Season trivia for Premjer-Liga 2022/2023
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 2022/2023 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 Eduard Spertsyan and Jhon Cordoba. Together they were behind 7 goals for Krasnodar in the 2022/2023 season.
Fastest goalscorer
These players all scored goals in the first minute of a match during the 2022/2023 season:
Fastest hat-trick
Ivan Ignatyev, playing for Lokomotiv Moscow, was the player who scored the fastest hat-trick. In the space of 11 minutes, he scored three goals in the match between Lokomotiv Moscow-Orenburg.
Top goalscorer by calendar month
The most goals scored in a calendar month during the season 2022/2023 was 6 goals, which these players scored in those months:
Vladimir Sychevoy (Krylia Sovetov/Orenburg) - October 2022
Malcom (Zenit St.Petersburg) - April 2023
Most braces by player
Malcom in Zenit St.Petersburg scored (at least) two goals in a match 7 times and was thus the player who scored the most braces in matches during the 2022/2023 season.
Most first goals in a match
The first goal of a match means a lot, and these players each scored it in a total of 8 matches during the season:
Fyodor Chalov (CSKA Moscow)
Malcom (Zenit St.Petersburg)
Most last goals in a match
The last goal of the match was scored the most times by Wilson Isidor in Lokomotiv Moscow during the 2022/2023 season, in total he did this 7 times.
Most penalty goals by player
The title of the league's best penalty taker in 2022/2023 was shared between 4 players, all of whom scored 6 penalties each, and these were
Most penalty goals by team
Rostov was the most effective team of all when it came to penalty goals during the 2022/2023 season, in total they scored 12 of their goals from penalties.
Most stoppage time goals by player
In total, 3 players scored 3 goals in added time, and the players who did so were:
Most stoppage time goals by team
The highest number of goals in added time by a team was 7 goals, which 2 teams managed to do, and these were Zenit St.Petersburg and Lokomotiv Moscow.
Most own goals by player
The unluckiest scorer during the 2022/2023 season was Artyom Meshchaninov, as he held the somewhat dubious honour of scoring the most own goals of any player in Premjer-Liga, which he did 2 times.
Most own goals by team
Sochi scored 4 own goals in all their matches, making them the best at it in the entire league during the 2022/2023 season.
Players with goals in most consecutive matches
There were 6 players who scored in 4 consecutive matches during the 2022/2023 season, and the players who achieved this were:
Wilson Isidor (Lokomotiv Moscow)
Nikolay Komlichenko (Rostov)
Vladimir Sychevoy (Orenburg and Krylia Sovetov)
Quincy Promes (Spartak Moscow)
Malcom (Zenit St.Petersburg)
Fyodor Chalov (CSKA Moscow)
Players with assists in most consecutive matches
It was Nikita Burmistrov in Sochi who had the longest streak of matches in a row with at least one assist, achieving this in 4 consecutive matches.
Players with goals or assists in most consecutive matches
Aleksei Kashtanov in FC Ural scored or assisted in 6 consecutive matches during the 2022/2023 season, which was the best in the league.
Players with most goals in the first half
It was Fyodor Chalov in CSKA Moscow who scored the most goals in the first half, with a total of 12 goals in the first half of the match.
Players with most goals in the second half
Malcom in Zenit St.Petersburg scored a total of 13 goals in the second half, including stoppage time, which was the best in Premjer-Liga during the 2022/2023 season.
Most consecutive wins
Zenit St.Petersburg was the team with the most consecutive wins during the 2022/2023 season, with a total of 7 wins in a row.
Most matches in a row without losing
Zenit St.Petersburg were the team with the longest unbeaten run during the 2022/2023 season, playing 15 straight matches without losing.
Most consecutive losses
During the 2022/2023 season, there were 2 teams that had 6 consecutive losses, and those teams were Torpedo Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod.
Most matches in a row without a win
FC Khimki managed the feat of not winning a single match in 11 consecutive matches during the 2022/2023 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 Spartak Moscow were best at during the 2022/2023 season, they came back to win 5 matches in total.
Most blown leads resulting in losses
Fakel Voronezh and Krylia Sovetov were the teams that struggled most to win despite taking the lead, these teams blew a lead and lost in 4 different matches during the 2022/2023 season.
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