# 2015–16 FC Krasnodar season

The 2015–16 FC Krasnodar season was the 5th successive season that the club played in the Russian Premier League, the highest tier of association football in Russia. Krasnodar also took part in the Russian Cup and the Europa League, entering at the Third qualifying round.

## Squad

    As of 18 February 2016
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 | Stanislav Kritsyuk (loan from Braga) |
| 3 | DF | NOR | Stefan Strandberg |
| 4 | MF | RUS | Dmitri Torbinski |
| 6 | DF | SWE | Andreas Granqvist (captain) |
| 7 | MF | RUS | Pavel Mamayev |
| 8 | MF | RUS | Yury Gazinsky |
| 9 | FW | BRA | Ari |
| 10 | MF | UZB | Odil Ahmedov |
| 11 | MF | RUS | Vyacheslav Podberyozkin |
| 14 | FW | BRA | Wánderson |
| 15 | DF | RUS | Nikolay Markov |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 17 | DF | RUS | Vitali Kaleshin |
| 18 | MF | RUS | Vladimir Bystrov |
| 21 | MF | COL | Ricardo Laborde |
| 22 | MF | BRA | Joãozinho |
| 27 | DF | ISL | Ragnar Sigurðsson |
| 31 | GK | UKR | Andriy Dykan |
| 33 | MF | URU | Mauricio Pereyra |
| 77 | MF | BFA | Charles Kaboré |
| 88 | GK | RUS | Andrei Sinitsyn |
| 90 | FW | RUS | Fyodor Smolov |
| 98 | MF | RUS | Sergei Petrov |

### Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 5 | DF | POL | Artur Jędrzejczyk (at Legia Warsaw) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | RUS | Oleg Lanin (at FC Baltika Kaliningrad until 30 June 2016) |

### Reserve squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 38 | MF | CIV | Kouassi Eboue |
| 39 | GK | RUS | Matvei Safonov |
| 41 | DF | RUS | Aleksei Tatayev |
| 43 | MF | RUS | Daur Kvekveskiri |
| 45 | DF | RUS | Igor Paradin |
| 46 | DF | RUS | Vitali Stezhko |
| 47 | MF | RUS | Ilya Zhigulyov |
| 48 | DF | RUS | Aleksandr Marchenko |
| 50 | DF | RUS | Artyom Golubev |
| 51 | GK | RUS | Denis Kavlinov |
| 52 | GK | RUS | Yevgeni Latyshonok |
| 53 | FW | RUS | Pavel Marushko |
| 56 | FW | RUS | Ilya Belous |
| 57 | DF | RUS | Ilya Nasonkin |
| 58 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Sergeyev |
| 59 | DF | RUS | Nikita Katayev |
| 61 | GK | RUS | Dmitri Goryachkin |
| 62 | MF | RUS | Aleks Matsukatov |
| 63 | FW | RUS | Nikolay Komlichenko |
| 65 | MF | RUS | Inal Cherchesov |
| 66 | GK | RUS | Denis Adamov |
| 68 | FW | RUS | Andrei Batyutin |
| 69 | FW | RUS | Denis Vasenin |
| 70 | MF | RUS | Daniil Utkin |
| 71 | FW | RUS | Aleksandr Butenko |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 72 | DF | RUS | Daniil Bochkaryov |
| 73 | FW | RUS | Roman Razzhivin |
| 74 | MF | RUS | Daniil Fomin |
| 75 | FW | RUS | Levon Bayramyan |
| 76 | FW | RUS | Abdulmuslim Asilderov |
| 78 | FW | RUS | Dmitri Vorobyov |
| 79 | DF | RUS | Batraz Gurtsiyev |
| 80 | FW | RUS | Vladislav Sklyar |
| 81 | DF | RUS | Yevgeni Nesterenko |
| 82 | DF | RUS | Sergei Borisov |
| 83 | DF | RUS | Maksim Starkov |
| 84 | GK | RUS | Anton Fedyushkin |
| 85 | FW | RUS | Ivan Ignatyev |
| 86 | DF | RUS | Vasili Cherov |
| 87 | DF | RUS | Arutyun Grigoryan |
| 89 | DF | RUS | Aleksey Shishkin |
| 91 | DF | RUS | Leo Goglichidze |
| 92 | MF | RUS | Ivan Takhmazov |
| 93 | FW | RUS | Magomed-Shapi Suleymanov |
| 94 | DF | RUS | Yevgeni Nazarov |
| 95 | FW | RUS | Aslan Vershinin |
| 96 | MF | RUS | Ilya Borisov |
| 97 | FW | RUS | Nurik Gadzhiyev |
| 99 | FW | RUS | Vladislav Bragin |

## Transfers
### Summer

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 3 | DF | NOR | Stefan Strandberg (from Rosenborg) |
| 4 | MF | RUS | Dmitri Torbinski (from FC Rostov) |
| 15 | DF | RUS | Nikolay Markov (end of loan to Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast) |
| 39 | GK | RUS | Matvei Safonov |
| 40 | DF | RUS | Elgyun Ulukhanov (from CSKA Moscow) |
| 42 | DF | RUS | Konstantin Zhuzhgov |
| 45 | DF | RUS | Igor Paradin |
| 48 | DF | RUS | Aleksandr Marchenko (end of loan at Chernomorets Novorossiysk) |
| 50 | DF | RUS | Artyom Golubev |
| 54 | MF | RUS | Vyacheslav Yakimov |
| 57 | DF | RUS | Ilya Nasonkin |
| 62 | MF | RUS | Aleks Matsukatov |
| 63 | FW | RUS | Nikolay Komlichenko (end of loan at Chernomorets Novorossiysk) |
| 70 | MF | RUS | Daniil Utkin |
| 71 | FW | RUS | Aleksandr Butenko |
| 73 | FW | RUS | Roman Razzhivin |
| 76 | FW | RUS | Abdulmuslim Asilderov |
| 77 | MF | BFA | Charles Kaboré (on loan from Kuban Krasnodar) |
| 82 | DF | RUS | Sergei Borodin |
| 85 | FW | RUS | Ivan Ignatyev |
| 90 | FW | RUS | Fyodor Smolov (from Dynamo Moscow) |
| 93 | FW | RUS | Magomed-Shapi Suleymanov |
| 94 | DF | RUS | Yevgeni Nazarov (from Viktor Ponedelnik Academy Rostov-on-Don) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 4 | DF | BLR | Alyaksandr Martynovich (on loan to Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast) |
| 11 | MF | RUS | Marat Izmailov (end of loan from Porto) |
| 15 | MF | RUS | Roman Shirokov (end of loan from Spartak Moscow) |
| 20 | MF | RUS | Ruslan Adzhindzhal (retired) |
| 25 | MF | RUS | Yevgeni Shipitsin (to Mordovia Saransk) |
| 37 | DF | RUS | Aleksandr Luzin |
| 42 | DF | RUS | Dmitri Novak (to Sibir-2 Novosibirsk) |
| 42 | DF | RUS | Konstantin Zhuzhgov |
| 45 | GK | RUS | Vsevolod Yermakov |
| 57 | MF | RUS | Nikita Akimov |
| 58 | FW | RUS | Ilya Yurchenko (to Lokomotiv Liski) |
| 62 | MF | RUS | Ruslan Rzayev |
| 63 | MF | RUS | Vladislav Pavlyuchenko |
| 64 | MF | RUS | Oleg Lanin (on loan to Baltika Kaliningrad) |
| 65 | DF | RUS | Andrei Gamalyan |
| 71 | DF | RUS | Dmitri Kuzmichyov |
| 73 | GK | RUS | Stanislav Antipin (to MITOS Novocherkassk) |
| 76 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Ageyev (on loan to Energomash Belgorod) |
| 82 | MF | RUS | Nikita Rulevsky |
| 93 | DF | RUS | Anton Maltsev |
| — | DF | RUS | Sergei Khmelevskoy (to MITOS Novocherkassk, previously on loan) |
| — | MF | RUS | Kirill Morozov (to Zenit-Izhevsk, previously on loan to Afips Afipsky) |
| — | MF | RUS | Aleksei Pomerko (to Krylia Sovetov Samara, previously on loan) |
| — | FW | RUS | Ruslan Bolov (to Volgar Astrakhan, previously on loan) |
| — | FW | RUS | Nikita Burmistrov (on loan to Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast, previously on loan at Tom Tomsk) |

### Winter

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | RUS | Stanislav Kritsyuk (on loan from Braga) |
| 11 | MF | RUS | Vyacheslav Podberyozkin (from Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast) |
| 38 | MF | CIV | Kouassi Eboue (from Krasnodar-3) |
| 40 | FW | RUS | Alan Koroyev |
| 42 | DF | RUS | Mikhail Tikhonov |
| 49 | FW | RUS | Alim Makoyev |
| 54 | MF | RUS | Roman Kurazhov |
| 60 | FW | RUS | Nikita Sergeyev |
| 67 | MF | RUS | Andrei Tekuchyov |
| 76 | FW | RUS | Ruslan Rzayev |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 5 | DF | POL | Artur Jędrzejczyk (loan to Legia Warsaw) |
| 40 | DF | AZE | Elgun Ulukhanov (to Qarabağ) |
| 49 | FW | RUS | Dmitri Bakay (to Biolog-Novokubansk) |
| 54 | MF | RUS | Vyacheslav Yakimov |
| 61 | GK | RUS | Dmitri Goryachkin (to Dolgoprudny) |
| 67 | MF | RUS | Yaroslav Komarov |
| 76 | FW | RUS | Abdulmuslim Asilderov |
| 77 | GK | RUS | Anton Kochenkov (end of loan from Lokomotiv Moscow) |

## 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 | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H |
| Result | W | L | D | D | W | D | L | W | L | D | D | D | W | W | W | L | W | W | D | W | L | W | W | W | W | W | D | W | L | W |
| Position | 3 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |

#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 2 | Rostov | 30 | 19 | 6 | 5 | 41 | 20 | +21 | 63 | Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round |
| 3 | Zenit Saint Petersburg | 30 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 61 | 32 | +29 | 59 | Qualification for the Europa League group stage |
| 4 | Krasnodar | 30 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 54 | 25 | +29 | 56 | Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round |
| 5 | Spartak Moscow | 30 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 48 | 39 | +9 | 50 | Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round |
| 6 | Lokomotiv Moscow | 30 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 43 | 33 | +10 | 50 | |
* ↑ Zenit Saint Petersburg qualified for the Europa League group stage by winning the 2015–16 Russian Cup.

### UEFA Europa League
#### Qualifying rounds
#### Group stage

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Krasnodar | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 13 | Advance to knockout phase |
| 2 | Borussia Dortmund | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 5 | +5 | 10 | Advance to knockout phase |
| 3 | PAOK | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 7 | |
| 4 | Gabala | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 12 | −10 | 2 | |

#### Knockout phase
## Squad statistics

    As of match played 21 May 2016

### Appearances and goals

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Premier League | Premier League | Russian Cup | Russian Cup | Europa League | Europa League |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | RUS | Stanislav Kritsyuk | 14 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | NOR | Stefan Strandberg | 26 | 0 | 13+2 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 6+2 | 0 |
| 4 | MF | RUS | Dmitri Torbinski | 24 | 0 | 8+7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3+4 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | SWE | Andreas Granqvist | 43 | 3 | 29 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 1 |
| 7 | MF | RUS | Pavel Mamayev | 45 | 17 | 28+1 | 10 | 3+1 | 1 | 10+2 | 6 |
| 8 | MF | RUS | Yury Gazinsky | 34 | 1 | 14+7 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 4+6 | 1 |
| 9 | FW | BRA | Ari | 36 | 6 | 15+6 | 5 | 1+3 | 0 | 8+3 | 1 |
| 10 | MF | UZB | Odil Ahmedov | 41 | 3 | 24+3 | 3 | 1+1 | 0 | 11+1 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | RUS | Vyacheslav Podberyozkin | 8 | 1 | 4+4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | BRA | Wánderson | 34 | 8 | 10+12 | 5 | 3+1 | 0 | 4+4 | 3 |
| 15 | DF | UZB | Nikolay Markov | 11 | 0 | 2+5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 17 | DF | RUS | Vitali Kaleshin | 36 | 0 | 24+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| 18 | MF | RUS | Vladimir Bystrov | 17 | 0 | 4+9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | COL | Ricardo Laborde | 32 | 3 | 6+14 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3+6 | 0 |
| 22 | MF | BRA | Joãozinho | 23 | 2 | 3+11 | 0 | 1+2 | 1 | 4+2 | 1 |
| 27 | DF | ISL | Ragnar Sigurðsson | 35 | 3 | 23+1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 1 |
| 31 | GK | UKR | Andriy Dykan | 26 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| 33 | MF | URU | Mauricio Pereyra | 28 | 2 | 16+4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| 38 | MF | CIV | Kouassi Eboue | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 77 | MF | BFA | Charles Kaboré | 32 | 0 | 20+1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 88 | GK | RUS | Andrei Sinitsyn | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 90 | FW | RUS | Fyodor Smolov | 44 | 24 | 29 | 20 | 1+2 | 1 | 8+4 | 3 |
| 98 | MF | RUS | Sergei Petrov | 34 | 3 | 23+1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| Players away from the club on loan: ||||||||||||
| 5 | DF | POL | Artur Jędrzejczyk | 15 | 0 | 5+1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6+1 | 0 |
| Players who left Krasnodar during the season: ||||||||||||

### Goal Scorers

| Place | Position | Number | Name | Russian Premier League | Russian Cup | UEFA Europa League | Total |
| 1 | FW | 90 | Fyodor Smolov | 20 | 1 | 3 | 24 |
| 2 | MF | 7 | Pavel Mamayev | 10 | 1 | 6 | 17 |
| 3 | MF | 14 | Wánderson | 5 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| 4 | FW | 9 | Ari | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 5 | MF | 21 | Ricardo Laborde | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | MF | 10 | Odil Ahmedov | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | MF | 98 | Sergei Petrov | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | DF | 6 | Andreas Granqvist | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | DF | 27 | Ragnar Sigurðsson | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | | | Own goal | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 11 | MF | 33 | Mauricio Pereyra | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 11 | MF | 22 | Joãozinho | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 13 | MF | 11 | Vyacheslav Podberyozkin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | MF | 8 | Yury Gazinsky | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| | | | TOTALS | 54 | 6 | 19 | 79 |

### Disciplinary record

| Number | Position | Name | Russian Premier League | Russian Premier League | Russian Cup | Russian Cup | UEFA Europa League | UEFA Europa League | Total | Total |
| 3 | DF | Stefan Strandberg | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 4 | MF | Dmitri Torbinski | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | Artur Jędrzejczyk | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 1 |
| 6 | DF | Andreas Granqvist | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | Pavel Mamayev | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | Yury Gazinsky | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 |
| 9 | FW | Ari | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | Odil Ahmedov | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | Wánderson | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | Nikolay Markov | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 17 | DF | Vitali Kaleshin | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 18 | MF | Vladimir Bystrov | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | Ricardo Laborde | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 1 |
| 22 | MF | Joãozinho | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 27 | DF | Ragnar Sigurðsson | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 31 | GK | Andriy Dykan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 33 | MF | Mauricio Pereyra | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 77 | MF | Charles Kaboré | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 3 |
| 90 | FW | Fyodor Smolov | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 98 | MF | Sergei Petrov | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| | | TOTALS | 59 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 28 | 2 | 97 | 7 |