2016/2017 season.
Most consecutive wins
Spartak Moscow was the team with the most consecutive wins during the 2016/2017 season, with a total of 6 wins in a row.
Most matches in a row without losing
CSKA Moscow were the team with the longest unbeaten run during the 2016/2017 season, playing 13 straight matches without losing.
Most consecutive losses
During the 2016/2017 season, there were 2 teams that had 5 consecutive losses, and those teams were Arsenal Tula and Tom Tomsk.
Most matches in a row without a win
Arsenal Tula managed the feat of not winning a single match in 14 consecutive matches during the 2016/2017 season, something they did best among all the teams in the league.
Most comebacks from behind to win
The art of turning a deficit in a match into a win is something Akhmat Groznyi were best at during the 2016/2017 season, they came back to win 4 matches in total.
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