# 2015–16 FC Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast season

The 2015–16 Ural season was the club's 3rd successive season that the club played in the Russian Premier League, the highest tier of association football in Russia, during which they finished the season in 8th. Ural also participated in the Russian Cup, where they were knocked out at the Round of 16 stage by CSKA Moscow.

## Squad

    As of 8 April 2016
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 2 | DF | RUS | Vladimir Khozin |
| 3 | FW | ZAM | Chisamba Lungu |
| 4 | DF | BLR | Alyaksandr Martynovich (on loan from Krasnodar) |
| 7 | DF | RUS | Aleksandr Dantsev |
| 8 | MF | UKR | Kostyantyn Yaroshenko |
| 9 | FW | RUS | Spartak Gogniyev |
| 10 | FW | ARM | Edgar Manucharyan |
| 11 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Stavpets |
| 12 | DF | RUS | Aleksandr Novikov |
| 15 | MF | UKR | Denys Kulakov |
| 18 | FW | RUS | Nikita Burmistrov (on loan from Krasnodar) |
| 21 | MF | CHI | Gerson Acevedo |
| 28 | GK | RUS | Nikolai Zabolotny |
| 29 | DF | ARG | Pablo Fontanello |
| 30 | GK | BLR | Yuri Zhevnov |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 33 | DF | RUS | Mikhail Merkulov |
| 34 | FW | RUS | Denis Dorozhkin |
| 35 | GK | RUS | Dmitri Arapov |
| 41 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Sapeta |
| 54 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Ryazantsev |
| 57 | MF | RUS | Artyom Fidler |
| 62 | MF | RUS | Rezo Gavtadze |
| 71 | FW | AZE | Elbeyi Guliyev |
| 75 | MF | RUS | Sergei Serchenkov |
| 77 | MF | UKR | Dmytro Bilonoh |
| 88 | MF | RUS | Dmitri Korobov |
| 90 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Scherbakov |
| 92 | MF | RUS | Roman Yemelyanov |
| 97 | MF | RUS | Eduard Valiakhmetov |
| — | DF | SRB | Dominik Dinga |

### Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | DF | RUS | Denis Fomin (on loan at Tekstilshchik) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | FW | RUS | Georgi Nurov (on loan at Tom) |

### Youth team

As per Russian Football Premier League.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 16 | GK | RUS | Aleksandr Shubin |
| 17 | DF | RUS | Artemi Dorozhinsky |
| 19 | FW | RUS | Valeriy Kuznetsov |
| 20 | DF | RUS | Roman Mironov |
| 22 | DF | RUS | Kirill Kochnev |
| 31 | MF | RUS | Vladislav Blinov |
| 37 | MF | RUS | Evgeniy Shumikhin |
| 38 | FW | RUS | Aleksei Gontsa |
| 40 | DF | RUS | Maksim Gorin |
| 45 | MF | RUS | Ilya Korelin |
| 47 | DF | RUS | Artyom Vakurin |
| 48 | DF | RUS | Denis Drozhalkin |
| 51 | GK | RUS | Yevgeni Zharikov |
| 52 | DF | RUS | Roman Shalin |
| 55 | DF | RUS | Pavel Vlasenko |
| 58 | FW | RUS | Bogdan Mishukov |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 59 | MF | RUS | Sergey Podoksyonov |
| 61 | DF | RUS | Pavel Parshin |
| 64 | MF | RUS | Vladislav Zolotukhin |
| 69 | MF | RUS | Andrey Sheptiy |
| 70 | MF | RUS | Dmitri Davletshin |
| 73 | FW | RUS | Konstantin Reshetnikov |
| 74 | DF | RUS | Danil Chernov |
| 76 | MF | RUS | Mikhail Filippov |
| 79 | FW | RUS | Artyom Yusupov |
| 80 | DF | RUS | Yegor Zlygostev |
| 84 | DF | RUS | Evgeniy Ivanov |
| 87 | MF | RUS | Rustam Nisafutdinov |
| 91 | FW | RUS | Nikita Durandin |
| 95 | FW | RUS | Aleksandr Babushkin |
| 96 | GK | RUS | Andrei Timofeyev |
| 99 | GK | RUS | Aleksei Mamin |

## Transfers
### Summer

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 4 | DF | BLR | Alyaksandr Martynovich (on loan from Krasnodar) |
| 5 | DF | RUS | Ivan Knyazev (from Torpedo Moscow) |
| 15 | MF | UKR | Denys Kulakov (from Metalist Kharkiv) |
| 18 | FW | RUS | Nikita Burmistrov (on loan from Krasnodar) |
| 19 | FW | RUS | Valeri Kuznetsov (from Amkar Perm) |
| 20 | DF | RUS | Roman Mironov |
| 25 | MF | RUS | Igor Lambarschi (end of loan to Tyumen) |
| 27 | DF | RUS | Mikhail Merkulov (from MITOS Novocherkassk) |
| 30 | GK | BLR | Yuri Zhevnov (from Torpedo Moscow) |
| 32 | MF | RUS | Andrei Gorbanets (end of loan to Tom Tomsk) |
| 53 | MF | RUS | Sergei Podoksyonov |
| 77 | MF | UKR | Dmytro Bilonoh (from Shakhtar-3 Donetsk) |
| 58 | FW | RUS | Bogdan Mishukov |
| 98 | FW | SWE | Carlos Strandberg (on loan from CSKA Moscow) |
| 99 | GK | RUS | Aleksei Mamin |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 8 | MF | RUS | Ivan Chudin (to Tyumen) |
| 27 | DF | RUS | Mikhail Merkulov (on loan to Baikal Irkutsk) |
| 28 | GK | RUS | Nikolai Zabolotny |
| 30 | MF | RUS | Nikita Tikhonov |
| 33 | GK | RUS | Igor Kot (to Arsenal Tula) |
| 38 | MF | RUS | Nikita Mamonov |
| 39 | DF | RUS | Ignat Sabirzyanov (to Nosta Novotroitsk) |
| 43 | MF | RUS | Pavel Repin |
| 44 | GK | RUS | Ivan Klyuyev |
| 45 | FW | RUS | Aleksandr Sobolev |
| 50 | DF | RUS | Nikolay Markov (end of loan from FC Krasnodar) |
| 55 | MF | RUS | Anatoli Sedov |
| 63 | DF | RUS | Aleksandr Belozyorov |
| 69 | DF | RUS | Aleksei Nelyubin |
| 71 | FW | AZE | Elbeyi Guliyev (on loan to Zhetysu) |
| 81 | FW | RUS | Semyon Voronov |
| 82 | MF | RUS | Vladimir Lisov |
| 88 | DF | RUS | Aleksei Gerasimov (on loan to Zhetysu) |
| 93 | MF | RUS | Semyon Pomogayev |
| 94 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Kashkarov |
| 90 | FW | RUS | Fyodor Smolov (end of loan from Dynamo Moscow) |
| — | DF | RUS | Adessoye Oyewole (to Gazovik Orenburg, previously on loan) |
| — | DF | RUS | Denis Tumasyan (to Ufa, previously on loan) |
| — | MF | RUS | Andrei Bochkov (contract expired, previously on loan at Tosno) |
| — | MF | RUS | Ivan Melnik (released, previously on loan to Khimik Dzerzhinsk) |
| — | FW | RUS | Arsen Goshokov (to KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny, previously on loan to Spartak Nalchik) |
| — | FW | RUS | Georgi Nurov (on loan to Tom Tomsk, previously on loan at Baltika Kaliningrad) |

### Winter

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 22 | DF | RUS | Kirill Kochnev |
| 28 | GK | RUS | Nikolai Zabolotny (not registered with the league previously) |
| 31 | MF | RUS | Vladislav Blinov |
| 33 | DF | RUS | Mikhail Merkulov (end of loan to Baikal Irkutsk) |
| 40 | DF | RUS | Maksim Gorin |
| 38 | FW | RUS | Aleksei Gontsa |
| 54 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Ryazantsev (on loan from Zenit St. Petersburg) |
| 55 | DF | RUS | Pavel Vlasenko |
| 71 | FW | AZE | Elbeyi Guliyev (end of loan to Zhetysu) |
| 73 | FW | RUS | Konstantin Reshetnikov |
| 88 | MF | RUS | Dmitri Korobov (from Fakel Voronezh) |
| — | DF | SRB | Dominik Dinga (from Vojvodina) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 5 | DF | RUS | Ivan Knyazev (to Riga) |
| 14 | MF | RUS | Vyacheslav Podberyozkin (to Krasnodar) |
| 24 | DF | RUS | Denis Fomin (on loan to Tekstilshchik Ivanovo) |
| 25 | MF | RUS | Igor Lambarschi (to Volga-Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod) |
| 32 | MF | RUS | Andrei Gorbanets (to Arsenal Tula) |
| 89 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Yerokhin (to Rostov) |
| 98 | FW | SWE | Carlos Strandberg (end of loan from CSKA Moscow) |
| — | DF | RUS | Aleksei Gerasimov (to Volga-Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod, previously on loan to Zhetysu) |

## Competitions
### Russian Premier League
#### Results by round

* Round
* Ground
* Result
* Position

#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 6 | Lokomotiv Moscow | 30 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 43 | 33 | +10 | 50 |
| 7 | Terek Grozny | 30 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 35 | 30 | +5 | 44 |
| 8 | Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast | 30 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 39 | 46 | −7 | 39 |
| 9 | Krylia Sovetov Samara | 30 | 9 | 8 | 13 | 19 | 31 | −12 | 35 |
| 10 | Rubin Kazan | 30 | 9 | 6 | 15 | 33 | 39 | −6 | 33 |

### Russian Cup
## Squad statistics

    As of Match played 21 May 2016

### Appearances and goals

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Premier League | Premier League | Russian Cup | Russian Cup |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 2 | DF | RUS | Vladimir Khozin | 15 | 0 | 9+5 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | FW | ZAM | Chisamba Lungu | 18 | 1 | 15+3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | BLR | Alyaksandr Martynovich | 25 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | DF | RUS | Aleksandr Dantsev | 25 | 0 | 22+1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | UKR | Kostyantyn Yaroshenko | 11 | 0 | 3+6 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | RUS | Spartak Gogniyev | 18 | 9 | 13+4 | 8 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | FW | ARM | Edgar Manucharyan | 23 | 6 | 13+9 | 6 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Stavpets | 19 | 0 | 5+14 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | DF | RUS | Aleksandr Novikov | 8 | 0 | 6+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | MF | UKR | Denys Kulakov | 27 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 18 | FW | RUS | Nikita Burmistrov | 14 | 0 | 6+6 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | CHI | Gerson Acevedo | 23 | 6 | 20+2 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| 25 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Stavpets | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 1 |
| 28 | GK | RUS | Nikolai Zabolotny | 10 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | DF | ARG | Pablo Fontanello | 29 | 3 | 27 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| 30 | GK | BLR | Yuri Zhevnov | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 | FW | RUS | Denis Dorozhkin | 10 | 1 | 3+6 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 35 | GK | RUS | Dmitri Arapov | 11 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 41 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Sapeta | 31 | 7 | 27+2 | 7 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 54 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Ryazantsev | 11 | 0 | 6+5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 57 | MF | RUS | Artyom Fidler | 22 | 0 | 19+2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 62 | MF | RUS | Rezo Gavtadze | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 71 | FW | AZE | Elbeyi Guliyev | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 75 | MF | RUS | Sergei Serchenkov | 4 | 0 | 1+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 77 | MF | UKR | Dmytro Bilonoh | 3 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 88 | MF | RUS | Dmitri Korobov | 11 | 0 | 9+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 90 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Scherbakov | 4 | 0 | 1+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 92 | MF | RUS | Roman Yemelyanov | 25 | 0 | 21+3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Players away from the club on loan: ||||||||||
| Players who appeared for Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast no longer at the club: ||||||||||
| 14 | MF | RUS | Vyacheslav Podberyozkin | 14 | 3 | 10+3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 89 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Yerokhin | 14 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 98 | FW | SWE | Carlos Strandberg | 3 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |

### Goal scorers

| Place | Position | Number | Name | Russian Premier League | Russian Cup | Total |
| 1 | FW | 9 | Spartak Gogniyev | 8 | 1 | 9 |
| 2 | MF | 41 | Aleksandr Sapeta | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 3 | MF | 21 | Gerson Acevedo | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 3 | FW | 10 | Edgar Manucharyan | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 5 | MF | 89 | Aleksandr Yerokhin | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 6 | DF | 29 | Pablo Fontanello | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | MF | 14 | Vyacheslav Podberyozkin | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | FW | 3 | Chisamba Lungu | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | FW | 34 | Denis Dorozhkin | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | MF | 25 | Aleksandr Stavpets | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | | | Own goal | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| | | | TOTALS | 39 | 3 | 42 |

### Disciplinary record

| Number | Position | Name | Russian Premier League | Russian Premier League | Russian Cup | Russian Cup | Total | Total |
| 2 | DF | Vladimir Khozin | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 3 | FW | Chisamba Lungu | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | Alyaksandr Martynovich | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 7 | DF | Aleksandr Dantsev | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | Kostyantyn Yaroshenko | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | Aleksandr Stavpets | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 12 | MF | Aleksandr Novikov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | Vyacheslav Podberyozkin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | MF | Denys Kulakov | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | Gerson Acevedo | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| 29 | DF | Pablo Fontanello | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 34 | FW | Denis Dorozhkin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 41 | MF | Aleksandr Sapeta | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| 57 | MF | Artyom Fidler | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| 89 | MF | Aleksandr Yerokhin | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 92 | MF | Roman Yemelyanov | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| | | TOTALS | 44 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 47 | 1 |