# 2017–18 FC Lokomotiv Moscow season

The 2017–18 FC Lokomotiv Moscow season was the club's 26th season in the Russian Premier League, the highest tier of the Russian football league system. Lokomotiv Moscow also took part in the Russian Cup and also the Europa League. Lokomotiv also contested the Russian Super Cup. Lokomotiv's farm club was relaunched as Kazanka and participated in the Russian Professional Football League, the third highest division in the Russian football league system.

## Main Events

* Ilya Herkus announced the foundation of Lokomotiv-Kazanka. Lokomotiv-Kazanka, which will act as Lokomotiv's farm club, will participate in the Russian Professional Football League, the third level of Russian football. Lokomotiv-Kazanka will be formed on the current youth team and will play their home matches at Sapsan Arena under the tutelage of Denis Klyuyev. Lokomotiv-Kazanka was officially launched as Kazanka on 5 July 2017.
* On 5 August 2017, Lokomotiv announced that the stadium has been renamed to RZD Arena.

## First Team Squad
### Information

Players and squad numbers last updated on 5 May 2018. Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Name | Position | Date of Birth (Age) | Signed from | Since |
| Goalkeepers |||||||
| 1 | Guilherme | GK | (1985-12-12) 12 December 1985 (age 39) | Atlético Paranaense | 2007 |
| 30 | Nikita Medvedev | GK | (1994-12-14) 14 December 1994 (age 30) | Rostov | 2017 |
| 41 | Miroslav Lobantsev | GK | (1995-05-27) 27 May 1995 (age 29) | Youth system | 2011 |
| 77 | Anton Kochenkov | GK | (1987-04-02) 2 April 1987 (age 37) | Mordovia Saransk | 2015 |
| Defenders |||||||
| 5 | Nemanja Pejčinović | DF | (1987-11-04) 4 November 1987 (age 37) | Nice | 2014 |
| 14 | Vedran Ćorluka (captain) | DF | (1986-02-05) 5 February 1986 (age 38) | Tottenham Hotspur | 2012 |
| 17 | Taras Mykhalyk | DF | (1983-10-28) 28 October 1983 (age 41) | Dynamo Kyiv | 2013 |
| 28 | Boris Rotenberg | DF | (1986-05-19) 19 May 1986 (age 38) | Dynamo Moscow | 2016 |
| 29 | Vitaliy Denisov | DF | (1987-02-23) 23 February 1987 (age 37) | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 2013 |
| 33 | Solomon Kvirkvelia | DF | (1992-02-06) 6 February 1992 (age 32) | Rubin Kazan | 2017 |
| Midfielders |||||||
| 4 | Manuel Fernandes | MF | (1986-02-05) 5 February 1986 (age 38) | Beşiktaş | 2014 |
| 8 | Jefferson Farfán | MF | (1984-10-26) 26 October 1984 (age 40) | Al Jazira | 2017 |
| 11 | Alan Kasaev | MF | (1986-04-08) 8 April 1986 (age 38) | Dynamo Moscow | 2014 |
| 18 | Aleksandr Kolomeytsev | MF | (1989-02-21) 21 February 1989 (age 35) | Amkar Perm | 2015 |
| 20 | Vladislav Ignatyev | MF | (1987-01-20) 20 January 1987 (age 37) | Kuban Krasnodar | 2016 |
| 21 | Amir Natkho | MF | (1996-07-09) 9 July 1996 (age 28) | Krasnodar | 2017 |
| 23 | Dmitri Tarasov | MF | (1987-03-18) 18 March 1987 (age 37) | FC Moscow | 2010 |
| 27 | Igor Denisov | MF | (1984-05-17) 17 May 1984 (age 40) | Dynamo Moscow | 2016 |
| 31 | Maciej Rybus | MF | (1989-08-19) 19 August 1989 (age 35) | Lyon | 2017 |
| 36 | Dmitri Barinov | MF | (1996-01-11) 11 January 1996 (age 28) | Youth system | 2013 |
| 59 | Aleksei Miranchuk | MF | (1995-10-17) 17 October 1995 (age 29) | Youth system | 2012 |
| 60 | Anton Miranchuk | MF | (1995-10-17) 17 October 1995 (age 29) | Youth system | 2012 |
| Forwards |||||||
| 9 | Ari | FW | (1985-12-11) 11 December 1985 (age 39) | Krasnodar | 2017 |
| 13 | Arshak Koryan | FW | (1995-06-17) 17 June 1995 (age 29) | Vitesse | 2017 |
| 24 | Eder | FW | (1987-12-22) 22 December 1987 (age 36) | Lille | 2017 |
| 57 | Artyom Galadzhan | FW | (1998-05-22) 22 May 1998 (age 26) | Youth system | 2014 |
| 84 | Mikhail Lysov | FW | (1998-01-29) 29 January 1998 (age 26) | Youth system | 2014 |
| Left mid-season |||||||
| 3 | Timofei Margasov | DF | (1992-06-12) 12 June 1992 (age 32) | Krylia Sovetov Samara | 2017 |

## Transfers
### Arrivals

Permanent transfer :
| Name | Nationality | Position | From | Fee | Date | Source |
| Nikita Medvedev | | GK | Rostov | Free transfer | 14 June 2017 | |
| Solomon Kvirkvelia | | DF | Rubin Kazan | Undisclosed (~ €2,500,000) | 30 June 2017 | |
| Igor Denisov | | MF | Dynamo Moscow | Free transfer | 1 July 2017 | |
| Arshak Koryan | | FW | Vitesse | Free transfer | 12 July 2017 | |
| Maciej Rybus | | MF | Lyon | Undisclosed (~ €1,750,000) | 19 July 2017 | |
| In on loan |||||||
| Name | Nationality | Position | From | Date | Until | Source |
| Ari | | FW | Krasnodar | 17 June 2017 | End of season | |
| Eder | | FW | Lille | 23 August 2017 | End of season | |

### Departures

Permanent Transfer :
| Name | Nationality | Position | To | Fee | Date | Source |
| Petar Škuletić | | FW | Gençlerbirliği S.K. | Free transfer | 13 May 2017 | |
| Dmitri Loskov | | MF | Retired | Retired | 13 May 2017 | |
| Ilya Abayev | | GK | Rostov | Free transfer | 31 May 2017 | |
| Renat Yanbayev | | DF | Krasnodar | Free transfer | 5 June 2017 | |
| Maicon | | FW | Antalyaspor | Free transfer | 16 June 2017 | |
| Roman Shishkin | | DF | Krasnodar | Free transfer | 3 July 2017 | |
| Delvin N'Dinga | | MF | Sivasspor | Undisclosed (~ €200,000) | 7 September 2017 | |
| Out on loan |||||||
| Name | Nationality | Position | Loan to | Date | Until | Source |
| Igor Portnyagin | | FW | Ural Yekaterinburg | 27 June 2017 | 15 June 2018 | |
| Timofei Margasov | | DF | Tosno | 22 January 2018 | 15 June 2018 | |

## Competitions
### Overview

| Competition | Started round | Final round | First match | Last match | G | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Super Cup | Final | Final | 14 July 2017 | 14 July 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0.0% |
| Premier League | Winners | Winners | 18 July 2017 | 12 May 2018 | 30 | 18 | 6 | 6 | 41 | 21 | +20 | 60.0% |
| Russian Cup | Round of 32 | Round of 32 | 21 September 2017 | 21 September 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 0.0% |
| Europa League | Group Stage | Round of 16 | 14 September 2017 | 15 March 2018 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 0 | 50.0% |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 42 | 23 | 8 | 11 | 58 | 40 | 18 | 54.8% |

### Russian Premier League
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Lokomotiv Moscow (C) | 30 | 18 | 6 | 6 | 41 | 21 | +20 | 60 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 2 | CSKA Moscow | 30 | 17 | 7 | 6 | 49 | 23 | +26 | 58 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 3 | Spartak Moscow | 30 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 51 | 32 | +19 | 56 | Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round |
| 4 | Krasnodar | 30 | 16 | 6 | 8 | 46 | 30 | +16 | 54 | Qualification for the Europa League group stage |
| 5 | Zenit Saint Petersburg | 30 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 46 | 21 | +25 | 53 | Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round |
* 1 2 Tosno qualified for the Europa League group stage by winning the 2017–18 Russian Cup. However, since they failed to obtain a UEFA licence, the spot awarded to the cup winners was passed to fourth-placed team, the spot awarded to the fourth-placed team was passed to fifth-placed team, and the spot awarded to the fifth-placed team was passed to sixth-placed team.

#### 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 | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | W | W | W | W | D | L | W | W | D | L | W | W | L | W | W | D | W | W | W | W | D | W | D | L | W | W | D | L | W | L |
| Position | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |

#### Matches
### Europa League

Lokomotiv have qualified directly for the group stage of the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League after winning the 2017 Russian Cup Final.

#### Group stage

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | LOM | KOB | SHE | ZLI |
| 1 | Lokomotiv Moscow | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 11 | Advance to knockout phase | — | 2–1 | 1–2 | 3–0 |
| 2 | Copenhagen | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 9 | Advance to knockout phase | 0–0 | — | 2–0 | 3–0 |
| 3 | Sheriff Tiraspol | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 9 | | 1–1 | 0–0 | — | 1–0 |
| 4 | Fastav Zlín | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 10 | −9 | 2 | | 0–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | — |
* 1 2 Head-to-head results: Sheriff Tiraspol 0–0 Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2–0 Sheriff Tiraspol.

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

    As of 5 May 2018
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Russian Premier League | Russian Premier League | Russian Cup | Russian Cup | Russian Super Cup | Russian Super Cup | Europa League | Europa League |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | RUS | Guilherme | 31 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 4 | MF | POR | Manuel Fernandes | 40 | 14 | 28 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 |
| 5 | DF | SRB | Nemanja Pejčinović | 35 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| 8 | FW | PER | Jefferson Farfán | 32 | 14 | 22 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 |
| 9 | FW | BRA | Ari | 10 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | RUS | Alan Kasaev | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | FW | RUS | Arshak Koryan | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | DF | CRO | Vedran Ćorluka | 8 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 17 | DF | UKR | Taras Mykhalyk | 12 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 18 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Kolomeytsev | 29 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 20 | DF | RUS | Vladislav Ignatyev | 34 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 23 | MF | RUS | Dmitri Tarasov | 33 | 2 | 23 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 24 | FW | POR | Eder | 27 | 4 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 27 | MF | RUS | Igor Denisov | 39 | 1 | 27 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 1 |
| 28 | DF | FIN | Boris Rotenberg | 9 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 29 | DF | UZB | Vitaliy Denisov | 10 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 30 | GK | RUS | Nikita Medvedev | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 31 | DF | POL | Maciej Rybus | 26 | 1 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| 33 | DF | GEO | Saba Kvirkvelia | 40 | 3 | 28 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| 36 | DF | RUS | Dmitri Barinov | 18 | 1 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 57 | FW | RUS | Artyom Galadzhan | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 59 | MF | RUS | Aleksei Miranchuk | 40 | 8 | 29 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 |
| 60 | MF | RUS | Anton Miranchuk | 40 | 5 | 28 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 1 |
| 77 | GK | RUS | Anton Kochenkov | 9 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 84 | DF | RUS | Mikhail Lysov | 18 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |

### Goals record

    As of 5 May 2018
| Rank | No. | Nat. | Po. | Name | Russian PL | Russian Cup | Europa League | Russian Super Cup | Total |
| 1 | 4 | | CM | Manuel Fernandes | 7 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 14 |
| 1 | 8 | | CF | Jefferson Farfán | 10 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 14 |
| 3 | 59 | | AM | Aleksei Miranchuk | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 4 | 60 | | AM | Anton Miranchuk | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 5 | 24 | | CF | Eder | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 6 | 33 | | CB | Saba Kvirkvelia | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | 23 | | CM | Dmitri Tarasov | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | 9 | | CF | Ari | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | 17 | | CB | Taras Mykhalyk | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | 18 | | AM | Aleksandr Kolomeytsev | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | 27 | | CM | Igor Denisov | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | 31 | | LB | Maciej Rybus | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | 36 | | CB | Dmitri Barinov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 41 | 2 | 14 | 1 | 58 |