# 2017–18 FC SKA-Khabarovsk season

The 2017–18 FC SKA-Khabarovsk season is the club's first season in the Russian Premier League, the highest tier of football in Russia. SKA-Khabarovsk will also take part in the Russian Cup, entering at the round of 32 stage.

## Season Events

On 20 December 2017, manager Aleksei Poddubskiy become the club's new Sporting Director, with Rinat Bilyaletdinov being appointed as the club's new manager on 12 January 2018. Bilyaletdinov himself resigned as manager on 31 March after taking just 1 point from 4 games. On 3 April 2018 Sergei Perednya was appointed as the club's new manager.

## Squad

    As of 22 February 2018
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 | Aleksandr Dovbnya |
| 2 | MF | RUS | Sergei Makarov |
| 3 | DF | RUS | Ismail Ediyev |
| 4 | DF | SRB | Nemanja Tubić |
| 5 | DF | RUS | Aleksandr Putsko (loan from Ufa) |
| 6 | MF | RUS | Pavel Karasyov (loan from Anzhi Makhachkala) |
| 7 | MF | ARG | Alejandro Barbaro |
| 8 | DF | NGA | Dele Adeleye |
| 9 | FW | ARM | Ruslan Koryan |
| 10 | MF | RUS | Vladislav Nikiforov |
| 11 | FW | SRB | Miroslav Marković |
| 13 | DF | RUS | Aleksandr Dimidko |
| 14 | MF | RUS | Dmitri Bogayev (loan from Zenit St.Petersburg) |
| 15 | MF | RUS | Yevgeni Balyaikin |
| 17 | MF | RUS | Dmitri Kabutov |
| 19 | MF | UKR | Vitaliy Fedotov |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 20 | FW | RUS | Maksim Kanunnikov |
| 21 | MF | RUS | Artyom Samsonov |
| 22 | FW | RUS | Kirill Kolesnichenko |
| 26 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Cherevko |
| 29 | GK | RUS | Vladislav Soromytko |
| 37 | DF | UKR | Dmytro Hryshko |
| 44 | FW | POL | Łukasz Sekulski |
| 50 | DF | RUS | Maksim Karpov (loan from Zenit St.Petersburg) |
| 55 | GK | RUS | Aleksandr Krivoruchko |
| 70 | MF | RUS | Georgi Makhatadze (loan from Rubin Kazan) |
| 74 | GK | RUS | Aleksandr Akishin |
| 77 | MF | RUS | Konstantin Savichev |
| 78 | MF | RUS | Nikolay Kalinsky |
| 87 | MF | TKM | Maksim Kazankov |
| 88 | DF | GEO | Giorgi Navalovski |
| 96 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Maksimenko |

## Transfers
### Summer

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 4 | DF | RUS | Maksim Tishkin (from Baltika Kaliningrad) |
| 5 | DF | RUS | Aleksandr Putsko (loan from Ufa) |
| 6 | MF | RUS | Pavel Karasyov (on loan from Anzhi Makhachkala) |
| 7 | MF | ARG | Alejandro Barbaro (from Apollon Limassol) |
| 8 | MF | RUS | Georgy Gabulov (from Orenburg) |
| 11 | FW | SRB | Miroslav Marković (from Bohemians 1905) |
| 15 | DF | RUS | Yevgeni Balyaikin (from Tom Tomsk) |
| 19 | MF | UKR | Vitaliy Fedotov (from Riga) |
| 37 | DF | UKR | Dmytro Hryshko (from Olimpik Donetsk) |
| 41 | GK | RUS | Vyacheslav Agafonov |
| 42 | DF | RUS | Kirill Arshansky |
| 43 | DF | RUS | Kirill Blokhin |
| 45 | MF | RUS | Artyom Bobrovsky |
| 46 | MF | RUS | Andrei Golovatyuk |
| 47 | DF | RUS | Artur Gulm |
| 48 | MF | RUS | Mikhail Degtyaryov |
| 49 | DF | RUS | Aleksei Kuchin |
| 51 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Lomachenko |
| 52 | DF | RUS | Denis Lyubimov |
| 54 | GK | RUS | Aleksandr Mitrofanov |
| 56 | MF | RUS | Yegor Golovashkin |
| 57 | MF | RUS | Nikita Zotov |
| 58 | DF | RUS | Stepan Safronov |
| 60 | DF | RUS | Ilya Kalinin |
| 61 | MF | RUS | Roman Slesarev (from Smena Komsomolsk-na-Amure) |
| 62 | MF | RUS | Igor Stepanenko |
| 63 | MF | RUS | Kirill Tsaryov |
| 65 | MF | RUS | Ilya Bryukhanov |
| 77 | MF | RUS | Konstantin Savichev (from Spartak Moscow) |
| 88 | DF | GEO | Giorgi Navalovski (from Neftchi Baku) |
| 91 | FW | BUL | Ventsislav Hristov (from Neftochimic Burgas) |
| 92 | MF | RUS | Dmitri Mungalov |
| 96 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Maksimenko |
| 97 | MF | RUS | Manvel Agaronyan (end of loan to Smena Komsomolsk-na-Amure) |
| — | FW | KGZ | Anton Zemlianukhin (from Sukhothai) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 2 | DF | RUS | Anton Kupchin |
| 4 | MF | RUS | Maksim Astafyev (end of loan from Mordovia Saransk) |
| 6 | MF | RUS | Pavel Karasyov (to Anzhi Makhachkala) |
| 11 | FW | RUS | Eduard Buliya (to Shinnik Yaroslavl) |
| 15 | DF | LTU | Tomas Mikuckis |
| 17 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Verulidze (to Fakel Voronezh) |
| 19 | MF | RUS | Vasili Pletin |
| 22 | FW | RUS | Anton Kobyalko (to Baltika Kaliningrad) |
| 23 | FW | ARG | Juan Lescano (to Anzhi Makhachkala) |
| 33 | DF | RUS | Igor Udaly (to Anzhi Makhachkala) |
| 35 | MF | RUS | Artur Rylov (to Rotor Volgograd) |
| 59 | DF | RUS | Andrei Ivanov (to Torpedo Moscow) |
| 77 | DF | RUS | David Ozmanov (to Sokol Saratov) |
| 88 | DF | RUS | Andrei Kireyev (to Rotor Volgograd) |
| — | DF | RUS | Nikolai Radchenko (to Nosta Novotroitsk, previously on loan to Tyumen) |
| — | FW | KGZ | Anton Zemlianukhin |

### Winter

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 2 | MF | RUS | Sergei Makarov |
| 4 | DF | SRB | Nemanja Tubić (from Napredak Kruševac) |
| 8 | DF | NGA | Dele Adeleye |
| 14 | MF | RUS | Dmitri Bogayev (on loan from Zenit St.Petersburg) |
| 17 | FW | RUS | Dmitri Kabutov (from Volgar Astrakhan) |
| 20 | FW | RUS | Maksim Kanunnikov (from Rubin Kazan) |
| 21 | MF | RUS | Artyom Samsonov (from Spartak Moscow) |
| 44 | FW | POL | Łukasz Sekulski (from Jagiellonia Białystok) |
| 50 | DF | RUS | Maksim Karpov (loan from Zenit St.Petersburg) |
| 70 | MF | RUS | Georgi Makhatadze (on loan from Rubin Kazan) |
| 74 | GK | RUS | Aleksandr Akishin (from Atom Novovoronezh) |
| — | FW | RUS | Kirill Kolesnichenko (from Chertanovo Moscow) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 4 | DF | RUS | Maksim Tishkin (to Baltika Kaliningrad) |
| 8 | MF | RUS | Georgy Gabulov |
| 20 | FW | RUS | Nikita Dyachenko (to Smena Komsomolsk-na-Amure) |
| 30 | MF | RUS | Aleksei Druzin (to Rotor Volgograd) |
| 69 | MF | UKR | Denys Dedechko (to Mariupol) |
| 91 | FW | BUL | Ventsislav Hristov (to Vereya) |

## 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 | A | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | L | L | L | L | W | D | D | D | D | D | L | W | L | D | L | L | L | L | L | L | L | L | L | D | L | L | L | L | L | L |
| Position | 16 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 |

#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 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 |
| 15 | Tosno (D) | 30 | 6 | 6 | 18 | 23 | 54 | −31 | 24 | Dissolved after the season |
| 16 | SKA-Khabarovsk (R) | 30 | 2 | 7 | 21 | 16 | 55 | −39 | 13 | Relegation to Football National League |
* ↑ 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.
* 1 2 Head-to-head: Anzhi 2–0 Tosno, Tosno 2–2 Anzhi
* ↑ On 30 May 2018, Russian Football National League announced that FC Tosno failed in its appeal to obtain the FNL license for the 2018–19 season. On 9 June 2018, the founder of FORT Group (the company that owned the team), Maxim Levchenko, announced that the team is officially dissolved.

### 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 |
| 1 | GK | RUS | Aleksandr Dovbnya | 26 | 0 | 25+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | MF | RUS | Sergei Makarov | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | RUS | Ismail Ediyev | 21 | 0 | 19+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | SRB | Nemanja Tubić | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | RUS | Aleksandr Putsko | 22 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | RUS | Pavel Karasyov | 19 | 0 | 15+2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | ARG | Alejandro Barbaro | 4 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | DF | NGA | Dele Adeleye | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | MF | ARM | Ruslan Koryan | 14 | 0 | 9+3 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 10 | FW | RUS | Vladislav Nikiforov | 26 | 0 | 19+5 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 11 | FW | SRB | Miroslav Marković | 25 | 5 | 19+4 | 4 | 1+1 | 1 |
| 13 | DF | RUS | Aleksandr Dimidko | 23 | 1 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | RUS | Dmitri Bogayev | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | MF | RUS | Yevgeni Balyaikin | 16 | 0 | 12+2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | RUS | Dmitri Kabutov | 8 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 19 | MF | UKR | Vitaliy Fedotov | 20 | 3 | 11+8 | 3 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 20 | FW | RUS | Maksim Kanunnikov | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | RUS | Artyom Samsonov | 9 | 0 | 7+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 22 | FW | RUS | Anton Kobyalko | 4 | 0 | 1+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Cherevko | 19 | 0 | 14+3 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 37 | DF | UKR | Dmytro Hryshko | 19 | 0 | 15+1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 44 | FW | POL | Łukasz Sekulski | 9 | 0 | 5+4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 50 | DF | RUS | Maksim Karpov | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 55 | GK | RUS | Aleksandr Krivoruchko | 7 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 70 | MF | RUS | Georgi Makhatadze | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 77 | MF | RUS | Konstantin Savichev | 18 | 1 | 13+4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 78 | MF | RUS | Nikolay Kalinsky | 15 | 2 | 5+7 | 1 | 2+1 | 1 |
| 87 | MF | TKM | Maksim Kazankov | 24 | 1 | 11+11 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 88 | DF | GEO | Giorgi Navalovski | 24 | 1 | 22 | 0 | 0+2 | 1 |
| 96 | FW | RUS | Aleksandr Maksimenko | 2 | 1 | 0+2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Players away from the club on loan: ||||||||||
| Players who left SKA-Khabarovsk during the season: ||||||||||
| 4 | DF | RUS | Maksim Tishkin | 4 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | RUS | Georgy Gabulov | 11 | 0 | 8+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | FW | ARG | Juan Lescano | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | MF | RUS | Aleksei Druzin | 2 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 69 | MF | UKR | Denys Dedechko | 20 | 3 | 18 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| 91 | FW | BUL | Ventsislav Hristov | 14 | 2 | 1+11 | 2 | 0+2 | 0 |

### Goal scorers

| Place | Position | Number | Name | Premier League | Russian Cup | Total |
| 1 | FW | 11 | Miroslav Marković | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | MF | 69 | Denys Dedechko | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | MF | 19 | Vitaliy Fedotov | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 | FW | 91 | Ventsislav Hristov | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | MF | 78 | Nikolay Kalinsky | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | MF | 77 | Konstantin Savichev | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | DF | 13 | Aleksandr Dimidko | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | FW | 96 | Aleksandr Maksimenko | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | MF | 87 | Maksim Kazankov | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 6 | DF | 88 | Giorgi Navalovski | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| | | | TOTALS | 16 | 4 | 20 |

### Disciplinary record

| Number | Position | Name | Premier League | Premier League | Russian Cup | Russian Cup | Total | Total |
| 1 | GK | Aleksandr Dovbnya | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | Ismail Ediyev | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | Nemanja Tubić | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | Aleksandr Putsko | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 8 | DF | Dele Adeleye | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 9 | MF | Ruslan Koryan | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 10 | FW | Vladislav Nikiforov | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 13 | DF | Aleksandr Dimidko | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 15 | MF | Yevgeni Balyaikin | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | Dmitri Bogayev | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | Dmitri Kabutov | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 21 | MF | Artyom Samsonov | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 26 | MF | Aleksandr Cherevko | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 37 | DF | Dmytro Hryshko | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 55 | GK | Aleksandr Krivoruchko | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 77 | MF | Konstantin Savichev | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 87 | MF | Maksim Kazankov | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 88 | DF | Giorgi Navalovski | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Players who left SKA-Khabarovsk during the season: ||||||||||
| 8 | MF | Georgy Gabulov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 69 | MF | Denys Dedechko | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| | | TOTALS | 50 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 52 | 2 |