2012–13 FC Arsenal Kyiv season

The 2012–13 FC Arsenal Kyiv season was the club's 18th Ukrainian Premier League season and second season under manager Leonid Kuchuk. During the season, Arsenal Kyiv competed in the Premier League, UEFA Europa League and Ukrainian Cup.

Arsenal Kyiv

2012–13 season
Chairman	Vadim Rabinovich
Manager	Leonid Kuchuk
Stadium	Lobanovskyi Stadium
Premier League	5th
Ukrainian Cup	Round of 16
UEFA Europa League	Third qualifying round
Top goalscorer	League: Maksim Shatskikh (4) All: Volodymyr Homenyuk (6)

Squad

As of 18 August 2012[1][2]

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  FIN Veli Lampi 4 DF  UKR Serhiy Symonenko 6 DF  BRA Rafael Santos 7 FW  ROU Ionuț Mazilu 8 MF  UKR Oleksandr Maksymov 9 FW  UKR Oleksandr Kovpak 10 MF  ROU George Florescu 11 MF  UKR Artem Starhorodskyi 12 GK  UKR Yevhen Borovyk 13 MF  LTU Saulius Mikoliūnas 14 DF  CMR Éric Matoukou (on loan from Dnipro) 15 DF  MNE Janko Simović (on loan from Dynamo Kyiv) 16 FW  UZB Maksim Shatskikh (captain)

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 DF  UKR Andriy Hitchenko 18 MF  GHA Abeiku Quansah 19 MF  GEO Alexander Kobakhidze (on loan from Dnipro) 20 FW  GHA Dominic Adiyiah 22 FW  UKR Volodymyr Homenyuk 25 MF  POR Pelé (on loan from Milan) 28 DF  UKR Volodymyr Polyovyi 31 MF  BRA Leandro 33 DF  UKR Andriy Khomyn 52 MF  UKR Yevhen Shakhov (on loan from Dnipro) 77 GK  UKR Yuriy Pankiv 78 MF  UKR Serhiy Valyayev

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  UKR Bohdan Shershun (on loan to Kryvbas) — DF  NGA Michael Odibe (on loan to Dnipro)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  UKR Olavale Fabunmi (on loan to Slavutych) — MF  UKR Volodymyr Arzhanov (on loan to Volyn)

Competitions

2012-13 Ukrainian Premier League

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
30	10	9	11	34	41	−7	39	6	4	5	20	14	+6	4	5	6	14	27	−13

Last updated: 26 May 2013.
Source: Soccerway

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	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A
Result	L	L	W	D	W	W	D	W	L	D	W	D	D	L	L	W	L	L	L	L	L	D	D	L	W	W	D	W	W	D
Position	16	16	12	11	8	7	6	5	6	5	5	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	12	12	13	12	12	12	9	9	9	9	9	8

Source: Soccerway
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Results

15 July 2012 Match 1	Shakhtar	6–0	Arsenal	Donetsk
19:00	Mkhitaryan  13', 31' Seleznyov  34' Teixeira  39' Ilsinho  66' Dević  90+4'	Summary		Stadium: Donbass Arena Attendance: 39,263 Referee: Yuri Mozharovskyi

22 July 2012 Match 2	Arsenal	0–1	Dynamo	Kyiv
19:30	Stargorodsky  77'  78'	Summary	Ideye  3'	Stadium: Dynamo Stadium Attendance: 11,617 Referee: Anatoliy Zhabchenko

29 July 2012 Match 3	Zorya	1–3	Arsenal	Luhansk
21:00	Galyuza  24'	Summary	Shatskikh  10', 14' (pen.) Homenyuk  21'	Stadium: Avanhard Stadium Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Andriy Kuz'min

5 August 2012 Match 4	Arsenal	1–1	Dnipro	Kyiv
19:30	Kobakhidze  90+2'	Summary	Matheus  65' (pen.)	Stadium: Valeriy Lobanovskyi Attendance: 3,920 Referee: Yaroslav Kozyk

12 August 2012 Match 5	Metalist	0–1	Arsenal	Kharkiv
21:00		Summary	Kovpak  11'	Stadium: Metalist Stadium Attendance: 28,862 Referee: Oleksandr Derdo

17 August 2012 Match 6	Arsenal	2–1	Illichivets	Kyiv
19:00	Shatskikh  11' Homenyuk  87'	Summary	Okriashvili  27'	Stadium: Valeriy Lobanovskyi Attendance: 1,230 Referee: Yuri Moseichuk

26 August 2012 Match 7	Tavriya	1–1	Arsenal	Simferopol
21:00	Kalynychenko  23'	Summary	Mikoliūnas  61'	Stadium: RSC Lokomotiv Attendance: 4,200 Referee: Yuri Mozharovskyi

2 September 2012 Match 8	Arsenal	3–0	Metalurh Zaporizhya	Kyiv
19:30	Kovpak  24' Adiyiah  64' Shatskikh  85'	Summary		Stadium: Valeriy Lobanovskyi Attendance: 1,640 Referee: Kostiantyn Trukhanov

16 September 2012 Match 9	Metalurh Donetsk	5–0	Arsenal	Donetsk
16:30	Moraes  25' (pen.), 88' Ghazaryan  61' Traoré  75', 90+2'	Summary	Shakhov  23'  34' Florescu  38'	Stadium: Metalurh Stadium Attendance: 3,300 Referee: Andriy Kuz'min

28 September 2012 Match 10	Karpaty	1–1	Arsenal	Lviv
19:30	Balažic  49'	Summary	Adiyiah  28'	Stadium: Ukraina Stadium Attendance: 11,100 Referee: Viktor Shvetsov

6 October 2012 Match 11	Arsenal	2–0	Hoverla	Kyiv
17:30	Homenyuk  45+1' Kovpak  68'	Summary		Stadium: Valeriy Lobanovskyi Attendance: 1,728 Referee: Yuri Mozharovskyi

21 October 2012 Match 12	Kryvbas	1–1	Arsenal	Kryvyi Rih
15:30	Jeslínek  65' Antonov  86' (pen.)	Summary	Adiyiah  19' Matoukou  45' Mikoliūnas  63',  90' Polyovyi  87'	Stadium: Metalurh Stadium Attendance: 1,780 Referee: Oleksandr Ivanov

26 October 2012 Match 13	Arsenal	1–1	Volyn Lutsk	Valeriy Lobanovskyi
19:00	Matoukou  35' Adiyiah  81'	Summary	Seun  86'	Attendance: 1,150 Referee: Yury Grisjo

4 November 2012 Match 14	Vorskla	1–0	Arsenal	Oleksiy Butovskyi Vorskla Stadium
16:00	Krasnopyorov  26' Sapay  47' Hromov  71' Sklyar  90'	Summary	Hitchenko  39' Leandro  56' Polyovyi  85'	Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Anatoliy Abdula

11 November 2012 Match 15	Arsenal	0–1	Choromorets Odesa	Valeriy Lobanovskyi
17:30	Valyayev  36' Mikoliūnas  39' Florescu  67'  85' Homenyuk  89'	Summary	Matos  39' Politylo  40' Bobko  44' Bakaj  45'	Attendance: 1,072 Referee: Vitaliy Romanov

17 November 2012 Match 16	Arsenal	2–0	Shaktar Donetsk	Valeriy Lobanovskyi
19:30	Shatskikh  34' Adiyiah  58' Pankiv  82' Shakhov  84' Kobakhidze  90+3'	Summary	Rakitskiy  48' Stepanenko  76'	Attendance: 3,050 Referee: Olexander Derdo

25 November 2012 Match 17	Dynamo Kyiv	4–0	Arsenal	Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex
17:00	Khacheridi  40',  51' Ideye  44', 90+1' Husyev  88'	Summary	Starhorodskyi  67' Matoukou  87'	Attendance: 20,815

2 December 2012 Match 18	Arsenal	0–1	Zorya Luhansk	Valeriy Lobanovskyi
17:30	Matoukou  56' Polyovyi  76' Shakhov  87' Kovpak  88'	Summary	Chaykovskyi  19' Ignjatijević  30' Hrytsay  53',  73'	Attendance: 1,200 Referee: Victor Shvetsov

2 March 2013 Match 19	Dnipro	3–0	Arsenal	Dnipro Arena
17:30	Zozulya  19' Matheus  50' (pen.) Douglas  65' Rotan  66' Fedetskiy  68'	Summary	Kyrylo Sydorenko  54'	Attendance: 12,801 Referee: Oleksandr Ivanov

10 March 2013 Match 20	Arsenal	1–2	Metalist Kharkiv	Valeriy Lobanovskyi
19:30	Martynyuk  7' Kyrylo Sydorenko  41' Odibe  65' Ihor Brovko  83' Bohdanov  87'	Summary	Sosa  2' Jajá  12' Cleiton Xavier  80'	Attendance: 2,520 Referee: Andriy Kuzmin

17 March 2013 Match 21	Illichivets Mariupol	2–1	Arsenal	Illichivets Stadium
13:30	Okriashvili  62' (pen.), 78' Fomin  89' Ischenko  90+2'	Summary	Odibe  30' Romanchuk  58' Sarnavskyi  58' Arzhanov  73' Obradović  89' Santos  89' Reva  90'	Attendance: 5,500 Referee: Vitaliy Romanov

30 March 2013 Match 22	Arsenal	1–1	Tavriya Simferopol	Valeriy Lobanovskyi
17:30	Martynyuk  65' Bohdanov  82' (pen.)	Summary	Gadzhiyev  76',  90+2' Humenyuk  85'	Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Yuri Mozharovskiy

6 April 2013 23	Metalurh Zaporizhya	0–0	Arsenal Kyiv	Slavutych-Arena
16:00	Nesterov  27' Sakhnevych  40' Mohammed Otman  70'	Summary	Odibe  68' Martynyuk  75' Obradović  83'	Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Oleksandr Golovkov

14 April 2013 24	Arsenal Kyiv	0–2	Metalurh Donetsk	Valeriy Lobanovskyi
19:30		Summary	Traoré  37', 51' Makrides  79'	Attendance: 1,850 Referee: Kostyantin Trukhanov

22 April 2013 25	Arsenal Kyiv	4–1	Karpaty Lviv	Valeriy Lobanovskyi
18:00	Arzhanov  7' (pen.),  44' Adiyiah  11',  54' Bohdanov  42' Romanchuk  78'	Summary	Ozarkiv  7' Khudobyak  30' Harashchenkov  45+2' Štilić  59' Kenia  77',  89'	Attendance: 3,306 Referee: Anatoliy Abdula

27 April 2013 26	Hoverla Uzhhorod	1–3	Arsenal Kyiv	Avanhard Stadium
13:30	Petrov  55' Dopilka  56'	Summary	Homenyuk  8',  58' Sharpar  40' Tkachuk  44'	Attendance: 3,150 Referee: Yury Vaks

4 May 2013 27	Arsenal Kyiv	1–1	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Valeriy Lobanovskyi
17:30	Adiyiah  70' Herasymyuk  75'	Summary	Samodin  11' Lyopa  70' Antonov  71'	Attendance: 1,970 Referee: Kostyantin Trukhanov

11 May 2013 28	Volyn Lutsk	1–3	Arsenal Kyiv	Avanhard Stadium
17:30	Maslo  33' Šikov  60' Subotić  78'	Summary	Sharpar  20',  90' Arzhanov  21', 61' Bohdanov  25' Herasymyuk  28' Homenyuk  78'	Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Oleksandr Ivanov

18 May 2013 29	Arsenal Kyiv	2–1	Vorskla Poltava	Valeriy Lobanovskyi
18:30	Bohdanov  38' Arzhanov  62' Herasymyuk  89'	Summary	Perduta  34' Kryvosheyenko  47' Kurylov  74' Hromov  78'	Attendance: 1,899 Referee: Yuriy Moseychuk

26 May 2013 30	Chornomorets Odesa	0–0	Arsenal Kyiv	Chornomorets Stadium
18:00	Matos  20' Bakaj  70'	Summary	Herasymyuk  8' Martynyuk  14' Obradović  67' Arzhanov  68' Valyayev  85'	Attendance: 14,792 Referee: Oleksandr Bilokur

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
6	Chornomorets Odesa	30	12	7	11	32	36	−4	43	Qualification to Europa League second qualifying round
7	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih (D)	30	12	7	11	36	41	−5	43	Club expelled after season[lower-alpha 1]
8	Arsenal Kyiv	30	10	9	11	34	41	−7	39
9	Illichivets Mariupol	30	10	8	12	30	32	−2	38
10	Zorya Luhansk	30	10	7	13	32	43	−11	37

Source: Ukrainian Premier League website (in Ukrainian)
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored; 4th head-to-head points; 5th head-to-head goal difference; 6th head-to-head goals scored; 7th fair play; 8th draw (Regulation, p.52-53).
(D) Disqualified.
Notes:

1. Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih were denied a license for the 2013–14 season due to financial problems and were expelled.[3]

2012-13 Ukrainian Cup Results

22 September 2012 Round of 32	Stal Alchevsk	2–3 (aet)	Arsenal	Alchevsk
16:30	Stepanyuk  40' Hrytsay  116'	Summary	Homenyuk  68', 100' Shakhov  57'  109' Kobakhidze  111'	Stadium: Stal Stadium Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Andriy Yablonskyi (Ternopil)

31 October 2012 Round of 16	Avanhard Kramatorsk	0–1	Arsenal	Kramatorsk
12:00		Summary	Kobakhidze  85'	Stadium: Avanhard Stadium Attendance: 4,100

17 April 2013 Quarter-finals	Arsenal	1–2	Chornomorets Odesa	Kyiv
20:00	Tkachuk  45+1' Kyrylo Sydorenko  58'	Summary	Burdujan  6' Kutas  45+1' Matos  66' Fontanello  77' Anderson Santana  90+2'	Stadium: Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium Attendance: 1,600 Referee: Yuri Mozharovskiy

UEFA Europa League

Third qualifying round

2 August 2012 3QR 1st Leg	Arsenal Kyiv	3–0 ^1	Mura 05	Kyiv
20:00	Mazilu  6' Kovpak  61' Matoukou  83'	Report		Stadium: Dynamo Stadium Attendance: 3,200 Referee: Antti Munukka

9 August 2012 3QR 2nd Leg	Mura 05	0–2 (3–2 agg.)	Arsenal Kyiv	Maribor
22:00		Report	Kobakhidze  2' Symonenko  31' Homenyuk  61' Shakhov  71'  90+4'	Stadium: Ljudski vrt Attendance: 3,200 Referee: Oliver Drachta

Notes

• Note 1: UEFA awarded Mura 05 a 3–0 win due to Arsenal Kyiv fielding suspended player Éric Matoukou in the first leg. The original match had ended in a 3–0 win for Arsenal Kyiv.[4]

Squad statistics

Goal scorers

As of 7 October 2012

Place	Position	Nation	Number	Name	Premier League	Ukrainian Cup	Europa League	Total
1	FW		22	Volodymyr Homenyuk	3	2	1	6
2	FW		9	Oleksandr Kovpak	3	0	1	4
	FW		16	Maksim Shatskikh	4	0	0	4
4	MF		19	Alexander Kobakhidze	1	1	1	3
5	FW		20	Dominic Adiyiah	2	0	0	2
6	DF		14	Éric Matoukou	0	0	1	1
	FW		7	Ionuț Mazilu	0	0	1	1
	MF		13	Saulius Mikoliūnas	1	0	0	1
				TOTALS	14	3	5	22

Appearances and goals

As of 7 October 2012

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Premier League		Ukrainian Cup		Europe League
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
4	DF		Serhiy Symonenko	13	0	10+1	0	0+1	0	1	0
6	DF		Rafael Santos	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
7	FW		Ionuț Mazilu	6	1	1+3	0	0	0	2	1
8	MF		Oleksandr Maksymov	5	0	2+1	0	0	0	2	0
9	FW		Oleksandr Kovpak	10	4	7+1	3	0	0	0+2	1
10	MF		George Florescu	6	0	6	0	0	0	0	0
11	MF		Artem Starhorodskyi	12	0	7+3	0	1	0	0+1	0
12	GK		Yevhen Borovyk	7	0	5	0	1	0	1	0
13	MF		Saulius Mikoliūnas	11	1	4+4	1	1	0	1+1	0
14	DF		Éric Matoukou	9	1	8	0	0	0	1	1
15	DF		Janko Simović	2	0	0	0	1	0	0+1	0
16	FW		Maksim Shatskikh	14	4	9+2	4	1	0	2	0
17	DF		Andriy Hitchenko	6	0	2+1	0	1	0	2	0
19	MF		Alexander Kobakhidze	13	3	5+5	1	0+1	1	2	1
20	FW		Dominic Adiyiah	12	2	7+2	2	1	0	2	0
22	FW		Volodymyr Homenyuk	12	6	9+1	3	1	2	0+1	1
28	DF		Volodymyr Polyovyi	13	0	10	0	1	0	2	0
31	MF		Leandro	12	0	9+1	0	1	0	1	0
33	DF		Andriy Khomyn	3	0	1+1	0	0+1	0	0	0
52	MF		Yevhen Shakhov	11	0	7+1	0	1	0	2	0
77	GK		Yuriy Pankiv	7	0	6	0	0	0	1	0
78	MF		Serhiy Valyayev	5	0	3+2	0	0	0	0	0
Players who appeared for Arsenal who left the club during the season:
27	MF		Volodymyr Arzhanov	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0

Disciplinary record

Number	Nation	Position	Name	Premier League		Ukrainian Cup		Europa League		Total
4		DF	Serhiy Symonenko	3	0	0	0	0	1	3	1
6		DF	Rafael Santos	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
10		MF	George Florescu	2	1	0	0	0	0	2	1
11		MF	Artem Starhorodskyi	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1
12		GK	Yevhen Borovyk	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
13		MF	Saulius Mikoliūnas	5	0	0	0	1	0	6	0
14		DF	Éric Matoukou	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
16		FW	Maksim Shatskikh	2	0	0	0	1	0	3	0
19		MF	Alexander Kobakhidze	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	0
20		FW	Dominic Adiyiah	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
22		FW	Volodymyr Homenyuk	2	0	1	0	0	0	3	0
28		DF	Volodymyr Polyovyi	2	0	0	0	1	0	3	0
52		MF	Yevhen Shakhov	3	1	0	1	0	1	3	3
77		GK	Yuriy Pankiv	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
			TOTALS	27	3	2	1	3	2	32	6

References

1. First team squad – FC Arsenal Kyiv website
2. Team squad Archived 2012-09-19 at the Wayback Machine – Ukrainian Premier League website
3. (in Russian) "ФФУ лишила Кривбасс лицензии". sport.ua. 31 May 2013. Retrieved 31 May 2013.
4. "Arsenal Kyiv handed forfeit defeat". UEFA.com. 8 August 2012.