# 2013–14 FC Zenit Saint Petersburg season

The 2013–14 Zenit Saint Petersburg season was the 18th successive season that the club played in the Russian Premier League, the highest tier of football in Russia. They finished as runners-up to CSKA Moscow in the Russian Premier League, lost the 2013 Super Cup 3 – 0 to CSKA Moscow, were knocked out of the Russian Cup by Russian Professional Football League side FC Tyumen, and reached the Last 16 of the UEFA Champions League, losing to Borussia Dortmund.
Zenit started the season under the management of Luciano Spalletti, but Spalletti was sacked on 11 March 2014, being replaced by Sergei Semak, in a caretaker capacity, for nine days before André Villas-Boas was appointed manager on 20 March 2014.

## Squad

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 |
| 1 | GK | RUS | Yuri Lodigin |
| 3 | DF | ARG | Cristian Ansaldi |
| 4 | DF | ITA | Domenico Criscito |
| 6 | DF | BEL | Nicolas Lombaerts (vice-captain) |
| 7 | FW | BRA | Hulk |
| 9 | FW | VEN | Salomón Rondón |
| 10 | MF | POR | Danny |
| 11 | FW | RUS | Aleksandr Kerzhakov |
| 13 | DF | POR | Luís Neto |
| 14 | DF | SVK | Tomáš Hubočan |
| 16 | GK | RUS | Vyacheslav Malafeev |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 17 | MF | RUS | Oleg Shatov |
| 18 | MF | RUS | Konstantin Zyryanov |
| 19 | DF | RUS | Igor Smolnikov |
| 20 | MF | RUS | Viktor Fayzulin |
| 22 | DF | RUS | Aleksandr Anyukov (captain) |
| 23 | FW | RUS | Andrey Arshavin |
| 28 | MF | BEL | Axel Witsel |
| 31 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Ryazantsev |
| 44 | MF | UKR | Anatoliy Tymoshchuk |
| 71 | GK | RUS | Yegor Baburin |

### 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 |
| 9 | FW | RUS | Aleksandr Bukharov (loan to Anzhi Makhachkala) |
| 15 | MF | RUS | Roman Shirokov (loan to Krasnodar) |
| 21 | DF | SRB | Milan Rodić (loan to FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod) |
| 34 | MF | RUS | Vladimir Bystrov (loan to Anzhi Makhachkala) |
| 57 | DF | RUS | Dzhamaldin Khodzhaniyazov (loan to Amkar Perm) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 77 | FW | MNE | Luka Đorđević (loan to FC Twente) |
| 85 | MF | RUS | Pavel Mogilevets (loan to Rubin Kazan) |
| 99 | MF | RUS | Ivan Solovyov (loan to Amkar Perm) |
| — | DF | RUS | Denis Terentyev (loan to Tom Tomsk) |
| — | FW | USA | Eugene Starikov (loan to Tom Tomsk) |

### Youth Team squad

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 |
| 40 | MF | RUS | Pavel Barbashov |
| 41 | DF | RUS | Andrei Yakovlev |
| 42 | MF | RUS | Danila Davidenko |
| 43 | FW | RUS | Pavel Nazimov |
| 45 | DF | RUS | Maksim Petrov |
| 46 | MF | ARM | Zakhar Dilanyan |
| 47 | MF | RUS | Valeri Yaroshenko |
| 48 | FW | RUS | Aleksei Gasilin |
| 49 | FW | RUS | Aleksei Gudkov |
| 50 | DF | RUS | Maksim Karpov |
| 51 | GK | RUS | Maksim Rudakov |
| 52 | DF | RUS | Andrei Ivanov |
| 53 | MF | RUS | Ivan Ivanidi |
| 54 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Zakarlyuka |
| 55 | DF | RUS | Konstantin Lobov |
| 56 | DF | RUS | Kirill Kostin |
| 58 | DF | RUS | Ilya Zuyev |
| 59 | FW | RUS | Aleksei Yegorov |
| 60 | MF | RUS | Yevgeni Serenkov |
| 61 | GK | RUS | Anton Tsvetkov |
| 62 | FW | RUS | Stepan Rebenko |
| 63 | FW | RUS | Anton Solovyov |
| 64 | MF | RUS | Elvin Badalov |
| 65 | MF | RUS | Danila Yashchuk |
| 67 | DF | RUS | Dmitri Chertishchev |
| 68 | MF | RUS | Vyacheslav Zinkov |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 69 | MF | RUS | Sergei Filatenko |
| 70 | FW | RUS | Dmitri Bogayev |
| 72 | DF | RUS | Stepan Zhalobkov |
| 73 | MF | RUS | Pavel Osipov |
| 74 | MF | LTU | Ovidijus Verbickas |
| 75 | MF | ARM | Artem Simonyan |
| 76 | FW | RUS | Pavel Kireyenko |
| 78 | DF | RUS | Dmitri Chistyakov |
| 79 | MF | RUS | Konstantin Troyanov |
| 80 | GK | RUS | Mikhail Mzhelsky |
| 81 | MF | RUS | Maksim Batov |
| 82 | FW | RUS | Aleksei Makarov |
| 83 | GK | RUS | Igor Obukhov |
| 84 | DF | RUS | Mikhail Kovalenko |
| 86 | DF | RUS | Yevgeni Alfyorov |
| 87 | MF | RUS | Aleksei Kayukov |
| 88 | FW | RUS | Artyom Popov |
| 89 | FW | RUS | Yevgeni Markov |
| 90 | MF | RUS | Ramil Sheydayev |
| 92 | FW | RUS | Pavel Dolgov |
| 93 | MF | RUS | Aleksei Panfilov |
| 94 | MF | RUS | Aleksei Yevseyev |
| 95 | GK | RUS | Aleksandr Vasyutin |
| 96 | DF | RUS | Ilya Kubyshkin |
| 97 | MF | RUS | Dmitri Khodakovskiy |
| 98 | FW | RUS | Vladislav Yefimov |

## Transfers
### Summer

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | RUS | Yuri Lodigin (from Skoda Xanthi) |
| 3 | DF | ARG | Cristian Ansaldi (from Rubin Kazan) |
| 17 | MF | RUS | Oleg Shatov (from Anzhi Makhachkala) |
| 19 | DF | RUS | Igor Smolnikov (from Krasnodar) |
| 23 | FW | RUS | Andrey Arshavin (from Arsenal) |
| 44 | MF | UKR | Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (from Bayern Munich) |
| 88 | FW | SRB | Danko Lazović (end of loan to FC Rostov) |
| 99 | MF | RUS | Ivan Solovyov (from Dynamo Moscow) |
| — | DF | RUS | Maksim Batov (end of loan to Chernomorets Novorossiysk) |
| — | DF | RUS | Ilya Zuyev (end of loan to Tom Tomsk) |
| — | MF | RUS | Ilya Sagdatullin (end of loan to Volgar Astrakhan) |
| — | FW | USA | Eugene Starikov (end of loan to FC Rostov) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 3 | DF | POR | Bruno Alves (to Fenerbahçe) |
| 25 | MF | RUS | Sergei Semak (retired) |
| 27 | MF | RUS | Igor Denisov (to Anzhi Makhachkala) |
| 77 | FW | MNE | Luka Đorđević (loan to FC Twente) |
| — | GK | RUS | Andrei Zaytsev (released) |
| — | DF | RUS | Igor Cheminava (to Dynamo St. Petersburg) |
| — | DF | RUS | Dmitri Telegin (to Dynamo St. Petersburg) |
| — | DF | RUS | Denis Terentyev (on loan to Tom Tomsk) |
| — | MF | RUS | Yevgeni Bashkirov (to Tom Tomsk, previously on loan) |
| — | FW | USA | Eugene Starikov (on loan to Tom Tomsk, previously on loan to FC Rostov) |
| — | FW | RUS | Ilya Yeronin (released) |

### Winter

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 9 | FW | VEN | Salomón Rondón (from Rubin Kazan) |
| 31 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Ryazantsev (from Rubin Kazan) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 9 | FW | RUS | Aleksandr Bukharov (loan to Anzhi Makhachkala) |
| 15 | MF | RUS | Roman Shirokov (loan to Krasnodar) |
| 24 | DF | SRB | Aleksandar Luković |
| 30 | GK | BLR | Yuri Zhevnov |
| 34 | MF | RUS | Vladimir Bystrov (loan to Anzhi Makhachkala) |
| 57 | DF | RUS | Dzhamaldin Khodzhaniyazov (loan to Amkar Perm) |
| 85 | MF | RUS | Pavel Mogilevets (loan to Rubin Kazan) |
| 99 | MF | RUS | Ivan Solovyov (loan to Amkar Perm) |

## 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 | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | W | L | D | W | W | D | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | D | L | L | D | W | D | L | W | W | W | W | W | W | D | L | W |
| Position | 4 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |

#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | CSKA Moscow (C) | 30 | 20 | 4 | 6 | 49 | 26 | +23 | 64 | Qualification to Champions League group stage |
| 2 | Zenit St. Petersburg | 30 | 19 | 6 | 5 | 63 | 32 | +31 | 63 | Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round |
| 3 | Lokomotiv Moscow | 30 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 51 | 23 | +28 | 59 | Qualification to Europa League play-off round |
| 4 | Dynamo Moscow | 30 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 54 | 37 | +17 | 52 | Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round |
| 5 | Krasnodar | 30 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 46 | 39 | +7 | 50 | Qualification to Europa League second qualifying round |
* 1 2 3 Rostov won the 2013–14 Russian Cup, therefore qualifying for the play-off round of the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League. However, it did not pass the Russian Football Union European licensing and thus its spot was given to Spartak. However, that RFU decision was then overturned by the CAS and Rostov was returned to the Europa League.
* ↑ Krasnodar ahead of Spartak Moscow on head-to-head points; Krasnodar–Spartak Moscow 4–0, Spartak Moscow–Krasnodar 3–2.

### UEFA Champions League
#### Third qualifying round
#### Group stage

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ATM | ZEN | POR | AWI |
| 1 | Atlético Madrid | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 3 | +12 | 16 | Advance to knockout phase | — | 3–1 | 2–0 | 4–0 |
| 2 | Zenit Saint Petersburg | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 9 | −4 | 6 | Advance to knockout phase | 1–1 | — | 1–1 | 0–0 |
| 3 | Porto | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 5 | Transfer to Europa League | 1–2 | 0–1 | — | 1–1 |
| 4 | Austria Wien | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | −5 | 5 | | 0–3 | 4–1 | 0–1 | — |
* 1 2 Head-to-head points: Porto 4, Austria Wien 1.

#### Knockout phase
##### Round of 16
## Squad statistics
### Appearances and goals

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Premier League | Premier League | Russian Cup | Russian Cup | Champions League | Champions League | Super Cup | Super Cup |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | RUS | Yuri Lodigin | 41 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | ARG | Cristian Ansaldi | 12 | 1 | 6+2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | ITA | Domenico Criscito | 26 | 1 | 17+1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | BEL | Nicolas Lombaerts | 39 | 1 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | BRA | Hulk | 34 | 22 | 23+1 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | VEN | Salomón Rondón | 13 | 8 | 8+2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1+1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | POR | Danny | 36 | 15 | 25+1 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 11 | FW | RUS | Aleksandr Kerzhakov | 31 | 8 | 11+8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 6+5 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 13 | DF | POR | Luís Neto | 34 | 0 | 22+3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 14 | DF | SVK | Tomáš Hubočan | 24 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 16 | GK | RUS | Vyacheslav Malafeev | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | RUS | Oleg Shatov | 30 | 5 | 11+11 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 6+1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | MF | RUS | Konstantin Zyryanov | 28 | 1 | 10+8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5+3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 19 | DF | RUS | Igor Smolnikov | 29 | 0 | 17+2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | RUS | Viktor Fayzulin | 35 | 3 | 20+5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8+1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 22 | DF | RUS | Aleksandr Anyukov | 22 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 23 | FW | RUS | Andrey Arshavin | 34 | 4 | 15+6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3+8 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 28 | MF | BEL | Axel Witsel | 43 | 4 | 29+1 | 4 | 0+1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 31 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Ryazantsev | 6 | 0 | 2+4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 44 | MF | UKR | Anatoliy Tymoshchuk | 24 | 0 | 8+9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2+3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 71 | GK | RUS | Yegor Baburin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Players away from the club on loan: ||||||||||||||
| 9 | FW | RUS | Aleksandr Bukharov | 8 | 1 | 3+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 15 | MF | RUS | Roman Shirokov | 19 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 7+1 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 | MF | RUS | Vladimir Bystrov | 21 | 0 | 5+10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1+4 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 57 | DF | RUS | Dzhamaldin Khodzhaniyazov | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 77 | FW | MNE | Luka Đorđević | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 85 | MF | RUS | Pavel Mogilevets | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 99 | MF | RUS | Ivan Solovyov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Players who appeared for Zenit St. Petersburg no longer at the club: ||||||||||||||
| 24 | DF | SRB | Aleksandar Luković | 3 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |

### Top Scorers

| Place | Position | Number | Name | Russian Premier League | Russian Cup | UEFA Champions League | Russian Super Cup | Total |
| 1 | FW | 7 | Hulk | 17 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 22 |
| 2 | MF | 10 | Danny | 12 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 15 |
| 3 | MF | 15 | Roman Shirokov | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 10 |
| 4 | FW | 9 | Salomón Rondón | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 4 | FW | 11 | Aleksandr Kerzhakov | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 6 | MF | 17 | Oleg Shatov | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 7 | MF | 28 | Axel Witsel | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 7 | FW | 23 | Andrey Arshavin | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 9 | MF | 20 | Viktor Fayzulin | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 10 | | | Own Goal | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | DF | 6 | Nicolas Lombaerts | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | MF | 18 | Konstantin Zyryanov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | DF | 3 | Cristian Ansaldi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | DF | 4 | Domenico Criscito | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | FW | 9 | Aleksandr Bukharov | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| | | | TOTALS | 63 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 86 |

### Disciplinary record

| Number | Position | Name | Russian Premier League | Russian Premier League | Russian Cup | Russian Cup | UEFA Champions League | UEFA Champions League | Russian Super Cup | Russian Super Cup | Total | Total |
| 1 | GK | Yuri Lodigin | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | Cristian Ansaldi | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | Domenico Criscito | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | Nicolas Lombaerts | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 7 | FW | Hulk | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 |
| 9 | FW | Aleksandr Bukharov | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | Danny | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 11 | FW | Aleksandr Kerzhakov | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 13 | DF | Luís Neto | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 1 |
| 14 | DF | Tomáš Hubočan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 15 | MF | Roman Shirokov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 18 | MF | Konstantin Zyryanov | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | Oleg Shatov | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 19 | DF | Igor Smolnikov | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | Viktor Fayzulin | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 22 | DF | Aleksandr Anyukov | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 28 | MF | Axel Witsel | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| 31 | MF | Aleksandr Ryazantsev | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 57 | DF | Dzhamaldin Khodzhaniyazov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| | | TOTALS | 48 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 24 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 77 | 3 |