# 2019–20 FC Tambov season

The 2019–20 FC Tambov season was their first season in the Russian Premier League, the highest tier of association football in Russia.

## Season review

On 19 October, Aleksandr Grigoryan left his role as manager by mutual consent, with assistant manager Sergei Pervushin being appointed as Caretaker manager on 21 October.
On 4 February, Tambov confirmed that their home games for the second half of the season would be played at the Nizhny Novgorod Stadium in Nizhny Novgorod.
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 June, Khetag Khosonov and Miguel Cardoso left the club after their loan deals had expired.
On 16 July, the Russian Premier League announced that that day's game between Tambov and Sochi would not take place due to an outbreak of COVID-19 within the Sochi squad. On 21 July 2020, the Russian Football Union awarded the game 3–0 to Tambov.

## 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 |
| 2 | DF | RUS | Aleksei Rybin |
| 3 | DF | RUS | Guram Tetrashvili |
| 4 | FW | NGA | Fanen Akyam |
| 5 | DF | RUS | Yevgeni Shlyakov |
| 6 | MF | CIV | Geo Danny Ekra |
| 8 | MF | RUS | Anton Kilin |
| 9 | FW | RUS | Khasan Mamtov |
| 11 | FW | RUS | Artyom Fedchuk |
| 13 | FW | RUS | Vladimir Obukhov |
| 14 | FW | RUS | Amur Kalmykov |
| 15 | DF | RUS | Oleksandr Filin (on loan from Khimki) |
| 19 | FW | RUS | Georgi Melkadze (on loan from Spartak Moscow) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 22 | DF | RUS | Igor Yurganov (on loan from Sochi) |
| 25 | MF | RUS | Pavel Karasyov |
| 27 | DF | RUS | Aleksei Gritsayenko (on loan from Krasnodar) |
| 29 | DF | UKR | Oleksandr Kapliyenko |
| 30 | DF | RUS | Soslan Takazov |
| 58 | DF | RUS | Adessoye Oyewole |
| 73 | GK | RUS | Nikita Chagrov |
| 77 | MF | RUS | Mikhail Kostyukov |
| 88 | GK | RUS | Giorgi Shelia |
| 91 | MF | RUS | Maksim Lazutkin |
| 92 | MF | MDA | Valeriu Ciupercă |

### 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 |
| 7 | MF | RUS | Oleg Chernyshov (at Aktobe) |
| 48 | FW | RUS | Andrei Chasovskikh (at Aktobe) |
| 50 | GK | RUS | Vladimir Sugrobov (at Pyunik) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | FW | RUS | Sergei Arkhipov (at Shakhtyor Soligorsk) |
| — | FW | RUS | Yevgeni Ragulkin (at Tyumen) |

## Transfers
### In

| Date | Position | Name | From | Fee |
| Summer 2019 | GK | Tamerlan Gabuyev | | |
| Summer 2019 | GK | Nikita Kotov | | |
| Summer 2019 | GK | Vitali Sychyov | Lokomotiv Moscow | Undisclosed |
| Summer 2019 | DF | Cédric Gogoua | BFC Daugavpils | Undisclosed |
| Summer 2019 | DF | Yegor Badyin | Ural Yekaterinburg | Undisclosed |
| Summer 2019 | DF | Renat Bagdashkin | | |
| Summer 2019 | DF | Ilya Mamkin | | |
| Summer 2019 | DF | Kamil Salakhetdinov | Lokomotiv Moscow | Undisclosed |
| Summer 2019 | MF | Mohammed Usman | Pyunik | Free |
| Summer 2019 | MF | Merab Chikhradze | Armavir | Undisclosed |
| Summer 2019 | MF | Vladimir Kabakhidze | | |
| Summer 2019 | MF | Arsen Kabolov | | |
| Summer 2019 | MF | Pavel Karasyov | Anzhi Makhachkala | Undisclosed |
| Summer 2019 | MF | Adam Katsayev | Akhmat Grozny | Undisclosed |
| Summer 2019 | MF | Dmitri Merenchukov | Novokuznetsk | Undisclosed |
| Summer 2019 | MF | Yevgeni Morev | Yenisey Krasnoyarsk | Undisclosed |
| Summer 2019 | MF | Aleksandr Shurlov | Akhlamov-UOR Neklinovsky District | Undisclosed |
| Summer 2019 | MF | Igor Sichkar | Orbita-Yunior Dzerzhinsky | Undisclosed |
| Summer 2019 | MF | Denis Skrypnikov | | |
| Summer 2019 | MF | Vildan Yermilov | | |
| Summer 2019 | FW | Mohamed Konaté | Pyunik | Free |
| Summer 2019 | FW | Roman Zherebyatyev | | |
| 26 May 2019 | DF | Soslan Takazov | Armavir | Undisclosed |
| 29 May 2019 | MF | Mikhail Kostyukov | Yenisey Krasnoyarsk | Undisclosed |
| 8 June 2019 | DF | Ruslan Abazov | Nizhny Novgorod | Undisclosed |
| 8 June 2019 | DF | Adessoye Oyewole | Orenburg | Undisclosed |
| 8 June 2019 | FW | Ishkhan Geloyan | Shinnik Yaroslavl | Undisclosed |
| 19 June 2019 | DF | Maksim Osipenko | Fakel Voronezh | Undisclosed |
| 1 July 2019 | GK | Vladimir Sugrobov | Baltika Kaliningrad | Undisclosed |
| 2 July 2019 | MF | Vladislav Kulik | Anzhi Makhachkala | Undisclosed |
| 4 July 2019 | DF | Guram Tetrashvili | Gomel | Undisclosed |
| 9 July 2019 | MF | Ivan Markelov | Anzhi Makhachkala | Undisclosed |
| 15 August 2019 | MF | Sulley Muniru | Dinamo Minsk | Undisclosed |
| 2 September 2019 | FW | Vladimir Obukhov | Sochi | Free |
| 1 January 2020 | FW | Artyom Fedchuk | Avangard Kursk | Undisclosed |
| 17 January 2020 | GK | Nikita Chagrov | Avangard Kursk | Undisclosed |
| 9 February 2020 | DF | Oleksandr Kapliyenko | Dinamo Tbilisi | Undisclosed |
| 21 February 2020 | MF | Geo Danny Ekra | | Free |
| 21 February 2020 | FW | Fanen Akyam | | Free |
| 7 July 2020 | FW | Amur Kalmykov | Armavir | Undisclosed |

### Loans in

| Date from | Position | Name | From | Date to |
| 5 July 2019 | MF | Khetag Khosonov | CSKA Moscow | 31 May 2020 |
| 2 September 2019 | DF | Aleksei Gritsayenko | Krasnodar | End of Season |
| 2 September 2019 | FW | Georgi Melkadze | Spartak Moscow | End of Season |
| 20 February 2020 | DF | Igor Yurganov | Sochi | End of Season |
| 22 February 2020 | DF | Oleksandr Filin | Khimki | End of Season |
| 22 February 2020 | MF | Miguel Cardoso | Dynamo Moscow | 31 May 2020 |

### Out

| Date | Position | Name | To | Fee |
| 29 August 2019 | DF | Cédric Gogoua | CSKA Moscow | Undisclosed |
| 2 September 2019 | FW | Mohamed Konaté | Khimki | Undisclosed |
| 20 January 2020 | MF | Vladislav Kulik | Chayka Peschanokopskoye | Undisclosed |
| 27 January 2020 | MF | Danil Klyonkin | Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk | Undisclosed |
| 20 June 2020 | MF | Vagiz Galiulin | Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk | Undisclosed |
| 9 July 2020 | DF | Andrei Yakovlev | Leningradets Leningrad Oblast | Undisclosed |
| 14 July 2020 | DF | Kirill Bolshakov | SKA-Khabarovsk | Undisclosed |

### Loans out

| Date from | Position | Name | To | Date to |
| Summer 2019 | DF | Yevgeni Shlyakov | SKA-Khabarovsk | Winter 2020 |
| Summer 2019 | DF | Andrei Yakovlev | Zvezda St.Petersburg | End of season |
| Summer 2019 | MF | Vagiz Galiulin | Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk | 20 June 2020 |
| Summer 2019 | FW | Sergei Arkhipov | Metallurg Lipetsk | End of season |
| Summer 2019 | FW | Yevgeni Ragulkin | Tyumen | Winter 2020 |
| 17 January 2020 | GK | Vladimir Sugrobov | Pyunik | End of Season |
| 21 February 2020 | DF | Oleg Chernyshov | Aktobe | End of Season |
| 21 February 2020 | FW | Andrei Chasovskikh | Aktobe | End of Season |
| 11 June 2020 | FW | Sergei Arkhipov | Shakhtyor Soligorsk | End of Season 2020-21 Season |

### Released

| Date | Position | Name | Joined | Date |
| Summer 2019 | DF | Mikhail Mishchenko | Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino | |
| Summer 2019 | MF | Sékou Doumbia | Armavir | |
| Summer 2019 | MF | Mladen Kašćelan | Baltika Kaliningrad | |
| Summer 2019 | FW | Ivan Markelov | Kyzylzhar | 18 February 2020 |
| 1 January 2020 | DF | Maksim Osipenko | Rostov | 9 January 2020 |
| 1 January 2020 | MF | Benito | Dynamo Kyiv | 3 January 2020 |
| 1 January 2020 | MF | Mohammed Usman | Shakhter Karagandy | 5 February 2020 |
| 1 January 2020 | FW | Khyzyr Appayev | Tekstilshchik Ivanovo | |
| 25 July 2020 | GK | Amur Kalmykov | | |
| 25 July 2020 | GK | Nikita Kotov | | |
| 25 July 2020 | DF | Yegor Badyin | | |
| 25 July 2020 | DF | Renat Bagdashkin | | |
| 25 July 2020 | DF | Igor Dvoryashin | | |
| 25 July 2020 | DF | Tamerlan Gabuyev | | |
| 25 July 2020 | DF | Ilya Mamkin | | |
| 25 July 2020 | DF | Kamil Salakhetdinov | | |
| 25 July 2020 | DF | Anton Fedorenko | | |
| 25 July 2020 | MF | Sulley Muniru | Asante Kotoko | 2 November 2020 |
| 25 July 2020 | MF | Geo Danny Ekra | | |
| 25 July 2020 | MF | Anton Arkhipov | | |
| 25 July 2020 | MF | Merad Chikhradze | | |
| 25 July 2020 | MF | Arsen Kabolov | | |
| 25 July 2020 | MF | Adam Katsayev | | |
| 25 July 2020 | MF | Denis Lenyo | | |
| 25 July 2020 | MF | Dmitri Merenchukov | | |
| 25 July 2020 | MF | Daniil Mishutin | Kafa Feodosia | |
| 25 July 2020 | MF | Yevgeni Morev | Kafa Feodosia | |
| 25 July 2020 | MF | Denis Romashev | | |
| 25 July 2020 | MF | Nikita Salamatov | Irtysh Omsk | |
| 25 July 2020 | MF | Aleksandr Shurlov | | |
| 25 July 2020 | MF | Denis Skrypnikov | | |
| 25 July 2020 | MF | Vladislav Vlasov | | |
| 25 July 2020 | MF | Vildan Yermilov | Dynamo Stavropol | |
| 25 July 2020 | FW | Fanen Akyam | | |
| 25 July 2020 | FW | Ishkhan Geloyan | Baltika Kaliningrad | |
| 25 July 2020 | FW | Dmytro Kosiakov | | |
| 25 July 2020 | FW | Khasan Mamtov | Kuban Krasnodar | |
| 25 July 2020 | FW | Mikhail Usanin | | |
| 25 July 2020 | FW | Roman Zherebyatyev | | |

## 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 | A | A | H | H | A | H | H | A | H | H | A | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | L | L | W | L | D | L | L | D | L | W | L | L | L | W | W | W | L | D | W | D | L | W | L | L | L | W | L | L | W | L |
| Position | 13 | 16 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 14 | 14 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 |

#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 12 | Sochi | 30 | 8 | 9 | 13 | 40 | 39 | +1 | 33 | |
| 13 | Akhmat Grozny | 30 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 27 | 46 | −19 | 31 | |
| 14 | Tambov | 30 | 9 | 4 | 17 | 37 | 41 | −4 | 31 | |
| 15 | Krylia Sovetov Samara (R) | 30 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 33 | 40 | −7 | 31 | Relegation to Football National League |
| 16 | Orenburg (R) | 30 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 28 | 52 | −24 | 27 | Relegation to Football National League |
* 1 2 3 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 22 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 |
| 2 | DF | RUS | Aleksei Rybin | 20 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | RUS | Guram Tetrashvili | 25 | 0 | 24+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | RUS | Yevgeni Shlyakov | 7 | 0 | 5+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | RUS | Nikita Salamatov | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | RUS | Anton Kilin | 26 | 2 | 22+3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | RUS | Khasan Mamtov | 18 | 1 | 3+14 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 11 | FW | RUS | Artyom Fedchuk | 6 | 0 | 1+5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | FW | RUS | Vladimir Obukhov | 17 | 7 | 17 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | FW | RUS | Amur Kalmykov | 3 | 0 | 1+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | RUS | Oleksandr Filin | 9 | 0 | 8+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | FW | RUS | Georgi Melkadze | 18 | 7 | 18 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | DF | RUS | Igor Yurganov | 7 | 0 | 3+4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | MF | RUS | Pavel Karasyov | 27 | 0 | 21+5 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 27 | DF | RUS | Aleksei Gritsayenko | 20 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 29 | DF | UKR | Oleksandr Kapliyenko | 9 | 0 | 4+5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | DF | RUS | Soslan Takazov | 18 | 1 | 15+3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 58 | DF | RUS | Adessoye Oyewole | 26 | 1 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 77 | MF | RUS | Mikhail Kostyukov | 27 | 7 | 25+2 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 81 | MF | RUS | Vladimir Kabakhidze | 5 | 0 | 0+5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 88 | GK | RUS | Giorgi Shelia | 29 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 92 | MF | MDA | Valeriu Ciupercă | 24 | 2 | 20+3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Players away from the club on loan: ||||||||||
| 7 | MF | RUS | Oleg Chernyshov | 9 | 0 | 2+6 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 48 | FW | RUS | Andrei Chasovskikh | 3 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 50 | GK | RUS | Vladimir Sugrobov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Players who appeared for Tambov but left during the season: ||||||||||
| 6 | MF | RUS | Vladislav Kulik | 6 | 0 | 2+3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | POR | Miguel Cardoso | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | NGA | Benito | 9 | 1 | 0+8 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 14 | FW | RUS | Khyzyr Appayev | 14 | 0 | 7+6 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | MF | NGA | Mohammed Usman | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | RUS | Khetag Khosonov | 8 | 0 | 1+7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | FW | CIV | Mohamed Konaté | 2 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | MF | RUS | Danil Klyonkin | 3 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | DF | CIV | Cédric Gogoua | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 55 | DF | RUS | Maksim Osipenko | 18 | 1 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 70 | MF | GHA | Sulley Muniru | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 99 | MF | RUS | Ivan Markelov | 5 | 0 | 3+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

### Goal scorers

| Place | Position | Nation | Number | Name | Premier League | Russian Cup | Total |
| 1 | FW | | 13 | Vladimir Obukhov | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 1 | FW | | 19 | Georgi Melkadze | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 1 | MF | | 77 | Mikhail Kostyukov | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 4 | DF | | 27 | Cédric Gogoua | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| MF | | 8 | Anton Kilin | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| MF | | 92 | Valeriu Ciupercă | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | FW | | 11 | Benito | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | DF | | 30 | Soslan Takazov | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | FW | | 9 | Khasan Mamtov | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | DF | | 55 | Maksim Osipenko | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | DF | | 58 | Adessoye Oyewole | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | DF | | 27 | Aleksei Gritsayenko | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | | | | Own goal | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 34 | 0 | 34 |

### Clean sheets

| Place | Position | Nation | Number | Name | Premier League | Russian Cup | Total |
| 1 | GK | | 88 | Giorgi Shelia | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 6 | 0 | 6 |

### Disciplinary record

| Number | Nation | Position | Name | Premier League | Premier League | Russian Cup | Russian Cup | Total | Total |
| 2 | | DF | Aleksei Rybin | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 3 | | DF | Guram Tetrashvili | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 |
| 8 | | MF | Anton Kilin | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 9 | | FW | Khasan Mamtov | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 13 | | FW | Vladimir Obukhov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | | DF | Oleksandr Filin | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 19 | | FW | Georgi Melkadze | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 |
| 25 | | MF | Pavel Karasyov | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 27 | | DF | Aleksei Gritsayenko | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 30 | | DF | Soslan Takazov | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 58 | | DF | Adessoye Oyewole | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 77 | | MF | Mikhail Kostyukov | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 88 | | GK | Giorgi Shelia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 92 | | MF | Valeriu Ciupercă | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 3 |
| Players away on loan: ||||||||||
| Players who left Tambov during the season: ||||||||||
| 6 | | MF | Vladislav Kulik | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 11 | | MF | Benito | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 14 | | MF | Khyzyr Appayev | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 17 | | MF | Khetag Khosonov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 27 | | DF | Cédric Gogoua | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 55 | | DF | Maksim Osipenko | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 99 | | MF | Ivan Markelov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | 80 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 83 | 5 |