# 2012–13 FC Zenit Saint Petersburg season

The 2012–13 Zenit season was the 17th successive season that the club will play in the Russian Premier League, the highest tier of association football in Russia.

## Squad

    As of 2 February 2013. According to RFPL and FC Zenit
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 2 | DF | RUS | Aleksandr Anyukov |
| 3 | DF | POR | Bruno Alves |
| 4 | DF | ITA | Domenico Criscito |
| 6 | DF | BEL | Nicolas Lombaerts |
| 9 | FW | RUS | Aleksandr Bukharov |
| 10 | MF | POR | Danny |
| 11 | FW | RUS | Aleksandr Kerzhakov |
| 13 | DF | POR | Luís Neto |
| 14 | DF | SVK | Tomáš Hubočan |
| 15 | MF | RUS | Roman Shirokov (captain) |
| 16 | GK | RUS | Vyacheslav Malafeev (vice-captain) |
| 18 | MF | RUS | Konstantin Zyryanov (vice-captain) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 20 | MF | RUS | Viktor Fayzulin |
| 21 | DF | SRB | Milan Rodić |
| 24 | DF | SRB | Aleksandar Luković |
| 25 | MF | RUS | Sergei Semak |
| 27 | MF | RUS | Igor Denisov |
| 28 | MF | BEL | Axel Witsel |
| 29 | FW | BRA | Hulk |
| 30 | GK | BLR | Yuri Zhevnov |
| 34 | MF | RUS | Vladimir Bystrov |
| 50 | DF | RUS | Igor Cheminava |
| 71 | GK | RUS | Yegor Baburin |
| 77 | FW | MNE | Luka Đorđević |

## Transfers
### Summer

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 28 | DF | DEN | Michael Lumb (end of loan to Freiburg, not later than June 2012) |
| 28 | MF | BEL | Axel Witsel (from Benfica) |
| 29 | FW | BRA | Hulk (from Porto) |
| 50 | DF | RUS | Igor Cheminava (end of loan to Sibir Novosibirsk) |
| 55 | DF | RUS | Renat Yanbayev (on loan from Lokomotiv Moscow) |
| 77 | FW | MNE | Luka Đorđević (end of loan to Mogren) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 17 | MF | ITA | Alessandro Rosina (to Siena) |
| 23 | MF | HUN | Szabolcs Huszti (to Hannover 96) |
| 28 | DF | DEN | Michael Lumb (to VfL Bochum September 2012) |
| 29 | FW | RUS | Andrei Arshavin (end of loan from Arsenal) |
| 72 | MF | RUS | Ayzer Abbasov (to Krylia Sovetov Samara) |
| 82 | GK | RUS | Daniil Sizko (to Rus Saint Petersburg) |
| — | FW | RUS | Stanislav Matyash (to Amkar Perm, previously on loan to Volgar Astrakhan) |
| — | FW | USA | Eugene Starikov (on loan to Rostov) |

### Winter

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 13 | DF | POR | Luís Neto (from Siena) |
| 21 | DF | SRB | Milan Rodić (from OFK Beograd) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 55 | DF | RUS | Renat Yanbayev (loan return to Lokomotiv Moscow) |
| 99 | FW | RUS | Maksim Kanunnikov (to Amkar Perm) |
| — | GK | RUS | Dmitri Borodin (end of career) |
| — | FW | SRB | Danko Lazović (on loan to Rostov) |

## Competitions
### Russian Super Cup

| Zenit | Rubin |
| DF | 3 | Bruno Alves | 65' |
| DF | 4 | Domenico Criscito | 68' |
| DF | 6 | Nicolas Lombaerts |
| DF | 14 | Tomáš Hubočan |
| MF | 15 | Roman Shirokov |
| MF | 20 | Viktor Fayzulin |
| MF | 25 | Sergei Semak | 46' |
| MF | 27 | Igor Denisov | 31' |
| MF | 34 | Vladimir Bystrov | 62' | 71' |
| FW | 11 | Aleksandr Kerzhakov |
| Substitutes: |||
| GK | 30 | Yuri Zhevnov |
| DF | 24 | Aleksandar Luković | 65' |
| DF | 58 | Ilya Zuyev |
| MF | 18 | Konstantin Zyryanov | 71' |
| MF | 94 | Aleksei Yevseyev |
| FW | 9 | Aleksandr Bukharov | 46' |
| FW | 99 | Maksim Kanunnikov |
| Manager: |||
| Luciano Spalletti Assistant referees: Vitali Drozdov (Moscow) Oleg Tselovalnikov (Astrakhan) Fourth official: Maksim Layushkin (Moscow) ||||
Sergey Ryzhikov :
| DF | 2 | Oleg Kuzmin |
| DF | 3 | Cristian Ansaldi | 40' |
| DF | 4 | César Navas |
| DF | 27 | Salvatore Bocchetti | 75' |
| DF | 76 | Roman Sharonov (c) |
| MF | 8 | Aleksandr Ryazantsev |
| MF | 23 | Roman Eremenko |
| MF | 61 | Gökdeniz Karadeniz | 78' |
| FW | 5 | Obafemi Martins | 34' | 64' |
| FW | 22 | Vladimir Dyadyun | 74' |
| Substitutes: |||
| GK | 24 | Giedrius Arlauskis |
| DF | 19 | Vitali Kaleshin | 74' |
| DF | 25 | Iván Marcano | 78' |
| MF | 10 | Alan Kasaev |
| MF | 16 | Mikhail Platica |
| MF | 20 | Alexei Eremenko |
| FW | 18 | Nelson Haedo Valdez | 64' |
| Manager: |||
| Kurban Berdyev ||||

### Russian Premier League
#### Matches
##### Notes

* The Russian Championship match between Dynamo Moscow and Zenit Saint Petersburg was suspended after 35 minutes after a missile was launched from the crowd at Dynamo's goalkeeper Anton Shunin. On 22 November Dynamo were awarded a 3-0 win, whilst Zenit were fined 500,000 rouble (£10,025.69) and forced to play their next two home games behind closed doors.

#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | CSKA Moscow (C) | 30 | 20 | 4 | 6 | 49 | 25 | +24 | 64 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 2 | Zenit St. Petersburg | 30 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 53 | 25 | +28 | 62 | Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round |
| 3 | Anzhi Makhachkala | 30 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 45 | 34 | +11 | 53 | Qualification for the Europa League group stage |
| 4 | Spartak Moscow | 30 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 51 | 39 | +12 | 51 | Qualification to Europa League play-off round |
| 5 | Kuban Krasnodar | 30 | 14 | 9 | 7 | 48 | 28 | +20 | 51 | Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round |

### UEFA Champions League
#### Group stage

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | MLG | MIL | ZEN | AND |
| 1 | Málaga | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 5 | +7 | 12 | Advance to knockout phase | — | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2–2 |
| 2 | Milan | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | +1 | 8 | Advance to knockout phase | 1–1 | — | 0–1 | 0–0 |
| 3 | Zenit Saint Petersburg | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 7 | Transfer to Europa League | 2–2 | 2–3 | — | 1–0 |
| 4 | Anderlecht | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | −5 | 5 | | 0–3 | 1–3 | 1–0 | — |

### UEFA Europa League
#### Knockout phase
##### Round of 16
## Squad and statistics

    As of 21 May 2013

### Appearances and goals

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Premier League | Premier League | Russian Cup | Russian Cup | Champions League | Champions League | Europa League | Europa League |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 2 | DF | RUS | Aleksandr Anyukov | 33 | 1 | 21 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | POR | Bruno Alves | 28 | 2 | 19+1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3+2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | ITA | Domenico Criscito | 17 | 3 | 12 | 2 | 0+1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | BEL | Nicolas Lombaerts | 33 | 0 | 20+1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | RUS | Aleksandr Bukharov | 14 | 1 | 2+7 | 1 | 1+2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | POR | Danny | 20 | 4 | 9+2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2+1 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 11 | FW | RUS | Aleksandr Kerzhakov | 30 | 11 | 18+3 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2+1 | 0 |
| 13 | DF | POR | Luís Neto | 14 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 14 | DF | SVK | Tomáš Hubočan | 34 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 15 | MF | RUS | Roman Shirokov | 37 | 6 | 23+1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 16 | GK | RUS | Vyacheslav Malafeev | 38 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 18 | MF | RUS | Konstantin Zyryanov | 33 | 6 | 15+11 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | RUS | Viktor Fayzulin | 36 | 6 | 23+1 | 5 | 1+3 | 0 | 3+1 | 1 | 0+4 | 0 |
| 21 | DF | SRB | Milan Rodić | 6 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 24 | DF | SRB | Aleksandar Luković | 12 | 0 | 3+6 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | MF | RUS | Sergei Semak | 23 | 4 | 8+7 | 2 | 1+1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2+1 | 1 |
| 27 | MF | RUS | Igor Denisov | 32 | 0 | 21+1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 28 | MF | BEL | Axel Witsel | 31 | 5 | 16+3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| 29 | FW | BRA | Hulk | 29 | 11 | 17+1 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| 30 | GK | BLR | Yuri Zhevnov | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 34 | MF | RUS | Vladimir Bystrov | 32 | 3 | 13+11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2+3 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 48 | FW | RUS | Aleksei Gasilin | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 50 | DF | RUS | Igor Cheminava | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 65 | MF | RUS | Danila Yashchuk | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 68 | MF | RUS | Vyacheslav Zinkov | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 71 | GK | RUS | Yegor Baburin | 4 | 0 | 2+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 77 | FW | MNE | Luka Đorđević | 10 | 0 | 2+5 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 85 | FW | RUS | Pavel Mogilevets | 2 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 94 | MF | RUS | Aleksei Yevseyev | 2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Players away from the club on loan: ||||||||||||||
| Players who appeared for Zenit no longer at the club: ||||||||||||||
| 82 | DF | DEN | Michael Lumb | 3 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 55 | DF | RUS | Renat Yanbayev | 12 | 1 | 7+3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 99 | FW | RUS | Maksim Kanunnikov | 14 | 1 | 3+6 | 1 | 1+1 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

### Top scorers

| Place | Position | Number | Name | Russian Premier League | Russian Cup | Champions League | Europa League | Total |
| 1 | FW | 11 | Aleksandr Kerzhakov | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 |
| 1 | FW | 29 | Hulk | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 11 |
| 3 | MF | 18 | Konstantin Zyryanov | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 3 | DF | 15 | Roman Shirokov | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 3 | MF | 20 | Viktor Fayzulin | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 6 | MF | 28 | Axel Witsel | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 7 | MF | 25 | Sergei Semak | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | MF | 10 | Danny | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 9 | DF | 4 | Domenico Criscito | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | MF | 34 | Vladimir Bystrov | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 11 | DF | 3 | Bruno Alves | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | FW | 99 | Maksim Kanunnikov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | DF | 2 | Aleksandr Anyukov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | DF | 55 | Renat Yanbayev | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | FW | 9 | Aleksandr Bukharov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | DF | 13 | Luís Neto | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| | | | TOTALS | 54 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 68 |

### Disciplinary record

| Number | Position | Name | Russian Premier League | Russian Premier League | Russian Cup | Russian Cup | Champions League | Champions League | Europa League | Europa League | Total | Total |
| 2 | DF | Aleksandr Anyukov | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 |
| 3 | DF | Bruno Alves | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | Domenico Criscito | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | Nicolas Lombaerts | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | Aleksandr Bukharov | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | Danny | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| 11 | FW | Aleksandr Kerzhakov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 13 | DF | Luís Neto | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| 14 | DF | Tomáš Hubočan | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| 15 | MF | Roman Shirokov | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 |
| 16 | GK | Vyacheslav Malafeev | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 18 | MF | Konstantin Zyryanov | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | Viktor Fayzulin | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 21 | DF | Milan Rodić | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 25 | MF | Sergei Semak | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 27 | MF | Igor Denisov | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 28 | MF | Axel Witsel | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 29 | FW | Hulk | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| 34 | MF | Vladimir Bystrov | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 55 | DF | Renat Yanbayev | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 77 | FW | Luka Đorđević | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| | | TOTALS | 63 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 94 | 5 |