# 2019–20 FC Ural Yekaterinburg season

The 2019–20 Ural season was the club's seventh successive season that the club played in the Russian Premier League, the highest tier of association football in Russia.

## Season review

On 17 March, the Russian Premier League postponed all league fixtures until April 10 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
On 1 April, the Russian Football Union extended the suspension of football until 31 May.
On 15 May, the Russian Football Union announced that the Russian Premier League season would resume on 21 June.
On 1 July, the Russian Premier League announced that that afternoon's game between Orenburg and Ural Yekaterinburg had been called off due to an outbreak of COVID-19 within the Orenburg squad.

## Squad

    As of 18 February 2020
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 | Shamsiddin Shanbiyev |
| 3 | DF | ARM | Varazdat Haroyan |
| 4 | DF | RUS | Artyom Mamin |
| 5 | DF | POL | Maciej Wilusz |
| 6 | MF | POL | Rafał Augustyniak |
| 8 | MF | RUS | Roman Yemelyanov |
| 10 | MF | ROU | Eric Bicfalvi |
| 11 | MF | RUS | Dmitry Yefremov |
| 13 | MF | CMR | Petrus Boumal |
| 14 | MF | RUS | Yuri Bavin |
| 15 | DF | UKR | Denys Kulakov |
| 17 | MF | BUL | Nikolay Dimitrov |
| 18 | MF | POL | Michał Kucharczyk |
| 19 | DF | BLR | Dzyanis Palyakow |
| 20 | FW | RUS | Andrei Panyukov |
| 21 | DF | RUS | Islamzhan Nasyrov |
| 25 | DF | RUS | Ivan Kuzmichyov |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 27 | DF | RUS | Mikhail Merkulov |
| 31 | GK | RUS | Yaroslav Hodzyur |
| 35 | DF | BLR | Nikolay Zolotov |
| 44 | MF | RUS | Andrei Yegorychev |
| 57 | MF | RUS | Artyom Fidler (captain) |
| 58 | MF | NED | Othman El Kabir |
| 60 | GK | RUS | Vladislav Poletayev |
| 65 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Galimov |
| 69 | MF | RUS | Artyom Shabolin |
| 77 | GK | RUS | Oleg Baklov |
| 79 | FW | RUS | Artyom Yusupov |
| 88 | FW | RUS | Pavel Pogrebnyak |
| 90 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Shcherbakov |
| 93 | DF | RUS | Aleksei Gerasimov |
| 95 | DF | RUS | Ihor Kalinin (on loan from Dynamo Moscow) |
| 99 | FW | RUS | Yevgeni Tatarinov |

### 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 |
| 50 | DF | RUS | Nikita Chistyakov (at Chayka Peschanokopskoye) |
| — | DF | SRB | Dominik Dinga (at Partizan) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Lomakin (at Yenisey Krasnoyarsk) |
| — | MF | SUI | Marco Aratore (at Lugano) |

## Transfers
### In

| Date | Position | Name | From | Fee |
| Summer 2019 | GK | Sergei Dudin | | Free |
| Summer 2019 | GK | Ilya Ignatyev | | Free |
| Summer 2019 | MF | Anatoli Anisimov | CSKA Moscow | Free |
| Summer 2019 | MF | Aleksandr Nekrasov | Zenit St.Petersburg | Undisclosed |
| Summer 2019 | MF | Maksim Kryukov | | Free |
| 21 June 2019 | DF | Nikita Chistyakov | Anzhi Makhachkala | Undisclosed |
| 21 June 2019 | MF | Rafał Augustyniak | Miedź Legnica | Undisclosed |
| 27 June 2019 | FW | Andrei Panyukov | Zenit St.Petersburg | Undisclosed |
| 27 June 2019 | MF | Artyom Shabolin | Nosta Novotroitsk | Undisclosed |
| 22 July 2019 | MF | Michał Kucharczyk | Legia Warsaw | Undisclosed |
| 24 July 2019 | DF | Islamzhan Nasyrov | Nosta Novotroitsk | Undisclosed |
| 7 August 2019 | DF | Artyom Mamin | Spartak Moscow | Undisclosed |
| 23 December 2019 | DF | Nikolay Zolotov | Vitebsk | Undisclosed |
| 16 January 2020 | DF | Maciej Wilusz | Rostov | Free |
| 18 February 2020 | MF | Dmitry Yefremov | CSKA Moscow | Free |
| 15 June 2020 | FW | David Karayev | KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny | Undisclosed |

### Loans in

| Date from | Position | Nationality | Name | From | Date to | Ref. |
| 21 February 2020 | DF | | Ihor Kalinin | Dynamo Moscow | End of Season | |

### Out

| Date | Position | Name | To | Fee |
| Summer 2019 | DF | Sergei Bryzgalov | Fakel Voronezh | Undisclosed |
| 3 July 2019 | DF | Vladimir Khozin | Nizhny Novgorod | Undisclosed |
| Winter 2020 | DF | Mingiyan Beveyev | KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny | Undisclosed |
| 7 January 2020 | FW | Vladimir Ilyin | Akhmat Grozny | Undisclosed |
| 9 June 2020 | DF | Mikhail Merkulov | Rubin Kazan | Undisclosed |
| 4 July 2020 | MF | Aleksandr Lomakin | Yenisey Krasnoyarsk | Undisclosed |
| 17 July 2020 | MF | Nikita Glushkov | Yenisey Krasnoyarsk | Undisclosed |
| 21 July 2020 | MF | Aleksandr Galimov | Yenisey Krasnoyarsk | Undisclosed |

### Loans out

| Date from | Position | Name | To | Date to |
| 14 June 2019 | DF | Dominik Dinga | Partizan | End of Season |
| 19 June 2019 | MF | Aleksandr Lomakin | Yenisey Krasnoyarsk | End of Season |
| 10 July 2019 | MF | Marco Aratore | Lugano | End of Season |
| 11 July 2019 | FW | Yevgeni Tatarinov | Torpedo Moscow | 11 January 2020 |
| 4 February 2020 | DF | Nikita Chistyakov | Chayka Peschanokopskoye | End of Season |

### Released

| Date | Position | Name | Joined | Date |
| Summer 2019 | DF | Yegor Badyin | | |
| 7 June 2019 | DF | Gregor Balažic | Enosis Neon Paralimni | |
| 7 June 2019 | DF | Aleksandr Dantsev | Retired | Retired |
| 7 June 2019 | MF | Anatoli Katrich | Luch Vladivostok | |
| 10 June 2020 | FW | Nikolay Dimitrov | Retired | Retired |
| 24 July 2020 | DF | Maciej Wilusz | Raków Częstochowa | 4 August 2020 |
| 24 July 2020 | MF | Michał Kucharczyk | Pogoń Szczecin | 6 August 2020 |
| 24 July 2020 | FW | Pavel Pogrebnyak | Ural Yekaterinburg | 16 October 2020 |
| 25 July 2020 | GK | Davyd Alekseyev | | |
| 25 July 2020 | GK | Sergei Dudin | | |
| 25 July 2020 | GK | Ilya Ignatyev | | |
| 25 July 2020 | GK | Vladimir Kutyryov | | |
| 25 July 2020 | GK | Aleksandr Medvedev | | |
| 25 July 2020 | DF | Dzyanis Palyakow | | |
| 25 July 2020 | DF | Arsen Agakhanov | | |
| 25 July 2020 | DF | Gleb Geykin | | |
| 25 July 2020 | DF | Kirill Gurov | | |
| 25 July 2020 | DF | Andrei Khityayev | | |
| 25 July 2020 | DF | Ivan Lyubukhin | | |
| 25 July 2020 | DF | Mikhail Merkulov | Rubin Kazan | |
| 25 July 2020 | DF | Pavel Nevidomy | | |
| 25 July 2020 | DF | Shamsiddin Shanbiyev | | |
| 25 July 2020 | MF | Aleksei Bulka | | |
| 25 July 2020 | MF | Ilya Bykovsky | | |
| 25 July 2020 | MF | Yan Chizhkov | | |
| 25 July 2020 | MF | Artyom Fidler | Retired | Retired |
| 25 July 2020 | MF | Ilya Korelin | | |
| 25 July 2020 | MF | Vasili Koryukov | | |
| 25 July 2020 | MF | Maksim Kryukov | Khimik-Arsenal | |
| 25 July 2020 | MF | Konstantin Malitskiy | | |
| 25 July 2020 | MF | Aleksandr Nekrasov | | |
| 25 July 2020 | MF | Ilya Nekrasov | | |
| 25 July 2020 | MF | Maksim Prokopyev | | |
| 25 July 2020 | MF | Konstantin Sysoyev | | |
| 25 July 2020 | MF | Lev Tolkachyov | | |
| 25 July 2020 | MF | Aleksandr Volchkov | Krylia Sovetov-2 Samara | |
| 25 July 2020 | MF | Maks Zhestaryov | | |
| 25 July 2020 | FW | Igor Voronin | | |
| 25 July 2020 | FW | Danil Vorobyov | | |

## Competitions
### 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 | H | A | H | A | H | H | H | A | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | A | A | A | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | H | H |
| Result | W | W | L | D | L | L | W | L | W | D | L | L | W | D | L | D | D | D | W | D | L | L | L | W | W | D | W | L | L | L |
| Position | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 11 | 11 |

#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 9 | Ufa | 30 | 8 | 14 | 8 | 22 | 24 | −2 | 38 |
| 10 | Rubin Kazan | 30 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 18 | 28 | −10 | 35 |
| 11 | Ural | 30 | 9 | 8 | 13 | 36 | 53 | −17 | 35 |
| 12 | Sochi | 30 | 8 | 9 | 13 | 40 | 39 | +1 | 33 |
| 13 | Akhmat Grozny | 30 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 27 | 46 | −19 | 31 |
* ↑ Head-to-head points: Arsenal Tula 4, Ufa 1
* 1 2 Head-to-head points: Rubin Kazan 4, Ural 1
* ↑ Head-to-head points: Akhmat Grozny 8, Tambov 4, Krylia Sovetov Samara 4. Head-to-head goal difference: Akhmat Grozny +3, Tambov 0, Krylia Sovetov Samara –3

### Russian Cup
## Squad statistics

    As of match played 19 July 2020

### 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 |
| 3 | DF | ARM | Varazdat Haroyan | 20 | 1 | 17+1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | RUS | Artyom Mamin | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | POL | Maciej Wilusz | 9 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | POL | Rafał Augustyniak | 32 | 2 | 24+5 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 8 | MF | RUS | Roman Yemelyanov | 16 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | ROU | Eric Bicfalvi | 27 | 8 | 24+2 | 8 | 1 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | RUS | Dmitry Yefremov | 10 | 0 | 2+6 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 |
| 13 | MF | CMR | Petrus Boumal | 17 | 0 | 14+2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | RUS | Yuri Bavin | 24 | 4 | 8+13 | 3 | 2+1 | 1 |
| 15 | DF | UKR | Denys Kulakov | 31 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | BUL | Nikolay Dimitrov | 19 | 2 | 15+3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 18 | MF | POL | Michał Kucharczyk | 19 | 0 | 11+5 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 |
| 19 | DF | BLR | Dzyanis Palyakow | 19 | 0 | 15+2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 20 | FW | RUS | Andrei Panyukov | 27 | 5 | 15+9 | 4 | 2+1 | 1 |
| 21 | DF | RUS | Islamzhan Nasyrov | 9 | 0 | 1+6 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 27 | DF | RUS | Mikhail Merkulov | 20 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 31 | GK | RUS | Yaroslav Hodzyur | 28 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 35 | DF | BLR | Nikolay Zolotov | 8 | 0 | 4+3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 44 | MF | RUS | Andrei Yegorychev | 29 | 0 | 17+9 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 57 | MF | RUS | Artyom Fidler | 9 | 0 | 6+1 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 58 | MF | NED | Othman El Kabir | 24 | 7 | 20+2 | 6 | 2 | 1 |
| 60 | GK | RUS | Vladislav Poletayev | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 69 | MF | RUS | Artyom Shabolin | 2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 77 | GK | RUS | Oleg Baklov | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 78 | MF | RUS | Artyom Mamin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 79 | FW | RUS | Artyom Yusupov | 5 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 |
| 80 | MF | RUS | Chingiz Magomadov | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 |
| 88 | FW | RUS | Pavel Pogrebnyak | 19 | 5 | 6+10 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| 93 | DF | RUS | Aleksei Gerasimov | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 95 | DF | RUS | Ihor Kalinin | 8 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| Players away from the club on loan: ||||||||||
| Players who appeared for Ural Yekaterinburg but left during the season: ||||||||||
| 11 | FW | RUS | Vladimir Ilyin | 20 | 4 | 11+7 | 4 | 1+1 | 0 |

### Goal scorers

| Place | Position | Nation | Number | Name | Premier League | Russian Cup | Total |
| 1 | MF | | 10 | Eric Bicfalvi | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2 | MF | | 58 | Othman El Kabir | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| 3 | FW | | 88 | Pavel Pogrebnyak | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 3 | FW | | 20 | Andrei Panyukov | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 5 | FW | | 11 | Vladimir Ilyin | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 5 | MF | | 14 | Yuri Bavin | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | MF | | 17 | Nikolay Dimitrov | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | MF | | 6 | Rafał Augustyniak | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | | | | Own goal | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | DF | | 3 | Varazdat Haroyan | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 33 | 7 | 40 |

### Clean sheets

| Place | Position | Nation | Number | Name | Premier League | Russian Cup | Total |
| 1 | GK | | 31 | Yaroslav Hodzyur | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2 | GK | | 77 | Oleg Baklov | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 5 | 2 | 7 |

### Disciplinary record

| Number | Nation | Position | Name | Premier League | Premier League | Russian Cup | Russian Cup | Total | Total |
| 3 | | DF | Varazdat Haroyan | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 6 | | MF | Rafał Augustyniak | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 8 | | MF | Roman Yemelyanov | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 |
| 10 | | MF | Eric Bicfalvi | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| 13 | | MF | Petrus Boumal | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 1 |
| 14 | | MF | Yuri Bavin | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 15 | | DF | Denys Kulakov | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 17 | | MF | Nikolay Dimitrov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 19 | | DF | Dzyanis Palyakow | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 20 | | FW | Andrei Panyukov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 27 | | DF | Mikhail Merkulov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 35 | | DF | Nikolay Zolotov | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 44 | | MF | Andrei Yegorychev | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 57 | | MF | Artyom Fidler | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 58 | | MF | Othman El Kabir | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 80 | | MF | Chingiz Magomadov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 88 | | FW | Pavel Pogrebnyak | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 95 | | DF | Ihor Kalinin | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Players away on loan: ||||||||||
| Players who left Ural Yekaterinburg during the season: ||||||||||
| 11 | | FW | Vladimir Ilyin | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | 67 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 73 | 3 |