# 2017–18 FC Ural Yekaterinburg season

The 2017–18 Ural season was the club's fifth successive season that the club played in the Russian Premier League, the highest tier of association football in Russia. Ural finished the season in twelfth place and were knocked out of the Russian Cup at the Round of 32 stage by Shinnik Yaroslavl.

## Squad

    As of 22 February 2018
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 2 | DF | RUS | Vladimir Khozin |
| 3 | DF | ARM | Varazdat Haroyan |
| 4 | DF | SVN | Gregor Balažic |
| 5 | DF | SRB | Dominik Dinga |
| 6 | MF | ROU | Eric Bicfalvi |
| 7 | DF | RUS | Aleksandr Dantsev |
| 9 | MF | GEO | Giorgi Chanturia |
| 13 | MF | CMR | Petrus Boumal |
| 14 | MF | RUS | Yuri Bavin |
| 15 | DF | UKR | Denys Kulakov |
| 16 | MF | RUS | Rezo Gavtadze |
| 17 | MF | BUL | Nikolay Dimitrov |
| 18 | FW | RUS | Vladimir Ilyin |
| 21 | MF | UKR | Dmytro Khomchenovskyi |
| 27 | DF | RUS | Mikhail Merkulov |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 28 | DF | RUS | Nikita Chernov (on loan from CSKA Moscow) |
| 31 | GK | UKR | Yaroslav Hodzyur |
| 32 | MF | RUS | Nikita Glushkov |
| 44 | MF | RUS | Andrei Yegorychev |
| 57 | MF | RUS | Artyom Fidler (captain) |
| 58 | MF | NED | Othman El Kabir |
| 63 | DF | RUS | Aleksei Gerasimov |
| 66 | DF | RUS | Mingiyan Beveyev |
| 77 | GK | RUS | Oleg Baklov |
| 78 | MF | RUS | Semyon Pomogayev |
| 88 | FW | RUS | Igor Portnyagin (on loan from Lokomotiv Moscow) |
| 92 | MF | RUS | Roman Yemelyanov |
| 94 | MF | RUS | Alexey Yevseyev |
| 99 | FW | ARM | Edgar Manucharyan |

### Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | GK | RUS | Dmitri Arapov (on loan to Volgar Astrakhan) |
| — | GK | RUS | Andrei Timofeyev (on loan to Syzran-2003) |
| — | DF | RUS | Denis Fomin (on loan to Tekstilshchik Ivanovo) |
| — | DF | SRB | Radovan Pankov (on loan to AEK Larnaca) |
| — | MF | RUS | Dmitri Korobov (on loan to Avangard Kursk) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Lomakin (on loan to Yenisey Krasnoyarsk) |
| — | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Scherbakov (on loan to Alashkert) |
| — | MF | RUS | Sergei Serchenkov (on loan to Alashkert) |
| — | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Stavpets (on loan to Tyumen) |
| — | FW | RUS | Artyom Yusupov (on loan to Tyumen) |

### Youth team

As per Russian Football Premier League.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 22 | DF | RUS | Kirill Kochnev |
| 24 | GK | RUS | Yevgeni Zharikov |
| 29 | FW | RUS | Elbeyi Guliyev |
| 30 | MF | RUS | Pavel Karpov |
| 33 | MF | RUS | Pavel Kirillov |
| 34 | MF | RUS | Yan Chizhkov |
| 35 | FW | RUS | Yevgeni Tatarinov |
| 36 | DF | RUS | Aleksei Fakhrutdinov |
| 39 | MF | RUS | Savva Knyazev |
| 40 | DF | RUS | Maksim Gorin |
| 41 | FW | RUS | Vladislav Pavlyuchenko |
| 42 | FW | RUS | Nikita Belous |
| 43 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Golubtsov |
| 46 | MF | RUS | Vyacheslav Berdnikov |
| 47 | FW | RUS | Konstantin Reshetnikov |
| 53 | DF | RUS | Pavel Nedivomy |
| 54 | MF | RUS | Nikita Muromsky |
| 55 | GK | RUS | Aleksandr Medvedev |
| 60 | GK | RUS | Vladislav Poletayev |
| 61 | MF | RUS | Dmitry Makovsky |
| 62 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Bunakov |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 64 | MF | RUS | Pavel Kobzev |
| 65 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Galimov |
| 69 | MF | RUS | Andrey Sheptiy |
| 71 | GK | RUS | Aleksei Mamin |
| 72 | MF | RUS | Lev Tolkachyov |
| 73 | MF | RUS | Ilya Korelin |
| 74 | MF | RUS | Denis Novikov |
| 76 | DF | RUS | Yegor Badyin |
| 81 | MF | RUS | Ilya Nekrasov |
| 83 | DF | RUS | Gleb Geykin |
| 84 | DF | RUS | Nikita Beskrovny |
| 85 | MF | RUS | Danil Davletshin |
| 86 | MF | RUS | Maksim Prokopyev |
| 87 | MF | RUS | Eduard Valiakhmetov |
| 91 | GK | RUS | Aleksandr Shubin |
| 93 | DF | RUS | Denis Drozhalkin |
| 95 | MF | RUS | Andrei Tushkov |
| 96 | FW | RUS | Nikolai Sidorkin |

## Transfers
### Summer

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 3 | DF | ARM | Varazdat Haroyan (from Padideh) |
| 13 | MF | CMR | Petrus Boumal (from CSKA Sofia) |
| 14 | MF | RUS | Yuri Bavin (from Zenit Saint Petersburg) |
| 20 | MF | RUS | Maksim Grigoryev (from Rostov) |
| 28 | DF | RUS | Nikita Chernov (on loan from CSKA Moscow) |
| 31 | GK | UKR | Yaroslav Hodzyur (from Akhmat Grozny) |
| 39 | MF | RUS | Savva Knyazev |
| 41 | FW | RUS | Vladislav Pavlyuchenko (from Progress Timashyovsk) |
| 42 | FW | RUS | Nikita Belous (from Urozhay Yelan) |
| 58 | DF | RUS | Adessoye Oyewole (from Orenburg) |
| 58 | MF | UKR | Dmytro Bilonoh (end of loan to Zirka Kropyvnytskyi) |
| 61 | MF | RUS | Dmitry Makovsky |
| 64 | MF | RUS | Pavel Kobzev (from Urozhay Yelan) |
| 65 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Galimov |
| 67 | MF | RUS | Nikita Arsenyev (from Orenburg) |
| 74 | DF | RUS | Aleksandr Kashkarov |
| 78 | MF | RUS | Semyon Pomogayev (from Baltika Kaliningrad) |
| 81 | DF | RUS | Ilya Nekrasov |
| 88 | FW | RUS | Igor Portnyagin (on loan from Lokomotiv Moscow) |
| 94 | MF | RUS | Alexey Yevseyev (from Zenit Saint Petersburg) |
| 95 | MF | RUS | Andrei Tushkov |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 3 | DF | GEO | Jemal Tabidze (end of loan from Gent) |
| 9 | FW | RUS | Roman Pavlyuchenko (to Ararat Moscow) |
| 10 | MF | ZAM | Chisamba Lungu (to Alanyaspor) |
| 12 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Novikov (to Yenisey Krasnoyarsk) |
| 13 | DF | SRB | Radovan Pankov (on loan to AEK Larnaca) |
| 14 | FW | CIV | Jean-Jacques Bougouhi (to HJK) |
| 25 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Stavpets (on loan to Tyumen) |
| 28 | GK | RUS | Nikolai Zabolotny |
| 33 | MF | RUS | Vartan Karkaryan |
| 41 | DF | RUS | Aleksei Gerasimov (on loan to Tom Tomsk) |
| 51 | DF | RUS | Roman Shalin |
| 58 | FW | RUS | Bogdan Mishukov (to Leixões) |
| 65 | MF | RUS | Dmitri Khlyoskin |
| 74 | DF | RUS | Danil Chernov (to Titan Klin) |
| 77 | MF | RUS | Dmitri Korobov (on loan to Avangard Kursk) |
| 79 | FW | RUS | Artyom Yusupov (on loan to Tyumen) |
| 80 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Lomakin (on loan to Yenisey Krasnoyarsk) |
| 82 | MF | RUS | Sergei Podoksyonov (on loan to Zenit Penza) |
| 85 | MF | RUS | Sergei Serchenkov (on loan to Orenburg) |
| 87 | MF | RUS | Rustam Nisafutdinov (to Ural-2 Yekaterinburg) |
| 93 | FW | RUS | Lev Popov |
| — | DF | RUS | Ivan Chudin (to Tyumen, previously on loan) |

### Winter

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 21 | MF | UKR | Dmytro Khomchenovskyi (from Jagiellonia Białystok) |
| 30 | MF | RUS | Pavel Karpov |
| 44 | MF | RUS | Andrei Yegorychev (from Nosta Novotroitsk) |
| 53 | DF | RUS | Pavel Nedivomy |
| 55 | GK | RUS | Aleksandr Medvedev |
| 58 | MF | NED | Othman El Kabir (from Djurgården) |
| 63 | MF | RUS | Aleksei Gerasimov (end of loan to Tom Tomsk) |
| 66 | MF | RUS | Mingiyan Beveyev (from Nosta Novotroitsk) |
| 72 | MF | RUS | Lev Tolkachyov |
| 74 | MF | RUS | Denis Novikov |
| 76 | DF | RUS | Yegor Badyin |
| 83 | DF | RUS | Gleb Geykin |
| 84 | DF | RUS | Nikita Beskrovny |
| 85 | MF | RUS | Danil Davletshin |
| 86 | MF | RUS | Maksim Prokopyev |
| 96 | FW | RUS | Nikolai Sidorkin |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | RUS | Dmitri Arapov (on loan to Volgar Astrakhan) |
| 8 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Pavlenko (to Tom Tomsk) |
| 21 | DF | RUS | Dmitri Borovkov (to Kvant Obninsk) |
| 30 | MF | RUS | Maksim Yashkin |
| 37 | DF | RUS | Kirill Karabanov |
| 38 | FW | RUS | Vladislav Blinov |
| 51 | MF | RUS | Volodya Israelyan |
| 55 | DF | RUS | Pavel Vlasenko |
| 58 | MF | UKR | Dmytro Bilonoh (to Zirka Kropyvnytskyi) |
| 74 | DF | RUS | Aleksandr Kashkarov |
| 82 | MF | RUS | Sergei Podoksyonov (released, previously on loan to Zenit Penza) |
| 90 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Scherbakov (on loan to Alashkert) |
| 96 | GK | RUS | Andrei Timofeyev (on loan to Syzran-2003) |
| — | MF | RUS | Sergei Serchenkov (on loan to Alashkert, previously on loan to Orenburg) |

## 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 | 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 | A | A | H | A |
| Result | D | W | D | D | D | D | D | L | D | W | W | L | W | W | D | D | L | L | L | D | L | L | W | D | D | W | W | D | L | L |
| Position | 7 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 12 |

#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 10 | Rubin Kazan | 30 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 32 | 25 | +7 | 38 | |
| 11 | Rostov | 30 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 27 | 28 | −1 | 37 | |
| 12 | Ural Yekaterinburg | 30 | 8 | 13 | 9 | 31 | 32 | −1 | 37 | |
| 13 | Amkar Perm (D) | 30 | 9 | 8 | 13 | 20 | 30 | −10 | 35 | Dissolved after the season |
| 14 | Anzhi Makhachkala | 30 | 6 | 6 | 18 | 31 | 55 | −24 | 24 | Qualification for the Relegation play-offs |
* 1 2 Head-to-head: Rostov 1–0 Ural, Ural 1–1 Rostov
* ↑ On 13 June 2018, FC Amkar Perm announced that the Russian Football Union recalled their 2018–19 season license, making them ineligible for the Russian Premier League or Russian Football National League. On 18 June 2018, club president Gennadi Shilov announced that the club will not register for the third-tier Russian Professional Football League and will be dissolved. As a consequence, Anzhi Makhachkala was not relegated.
* ↑ Head-to-head: Anzhi 2–0 Tosno, Tosno 2–2 Anzhi

### Russian Cup
## Squad statistics

    As of Match played 13 May 2018

### 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 |
| 3 | DF | ARM | Varazdat Haroyan | 20 | 1 | 19+1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | SVN | Gregor Balažic | 20 | 2 | 19+1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | SRB | Dominik Dinga | 5 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | ROU | Eric Bicfalvi | 26 | 8 | 26 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | DF | RUS | Aleksandr Dantsev | 12 | 0 | 8+3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | GEO | Giorgi Chanturia | 18 | 3 | 9+9 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | FW | RUS | Aleksandr Stavpets | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | MF | CMR | Petrus Boumal | 20 | 0 | 18+1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | RUS | Yuri Bavin | 18 | 0 | 13+4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | UKR | Denys Kulakov | 31 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | BUL | Nikolay Dimitrov | 25 | 2 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | FW | RUS | Vladimir Ilyin | 25 | 4 | 20+5 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | RUS | Maksim Grigoryev | 7 | 0 | 6+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | DF | RUS | Mikhail Merkulov | 26 | 0 | 22+3 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 28 | DF | RUS | Nikita Chernov | 14 | 0 | 12+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 31 | GK | UKR | Yaroslav Hodzyur | 30 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | MF | RUS | Nikita Glushkov | 9 | 0 | 2+6 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 35 | FW | RUS | Yevgeni Tatarinov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 44 | MF | RUS | Andrei Yegorychev | 5 | 0 | 2+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 57 | MF | RUS | Artyom Fidler | 22 | 0 | 14+8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 58 | MF | NED | Othman El Kabir | 10 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 79 | FW | RUS | Artyom Yusupov | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 88 | FW | RUS | Igor Portnyagin | 12 | 1 | 3+9 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 92 | MF | RUS | Roman Yemelyanov | 26 | 0 | 22+3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 94 | MF | RUS | Alexey Yevseyev | 21 | 4 | 12+8 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 99 | FW | ARM | Edgar Manucharyan | 6 | 0 | 1+5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Players away from the club on loan: ||||||||||
| 1 | GK | RUS | Dmitri Arapov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 90 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Scherbakov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Players who appeared for Ural Yekaterinburg no longer at the club: ||||||||||
| 8 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Pavlenko | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | ZAM | Chisamba Lungu | 5 | 0 | 3+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

### Goal scorers

| Place | Position | Number | Name | Premier League | Russian Cup | Total |
| 1 | MF | 6 | Eric Bicfalvi | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2 | MF | 94 | Alexey Yevseyev | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2 | FW | 18 | Vladimir Ilyin | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 4 | FW | 9 | Giorgi Chanturia | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 | MF | 58 | Othman El Kabir | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 | | | Own goal | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | MF | 17 | Nikolay Dimitrov | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | DF | 4 | Gregor Balažic | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | DF | 3 | Varazdat Haroyan | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | FW | 88 | Igor Portnyagin | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| | | | TOTALS | 31 | 0 | 31 |

### Disciplinary record

| Number | Position | Name | Premier League | Premier League | Russian Cup | Russian Cup | Total | Total |
| 3 | DF | Varazdat Haroyan | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | Gregor Balažic | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| 6 | MF | Eric Bicfalvi | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| 7 | DF | Aleksandr Dantsev | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | Giorgi Chanturia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 13 | MF | Petrus Boumal | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | Yuri Bavin | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | Denys Kulakov | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 18 | FW | Vladimir Ilyin | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 27 | DF | Mikhail Merkulov | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| 28 | DF | Nikita Chernov | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 31 | GK | Yaroslav Hodzyur | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 32 | MF | Nikita Glushkov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 44 | MF | Andrei Yegorychev | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 57 | MF | Artyom Fidler | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 58 | MF | Othman El Kabir | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 88 | FW | Igor Portnyagin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 92 | MF | Roman Yemelyanov | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 94 | MF | Alexey Yevseyev | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 99 | FW | Edgar Manucharyan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| | | TOTALS | 64 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 67 | 3 |