| Club: | Kuban Krasnodar |
| Season: | 2012–13 |
| Manager: | Dan Petrescu until 14 August 2012[1] Yuri Krasnozhan 16 August 2012 – 9 January 2013 Leonid Kuchuk from 9 January 2013 |
| Chairman: | Aleksandr Tkachyov |
| Stadium: | Kuban Stadium |
| League: | Russian Premier League |
| League Result: | 5th |
| Cup1: | Russian Cup |
| Cup1 Result: | Quarter-finals Zenit St. Petersburg |
| League Topscorer: | Aras Özbiliz (9) |
| Season Topscorer: | Aras Özbiliz (10) |
| Highest Attendance: | 29,870 vs Spartak Moscow 15 September 2012 |
| Lowest Attendance: | 10,730 vs Alania Vladikavkaz 8 December 2012 |
| Average Attendance: | 18,216 12 December 2012 |
| Prevseason: | 2011–12 |
| Nextseason: | 2013–14 |
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The 2012–13 FC Kuban Krasnodar season was the second successive season that the club played in the Russian Premier League, the highest tier of football in Russia. They also participated in the 2012–13 Russian Cup, being knocked out at the quarter-final stage by Zenit St. Petersburg on penalties after a 0–0 draw.
They started the season with Dan Petrescu as manager; however, he resigned on 14 August 2012 to take over as Dynamo Moscow manager.[1] He was replaced by Yuri Krasnozhan, who himself was fired on 9 January 2013, after five months in charge due to irreconcilable differences with the owners.[2] He was replaced by Leonid Kuchuk, who left Arsenal Kyiv to take over.[3]
As of 16 February 2013, according to the Russian Premier League official website. (C)
See main article: List of Russian football transfers summer 2012. In:[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] Out:[11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]
See main article: List of Russian football transfers winter 2012–13. In:[19] [20] [21] [22] [23] Out:[24] [25]
See main article: 2012–13 Russian Premier League.
See main article: 2012–13 Russian Cup.
|-|colspan="14"|Players away from Kuban Krasnodar on loan:|-|colspan="14"|Players who left Kuban Krasnodar during the season:|}
| width=60 | Place | width=60 | Position | width=60 | Nation | width=60 | Number | width=150 | Name | width=150 | Russian Premier League | width=150 | Russian Cup | width=80 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FW |  | 24 | Aras Özbiliz | 9 | 1 | 10 | ||||||||
| 2 | MF | 71 | Ivelin Popov | 9 | 0 | 9 | |||||||||
| 3 | FW |  | 28 | Ibrahima Baldé | 8 | 0 | 8 | ||||||||
| 4 | FW | | 30 | Marcos Pizzelli | 5 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||
| 5 | FW | 11 | Gheorghe Bucur | 4 | 0 | 4 | |||||||||
| 6 | Own Goal | 3 | 0 | 3 | |||||||||||
| 7 | MF |  | 6 | David Tsorayev | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||
| MF | | 17 | Artyom Fidler | 2 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||
| MF | | 10 | Aleksei Ionov | 2 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||
| FW | 20 | Daniel Niculae | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 11 | DF |  | 5 | Ángel Dealbert | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
| MF | | 8 | Artur Tlisov | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| FW | | 90 | Aleksandr Prudnikov | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| TOTALS | 47 | 2 | 49 | ||||||||||||
| Number | Nation | Position | Name | Russian Premier League | Russian Cup | Total | |||||
| width=60 style="background: #FFEE99" | width=60 style="background: #FF8888" | width=60 style="background: #FFEE99" | width=60 style="background: #FF8888" | width=60 style="background: #FFEE99" | width=60 style="background: #FF8888" | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 |  | DF | Igor Armaş | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
| 4 |  | DF | Xandão | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 5 | | DF | Ángel Dealbert | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | ||
| 6 | | MF | David Tsorayev | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
| 8 | | MF | Artur Tlisov | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 10 | | MF | Aleksei Ionov | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
| 11 | FW | Gheorghe Bucur | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| 15 |  | DF | Maksim Zhavnerchik | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 17 | | MF | Artyom Fidler | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | ||
| 19 | | FW | Anton Sekret | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 20 | FW | Daniel Niculae | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| 23 | | GK | Aleksandr Belenov | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 24 | | FW | Aras Özbiliz | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
| 25 | | DF | Aleksei Kozlov | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | ||
| 26 | | DF | Zelão | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | ||
| 27 |  | DF | Igor Lolo | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | ||
| 28 | | FW | Ibrahima Baldé | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
| 30 | | FW | Ivelin Popov | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 31 | | MF | Leandro | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 34 |  | MF | Charles Kaboré | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 43 | | DF | Roman Bugayev | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 71 | MF | Ivelin Popov | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | |||
| 90 | | FW | Aleksandr Prudnikov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| TOTALS | 74 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 77 | 8 | |||||