# 2018–19 FC Rostov season

The 2018–19 FC Rostov season was the club's tenth successive season in the Russian Premier League, the highest tier of football in Russia. They finished the season 9th in the Premier League, and reached the Semifinal of the Russian Cup, where they lost to eventual winners Lokomotiv Moscow.

## Squad

    As of match played 26 May 2019
| No. | Name | Position | Date of birth (Age) | Signed from | Signed in | Contract ends | Apps. | Goals |
| Goalkeepers ||||||||||
| 30 | Sergei Pesyakov | GK | (1988-12-16)16 December 1988 (aged 30) | Spartak Moscow | 2017 | | 47 | 0 |
| 31 | Ilya Abayev | GK | (1981-08-02)2 August 1981 (aged 37) | Lokomotiv Moscow | 2017 | | 24 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||
| 3 | Maciej Wilusz | DF | (1988-09-25)25 September 1988 (aged 30) | Lech Poznań | 2017 | | 44 | 1 |
| 4 | Sergei Parshivlyuk | DF | (1989-03-18)18 March 1989 (aged 30) | Anzhi Makhachkala | 2017 | | 57 | 3 |
| 5 | Dennis Hadžikadunić | DF | (1998-07-09)9 July 1998 (aged 20) | Malmö FF | 2018 | | 12 | 1 |
| 6 | Ragnar Sigurðsson | DF | (1986-06-19)19 June 1986 (aged 32) | Fulham | 2018 | | 40 | 0 |
| 24 | Miha Mevlja | DF | (1990-06-12)12 June 1990 (aged 28) | loan from Zenit St.Petersburg | 2019 | 2019 | 48 | 1 |
| 25 | Arseny Logashov | DF | (1989-03-18)18 March 1989 (aged 30) | Baltika Kaliningrad | 2018 | | 43 | 2 |
| 28 | Yevgeni Chernov | DF | (1992-10-23)23 October 1992 (aged 26) | Zenit St.Petersburg | 2019 | 2022 | 15 | 0 |
| 33 | Konstantin Pliyev | DF | (1996-10-26)26 October 1996 (aged 22) | Volgar Astrakhan | 2018 | | 6 | 0 |
| 80 | Ivan Novoseltsev | DF | (1991-08-25)25 August 1991 (aged 27) | loan from Zenit St.Petersburg | 2019 | 2019 | 62 | 2 |
| 81 | Mikhail Osinov | DF | (2000-12-29)29 December 2000 (aged 18) | Academy | 2017 | | 1 | 0 |
| 92 | Artyom Shchadin | DF | (1992-11-01)1 November 1992 (aged 26) | Kuban Krasnodar | 2018 | | 8 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||
| 2 | Timofei Kalachev | MF | (1981-05-01)1 May 1981 (aged 38) | Krylia Sovetov | 2010 | | 295 | 24 |
| 7 | Roman Eremenko | MF | (1987-03-19)19 March 1987 (aged 32) | Spartak Moscow | 2019 | | 11 | 4 |
| 8 | Ivelin Popov | MF | (1987-10-26)26 October 1987 (aged 31) | Spartak Moscow | 2019 | | 15 | 3 |
| 10 | Aleksandr Zuyev | MF | (1996-06-26)26 June 1996 (aged 22) | Spartak Moscow | 2018 | | 53 | 3 |
| 11 | Aleksei Ionov | MF | (1989-02-18)18 February 1989 (aged 30) | Dynamo Moscow | 2017 | | 51 | 11 |
| 15 | Danil Glebov | MF | (1999-11-03)3 November 1999 (aged 19) | Anzhi Makhachkala | 2019 | | 11 | 0 |
| 17 | Mathias Normann | MF | (1996-05-28)28 May 1996 (aged 22) | Brighton & Hove Albion | 2019 | | 11 | 0 |
| 18 | Aleksandr Troshechkin | MF | (1996-04-23)23 April 1996 (aged 23) | Anzhi Makhachkala | 2014 | | 6 | 0 |
| 19 | Baktiyar Zaynutdinov | MF | (1998-04-02)2 April 1998 (aged 21) | Astana | 2019 | | 12 | 0 |
| 84 | Alexandru Gațcan | MF | (1984-03-27)27 March 1984 (aged 35) | Rubin Kazan | 2018 | | 314 | 24 |
| | Dmitri Veber | MF | (1999-02-10)10 February 1999 (aged 20) | SKA Rostov-on-Don | 2016 | | 3 | 0 |
| Forwards ||||||||||
| 9 | Björn Bergmann Sigurðarson | ST | (1991-02-26)26 February 1991 (aged 28) | Molde | 2018 | | 32 | 6 |
| 14 | Eldor Shomurodov | ST | (1995-06-29)29 June 1995 (aged 23) | Bunyodkor | 2017 | | 52 | 6 |
| Out on loan ||||||||||
| 17 | Anton Salétros | MF | (1996-04-12)12 April 1996 (aged 23) | AIK | 2018 | | 9 | 1 |
| 21 | Matija Boben | DF | (1994-02-26)26 February 1994 (aged 25) | ND Gorica | 2017 | | 9 | 0 |
| 23 | Viðar Örn Kjartansson | ST | (1990-03-11)11 March 1990 (aged 29) | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 2018 | | 11 | 2 |
| | Maksim Skrynnik | MF | (1999-07-21)21 July 1999 (aged 19) | Academy | 2018 | | 0 | 0 |
| | Khoren Bayramyan | MF | (1992-01-07)7 January 1992 (aged 27) | Academy | 2011 | | 67 | 1 |
| | Reziuan Mirzov | MF | (1993-06-22)22 June 1993 (aged 25) | Akhmat Grozny | 2017 | | 3 | 0 |
| | Saeid Ezatolahi | MF | (1996-10-01)1 October 1996 (aged 22) | Atlético Madrid C | 2017 | | 18 | 2 |
| | Nikita Kryukov | MF | (1999-10-05)5 October 1999 (aged 19) | Academy | 2018 | | 0 | 0 |
| | Dmitri Solovyov | MF | (1998-01-06)6 January 1998 (aged 21) | Academy | 2017 | | 0 | 0 |
| Left during the season ||||||||||
| 7 | Artur Yusupov | MF | (1989-09-01)1 September 1989 (aged 29) | Zenit St.Petersburg | 2018 | | 32 | 2 |
| 8 | Ayaz Guliyev | MF | (1996-11-27)27 November 1996 (aged 22) | Spartak Moscow | 2017 | | 21 | 1 |
| 15 | Sverrir Ingi Ingason | DF | (1993-08-05)5 August 1993 (aged 25) | Granada | 2017 | | 49 | 5 |
| 20 | Žan Majer | MF | (1992-07-25)25 July 1992 (aged 26) | Domžale | 2017 | | 17 | 0 |
| 77 | Dmitri Skopintsev | MF | (1997-03-02)2 March 1997 (aged 22) | Liefering | 2016 | | 29 | 1 |

### 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 |
| — | DF | SVN | Matija Boben (at Livorno) |
| — | DF | RUS | Maksim Skrynnik (at SKA Rostov-on-Don) |
| — | MF | RUS | Khoren Bayramyan (at Rubin Kazan) |
| — | MF | IRN | Saeid Ezatolahi (at Reading) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | RUS | Nikita Kryukov (at Zenit-Izhevsk) |
| — | MF | RUS | Reziuan Mirzov (at Arsenal Tula) |
| — | MF | SWE | Anton Salétros (at AIK) |
| — | FW | RUS | Dmitri Solovyov (at Veles Moscow) |

## Transfers
### In

| Date | Position | Name | From | Fee |
| 27 May 2018 | MF | Aleksandr Zuyev | Spartak Moscow | Undisclosed |
| 6 June 2018 | MF | Ayaz Guliyev | Spartak Moscow | Undisclosed |
| 6 June 2018 | MF | Anton Salétros | AIK | Undisclosed |
| 20 June 2018 | DF | Arseny Logashov | Baltika Kaliningrad | Undisclosed |
| 12 July 2018 | DF | Dennis Hadžikadunić | Malmö | Undisclosed |
| 25 July 2018 | MF | Artur Yusupov | Zenit St.Petersburg | Free |
| 25 July 2018 | MF | Artyom Shchadin | Kuban Krasnodar | Free |
| 31 August 2018 | FW | Viðar Örn Kjartansson | Maccabi Tel Aviv | Undisclosed |
| | DF | Pavel Zenzura | Akademiya Futbola Rostov-on-Don | |
| | MF | Andrei Napolov | Kuban Krasnodar | |
| 12 January 2019 | MF | Baktiyar Zaynutdinov | Astana | Undisclosed |
| 13 January 2019 | MF | Danil Glebov | Anzhi Makhachkala | Undisclosed |
| 18 January 2019 | MF | Roman Eremenko | Spartak Moscow | Free |
| 24 January 2019 | MF | Ivelin Popov | Spartak Moscow | Undisclosed |
| 28 January 2019 | MF | Mathias Normann | Brighton & Hove Albion | Undisclosed |
| 10 February 2019 | DF | Yevgeni Chernov | Zenit St.Petersburg | Undisclosed |

### Out

| Date | Position | Name | To | Fee |
| 7 June 2018 | MF | Nika Kacharava | Anorthosis Famagusta | Undisclosed |
| 12 June 2018 | MF | Igor Kireyev | Mordovia Saransk | Undisclosed |
| 12 July 2018 | GK | Yevgeni Goshev | Shinnik Yaroslavl | Undisclosed |
| | GK | Danila Yermakov | Spartak Moscow | Undisclosed |
| | DF | Dmitri Khristis | Akademiya Futbola Rostov-on-Don | Undisclosed |
| | MF | Andrei Potapov | Saturn Ramenskoye | Undisclosed |
| 9 January 2019 | MF | Ayaz Guliyev | Spartak Moscow | Undisclosed |
| 1 February 2019 | DF | Sverrir Ingi Ingason | PAOK | Undisclosed |
| 19 February 2019 | MF | Dmitri Skopintsev | Krasnodar | Undisclosed |

### Loans in

| Date from | Position | Nationality | Name | From | Date to | Ref. |
| 29 January 2019 | DF | | Ivan Novoseltsev | Zenit St.Petersburg | End of Season | |
| 21 February 2019 | DF | | Miha Mevlja | Zenit St.Petersburg | End of Season | |

### Loans out

| Date from | Position | Name | To | Date to |
| 23 June 2018 | MF | Khoren Bayramyan | Rubin Kazan | End of Season |
| 28 June 2018 | FW | Dmitri Solovyov | Veles Moscow | End of Season |
| 20 July 2018 | DF | Konstantin Pliyev | Baltika Kaliningrad | 25 December 2018 |
| 31 August 2018 | MF | Saeid Ezatolahi | Reading | End of Season |
| 31 August 2018 | MF | Reziuan Mirzov | Arsenal Tula | End of Season |
| 31 August 2018 | MF | Aleksandr Troshechkin | Avangard Kursk | Winter 2019 |
| | DF | Maksim Skrynnik | SKA Rostov-on-Don | |
| | MF | Nikita Kryukov | Zenit-Izhevsk | |
| 28 January 2019 | DF | Matija Boben | Livorno | End of Season |
| 6 February 2019 | MF | Anton Salétros | AIK | End of Season |
| 18 March 2019 | FW | Viðar Örn Kjartansson | Hammarby | End of Season |

### Released

| Date | Position | Name | Joined | Date |
| 30 June 2018 | MF | Moussa Doumbia | Reims | 1 July 2018 |
| 4 July 2018 | MF | Valeriu Ciupercă | Tambov | 13 July 2018 |
| 5 July 2018 | FW | Vladimir Dyadyun | Baltika Kaliningrad | 5 July 2018 |
| 21 August 2018 | MF | Aleksandr Sapeta | Nizhny Novgorod | |
| 23 August 2018 | DF | Yevgeni Makeyev | Sochi | 31 August 2018 |
| | MF | Sergei Zabrodin | | |
| | MF | Ilya Maletsky | | |
| | MF | Sergei Ponedelnik | | |
| | MF | Elvin Talibov | | |
| | MF | Sergei Kiryakov | | |
| 11 January 2019 | MF | Artur Yusupov | Dynamo Moscow | 14 January 2019 |
| 1 February 2019 | MF | Žan Majer | Lecce | 20 February 2019 |
| 31 May 2019 | MF | Timofei Kalachev | Retired | Retired |

## 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 | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | W | W | L | W | W | D | D | D | W | L | L | W | D | D | L | D | L | D | D | W | W | L | W | L | L | D | D | D | W | L |
| Position | 5 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 9 |

#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 7 | Orenburg | 30 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 39 | 34 | +5 | 43 |
| 8 | Akhmat Grozny | 30 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 29 | 30 | −1 | 42 |
| 9 | Rostov | 30 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 25 | 23 | +2 | 41 |
| 10 | Ural Yekaterinburg | 30 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 33 | 45 | −12 | 38 |
| 11 | Rubin Kazan | 30 | 7 | 15 | 8 | 24 | 30 | −6 | 36 |

### Russian Cup
## Squad statistics

    As of match played 26 May 2019

### 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 | MF | BLR | Timofei Kalachev | 14 | 0 | 5+7 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | POL | Maciej Wilusz | 17 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | RUS | Sergei Parshivlyuk | 26 | 1 | 22+2 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | SWE | Dennis Hadžikadunić | 12 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| 6 | DF | ISL | Ragnar Sigurðsson | 31 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | FIN | Roman Eremenko | 11 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 8 | MF | BUL | Ivelin Popov | 15 | 3 | 8+4 | 1 | 2+1 | 2 |
| 9 | FW | ISL | Björn Bergmann Sigurðarson | 26 | 5 | 21+5 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Zuyev | 26 | 1 | 9+13 | 1 | 3+1 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | RUS | Aleksei Ionov | 30 | 6 | 20+5 | 6 | 5 | 0 |
| 14 | FW | UZB | Eldor Shomurodov | 32 | 4 | 10+16 | 3 | 2+4 | 1 |
| 15 | MF | RUS | Danil Glebov | 11 | 0 | 6+2 | 0 | 1+2 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | NOR | Mathias Normann | 11 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 19 | MF | KAZ | Baktiyar Zaynutdinov | 12 | 0 | 4+6 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 24 | DF | SVN | Miha Mevlja | 8 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 25 | DF | RUS | Arseny Logashov | 17 | 1 | 10+3 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| 28 | DF | RUS | Yevgeni Chernov | 15 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 30 | GK | RUS | Sergei Pesyakov | 25 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 31 | GK | RUS | Ilya Abayev | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | DF | RUS | Konstantin Pliyev | 5 | 0 | 2+2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 71 | MF | RUS | Dmitri Veber | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 80 | DF | RUS | Ivan Novoseltsev | 12 | 0 | 8+1 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 |
| 81 | DF | RUS | Mikhail Osinov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 84 | MF | MDA | Alexandru Gațcan | 29 | 2 | 23+1 | 1 | 4+1 | 1 |
| 92 | MF | RUS | Artyom Shchadin | 8 | 0 | 2+4 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| Players away from the club on loan: ||||||||||
| 17 | MF | SWE | Anton Salétros | 9 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| 21 | DF | SVN | Matija Boben | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 22 | MF | RUS | Reziuan Mirzov | 3 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | FW | ISL | Viðar Örn Kjartansson | 11 | 2 | 1+7 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| Players who left Rostov during the season: ||||||||||
| 7 | MF | RUS | Artur Yusupov | 16 | 1 | 10+3 | 0 | 2+1 | 1 |
| 8 | MF | RUS | Ayaz Guliyev | 15 | 1 | 13+1 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | ISL | Sverrir Ingi Ingason | 19 | 2 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | SVN | Žan Majer | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 77 | MF | RUS | Dmitri Skopintsev | 17 | 1 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 1 |

### Goal scorers

| Place | Position | Number | Name | Premier League | Russian Cup | Total |
| 1 | MF | 11 | Aleksei Ionov | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2 | FW | 9 | Björn Bergmann Sigurðarson | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 3 | MF | 7 | Roman Eremenko | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | FW | 14 | Eldor Shomurodov | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | MF | 8 | Ivelin Popov | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | DF | 15 | Sverrir Ingi Ingason | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | MF | 84 | Alexandru Gațcan | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | FW | 23 | Viðar Örn Kjartansson | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 9 | DF | 4 | Sergei Parshivlyuk | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | MF | 8 | Ayaz Guliyev | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | MF | 10 | Aleksandr Zuyev | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | MF | 17 | Anton Salétros | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | DF | 25 | Arseny Logashov | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | MF | 7 | Artur Yusupov | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | DF | 5 | Dennis Hadžikadunić | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | MF | 77 | Dmitri Skopintsev | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | | | Own goal | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| | | | TOTALS | 25 | 12 | 37 |

### Disciplinary record

| Number | Position | Name | Premier League | Premier League | Russian Cup | Russian Cup | Total | Total |
| 2 | MF | Timofei Kalachev | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | Maciej Wilusz | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | Sergei Parshivlyuk | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | Dennis Hadžikadunić | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | Ragnar Sigurðsson | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| 7 | MF | Roman Eremenko | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | Ivelin Popov | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | Björn Bergmann Sigurðarson | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | Aleksandr Zuyev | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | Aleksei Ionov | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 14 | FW | Eldor Shomurodov | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | MF | Danil Glebov | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | Mathias Normann | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 19 | MF | Baktiyar Zaynutdinov | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 25 | DF | Arseny Logashov | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 30 | GK | Sergei Pesyakov | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 33 | DF | Konstantin Pliyev | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 80 | DF | Ivan Novoseltsev | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 84 | MF | Alexandru Gațcan | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 |
| Players away on loan: ||||||||||
| 17 | MF | Anton Salétros | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Players who left Rostov during the season: ||||||||||
| 7 | MF | Artur Yusupov | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | Ayaz Guliyev | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| 15 | DF | Sverrir Ingi Ingason | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | Žan Majer | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 77 | MF | Dmitri Skopintsev | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| | | TOTALS | 66 | 4 | 13 | 0 | 79 | 4 |