Season trivia for Premjer-Liga 2025/2026
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 2025/2026 Premjer-Liga season in Russia.
Note that the season is not finished yet, and therefor the information below is not necessarily the final version.
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 2025/2026 season.
Fastest goalscorer
These players all scored goals in the first minute of a match during the 2025/2026 season:
Fastest hat-trick
Jhon Cordoba, playing for Krasnodar, was the player who scored the fastest hat-trick. In the space of 43 minutes, he scored three goals in the match between Krasnodar-Nizhny Novgorod.
Top goalscorer by calendar month
The most goals scored in a calendar month during the season 2025/2026 was 5 goals, which these players scored in those months:
Aleksey Batrakov (Lokomotiv Moscow) - August 2025
Mirlind Daku (Rubin Kazan) - August 2025
Maksim Glushenkov (Zenit St.Petersburg) - September 2025
Jhon Cordoba (Krasnodar) - March 2026
Most braces by player
Eduard Spertsyan in Krasnodar scored (at least) two goals in a match three times and was thus the player who scored the most braces in matches during the 2025/2026 season.
Most first goals in a match
The player who scored the first goal in a match the most times during the 2025/2026 season was Brayan Gil in Baltika, in total he did it ten times.
Most last goals in a match
The last goal of the match was scored the most times by Artem Dzyuba in FC Akron Tolyatti during the 2025/2026 season, in total he did this five times.
Most penalty goals by player
The title of the league's best penalty taker in 2025/2026 was shared between two players, all of whom scored six penalties each, and these were Esequiel Barco (Spartak Moscow) and Ivan Oblyakov (CSKA Moscow).
Most penalty goals by team
Zenit St.Petersburg was the most effective team of all when it came to penalty goals during the 2025/2026 season, in total they scored nine of their goals from penalties.
Most own goals by player
two players share the less-than-honourable title of "most own goals" during the 2025/2026 season in Premjer-Liga. These players each scored two own goals and they were Kevin Andrade (Baltika) and Sergey Volkov (Sochi).
Most own goals by team
three teams each scored three own goals, and the teams that were best at putting the ball into their own net were Lokomotiv Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod and Sochi.
Players with goals in most consecutive matches
There were two players who scored in 4 consecutive matches during the 2025/2026 season, and the players who achieved this were Brayan Gil (Baltika) and Alexander Sobolev (Zenit St.Petersburg).
Players with assists in most consecutive matches
It was Eduard Spertsyan in Krasnodar who had the longest streak of matches in a row with at least one assist, achieving this in 4 consecutive matches.
Players with most goals in the first half
It was Brayan Gil in Baltika who scored the most goals in the first half, with a total of 11 goals in the first half of the match.
Players with most goals in the second half
Jhon Cordoba in Krasnodar scored a total of 11 goals in the second half, including stoppage time, which was the best in Premjer-Liga during the 2025/2026 season.
Most consecutive wins
There were three teams that had 4 consecutive wins in the 2025/2026 season, and those teams were Lokomotiv Moscow, Zenit St.Petersburg and Krasnodar.
Most matches in a row without losing
Zenit St.Petersburg were the team with the longest unbeaten run during the 2025/2026 season, playing 15 straight matches without losing.
Most consecutive losses
Sochi had a streak of 6 consecutive losses, something no other team surpassed in Premjer-Liga during the 2025/2026 season.
Most matches in a row without a win
The longest winless run in the 2025/2026 season was 10 matches in a row, and it was FC Akron Tolyatti and Sochi who managed that dubious achievement.
Most comebacks from behind to win
The teams that were best at trailing and then eventually winning the match were Spartak Moscow and Zenit St.Petersburg, and these teams turned the game around four times in total.
Most blown leads resulting in losses
Nizhny Novgorod and Sochi were the teams that struggled most to win despite taking the lead, these teams blew a lead and lost in three different matches during the 2025/2026 season.