| Club: | Rostov |
| Season: | 2012–13 |
| Manager: |  Miodrag Božović |
| Chairman: |  Oleg Lopatin |
| Stadium: | Olimp - 2, Rostov |
| League: | Russian Premier League |
| League Result: | 13th |
| Cup1: | Russian Cup |
| Cup1 Result: | Semi-final vs CSKA Moscow |
| League Topscorer: | Jan Holenda (6) |
| Season Topscorer: | Jan Holenda & Dmitri Kirichenko (6) |
| Highest Attendance: | 15,000 vs Zenit St. Petersburg 12 May 2013 |
| Lowest Attendance: | 3,500 vs Terek Grozny 22 April 2013 |
| Average Attendance: | 10,109 12 December 2012 |
| Prevseason: | 2011–12 |
| Nextseason: | 2013–14 |
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The 2012–13 Rostov season was the fourth straight season that the club played in the Russian Premier League, the highest tier of football in Russia after they won their relegation playoff tie against Shinnik Yaroslavl. They have also played in the 2012–13 Russian Cup.
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The following players are listed on the official club's website as reserves and are registered with the Premier League. They are eligible to play for the main squad.
See main article: List of Russian football transfers summer 2012. In:[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] Out:[18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26]
See main article: List of Russian football transfers winter 2012–13. In:[27] [28] Out:[29] [30] [31]
See main article: 2012–13 Russian Premier League.
See main article: 2012–13 Russian Cup.
|-|colspan="14"|Players left Rostov during the season:|}
| width=60 | Place | width=60 | Position | width=60 | Nation | width=60 | Number | width=150 | Name | width=150 | Premier League | width=150 | Relegation play-off | width=150 | Russian Cup | width=80 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FW |  | 11 | Jan Holenda | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
| FW | | 10 | Dmitri Kirichenko | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 2 | FW | | 14 | Dmitry Poloz | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |||||||||
| MF |  | 2 | Timofei Kalachev | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||||
| MF |  | 81 | Răzvan Cociș | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
| 6 | DF |  | 3 | Kornel Saláta | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||
| MF |  | 19 | Dragan Blatnjak | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
| DF | | 5 | Vitali Dyakov | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
| FW |  | 87 | Yevgeni Starikov | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
| MF |  | 27 | Guélor Kanga | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
| FW |  | 77 | Danko Lazovic | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
| MF |  | 88 | Edgaras Česnauskis | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 12 | FW |  | 24 | Florent Sinama Pongolle | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| TOTALS | 30 | 3 | 3 | 36 | |||||||||||||
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GK | 1 | Stipe Pletikosa | 10 | 2 | 2 | 14 | ||||||||||
| TOTALS | 10 | 2 | 2 | 14 | |||||||||||||
| Number | Nation | Position | Name | Premier League | Relegation Play-off | Russian Cup | Total | ||||||||
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GK | Stipe Pletikosa | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |||||
| 2 | | MF | Timofei Kalachev | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 1 | ||||
| 3 | | DF | Kornel Saláta | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | ||||
| 4 | DF | Isaac Okoronkwo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||
| 5 | | DF | Vitali Dyakov | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||||
| 8 | | MF | Dmitri Malyaka | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 10 | | FW | Dmitri Kirichenko | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||||
| 11 | | FW | Jan Holenda | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||
| 14 | | FW | Dmitry Poloz | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 17 | | MF | Aleksandr Sheshukov | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | ||||
| 18 | | DF | Vladimir Kisenkov | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | ||||
| 22 | | DF | Andrei Ivanov | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| 24 | | FW | Florent Sinama Pongolle | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 27 | | MF | Guélor Kanga | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||||
| 33 | | DF | Inal Getigezhev | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||
| 55 | DF | Siyanda Xulu | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||
| 63 | | MF | Maksim Lepskiy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 77 | | FW | Danko Lazovic | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| 81 | | MF | Răzvan Cociș | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| 84 |  | MF | Alexandru Gațcan | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | ||||
| 88 | MF | Edgaras Česnauskis | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | |||||
| Players away on loan: | |||||||||||||||
| Players who left Rostov during the season: | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | | FW | Roman Adamov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 15 |  | DF | Benoît Angbwa | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 19 | | MF | Dragan Blatnjak | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| 21 | MF | David Bentley | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||
| TOTALS | 78 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 88 | 5 | |||||||