| Club: | Mordovia Saransk |
| Season: | 2012–13 |
| Manager: |  Fyodor Shcherbachenkountil 19 November 2012[1] Vladimir Bibikov(caretaker)19 November - 28 December 2012 Dorinel Munteanu from 28 December 2012[2] |
| Chairman: | Nikolay Levin |
| Stadium: | Start Stadium |
| League: | Russian Premier League |
| League Result: | 15th (Relegated) |
| Cup1: | Russian Cup |
| Cup1 Result: | Round of 16 vs Zenit St. Petersburg |
| League Topscorer: | Ruslan Mukhametshin (11) |
| Season Topscorer: | Ruslan Mukhametshin (11) |
| Highest Attendance: | 12,000 vs CSKA Moscow 19 August 2012 |
| Lowest Attendance: | 2,500 vs Amkar Perm 3 December 2012 |
| Average Attendance: | 7,023 |
| Prevseason: | 2011-12 |
| Nextseason: | 2012-13 |
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The 2012–13 Mordovia Saransk season was their 1st season back in the Russian Premier League, the highest tier of association football in Russia. They finished the season in 15th place, meaning they were relegated back to the Russian National Football League after only one season in the Premier League. Mordovia also participated in the 2012–13 Russian Cup, getting knocked out at the Round of 16 stage by Zenit St. Petersburg.
See main article: List of Russian football transfers summer 2012. In:[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] Out:[12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]
See main article: List of Russian football transfers winter 2012–13. In:[18] Out:
See main article: 2012–13 Russian Premier League.
See main article: 2012–13 Russian Cup.
|-|colspan="14"|Players away from the club on loan:|-|colspan="14"|Players who appeared for Mordovia Saransk no longer at the club:|}
| 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 | | 23 | Ruslan Mukhametshin | 11 | 0 | 11 | ||||||||
| 2 | FW | | 8 | Kirill Panchenko | 5 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||
| 3 | DF | | 19 | Yevgeni Osipov | 3 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||
| MF | | 7 | Anton Bober | 3 | 0 | 3 | |||||||||
| 5 | MF | | 24 | Andrei Pazin | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||
| FW | 32 | Daniel Oprița | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 7 | MF | | 11 | Maksim Rogov | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
| FW | | 9 | Rustem Mukhametshin | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| DF |  | 40 | Milan Perendija | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| MF | | 27 | Aleksei Ivanov | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| TOTALS | 30 | 1 | 31 | ||||||||||||
| Number | Nation | Position | Name | Russian Premier League | Russian Cup | Total | |||||
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | | DF | Maksim Budnikov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 3 | | DF | Aleksei Muldarov | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
| 4 | | MF | Yuri Kuleshov | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 5 | | MF | Roman Kontsedalov | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 7 | | MF | Anton Bober | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 9 | | FW | Rustem Mukhametshin | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 10 | | MF | Evgeni Aldonin | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
| 11 | | MF | Maksim Rogov | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 12 |  | DF | Vladimir Božović | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | ||
| 13 | | FW | Mikhail Markin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 14 |  | DF | Igor Shitov | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | ||
| 18 |  | DF | Pavlo Stepanets | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | ||
| 19 | | DF | Yevgeni Osipov | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | ||
| 20 | MF | Tomislav Dujmović | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | |||
| 23 | | FW | Ruslan Mukhametshin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 24 | | MF | Andrei Pazin | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 27 | | MF | Aleksei Ivanov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 31 | | GK | David Yurchenko | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 35 |  | DF | Akaki Khubutia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 40 | | DF | Milan Perendija | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 87 | | DF | Aleksandar Simčević | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
| TOTALS | 60 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 64 | 5 | |||||