Football clubs of the Russian Premier League will be competitive after returning to European competitions, Moscow Spartak veteran Valery Gladilin told Gazeta.Ru. In his opinion, there will be no problems with this, since Russia has a good selection of players.
Will Russian clubs be competitive after returning to European competitions? Of course. What are the problems? We have a good championship, a good selection of players. We will perform as we did before , the expert emphasized .
Former Zenit and CSKA footballer Roman Shirokov, in turn, expressed the opinion that Russian teams are unlikely to return to international competitions in 2025. He believes that this will happen no earlier than next year, and this, in his words, is “the most optimistic forecast.”
Earlier it became known that the Russian national team remained in 34th place in the International Football Federation ranking for 2024. The Russians have accumulated 1512.32 points. Argentina occupies the first place in the FIFA ranking. The second and third places went to France and Spain. The top three scored 1867.25, 1859.78 and 1853.27 points, respectively.
Earlier, it was reported that Zenit became the most visited team in the RPL following the first part of the 2024/25 season. On average, 31 thousand fans attended the matches of the club from St. Petersburg. Second place in attendance was taken by Krasnodar. On average, 26.7 thousand people came to the games of the “bulls”.