Gamid Agalarov wins RPL goalscorers race

Ufa striker Gamid Agalarov became the top scorer of the 2021/22 RPL season.

The 21-year-old has made 29 league appearances and scored 19 goals, six of them came from penalties. Agalarov was ahead of the nearest participants by five goals - these are Dmitry Poloz from Rostov and Mateo Cassierra from Sochi, who scored 14 goals each. The top five scorers also included Fedor Smolov (12 goals for Lokomotiv and Dynamo) and Artem Dzyuba from Zenit (11).

Agalarov became the first player in the history of Ufa to win the RPL scorer race. Before current season, Gamid collected ten league matches, but never scored.

RPL top scorers from each season

2002: Dmitry Kirichenko, Rolan Gusev (both CSKA) – 15 each
2003: Dmitry Loskov (Lokomotiv) – 14
2004: Aleksandr Kerzhakov (Zenit) – 18
2005: Dmitry Kirichenko (FC Moscow) – 14
2006: Roman Pavlyuchenko (Spartak) – 18
2007: Roman Pavlyuchenko (Spartak), Roman Adamov (FC Moscow) – 14 each
2008: Vagner Love (CSKA) – 20
2009: Welliton (Spartak) – 21
2010: Welliton (Spartak) – 19
2011/12: Seydou Doumbia (CSKA) – 28
2012/13: Wanderson (FC Krasnodar), Yura Movsisyan (FC Krasnodar and Spartak) – 13 each
2013/14: Seydou Doumbia (CSKA) – 18
2014/15: Hulk (Zenit) – 15
2015/16: Fedor Smolov (FC Krasnodar) – 20
2016/17: Fedor Smolov (FC Krasnodar) – 18
2017/18: Quincy Promes (Spartak) – 15
2018/19: Fedor Chalov (CSKA) – 15
2019/20: Sardar Azmoun, Artem Dzyuba (both Zenit) – 17 each
2020/21: Artem Dzyuba (Zenit) – 20
2021/22: Gamid Agalatov (FC Ufa) – 19