# 2012–13 FC Lokomotiv Moscow season

The 2012–13 Lokomotiv Moscow season involved the club competing in the Russian Premier League and Russian Cup. It was Slaven Bilić's first season as manager and ended with the worst league result of the team (9th, the lower part of the table) since establishing of Russian Championship in 1992. As a result, the contract of Bilić was terminated by mutual agreement on 17 June 2013.

## First team squad

| No. | Name | Position(s) | Date of Birth (Age) | Signed from | Since |
| Goalkeepers |||||||
| 1 | Guilherme | GK | (1985-12-12) 12 December 1985 (age 38) | Atlético Paranaense | 2007 |
| 22 | Dario Krešić | GK | (1984-01-11) 11 January 1984 (age 40) | PAOK | 2012 |
| 41 | Miroslav Lobantsev | GK | (1995-05-27) 27 May 1995 (age 29) | Youth system | 2012 |
| Defenders |||||||
| 5 | Taras Burlak | DF | (1990-02-22) 22 February 1990 (age 34) | Youth system | 2008 |
| 14 | Vedran Ćorluka | DF | (1986-02-05) 5 February 1986 (age 38) | Tottenham Hotspur | 2012 |
| 28 | Ján Ďurica | DF | (1981-12-10) 10 December 1981 (age 42) | Saturn Moscow Oblast | 2009 |
| 29 | Vitaliy Denisov | DF | (1987-02-23) 23 February 1987 (age 37) | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 2013 |
| 49 | Roman Shishkin | DF | (1987-01-27) 27 January 1987 (age 37) | Spartak Moscow | 2010 |
| 55 | Renat Yanbayev | DF | (1984-04-07) 7 April 1984 (age 40) | Kuban Krasnodar | 2007 |
| 79 | Vitali Lystsov | DF | (1995-07-11) 11 July 1995 (age 29) | Youth system | 2012 |
| Midfielders |||||||
| 4 | Alberto Zapater | MF | (1985-06-13) 13 June 1985 (age 39) | Sporting CP | 2011 |
| 6 | Maksim Grigoryev | MF | (1990-07-06) 6 July 1990 (age 34) | MITOS Novocherkassk | 2012 |
| 8 | Denis Glushakov | MF | (1987-01-27) 27 January 1987 (age 37) | Nika Moscow | 2005 |
| 10 | Dmitri Loskov | MF | (1974-02-12) 12 February 1974 (age 50) | Saturn Moscow Oblast | 2010 |
| 19 | Aleksandr Samedov | MF | (1984-07-19) 19 July 1984 (age 40) | Dynamo Moscow | 2012 |
| 21 | Dmitri Torbinski | MF | (1984-04-28) 28 April 1984 (age 40) | Spartak Moscow | 2008 |
| 23 | Dmitri Tarasov | MF | (1987-03-18) 18 March 1987 (age 37) | FC Moscow | 2010 |
| 26 | Yan Tigorev | MF | (1984-03-10) 10 March 1984 (age 40) | Tom Tomsk | 2012 |
| 27 | Magomed Ozdoyev | MF | (1992-11-05) 5 November 1992 (age 31) | Dynamo Kyiv | 2010 |
| 59 | Aleksei Miranchuk | MF | (1995-10-17) 17 October 1995 (age 28) | Youth system | 2013 |
| Forwards |||||||
| 13 | Victor Obinna | FW | (1987-03-25) 25 March 1987 (age 37) | Internazionale | 2011 |
| 18 | Roman Pavlyuchenko | FW | (1981-12-15) 15 December 1981 (age 42) | Tottenham Hotspur | 2012 |
| 25 | Felipe Caicedo | FW | (1988-09-05) 5 September 1988 (age 36) | Manchester City | 2011 |
| 33 | Dame N'Doye | FW | (1985-02-21) 21 February 1985 (age 39) | Copenhagen | 2012 |
| 90 | Maicon | FW | (1990-02-18) 18 February 1990 (age 34) | Fluminense | 2010 |

## Transfers

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 3 | DF | SUI | Reto Ziegler (on loan from Juventus) |
| 14 | DF | CRO | Vedran Ćorluka (from Tottenham Hotspur) |
| 19 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Samedov (from Dynamo Moscow) |
| 22 | GK | CRO | Dario Krešić (from PAOK) |
| 33 | FW | SEN | Dame N'Doye (from Copenhagen) |
| 45 | FW | RUS | Aleksandr Minchenkov (end of loan to Mordovia Saransk) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 29 | DF | UZB | Vitaliy Denisov (from FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk) |
| 55 | DF | RUS | Renat Yanbayev (returned from loan to Zenit Saint Petersburg) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 9 | MF | BIH | Senijad Ibričić (on loan to Gaziantepspor) |
| 16 | GK | BLR | Anton Amelchenko (on loan to Terek Grozny) |
| 18 | MF | RUS | Vladislav Ignatyev (to Krasnodar) |
| 22 | DF | POR | Manuel da Costa (on loan to Nacional) |
| 29 | DF | RUS | Igor Golban (on loan to Sigma Olomouc) |
| 32 | FW | RUS | Mikhail Petrusyov (on loan to Dnepr Smolensk) |
| 44 | MF | RUS | Aleksei Gorshkov (to Rus Saint Petersburg) |
| 45 | FW | RUS | Aleksandr Minchenkov (pause) |
| 55 | DF | RUS | Renat Yanbayev (on loan to Zenit Saint Petersburg) |
| 64 | MF | RUS | Nikita Lapin (to Zvezda Ryazan) |
| 74 | FW | RUS | Maksim Barsov (to Volga Ulyanovsk) |
| 77 | MF | MDA | Stanislav Ivanov (to Sheriff Tiraspol) |
| 82 | MF | RUS | Igor Mendelev |
| 89 | DF | RUS | Nikita Samokhvalov |
| — | DF | RUS | Andrei Ivanov (on loan to Rostov) |
| — | DF | RUS | Ruslan Nakhushev (to Krasnodar) |
| — | MF | RUS | Semyon Fomin (on loan to Rotor Volgograd) |
| — | FW | ARM | Artur Sarkisov (on loan to Volga Nizhny Novgorod) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 35 | GK | RUS | Aleksandr Filtsov (loaned to FC Krasnodar; on 8 May 2013 FC Krasnodar signed Filtsov on permanent basis using contract option to buy) |
| 51 | DF | RUS | Maksim Belyayev (loaned to FC Rostov) |
| 3 | DF | SUI | Reto Ziegler (returned to Juventus from loan) |
| 50 | DF | RUS | Andrey Yeshchenko (to Anzhi) |
| 57 | DF | RUS | Georgi Burnash (to Lokomotiv-2) |
| 61 | DF | RUS | Sergei Zuikov (to Volgar) |
| 11 | FW | RUS | Dmitri Sychev (loaned to FC Dinamo Minsk) |

## Competitions
### Legend

Win  Draw  Loss  Postponed

### Russian Premier League
#### Results by matchday

| 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 | H | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H |
| Result | W | W | L | D | W | L | W | W | W | D | L | D | L | L | D | W | W | W | L | L | D | L | D | L | D | W | W | L | L | W |
| Position | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 |

#### Table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 7 | Dynamo Moscow | 30 | 14 | 6 | 10 | 41 | 34 | +7 | 48 |
| 8 | Terek Grozny | 30 | 14 | 6 | 10 | 38 | 40 | −2 | 48 |
| 9 | Lokomotiv Moscow | 30 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 39 | 36 | +3 | 43 |
| 10 | Krasnodar | 30 | 12 | 6 | 12 | 45 | 39 | +6 | 42 |
| 11 | Amkar Perm | 30 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 34 | 51 | −17 | 29 |
* 1 2 Dynamo Moscow ahead of Terek Grozny on head-to-head points; Dynamo Moscow–Terek Grozny 1–2, Terek Grozny–Dynamo Moscow 1–2.
* ↑ Amkar Perm ahead of Volga Nizhny Novgorod and Rostov on head-to-head points; Amkar Perm: 7 pts, Volga Nizhny Novgorod: 5 pts, Rostov: 4 pts.

### Russian Cup
## Squad statistics

    As of 27 May 2013

### 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 | BRA | Guilherme | 11 | 0 | 11+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 4 | MF | ESP | Alberto Zapater | 5 | 0 | 4+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | RUS | Taras Burlak | 18 | 0 | 15+2 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | RUS | Maksim Grigoryev | 20 | 2 | 12+8 | 2 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | RUS | Denis Glushakov | 28 | 1 | 26+1 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | RUS | Dmitri Loskov | 1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 13 | FW | NGA | Victor Obinna | 28 | 2 | 14+12 | 2 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 14 | DF | CRO | Vedran Ćorluka | 28 | 1 | 27+0 | 1 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 18 | FW | RUS | Roman Pavlyuchenko | 20 | 4 | 9+10 | 4 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 19 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Samedov | 27 | 2 | 20+6 | 2 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | RUS | Dmitri Torbinski | 16 | 3 | 7+8 | 3 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 22 | GK | CRO | Dario Krešić | 17 | 0 | 16+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 23 | MF | RUS | Dmitri Tarasov | 19 | 2 | 17+1 | 2 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 25 | FW | ECU | Felipe Caicedo | 24 | 6 | 11+11 | 4 | 1+1 | 2 |
| 26 | MF | BLR | Yan Tigorev | 17 | 0 | 16+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 27 | MF | RUS | Magomed Ozdoyev | 11 | 1 | 5+5 | 1 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 28 | DF | SVK | Ján Ďurica | 21 | 1 | 18+2 | 1 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 29 | DF | UZB | Vitaliy Denisov | 8 | 0 | 8+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 33 | FW | SEN | Dame N'Doye | 26 | 10 | 21+4 | 10 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 41 | GK | RUS | Miroslav Lobantsev | 4 | 0 | 3+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 49 | DF | RUS | Roman Shishkin | 21 | 0 | 19+1 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 55 | DF | RUS | Renat Yanbayev | 11 | 1 | 11+0 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 59 | MF | RUS | Aleksei Miranchuk | 6 | 1 | 6+0 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 65 | MF | RUS | Vyacheslav Podberyozkin | 2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 72 | FW | RUS | Kamil Mullin | 1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 79 | DF | RUS | Vitali Lystsov | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 90 | FW | BRA | Maicon | 19 | 3 | 12+5 | 3 | 2+0 | 0 |
| Players who appeared for Lokomotiv no longer at the club: ||||||||||
| 3 | MF | SUI | Reto Ziegler | 7 | 0 | 4+2 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 11 | FW | RUS | Dmitri Sychev | 4 | 2 | 0+3 | 0 | 1+0 | 2 |
| 50 | DF | RUS | Andrey Yeshchenko | 18 | 0 | 17+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 51 | DF | RUS | Maksim Belyayev | 2 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 57 | DF | RUS | Georgi Burnash | 1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |

### Scorers and assistants

    As of 27 May 2013
| Place | Position | Number | Name | League goals | League assists | Cup goals | Cup assists | Total |
| 1 | FW | 33 | Dame N'Doye | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| 2 | MF | 19 | Aleksandr Samedov | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| 3 | FW | 25 | Felipe Caicedo | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 4 | FW | 18 | Roman Pavlyuchenko | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 5 | MF | 21 | Dmitri Torbinski | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 6 | FW | 90 | Maicon | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 7 | MF | 8 | Denis Glushakov | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 8 | FW | 13 | Victor Obinna | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 8 | MF | 23 | Dmitri Tarasov | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 10 | MF | 6 | Maksim Grigoryev | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 11 | DF | 14 | Vedran Ćorluka | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 12 | FW | 11 | Dmitri Sychev | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 13 | MF | 27 | Magomed Ozdoyev | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 13 | DF | 50 | Andrey Yeshchenko | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 13 | DF | 55 | Renat Yanbayev | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 13 | MF | 59 | Aleksei Miranchuk | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 17 | DF | 28 | Ján Ďurica | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 18 | MF | 4 | Alberto Zapater | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 18 | DF | 29 | Vitaliy Denisov | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 18 | DF | 49 | Roman Shishkin | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| | | | TOTALS | 39 | 29 | 4 | 3 | |

### Disciplinary record

    As of 27 May 2013
| Number | Position | Name | Russian Premier League | Russian Premier League | Russian Cup | Russian Cup | Total | Total |
| 1 | GK | Guilherme | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | Reto Ziegler | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 4 | MF | Alberto Zapater | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | Taras Burlak | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | Denis Glushakov | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 13 | FW | Victor Obinna | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 14 | DF | Vedran Ćorluka | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 18 | FW | Roman Pavlyuchenko | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 19 | MF | Aleksandr Samedov | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 21 | MF | Dmitri Torbinski | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 22 | GK | Dario Krešić | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 23 | MF | Dmitri Tarasov | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 |
| 25 | FW | Felipe Caicedo | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 26 | MF | Yan Tigorev | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 27 | MF | Magomed Ozdoyev | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 28 | DF | Ján Ďurica | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 29 | DF | Vitaliy Denisov | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 33 | FW | Dame N'Doye | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 49 | DF | Roman Shishkin | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 |
| 50 | DF | Andrey Yeshchenko | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 90 | FW | Maicon | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| | | TOTALS | 73 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 83 | 4 |

## Season events

During winter camp at Cyprus in February 2013, Guilherme was appointed team captain instead of Denis Glushakov who started 2012-2013 season with captain's armband. Roman Shishkin and Dmitri Tarasov were named vice-captains.

### Player of the Month

In September 2012, the club started a monthly poll among Loko fans in the social networks to name the best player of the month. The award went to: Vedran Ćorluka (September 2012), Andrey Yeshchenko (October 2012), Dame N'Doye (November 2012), Kamil Mullin (March 2013), Dmitri Tarasov (April 2013), Aleksandr Samedov (May 2013).