# 2018–19 FC Ufa season

The 2018–19 FC Ufa season was their fifth successive season in the Russian Premier League, the highest tier of association football in Russia, and sixth in total.

## Season events

During pre-season, manager Sergei Semak left by mutual consent, to become manager of Zenit St.Petersburg. On 13 June, Sergei Tomarov was appointed as the club's new manager, but resigned on 7 November 2018 being replaced by Dmitri Kirichenko. Kirichenko left Ufa by mutual consent on 27 March, with Vadim Evseev becoming Ufa's third manager of the season on the same day.

## 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 |
| 1 | GK | RUS | Aleksei Chernov |
| 3 | DF | RUS | Pavel Alikin |
| 4 | DF | RUS | Aleksei Nikitin |
| 5 | DF | SVN | Bojan Jokić |
| 6 | MF | SUI | Vero Salatić |
| 7 | MF | RUS | Dmitri Sysuyev |
| 8 | MF | MDA | Cătălin Carp |
| 9 | MF | CZE | Ondřej Vaněk |
| 11 | FW | SVN | Lovro Bizjak |
| 13 | MF | RUS | Azamat Zaseyev |
| 15 | DF | RUS | Aleksandr Putsko |
| 16 | GK | RUS | Yury Shafinsky |
| 17 | DF | RUS | Dmitri Zhivoglyadov |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 19 | MF | CRO | Ivan Paurević |
| 27 | DF | ROU | Ionuț Nedelcearu |
| 29 | MF | LUX | Olivier Thill |
| 31 | GK | RUS | Aleksandr Belenov |
| 32 | FW | SVN | Andrés Vombergar |
| 33 | DF | RUS | Aleksandr Sukhov |
| 44 | FW | NGA | Sylvester Igboun |
| 55 | DF | GEO | Jemal Tabidze |
| 56 | DF | RUS | Danil Krugovoy |
| 57 | FW | RUS | Vyacheslav Krotov |
| 77 | MF | RUS | Azer Aliyev |
| 87 | MF | RUS | Igor Bezdenezhnykh |
| 88 | GK | RUS | Timur Akmurzin (on loan from Rubin Kazan) |

### 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 |
| 10 | FW | KAZ | Yerkebulan Seidakhmet (at Levski Sofia) |
| 78 | DF | RUS | Igor Diveyev (at CSKA Moscow) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | DF | MDA | Victor Patrașco (at Luch-Energiya Vladivostok) |
| — | MF | RUS | Andrei Batyutin (at Avangard Kursk) |

## Transfers
### In

| Date | Position | Name | From | Fee |
| 18 June 2018 | DF | Danil Krugovoy | Zenit-2 St. Petersburg | Undisclosed |
| 14 August 2018 | FW | Lovro Bizjak | Domžale | Undisclosed |
| 31 August 2018 | MF | Azer Aliyev | Krylia Sovetov | Free |
| 3 February 2018 | GK | Yury Shafinsky | Tom Tomsk | Undisclosed |
| 16 February 2019 | FW | Andrés Vombergar | Olimpija Ljubljana | Undisclosed |

### Out

| Date | Position | Name | To | Fee |
| 15 May 2018 | MF | Dmitry Stotsky | Krasnodar | Undisclosed |
| 31 August 2018 | MF | Ivan Oblyakov | CSKA Moscow | Undisclosed |
| 8 February 2019 | FW | Islamnur Abdulavov | Tom Tomsk | Undisclosed |

### Loans in

| Date from | Position | Nationality | Name | To | Date to | Ref. |
| Winter 2019 | GK | | Timur Akmurzin | Rubin Kazan | End of Season | |

### Loans out

| Date from | Position | Name | To | Date to |
| 13 June 2018 | MF | Andrei Batyutin | Avangard Kursk | End of Season |
| 29 June 2018 | FW | Islamnur Abdulavov | Rotor Volgograd | 8 February 2019 |
| 5 July 2018 | DF | Victor Patrașco | Luch-Energiya Vladivostok | End of Season |
| 22 February 2019 | DF | Igor Diveyev | Ufa | End of Season |
| 28 February 2019 | FW | Yerkebulan Seydakhmet | Levski Sofia | 31 December 2019 |

### Released

| Date | Position | Name | Joined | Date |
| 13 June 2018 | MF | Nikolai Safronidi | Retired | Retired |
| 14 August 2018 | FW | Kehinde Fatai | Dinamo Minsk | 30 August 2018 |
| 1 December 2018 | MF | Vladimir Zubarev | | |
| 11 January 2019 | GK | Giorgi Shelia | Tambov | 16 January 2019 |
| 27 January 2019 | DF | Denis Tumasyan | Alashkert | 27 January 2019 |
| | GK | Nikita Yatsenko | | |
| | MF | Yevgeni Bazhanov | | |
| | FW | Daniil Zaplakhov | | |

## 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 | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A |
| Result | D | W | L | L | L | L | L | D | W | D | D | D | L | W | L | D | D | L | L | L | D | W | D | L | D | W | D | L | L | L |
| Position | 8 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 11 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 15 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 |

#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 12 | Dynamo Moscow | 30 | 6 | 15 | 9 | 28 | 28 | 0 | 33 | |
| 13 | Krylia Sovetov Samara (O) | 30 | 8 | 4 | 18 | 25 | 46 | −21 | 28 | Qualification for the Relegation play-offs |
| 14 | Ufa (O) | 30 | 5 | 11 | 14 | 24 | 34 | −10 | 26 | Qualification for the Relegation play-offs |
| 15 | Anzhi Makhachkala (R) | 30 | 5 | 6 | 19 | 13 | 50 | −37 | 21 | Relegation to Football National League |
| 16 | Yenisey Krasnoyarsk (R) | 30 | 4 | 8 | 18 | 24 | 55 | −31 | 20 | Relegation to Football National League |

#### Relegation play-offs
### UEFA Europa League
#### Qualifying rounds
## Squad statistics

    As of match played 2 June 2019

### Appearances and goals

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Premier League | Premier League | Russian Cup | Russian Cup | Europa League | Europa League | Relegation Playoff | Relegation Playoff |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 3 | DF | RUS | Pavel Alikin | 24 | 1 | 20+1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | RUS | Aleksei Nikitin | 13 | 0 | 9+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | SVN | Bojan Jokić | 28 | 1 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | SUI | Vero Salatić | 21 | 0 | 11+2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | RUS | Dmitri Sysuyev | 26 | 3 | 20+2 | 2 | 0+1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | MDA | Cătălin Carp | 31 | 2 | 23+1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2+3 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 9 | MF | CZE | Ondřej Vaněk | 23 | 3 | 11+6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2+2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 11 | FW | SVN | Lovro Bizjak | 21 | 2 | 8+12 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | MF | RUS | Azamat Zaseyev | 9 | 0 | 2+3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | RUS | Aleksandr Putsko | 17 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | DF | RUS | Dmitri Zhivoglyadov | 29 | 0 | 20+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 19 | MF | CRO | Ivan Paurević | 29 | 2 | 13+9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 27 | DF | ROU | Ionuț Nedelcearu | 34 | 1 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 29 | MF | LUX | Olivier Thill | 25 | 1 | 18+4 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 31 | GK | RUS | Aleksandr Belenov | 37 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 32 | FW | SVN | Andrés Vombergar | 13 | 1 | 5+6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 33 | DF | RUS | Aleksandr Sukhov | 18 | 0 | 12+2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 44 | FW | NGA | Sylvester Igboun | 35 | 11 | 25+2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 55 | DF | GEO | Jemal Tabidze | 19 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 56 | DF | RUS | Danil Krugovoy | 9 | 1 | 8+1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 57 | FW | RUS | Vyacheslav Krotov | 25 | 1 | 8+11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1+3 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 77 | MF | RUS | Azer Aliyev | 14 | 0 | 0+13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 87 | MF | RUS | Igor Bezdenezhnykh | 6 | 0 | 4+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Players away from the club on loan: ||||||||||||||
| 10 | FW | KAZ | Yerkebulan Seidakhmet | 2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 78 | DF | RUS | Igor Diveyev | 3 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Players who left Ufa during the season: ||||||||||||||
| 20 | DF | RUS | Denis Tumasyan | 9 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | FW | NGA | Kehinde Fatai | 5 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 88 | GK | RUS | Giorgi Shelia | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 98 | MF | RUS | Ivan Oblyakov | 11 | 1 | 4+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5+1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |

### Goal scorers

| Place | Position | Number | Name | Premier League | Russian Cup | Europa League | Relegation Playoff | Total |
| 1 | FW | 44 | Sylvester Igboun | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
| 2 | MF | 9 | Ondřej Vaněk | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | MF | 7 | Dmitri Sysuyev | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 | MF | 8 | Cătălin Carp | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | FW | 11 | Lovro Bizjak | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | MF | 19 | Ivan Paurević | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | FW | 57 | Vyacheslav Krotov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | DF | 3 | Pavel Alikin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | MF | 29 | Olivier Thill | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | DF | 56 | Danil Krugovoy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | FW | 32 | Andrés Vombergar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | DF | 27 | Ionuț Nedelcearu | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | DF | 5 | Bojan Jokić | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | MF | 98 | Ivan Oblyakov | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | | | Own goal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| | | | TOTALS | 24 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 30 |

### Disciplinary record

| Number | Position | Name | Premier League | Premier League | Russian Cup | Russian Cup | Europa League | Europa League | Relegation Playoff | Relegation Playoff | Total | Total |
| 3 | DF | Pavel Alikin | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| 4 | DF | Aleksei Nikitin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | Bojan Jokić | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 |
| 6 | MF | Vero Salatić | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | Dmitri Sysuyev | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | Cătălin Carp | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| 9 | MF | Ondřej Vaněk | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 11 | FW | Lovro Bizjak | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 13 | MF | Azamat Zaseyev | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | Aleksandr Putsko | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 17 | DF | Dmitri Zhivoglyadov | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 19 | MF | Ivan Paurević | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 27 | DF | Ionuț Nedelcearu | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 29 | MF | Olivier Thill | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 31 | GK | Aleksandr Belenov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 33 | DF | Aleksandr Sukhov | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 44 | FW | Sylvester Igboun | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 55 | DF | Jemal Tabidze | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 57 | FW | Vyacheslav Krotov | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 87 | MF | Igor Bezdenezhnykh | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Players away on loan: ||||||||||||||
| 10 | FW | Yerkebulan Seidakhmet | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 78 | DF | Igor Diveyev | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Players who left Ufa during the season: ||||||||||||||
| 20 | DF | Denis Tumasyan | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 98 | MF | Ivan Oblyakov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| | | TOTALS | 70 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 91 | 3 |