2016–17 FC Krasnodar season

The 2016–17 FC Krasnodar season was the 6th successive season that the club played in the Russian Premier League, the highest tier of association football in Russia. They finished the season in 4th place, reaching the quarterfinals of the Russian Cup and the Round of 16 of the Europa League.

FC Krasnodar

2016–17 season
Chairman	Sergey Galitsky
Manager	Oleg Kononov until 13 September Igor Shalimov (caretaker) 13 September-6 October Igor Shalimov until 6 October
Stadium	Kuban Stadium (until 9 October) Krasnodar Stadium (from 9 October)
Russian Premier League	4th
Russian Cup	Quarter-final (vs. Ural Yekaterinburg)
Europa League	Round of 16 (vs. Celta Vigo)
Top goalscorer	League: Fyodor Smolov (18) All: Fyodor Smolov 25
Highest home attendance	33,550 vs Schalke 04 20 October 2016
Lowest home attendance	5,200 vs Rubin Kazan 2 October 2016
Home colours Away colours

Season Events

On 13 September 2016, Oleg Kononov resigned as manager, with Igor Shalimov taking over as caretaker manager[1] before being appointed the team's permanent manager on 6 October.[2]

Squad

As of 15 March 2017[3]

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 Stanislav Kritsyuk 3 DF  BRA Naldo 4 DF  BLR Alyaksandr Martynovich (Vice-captain) 5 MF  RUS Dmitri Torbinski 6 DF  SWE Andreas Granqvist (Captain) 7 MF  RUS Pavel Mamayev 8 MF  RUS Yury Gazinsky 10 MF  GEO Tornike Okriashvili 11 MF  RUS Vyacheslav Podberyozkin 12 DF  ECU Cristian Ramírez 14 FW  BRA Wánderson 15 MF  RUS Ilya Zhigulyov 16 MF  SWE Viktor Claesson

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 DF  RUS Vitali Kaleshin 18 MF  RUS Vladimir Bystrov 20 FW  RUS Nikolay Komlichenko 21 MF  COL Ricardo Laborde 22 MF  BRA Joãozinho 30 DF  RUS Roman Shishkin (on loan from Lokomotiv Moscow) 33 MF  URU Mauricio Pereyra 77 MF  BFA Charles Kaboré 88 GK  RUS Andrei Sinitsyn 90 FW  RUS Fyodor Smolov 95 MF  RUS Araik Ovsepyan 98 DF  RUS Sergei Petrov

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 — GK  RUS Denis Kavlinov (at Dynamo St. Petersburg until 30 June 2017) — DF  RUS Aleksandr Marchenko (at Spartak Nalchik until 30 June 2017) — DF  RUS Maksim Starkov (at Dynamo St. Petersburg until 30 June 2017) — DF  NOR Stefan Strandberg (at Hannover 96 until 30 June 2017)

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  RUS Aleksandr Zhirov (at Anzhi Makhachkala until 30 June 2017) — MF  RUS Ilya Borisov (at Armavir until 30 June 2017) — FW  BRA Ari (at Lokomotiv Moscow until 30 June 2017) — FW  RUS Ruslan Bolov (at Fakel Voronezh until 30 June 2017)

Reserve 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 32 DF  RUS Vasili Cherov 35 FW  RUS Alim Makoyev 36 MF  RUS Andrei Tekuchyov 37 DF  RUS Grigori Ziganshin 39 GK  RUS Matvei Safonov 40 DF  RUS Andrei Ivashin 41 DF  RUS Aleksei Tatayev 42 DF  RUS Dmitri Bubenin 43 FW  RUS Daur Kvekveskiri 44 MF  RUS Konstantin Samarenkin 45 DF  RUS Igor Paradin 46 DF  RUS Vitali Stezhko 47 MF  RUS Daniil Utkin 49 FW  RUS Dmitri Bakay 50 DF  RUS Artyom Golubev 51 GK  RUS Ivan Salnikov 52 GK  RUS Yevgeni Latyshonok 53 MF  RUS Aleksandr Chernikov 54 MF  RUS Roman Kurazhov 57 FW  RUS Ilya Nasonkin 58 MF  RUS Aleksandr Sergeyev 61 DF  RUS Ilya Martynov 62 MF  RUS Aleks Matsukatov 63 FW  RUS Nikita Sergeyev 64 MF  RUS Aleksandr Morgunov

No. Pos. Nation Player 65 DF  RUS Nikolai Bochko 66 GK  RUS Denis Adamov 67 FW  RUS Maksim Kutovoy 69 MF  RUS Denis Vasenin 71 FW  RUS Aleksandr Butenko 72 FW  RUS Rustam Khalnazarov 74 MF  RUS Daniil Fomin 75 FW  RUS Levon Bayramyan 76 FW  RUS Ruslan Rzayev 78 FW  RUS Dmitri Vorobyov 81 MF  RUS Leon Sabua 82 DF  RUS Sergei Borodin 83 MF  RUS Inal Cherchesov 84 GK  RUS Anton Fedyushkin 85 FW  RUS Ivan Ignatyev 86 FW  RUS Valeri Manko 87 DF  RUS Arutyun Grigoryan 89 DF  RUS Aleksey Shishkin 91 DF  RUS Leo Goglichidze 92 MF  RUS Ivan Takhmazov 93 FW  RUS Magomed-Shapi Suleymanov 94 DF  RUS Yevgeni Nazarov 95 FW  RUS Aslan Vershinin 96 FW  RUS Dmitri Yaskov 97 FW  RUS Nurik Gadzhiyev

Transfers

Summer

In: 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 Stanislav Kritsyuk (from Braga, previously on loan)[4] 2 MF  RUS Marat Izmailov (free agent)[5] 3 DF  BRA Naldo (from Sporting Lisbon)[6] 4 DF  BLR Alyaksandr Martynovich (end of loan to Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast) 20 MF  RUS Amir Natkho (from CSKA Moscow)[7] 32 DF  RUS Vasili Cherov (end of loan to Khimki)[8][9] 34 MF  RUS Kamil Zakirov 37 DF  RUS Grigori Ziganshin 40 DF  RUS Andrei Ivashin 42 DF  RUS Dmitri Bubenin 44 MF  RUS Konstantin Samarenkin 49 FW  RUS Dmitri Bakay (end of loan to Biolog-Novokubansk) 51 GK  RUS Ivan Salnikov (from Tom Tomsk academy) 53 MF  RUS Aleksandr Chernikov 55 DF  POL Artur Jędrzejczyk (end of loan to Legia Warsaw) 61 DF  RUS Ilya Martynov 65 DF  RUS Nikolai Bochko 67 FW  RUS Maksim Kutovoy 68 MF  RUS Robert Babertsyan 70 MF  GEO Tornike Okriashvili (from Genk)[10] 72 FW  RUS Rustam Khalnazarov 77 MF  BFA Charles Kaboré (from Kuban Krasnodar, previously on loan)[11] 81 MF  RUS Leon Sabua 86 FW  RUS Valeri Manko 96 FW  RUS Dmitri Yaskov

Out: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. No. Pos. Nation Player 3 DF  NOR Stefan Strandberg (on loan to Hannover 96)[12] 15 DF  UZB Nikolay Markov (to Kuban Krasnodar)[13] 27 DF  ISL Ragnar Sigurðsson (to Fulham)[14] 31 GK  UKR Andriy Dykan (retired)[15] 40 FW  RUS Alan Koroyev (to Kolomna) 42 DF  RUS Mikhail Tikhonov (to Yenisey Krasnoyarsk) 47 MF  RUS Ilya Zhigulyov (on loan to Milsami Orhei)[8] 48 MF  RUS Aleksandr Marchenko (on loan to Spartak Nalchik)[8] 51 GK  RUS Denis Kavlinov (on loan to Dynamo St. Petersburg) 53 FW  RUS Pavel Marushko 56 FW  RUS Ilya Belous 59 DF  RUS Nikita Katayev 63 FW  RUS Nikolai Komlichenko (on loan to Slovan Liberec)[16] 68 FW  RUS Andrei Batyutin (to Ufa)[17] 72 DF  RUS Daniil Bochkaryov (to Biolog-Novokubansk) 79 DF  RUS Batraz Gurtsiyev 80 DF  RUS Vladislav Sklyar (to Biolog-Novokubansk) 81 DF  RUS Yevgeni Nesterenko (to Afips Afipsky) 83 DF  RUS Maksim Starkov (on loan to Dynamo St. Petersburg)[18] 86 DF  RUS Vasili Cherov (on loan to Khimki)[8] 96 MF  RUS Ilya Borisov (on loan to Armavir) 99 FW  RUS Vladislav Bragin — MF  RUS Oleg Lanin (on loan to Yenisey Krasnoyarsk, previously on loan to Baltika Kaliningrad)[8] — FW  RUS Ruslan Bolov (on loan to Fakel Voronezh, previously on loan to Volgar Astrakhan)[8][19] — FW  RUS Nikita Burmistrov (to Arsenal Tula, previously on loan to Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast)[20][21]

Winter

In: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. No. Pos. Nation Player 12 DF  ECU Cristian Ramírez (from Ferencvárosi)[22][23] 15 MF  RUS Ilya Zhigulyov (end of loan to Milsami Orhei) 16 MF  SWE Viktor Claesson (from IF Elfsborg)[24] 20 FW  RUS Nikolay Komlichenko (end of loan to Slovan Liberec) 30 DF  RUS Roman Shishkin (loan from Lokomotiv Moscow)[25] 31 GK  RUS Sergei Yeshchenko 34 DF  RUS Danil Pelikh 43 DF  RUS Dmitri Ivanov 68 DF  RUS Dmitri Kotov 95 MF  RUS Araik Ovsepyan (from Sibir Novosibirsk)[26] — GK  RUS Denis Kavlinov (end of loan to Dynamo St. Petersburg) — DF  RUS Aleksandr Zhirov (from Tom Tomsk)[27]

Out: 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 MF  RUS Marat Izmailov [28] 9 FW  BRA Ari (on loan to Lokomotiv Moscow)[29] 10 MF  UZB Odil Ahmedov (to SIPG)[30] 20 MF  RUS Amir Natkho (to Lokomotiv Moscow)[31] 34 MF  RUS Kamil Zakirov (to Anzhi Makhachkala) 38 MF  CIV Kouassi Eboue (to Celtic)[32] 43 FW  RUS Daur Kvekveskiri 55 DF  POL Artur Jędrzejczyk (to Legia Warsaw)[33] 64 MF  RUS Aleksandr Morgunov (on loan to Milsami Orhei) 68 MF  RUS Robert Babertsyan 73 FW  RUS Roman Razzhivin 95 FW  RUS Aslan Vershinin — DF  RUS Aleksandr Zhirov (on loan to Anzhi Makhachkala)[34]

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	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	A	A
Result	W	W	D	L	L	D	W	D	W	D	W	D	D	W	W	L	D	D	W	D	D	D	W	W	W	D	L	D	L	W
Position	2	1	1	4	6	7	5	6	6	6	4	5	5	5	3	5	5	4	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	4

Updated to match(es) played on 21 May 2017. Source: See results
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

1 August 2016 1	Krasnodar	3 – 0	Tom Tomsk	Krasnodar
19:30 MSK (UTC+3)	Ari  20' 57' Smolov  44', 60'	Summary	Kombarov  50' Tishkin  61' Ciupercă  90'  90+2'	Stadium: Kuban Stadium Attendance: 7,198 Referee: Igor Fedotov

8 August 2016 2	Krasnodar	4 – 0	Terek Grozny	Krasnodar
19:30 MSK (UTC+3)	Smolov  33', 77' Kaboré  38' Ari  39' 54' Granqvist  73' Wánderson  88'	Summary	Rodolfo  71' Píriz  76'	Stadium: Kuban Stadium Attendance: 7,930 Referee: Vladimir Seldyakov

13 August 2016 3	Krylia Sovetov	1 – 1	Krasnodar	Samara
18:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Rodić  3' 75' Taranov  34'	Summary	Smolov  52'	Stadium: Metallurg Stadium Attendance: 9,012 Referee: Alexey Nikolaev

21 August 2016 4	Spartak Moscow	2 – 0	Krasnodar	Moscow
18:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Luís  15', 74' Fernando  66' Kombarov  87' Melgarejo  90+2'	Summary	Smolov  71'	Stadium: Otkrytiye Arena Attendance: 31,035 Referee: Vladislav Bezborodov

28 August 2016 5	Krasnodar	1 – 2	Lokomotiv Moscow	Krasnodar
19:15 MSK (UTC+3)	Smolov  48' (pen.) Torbinski  90'	Summary	Samedov  41' Ćorluka  45' Henty  56' (pen.) Tarasov  78' Denisov  85'	Stadium: Kuban Stadium Attendance: 12,780 Referee: Sergey Lapochkin

11 September 2016 6	Ufa	0 – 0	Krasnodar	Ufa
14:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Krotov  59' Oblyakov  76' Igboun  83'	Summary	Petrov  88'	Stadium: Neftyanik Stadium Attendance: 5,800 Referee: Vladimir Seldyakov

18 September 2016 7	Krasnodar	2 – 1	Rostov	Krasnodar
20:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Naldo  87' Smolov  90+4' (pen.)	Summary	Navas  10' Noboa  36' Poloz  77'	Stadium: Kuban Stadium Attendance: 6,425 Referee: Aleksey Eskov

24 September 2016 8	CSKA Moscow	1 – 1	Krasnodar	Moscow
17:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Traoré  3' 40' Wernbloom  74'	Summary	Smolov  15' Laborde  84'	Stadium: Arena CSKA Attendance: 14,080 Referee: Sergey Ivanov

2 October 2016 9	Krasnodar	1 – 0	Rubin Kazan	Krasnodar
19:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Kaboré  28' Ari  37' 45+1'	Summary	Zambrano  36' Nabiullin  39' Kanunnikov  88'	Stadium: Kuban Stadium Attendance: 5,200 Referee: Igor Fedotov

16 October 2016 10	Arsenal Tula	0 – 0	Krasnodar	Tula
19:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Steklov  71'	Summary	Martynovich  80'	Stadium: Arsenal Stadium Attendance: 7,500 Referee: Aleksey Eskov

23 October 2016 11	Krasnodar	1 – 0	Amkar Perm	Krasnodar
19:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Gazinsky  45+2'	Summary	Zaytsev  49'	Stadium: Krasnodar Stadium Attendance: 14,900 Referee: Kirill Levnikov

30 October 2016 12	Anzhi Makhachkala	0 – 0	Krasnodar	Kaspiysk
18:30 MSK (UTC+3)	Xandão  55' Obertan  90+2'	Summary	Kaboré  6'  17' Izmailov  47' Laborde  90+2' Eboue  90+4'	Stadium: Anzhi Arena Attendance: 7,203 Referee: Sergey Karasev

6 November 2016 13	Krasnodar	3 – 3	Orenburg	Krasnodar
19:30 MSK (UTC+3)	Pereyra  9' Ari  11' Kaleshin  20' Eboue  44' Martynovich  75'	Summary	Breyev  16' Andreyev  19' Poluyakhtov  21', 31' Malykh  73' Hutar  90+2' Vorobyov  90+3' Katsalapov  90+4'	Stadium: Krasnodar Stadium Attendance: 22,415 Referee: Vitaly Meshkov

20 November 2016 14	Krasnodar	3 – 0	Ural Yekaterinburg	Krasnodar
14:30 MSK (UTC+3)	Gazinsky  66' Smolov  71' Joãozinho  74'	Summary	Dantsev  19' Podoksyonov  64'	Stadium: Krasnodar Stadium Attendance: 17,304 Referee: Mikhail Vilkov

27 November 2016 15	Krasnodar	2 – 1	Zenit St.Petersburg	Krasnodar
19:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Laborde  49' Jędrzejczyk  75' Izmailov  85' 90+2' Torbinski  90' Okriashvili  90+4'	Summary	Witsel  45' García  80' Dzyuba  86' 90+3'	Stadium: Krasnodar Stadium Attendance: 31,854 Referee: Alexey Nikolaev

1 December 2016 16	Terek Grozny	2 – 1	Krasnodar	Grozny
18:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Píriz  25' Grozav  33'	Summary	Torbinski  39' Bystrov  43' Ángel  72' (o.g.) Naldo  80'	Stadium: Akhmat-Arena Attendance: 15,235 Referee: Igor Fedotov

5 December 2016 17	Krasnodar	1 – 1	Krylia Sovetov	Krasnodar
19:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Gazinsky  44' Smolov  48'	Summary	Margasov  65' Kornilenko  71' Loria  86' Yatchenko  90+4'	Stadium: Krasnodar Stadium Attendance: 12,176 Referee: Evgeny Turbin

5 March 2017 18	Krasnodar	2 – 2	Spartak Moscow	Krasnodar
16:30 MSK (UTC+3)	Tasci  15' (o.g.) Smolov  63' 73' (pen.)	Summary	Fernando  3' Glushakov  45+2' Adriano  54' Zobnin  68' Zé Luís  90+3'	Stadium: Krasnodar Stadium Attendance: 31,250 Referee: Vladislav Bezborodov

13 March 2017 19	Lokomotiv Moscow	1 – 2	Krasnodar	Moscow
19:30 MSK (UTC+3)	Ignatyev  36'	Summary	Mamayev  56' Wánderson  64' Sinitsyn  90+5'	Stadium: Lokomotiv Stadium Attendance: 9,494 Referee: Vitaly Meshkov

19 March 2017 20	Krasnodar	0 – 0	Ufa	Krasnodar
16:30 MSK (UTC+3)		Summary	Putsko  36' Stotsky  42' Alikin  79'	Stadium: Krasnodar Stadium Attendance: 15,365 Referee: Kirill Levnikov

3 April 2017 21	Rostov	0 – 0	Krasnodar	Rostov-on-Don
19:30 MSK (UTC+3)		Summary	Kaboré  39' Martynovich  63' Pereyra  78' Smolov  90+3'	Stadium: Olimp-2 Attendance: 12,542 Referee: Evgeny Turbin

9 April 2017 22	Krasnodar	1 – 1	CSKA Moscow	Krasnodar
16:30 MSK (UTC+3)	Smolov  58' (pen.) Mamayev  62'	Summary	Wernbloom  72' Fernandes  82'	Stadium: Kuban Stadium Attendance: 31,165 Referee: Sergey Ivanov

15 April 2017 23	Rubin Kazan	0 – 1	Krasnodar	Kazan
19:30 MSK (UTC+3)	Sánchez  60'	Summary	Smolov  57'	Stadium: Kazan Arena Attendance: 3,041 Referee: Mikhail Vilkov

23 April 2017 24	Krasnodar	2 – 0	Arsenal Tula	Krasnodar
17:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Kaboré  49' Smolov  84'	Summary	Maksimov  24' Vergara  82'	Stadium: Krasnodar Stadium Attendance: 16,214 Referee: Aleksei Matyunin

27 April 2017 25	Amkar Perm	0 – 2	Krasnodar	Perm
17:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Gigolayev  81'	Summary	Smolov  63' Wánderson  76'	Stadium: Zvezda Stadium Attendance: 7,250 Referee: Aleksey Sukhoy

1 May 2017 26	Krasnodar	0 – 0	Anzhi Makhachkala	Krasnodar
18:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Pereyra  53' Torbinski  82'	Summary	Guliyev  33' Yakovlev  60' Musalov  65' Yurchenko  90+1'	Stadium: Krasnodar Stadium Attendance: 27,658 Referee: Vladimir Seldyakov

7 May 2017 27	Orenburg	1 – 0	Krasnodar	Orenburg
14:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Parnyakov  40' Afonin  40' Lobjanidze  49' Rudenko  86'	Summary	Smolov  38' Wánderson  39' Gazinsky  51'	Stadium: Gazovik Stadium Attendance: 6,805 Referee: Mikhail Vilkov

13 May 2017 28	Ural Yekaterinburg	1 – 1	Krasnodar	Yekaterinburg
12:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Naldo  42' (o.g.)	Report	Pereyra  50' Naldo  64' Claesson  90+2' Torbinski  90+4'	Stadium: SKB-Bank Arena Attendance: 3,300 Referee: Alexey Nikolaev

17 May 2017 29	Zenit St.Petersburg	1 – 0	Krasnodar	Saint Petersburg
19:30 MSK (UTC+3)	Dzyuba  12' García  60' Yusupov  87'	Report	Kaboré  71'	Stadium: Petrovsky Stadium Attendance: 18,098 Referee: Vladimir Seldyakov

21 May 2017 30	Tom Tomsk	1 – 5	Krasnodar	Tomsk
15:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Gvineysky  32' Salakhutdinov  42' Sobolev  49' (pen.) Sasin  51' Naumenko  69'	Report	Smolov  17', 26', 79' Pereyra  33' Naldo  71'	Stadium: Trud Stadium Attendance: 3,300 Referee: Evgeny Turbin

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
2	CSKA Moscow	30	18	8	4	47	15	+32	62	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
3	Zenit Saint Petersburg	30	18	7	5	50	19	+31	61	Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round
4	Krasnodar	30	12	13	5	40	22	+18	49
5	Terek Grozny	30	14	6	10	38	35	+3	48
6	Rostov	30	13	9	8	36	18	+18	48

Source: Russian Premier League, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Matches won; 3) Head-to-head points; 4) Head-to-head matches won; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head goals scored; 7) Head-to-head away goals; 8) Goal difference; 9) Goals scored; 10) Away goals scored.[35]

Russian Cup

21 September 2016 Round of 32	Spartak Nalchik	0 – 2	Krasnodar	Nalchik
17:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Makoyev  18'	Summary	Tatayev  23' Ari  48' Laborde  86'	Stadium: Spartak Stadium Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Aleksey Sukhoy

27 October 2016 Round of 16	Krasnodar	3 – 2 (a.e.t.)	Orenburg	Krasnodar
19:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Granqvist  58', 100' 99' Izmailov  67' 97' Kaboré  76'	Summary	Bamba  26' Afonin  27' Breyev  56' 65' Oyewole  59' 70'  106' Vorobyov  60' Andreyev  62' Malykh  102'	Stadium: Krasnodar Stadium Attendance: 18,236 Referee: Evgeny Turbin

28 February 2017 Quarterfinal	Ural Yekaterinburg	3 – 3 (a.e.t.) (4 – 3 p)	Krasnodar	Yekaterinburg
19:30 MSK (UTC+3)	Ilyin  34' Bicfalvi  53', 65' Kulakov  61' Dantsev  74'  92' Novikov  116'	Summary	Smolov  1' Claesson  14', 32' Naldo  43' Laborde  76' Granqvist  90' Gazinsky  100'	Stadium: SKB-Bank Arena Attendance: 10,201 Referee: Kirill Levnikov
	Penalties
	Bicfalvi Manucharyan Yemelyanov Fidler		Ramírez Laborde Granqvist Smolov Claesson

Qualifying rounds

28 July 2016 Third qualifying round 1st leg	Birkirkara	0 – 3	Krasnodar	Paola[note 1], Malta
20:30 MSK (UTC+3)	Scicluna  21'  87'	Report	Gazinsky  7' Pereyra  40' Granqvist  45+1' Smolov  75' (pen.) Laborde  89'	Stadium: Hibernians Stadium Attendance: 1,560[36] Referee: Bart Vertenten (Belgium)

4 August 2016 Third qualifying round 2nd leg	Krasnodar	3 – 1 (6 – 1 agg.)	Birkirkara	Krasnodar, Russia
19:30 MSK (UTC+3)	Eboue  15' 57' Joãozinho  37' Laborde  38'	Report	Dimitrov  45' Sciberras  58' Jović  61' Bubalović  90+1'	Stadium: Kuban Stadium Attendance: 7,256[36] Referee: Aliyar Aghayev (Azerbaijan)

18 August 2016 Play-off round 1st leg	Krasnodar	4 – 0	Partizani Tirana	Krasnodar, Russia
19:30 MSK (UTC+3)	Joãozinho  18' (pen.) Jędrzejczyk  23' 45' Smolov  27' Granqvist  38' Krasniqi  73' (o.g.)	Report	Trashi  60'	Stadium: Kuban Stadium Attendance: 11,575[37] Referee: Gediminas Mažeika (Lithuania)

25 August 2016 Play-off round 2nd leg	Partizani Tirana	0 – 0 (0 – 4 agg.)	Krasnodar	Elbasan[note 2], Albania
20:30 MSK (UTC+3)		Report	Pereyra  30' Torbinski  45' Eboue  51' Vorobyov  67'	Stadium: Elbasan Arena Attendance: 1,550[37] Referee: Jakob Kehlet (Denmark)

Group stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Schalke 04	6	5	0	1	9	3	+6	15	Advance to knockout phase
2	Krasnodar	6	2	1	3	8	8	0	7
3	Red Bull Salzburg	6	2	1	3	6	6	0	7
4	Nice	6	2	0	4	5	11	−6	6

Source: UEFA

15 September 2016 1	Red Bull Salzburg	0 – 1	Krasnodar	Wals-Siezenheim, Austria
22:05 (MSK)	Samassékou  67' Soriano  90+5'	Report	Joãozinho  37' Petrov  47'  71' Kaboré  51' Laborde  86'	Stadium: Red Bull Arena Attendance: 6,507[39] Referee: Miroslav Zelinka (Czech Republic)

29 September 2016 2	Krasnodar	5 – 2	Nice	Krasnodar, Russia
20:00 (MSK)	Smolov  22' Joãozinho  33', 65' (pen.) Naldo  50' Granqvist  55' Ari  86', 90+3' 86'	Report	Balotelli  43' Seri  45+1' Baysse  64' Cardinale  69' Cyprien  71'	Stadium: Krasnodar Stadium Attendance: 10,750[40] Referee: Ivan Bebek (Croatia)

20 October 2016 3	Krasnodar	0 – 1	Schalke 04	Krasnodar, Russia
20:00 (MSK)	Gazinsky  90+3'	Report	Konoplyanka  11' Naldo  70' Di Santo  85'	Stadium: Krasnodar Stadium Attendance: 33,550[41] Referee: Mark Clattenburg (England)

3 November 2016 4	Schalke 04	2 – 0	Krasnodar	Gelsenkirchen
23:05 (MSK)	Rahman  18' Caiçara  25' Bentaleb  28' Höwedes  33' Nastasić  45+1'	Report	Laborde  53' Eboue  73'	Stadium: Veltins-Arena Attendance: 42,210[42] Referee: Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia)

24 November 2016 5	Krasnodar	1 – 1	Red Bull Salzburg	Krasnodar, Russia
21:00 (MSK)	Kaleshin  57' Laborde  76' Smolov  85'	Report	Dabour  37' Berisha  42'	Stadium: Krasnodar Stadium Attendance: 19,150[43] Referee: Liran Liany (Israel)

8 December 2016 6	Nice	2 – 1	Krasnodar	Nice
23:05 (MSK)	Balotelli  26' Marcel  55' Bosetti  64' (pen.) Le Marchand  77'	Report	Eboue  25' Granqvist  41'  61' Smolov  52'	Stadium: Allianz Riviera Referee: Sandro Schärer (Switzerland)

Knockout stage

16 February 2017 Round of 32 1st Leg	Krasnodar	1 – 0	Fenerbahçe	Krasnodar, Russia
19:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Claesson  4' Podberyozkin  42' Kaboré  48' Kaleshin  63'	Report		Stadium: Krasnodar Stadium Attendance: 32,460[44] Referee: Ivan Kružliak (Slovakia)

22 February 2017 Round of 32 2nd Leg	Fenerbahçe	1 – 1 (1 – 2 agg.)	Krasnodar	Istanbul, Turkey
20:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Köybaşı  20' Souza  41' 43' Lens  45+1' Sow  66'	Report	Smolov  7' Gazinsky  58' Kaleshin  66' Kaboré  75' Pereyra  82'	Stadium: Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium Referee: Paweł Raczkowski (Poland)

9 March 2017 Round of 16 1st Leg	Celta Vigo	2 – 1	Krasnodar	Vigo, Spain
23:05 MSK (UTC+3)	Wass  50' Beauvue  90'	Report	Claesson  24' 56'	Stadium: Balaídos Attendance: 18,414[45] Referee: Craig Thomson (Scotland)

16 March 2017 Round of 16 2nd Leg	Krasnodar	0 – 2 (1 – 4 agg.)	Celta Vigo	Krasnodar, Russia
21:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Kaboré  21'  86' Gazinsky  42' Granqvist  43' Wánderson  46'	Report	Mallo  52' Radoja  54' Aspas  80'	Stadium: Krasnodar Stadium Referee: Ruddy Buquet (France)

Squad statistics

As of match played 21 May 2017

Appearances and goals

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Premier League		Russian Cup		Europa League
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK		Stanislav Kritsyuk	31	0	20	0	1	0	10	0
3	DF		Naldo	24	2	14	2	1	0	9	0
4	DF		Alyaksandr Martynovich	24	1	14	1	2	0	8	0
5	MF		Dmitri Torbinski	22	0	7+6	0	1	0	6+2	0
6	DF		Andreas Granqvist	42	3	28	0	2	2	12	1
7	MF		Pavel Mamayev	16	1	7+5	1	1	0	0+3	0
8	MF		Yury Gazinsky	44	2	28+1	2	2+1	0	6+6	0
11	MF		Vyacheslav Podberyozkin	25	0	8+6	0	2	0	9	0
12	DF		Cristian Ramírez	15	0	10+1	0	1	0	3	0
14	MF		Wánderson	21	3	8+6	3	1	0	5+1	0
15	MF		Ilya Zhigulyov	9	0	4+3	0	0+1	0	1	0
16	MF		Viktor Claesson	18	5	13	1	1	2	4	2
17	DF		Vitali Kaleshin	26	0	17	0	2	0	4+3	0
18	MF		Vladimir Bystrov	12	0	2+6	0	1+1	0	2	0
21	MF		Ricardo Laborde	27	3	3+10	0	1+2	1	1+10	2
22	MF		Joãozinho	33	6	9+12	1	0+1	0	9+2	5
30	DF		Roman Shishkin	7	0	5+1	0	1	0	0	0
33	MF		Mauricio Pereyra	31	2	16+5	2	0	0	7+3	0
41	DF		Aleksei Tatayev	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
64	MF		Aleksandr Morgunov	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
70	MF		Tornike Okriashvili	13	1	2+9	1	1+1	0	0	0
74	MF		Daniil Fomin	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
77	MF		Charles Kaboré	33	1	21+1	1	0+1	0	10	0
78	FW		Dmitri Vorobyov	1	0	0	0	0	0	0+1	0
88	GK		Andrei Sinitsyn	18	0	10+2	0	2	0	4	0
90	FW		Fyodor Smolov	31	25	21+1	18	1	1	8	6
91	DF		Leo Goglichidze	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
98	MF		Sergei Petrov	25	0	15+2	0	2	0	6	0
Players away from the club on loan:
3	DF		Stefan Strandberg	3	0	1	0	0	0	2	0
9	FW		Ari	19	7	11	4	2	1	4+2	2
Players who left Krasnodar during the season:
2	MF		Marat Izmailov	11	2	6+1	1	1	1	1+2	0
10	MF		Odil Ahmedov	24	0	8+6	0	0+1	0	8+1	0
27	DF		Ragnar Sigurðsson	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	0
38	MF		Kouassi Eboue	18	1	7+2	0	0	0	8+1	1
55	DF		Artur Jędrzejczyk	21	1	12+1	0	0	0	7+1	1

Goal Scorers

Place	Position	Nation	Number	Name	Russian Premier League	Russian Cup	UEFA Europa League	Total
1	FW		10	Fyodor Smolov	18	1	6	25
2	FW		9	Ari	4	1	2	7
3	MF		22	Joãozinho	1	0	5	6
4	MF		16	Viktor Claesson	1	2	2	5
5	FW		14	Wánderson	3	0	0	3
	DF		6	Andreas Granqvist	0	2	1	3
	MF		21	Ricardo Laborde	0	1	2	3
				Own goal	2	0	1	3
9	MF		8	Yury Gazinsky	2	0	0	2
	DF		3	Naldo	2	0	0	2
	MF		33	Mauricio Pereyra	2	0	0	2
	MF		2	Marat Izmailov	1	1	0	2
12	DF		4	Alyaksandr Martynovich	1	0	0	1
	MF		70	Tornike Okriashvili	1	0	0	1
	MF		7	Pavel Mamayev	1	0	0	1
	MF		77	Charles Kaboré	1	0	0	1
	MF		38	Kouassi Eboue	0	0	1	1
	DF		55	Artur Jędrzejczyk	0	0	1	1
				TOTALS	40	8	21	68

Disciplinary record

Number	Nation	Position	Name	Russian Premier League		Russian Cup		UEFA Europa League		Total
2		MF	Marat Izmailov	2	0	1	0	0	0	3	0
3		MF	Naldo	2	0	1	0	1	0	4	0
4		DF	Alyaksandr Martynovich	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
5		MF	Dmitri Torbinski	4	0	0	0	1	0	5	0
6		DF	Andreas Granqvist	1	0	2	0	4	1	7	1
7		MF	Pavel Mamayev	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
8		MF	Yury Gazinsky	2	0	1	0	4	0	7	0
9		FW	Ari	3	0	0	0	1	0	4	0
11		MF	Vyacheslav Podberyozkin	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
14		FW	Wánderson	1	0	0	0	1	0	2	0
16		MF	Viktor Claesson	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
17		DF	Vitali Kaleshin	2	0	0	0	4	0	6	0
18		MF	Vladimir Bystrov	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
21		MF	Ricardo Laborde	3	0	1	0	3	0	7	0
33		MF	Mauricio Pereyra	3	0	0	0	3	0	6	0
38		MF	Kouassi Eboue	1	1	0	0	4	0	5	1
41		DF	Aleksei Tatayev	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
55		DF	Artur Jędrzejczyk	1	0	0	0	1	0	2	0
77		MF	Charles Kaboré	6	1	1	0	5	1	12	2
78		FW	Dmitri Vorobyov	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
88		GK	Andrei Sinitsyn	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
90		FW	Fyodor Smolov	4	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
98		MF	Sergei Petrov	1	0	0	0	2	1	3	1
			TOTALS	40	2	8	0	35	3	83	5

Notes

1. Birkirkara played their home matches at Hibernians Stadium, Paola, instead of their regular stadium National Stadium, Ta' Qali.
2. Partizani Tirana play their first qualifying round and play-off home matches at Elbasan Arena, Elbasan, instead of their regular stadium Selman Stërmasi Stadium, Tirana.[38]

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