After previous season Mordovia Saransk and Alania Vladikavkaz were relegated to National Football League.
Tom Tomsk returned to Premier League at first attempt, while Ural was absent from the top level for 16 seasons.
Later, it was clarified that Rondón had a conflict with Dynamo player Marko Lomić, but that incident was not registered by the referee or the game inspector.
[35] The Zenit fan who punched Granat, 45-year-old Aleksei Nesterov known as Gulliver, was not immediately arrested, and went into hiding for several days.
Torpedo Moscow won 2–0 on aggregate score and was promoted to the 2014–15 Russian Premier League.
Last updated: 15 May 2014 On 7 June 2014 Russian Football Union named its list of 33 top players:[52]