# 2015–16 FC Zenit Saint Petersburg season

The 2015–16 Zenit Saint Petersburg season was the 91st season in the club's history and its 20th consecutive season in the Russian Premier League. The club also participated in the Russian Cup and the UEFA Champions League.

## Squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | RUS | Yuri Lodygin |
| 2 | DF | RUS | Aleksandr Anyukov |
| 4 | DF | ITA | Domenico Criscito |
| 6 | DF | BEL | Nicolas Lombaerts |
| 7 | FW | BRA | Hulk |
| 8 | MF | BRA | Maurício |
| 9 | FW | RUS | Aleksandr Kokorin |
| 10 | MF | POR | Danny (captain) |
| 13 | DF | POR | Luís Neto |
| 14 | MF | RUS | Artur Yusupov |
| 16 | GK | RUS | Vyacheslav Malafeev |
| 17 | MF | RUS | Oleg Shatov |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 19 | DF | RUS | Igor Smolnikov |
| 20 | MF | RUS | Viktor Fayzulin |
| 21 | MF | ESP | Javi García |
| 22 | FW | RUS | Artyom Dzyuba |
| 23 | DF | RUS | Yevgeni Chernov |
| 24 | DF | ARG | Ezequiel Garay |
| 26 | DF | SRB | Vukašin Jovanović |
| 28 | MF | BEL | Axel Witsel |
| 41 | GK | RUS | Mikhail Kerzhakov |
| 81 | MF | RUS | Yuri Zhirkov |
| 90 | FW | RUS | Ramil Sheydayev |
| 94 | MF | RUS | Aleksey Yevseyev |

### 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 |
| 3 | DF | ARG | Cristian Ansaldi (at Genoa) |
| 5 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Ryazantsev (at Ural) |
| 8 | MF | RUS | Pavel Mogilevets (at Rostov) |
| 11 | FW | RUS | Aleksandr Kerzhakov (at Zürich) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 48 | FW | RUS | Aleksei Gasilin (at Schalke 04) |
| 77 | FW | MNE | Luka Đorđević (at Ponferradina) |
| 78 | DF | RUS | Dmitri Chistyakov (at Mika) |

### Reserve squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 18 | MF | RUS | Konstantin Zyryanov |
| 43 | FW | RUS | Pavel Nazimov |
| 50 | DF | RUS | Maksim Karpov |
| 52 | DF | RUS | Andrei Ivanov |
| 55 | DF | RUS | Konstantin Lobov |
| 58 | DF | RUS | Ilya Zuev |
| 60 | MF | RUS | Maksim Palienko |
| 62 | DF | RUS | Stepan Rebenko |
| 65 | MF | RUS | Danila Yashchuk |
| 68 | MF | RUS | Vyacheslav Zinkov |
| 70 | FW | RUS | Dmitri Bogayev |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 71 | GK | RUS | Egor Barubin |
| 74 | MF | RUS | Sergei Ivanov |
| 75 | DF | RUS | Andrei Vasilyev |
| 76 | FW | RUS | Pavel Kireyenko |
| 79 | MF | RUS | Konstantin Troyanov |
| 80 | GK | RUS | Mikhail Mzhelsky |
| 83 | GK | RUS | Igor Obukhov |
| 87 | DF | RUS | Artyom Vyatkin |
| 88 | MF | RUS | Artyom Popov |
| 92 | FW | RUS | Pavel Dolgov |
| 95 | GK | RUS | Aleksandr Vasyutin |

## Transfers
### Summer

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 14 | MF | RUS | Artur Yusupov (from Dynamo Moscow) |
| 22 | FW | RUS | Artyom Dzyuba (from Spartak Moscow) |
| 31 | MF | RUS | Denis Tkachuk (from Krylia Sovetov Samara) |
| 41 | GK | RUS | Mikhail Kerzhakov (from Anzhi Makhachkala) |
| 42 | MF | RUS | Konstantin Kotov |
| 46 | MF | RUS | Vitali Gorulyov |
| 49 | MF | RUS | Dmitri Pletnyov |
| 56 | DF | RUS | Danil Krugovoy |
| 59 | DF | RUS | Sergei Bugriyev |
| 60 | MF | RUS | Maksim Paliyenko (from Krylia Sovetov Samara) |
| 61 | MF | RUS | Dmitri Kirillov |
| 69 | DF | RUS | Vladislav Nikitin (April 2015) |
| 72 | DF | RUS | Stanislav Mareyev (from LFK Lokomotiv Moscow) |
| 75 | DF | RUS | Andrei Vasilyev (from Rostov) |
| 82 | MF | RUS | Igor Drykov (free agent, until April 2015 at CSKA Moscow) |
| 84 | DF | RUS | Feliks Shalimov |
| 85 | GK | RUS | Yaroslav Burychenkov (own academy, April 2015) |
| 86 | GK | RUS | Sergei Lazarev (own academy, April 2015) |
| 89 | FW | RUS | Yevgeni Markov (end of loan at Yenisey Krasnoyarsk) |
| 91 | FW | RUS | Yegor Denisov |
| 93 | GK | RUS | Mikhail Kizeyev |
| 98 | FW | RUS | Yevgeni Reutov |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 3 | DF | ARG | Cristian Ansaldi (on loan to Genoa, previously on loan to Atlético Madrid) |
| 8 | MF | RUS | Pavel Mogilevets (on loan to FC Rostov) |
| 10 | MF | RUS | Andrei Arshavin (to Kuban Krasnodar) |
| 23 | FW | VEN | Salomón Rondón (to West Bromwich Albion) |
| 33 | DF | SRB | Milan Rodić (to Krylia Sovetov Samara) |
| 34 | FW | RUS | Maximilian Pronichev (on loan to Schalke 04) |
| 39 | DF | RUS | Dmitri Skopintsev (to RB Leipzig) |
| 40 | DF | RUS | Pavel Barbashov |
| 41 | DF | RUS | Andrei Yakovlev (to Baumit Jablonec) |
| 42 | DF | RUS | Danila Davidenko |
| 44 | MF | UKR | Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (to Kairat Almaty) |
| 46 | MF | RUS | Zakhar Dilanyan (to Ulisses Yerevan) |
| 48 | FW | RUS | Aleksei Gasilin (on loan to Schalke 04) |
| 56 | DF | RUS | Kirill Kostin |
| 57 | DF | RUS | Dzhamaldin Khodzhaniyazov (to AGF Aarhus) |
| 59 | MF | RUS | Aleksei Yegorov |
| 60 | MF | RUS | Yevgeni Serenkov |
| 61 | GK | RUS | Anton Tsvetkov (to Dynamo Saint Petersburg) |
| 72 | DF | RUS | Stepan Zhalobkov |
| 77 | FW | MNE | Luka Đorđević (on loan to Ponferradina, previously on loan at Sampdoria) |
| 78 | DF | RUS | Dmitri Chistyakov (on loan to Mika) |
| 82 | FW | RUS | Aleksei Makarov |
| 83 | GK | RUS | Igor Obukhov (to FC Zenit-2 St. Petersburg) |
| 84 | DF | RUS | Mikhail Kovalenko (to Dynamo Saint Petersburg) |
| 90 | FW | RUS | Ramil Sheydayev (on loan to Rubin Kazan) |
| 98 | FW | RUS | Yevgeni Kozlov (to Dynamo Saint Petersburg) |
| 97 | MF | RUS | Dmitri Khodakovsky |
| — | DF | RUS | Yevgeni Alfyorov (released, previously on loan to Arsenal Tula) |
| — | DF | RUS | Denis Terentyev (to FC Rostov, previously on loan at Tom Tomsk) |
| — | MF | RUS | Aleksei Kayukov (to Dynamo Saint Petersburg, previously on loan to Tom-2 Tomsk) |

### Winter

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 8 | MF | BRA | Maurício (from Terek Grozny) |
| 9 | FW | RUS | Aleksandr Kokorin (from Dynamo Moscow) |
| 23 | DF | RUS | Yevgeni Chernov (from Tom Tomsk) |
| 26 | DF | SRB | Vukašin Jovanović (from Red Star Belgrade) |
| 30 | MF | RUS | Nikita Salamatov (from Vityaz Podolsk) |
| 31 | GK | RUS | Mikhail Ponomarenko |
| 35 | DF | RUS | David Mildzikhov (from Baikal Irkutsk) |
| 38 | MF | RUS | Leon Musayev |
| 40 | MF | RUS | Yuri Bavin (from Leiria) |
| 53 | DF | RUS | Mikhail Slashchyov |
| 81 | MF | RUS | Yuri Zhirkov (from Dynamo Moscow) |
| 82 | MF | RUS | Ilya Ivanov |
| 90 | FW | RUS | Ramil Sheydayev (end of loan to Rubin Kazan) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 5 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Ryazantsev (on loan to Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast) |
| 11 | FW | RUS | Aleksandr Kerzhakov (on loan to FC Zürich) |
| 31 | MF | RUS | Denis Tkachuk (to Rubin Kazan) |
| 53 | DF | RUS | Ivan Ivanidi |
| 81 | GK | RUS | Andrei Strozhevskiy |
| 82 | MF | RUS | Igor Drykov |
| 89 | FW | RUS | Yevgeni Markov (to Tosno) |

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

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
| Ground | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H |
| Result | W | W | W | W | L | W | L | D | D | D | W | D | W | D | L | W | L | D | D | W | W | W | W | W | L | W | W | W | D | W |
| Position | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |

#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | CSKA Moscow (C) | 30 | 20 | 5 | 5 | 51 | 25 | +26 | 65 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 2 | Rostov | 30 | 19 | 6 | 5 | 41 | 20 | +21 | 63 | Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round |
| 3 | Zenit Saint Petersburg | 30 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 61 | 32 | +29 | 59 | Qualification for the Europa League group stage |
| 4 | Krasnodar | 30 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 54 | 25 | +29 | 56 | Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round |
| 5 | Spartak Moscow | 30 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 48 | 39 | +9 | 50 | Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round |
* ↑ Zenit Saint Petersburg qualified for the Europa League group stage by winning the 2015–16 Russian Cup.

### Champions League
#### Group stage

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ZEN | GNT | VAL | LYO |
| 1 | Zenit Saint Petersburg | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 6 | +7 | 15 | Advance to knockout phase | — | 2–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 |
| 2 | Gent | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | +1 | 10 | Advance to knockout phase | 2–1 | — | 1–0 | 1–1 |
| 3 | Valencia | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 9 | −4 | 6 | Transfer to Europa League | 2–3 | 2–1 | — | 0–2 |
| 4 | Lyon | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 9 | −4 | 4 | | 0–2 | 1–2 | 0–1 | — |

#### Knockout phase
##### Round of 16
## Squad statistics

    As of match played 28 April 2016

### Appearances and goals

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Premier League | Premier League | Super Cup | Super Cup | Russian Cup | Russian Cup | Champions League | Champions League |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | RUS | Yuri Lodygin | 37 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | RUS | Aleksandr Anyukov | 25 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | ITA | Domenico Criscito | 34 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | BEL | Nicolas Lombaerts | 29 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 7 | FW | BRA | Hulk | 38 | 21 | 27 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 4 |
| 8 | MF | BRA | Maurício | 14 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 1 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | RUS | Aleksandr Kokorin | 13 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | POR | Danny | 33 | 7 | 18+5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 1 |
| 13 | DF | POR | Luís Neto | 34 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4+3 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | RUS | Artur Yusupov | 33 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1+5 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | RUS | Oleg Shatov | 37 | 10 | 27 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 5+2 | 2 |
| 19 | DF | RUS | Igor Smolnikov | 34 | 4 | 26 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1+1 | 0 | 3+2 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | RUS | Viktor Faizulin | 7 | 0 | 1+4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | ESP | Javi García | 37 | 4 | 26 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 22 | FW | RUS | Artyom Dzyuba | 43 | 23 | 30 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 2+2 | 2 | 8 | 6 |
| 24 | DF | ARG | Ezequiel Garay | 28 | 2 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 28 | MF | BEL | Axel Witsel | 40 | 6 | 29 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
| 41 | GK | RUS | Mikhail Kerzhakov | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 68 | MF | RUS | Vyacheslav Zinkov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 70 | FW | RUS | Dmitri Bogaev | 3 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 79 | MF | RUS | Konstantin Troyanov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 81 | MF | RUS | Yuri Zhirkov | 12 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 92 | FW | RUS | Pavel Dolgov | 9 | 0 | 0+6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 94 | MF | RUS | Aleksei Yevseyev | 7 | 0 | 0+5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| Players away from the club on loan: ||||||||||||||
| 3 | DF | ARG | Cristian Ansaldi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Ryazantsev | 19 | 1 | 1+10 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1+4 | 0 |
| Players who appeared for Zenit but left during the season: ||||||||||||||
| 23 | FW | VEN | Salomón Rondón | 2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | MF | RUS | Denis Tkachuk | 9 | 3 | 0+7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+2 | 3 | 0 | 0 |

### Goal Scorers

| Place | Position | Number | Name | Russian Premier League | Super Cup | Russian Cup | Champions League | Total |
| 1 | FW | 22 | Artyom Dzyuba | 13 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 21 |
| 2 | FW | 7 | Hulk | 14 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 18 |
| 3 | MF | 17 | Oleg Shatov | 8 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10 |
| 4 | MF | 10 | Danny | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| 5 | MF | 28 | Axel Witsel | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 6 | DF | 19 | Igor Smolnikov | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 7 | MF | 21 | Javi García | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | MF | 31 | Denis Tkachuk | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | DF | 24 | Ezequiel Garay | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | MF | 8 | Maurício | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | FW | 9 | Aleksandr Kokorin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | MF | 5 | Aleksandr Ryazantsev | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| | | | TOTALS | 52 | 1 | 10 | 14 | 77 |

### Disciplinary record

| Number | Position | Name | Russian Premier League | Russian Premier League | Super Cup | Super Cup | Russian Cup | Russian Cup | Champions League | Champions League | Total | Total |
| 1 | GK | Yuri Lodygin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | Aleksandr Anyukov | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | DF | Domenico Criscito | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 1 |
| 6 | DF | Nicolas Lombaerts | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 7 | FW | Hulk | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | Kokorin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | Danny | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 13 | DF | Luís Neto | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | Artur Yusupov | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | Oleg Shatov | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 19 | DF | Igor Smolnikov | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | Javi García | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| 22 | FW | Artyom Dzyuba | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 23 | FW | Salomón Rondón | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 24 | DF | Ezequiel Garay | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 28 | MF | Axel Witsel | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 81 | MF | Yuri Zhirkov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 94 | MF | Aleksei Yevseyev | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| | | TOTALS | 46 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 25 | 2 | 85 | 3 |