The business end of the 2011-12 Russian Premier League season began this weekend with the sixteen teams split into two groups of eight. In recent seasons the league would've concluded after thirty rounds of matches but due to the changing of the league season from a spring-autumn season to an autumn-spring timetable from the 2012-13 season another fourteen rounds of matches are necessary in order to decide championship and relegation matters this time around.

P TIMES PG J V E D GM GS SG 1 Zenit 47 22 13 8 1 42 13 29 2 Dynamo Moscou 44 23 13 5 5 43 25 18 3 CSKA Moscou 44 23 12 8 3 40 22 18 4 Rubin Kazan 38 22 10 8 4 28 18 10 5 Anzhi Makhachkala 37 22 10 7 5 25 19 6 6 Lokomotiv Moscou 36 22 10 6 6 33 22 11 7 Spartak Moscou 36 22 10 6 6 30 25 5 8 Kuban 34 22 10 4 8 29 21 8 9 Krasnodar 26 22 6 8 8 24 32 -8 10 Terek 23 22 6 5 11 20 32 -12 11 Amkar Perm 23 22 5 8 9 15 28 -13 12 Volga 20 22 6 2 14 20 30 -10 13 Tom Tomsk 20 22 4 8 10 18 35 -17 14 Rostov 18 22 4 6 12 23 37 -14 15 Spartak Nalchik 17 22 3 8 11 18 29 -11 16 Krylia Sovetov 16 22 3 7 12 14 34 -20