| Club: | FC Tobol |
| Season: | 2018 |
| Manager: | Vladimir Nikitenko until 1 August 2018 Andrei Miroshnichenko (Caretaker) 1-6 August 2018 Marek Zub from 6 August 2018 |
| Chairman: | Nikolay Panin |
| Stadium: | Central Stadium |
| League: | Kazakhstan Premier League |
| League Result: | 3rd |
| Cup1: | Kazakhstan Cup |
| Cup1 Result: | Quarterfinal vs Atyrau |
| Cup2: | Europa League |
| Cup2 Result: | Second Qualifying Round vs Pyunik |
| League Topscorer: | Azat Nurgaliev (8) |
| Season Topscorer: | Azat Nurgaliev (9) |
| Prevseason: | 2017 |
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The 2018 FC Tobol season is the 20th successive season that the club playing in the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest tier of association football in Kazakhstan. Tobol will also play in the Kazakhstan Cup. After finishing the previous season in third position, Ordabasy would have qualified for the Europa League first qualifying round but they failed to obtain a UEFA licence, meaning that Tobol qualified in their place.
Prior to the start of the season, Vladimir Nikitenko was appointed as the club's manager following the expiration of Robert Yevdokimov's contract. On 1 August, Vladimir Nikitenko resigned as manager after Tobol were eliminated from the Europa League.[1] Andrei Miroshnichenko was appointed as Caretaker manager before Marek Zub was announced as Tobol's new manager on 6 August 2018.[2]
See main article: List of Kazakhstan football transfers winter 2017–18 and List of Kazakhstan football transfers summer 2018.
| Date | Position | Nationality | Name | From | Fee | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 December 2018 | MF |  | Aslan Darabayev | Irtysh Pavlodar | Undisclosed | [4] | |
| 25 December 2018 | MF |  | Jaba Kankava | Free | |||
| 25 December 2018 | DF | | Sultan Abilgazy | Okzhetpes | Undisclosed | ||
| 25 December 2018 | MF | | Maxim Fedin | Okzhetpes | Undisclosed | ||
| 11 January 2018 | MF | | Bauyrzhan Turysbek | Kairat | Undisclosed | [5] | |
| 17 January 2018 | MF | | Azat Nurgaliev | Ordabasy | Undisclosed | [6] | |
| 7 February 2018 | DF |  | Vasyl Kobin | Veres Rivne | Undisclosed | [7] | |
| 10 March 2018 | FW | | Anton Shynder | Free | [8] | ||
| DF |  | Ionuț Larie | Steaua București | Undisclosed | |||
| GK | | Vyacheslav Kotlyar | Akzhayik | Undisclosed |
| Date | Position | Nationality | Name | To | Fee | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 January 2018 | DF | | Mark Gorman | Kaisar | Undisclosed | [9] | |
| GK | | Stanislav Pavlov | Astana | Undisclosed | |||
| MF | | Almir Mukhutdinov | Zhetysu | Undisclosed | |||
| MF |  | Raul Jalilov | Zhetysu | Undisclosed | |||
| FW |  | Amer Bekić | Sloboda Tuzla | Undisclosed |
| Date from | Position | Nationality | Name | From | Date to | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 March 2018 | FW | | Tanat Nusserbayev | Ordabasy | End of Season | [10] | |
| 4 July 2018 | DF | | Marat Bystrov | Astana | End of Season | ||
| 17 July 2018 | FW |  | Juan Lescano | Anzhi Makhachkala | 30 June 2019 | [11] [12] |
| Date | Position | Nationality | Name | Joined | Date | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 June 2018 | FW | | Anton Shynder | Kisvárda | 9 June 2018 | [14] [15] | |
| 30 June 2018 | DF | | Vasyl Kobin | Mynai | [16] | ||
| 9 July 2018 | DF |  | Vanče Šikov | Akademija Pandev | |||
| 16 July 2018 | FW | | Zhasulan Moldakaraev | Ordabasy | [17] | ||
| MF | | Yevgeniy Levin | |||||
| FW | | Temirlan Elmurzaev | |||||
| 27 December 2019 | MF | | Nurbol Zhumaskaliyev | Retired | [18] | ||
| 31 December 2019 | GK | | Dmytro Nepohodov | Ordabasy | 14 January 2019 | [19] | |
| 31 December 2019 | GK | | Vyacheslav Kotlyar | ||||
| 31 December 2019 | DF | | Timur Zhakupov | ||||
| 31 December 2019 | MF | | Aslan Darabayev | Irtysh Pavlodar | 1 January 2019 | [20] | |
| 31 December 2019 | FW | | Dmitry Zagvostkin | ||||
See main article: 2018 Kazakhstan Premier League.
See main article: 2018 Kazakhstan Cup.
See main article: 2018–19 UEFA Europa League.
See main article: 2018–19 UEFA Europa League qualifying phase and play-offs (Main Path).
|-|colspan="14"|Players away from Tobol on loan:|-|colspan="14"|Players who left Tobol during the season:|}
| width=60 | Place | width=60 | Position | width=60 | Nation | width=60 | Number | width=150 | Name | width=120 | Premier League | width=120 | Kazakhstan Cup | width=120 | UEFA Europa League | width=80 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MF | | 13 | Azat Nurgaliev | 8 | 0 | 1 | 9 | |||||||||
| 2 | FW | | 79 | Tanat Nusserbayev | 7 | 1 | 0 | 8 | |||||||||
| 3 | FW | | 15 | Bauyrzhan Turysbek | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||||||||
| 4 | MF | | 96 | Maxim Fedin | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | |||||||||
| 5 | FW | | 25 | Anton Shynder | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |||||||||
| MF | | 20 | Jaba Kankava | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||||
| MF | | 11 | Aslan Darabayev | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
| 8 | MF | | 10 | Nika Kvekveskiri | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||
| 9 | DF | | 7 | Dmitri Miroshnichenko | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| MF | | 14 | Samat Zharynbetov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| DF | | 92 | Marat Bystrov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| DF | | 8 | Viktor Dmitrenko | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| FW | | 9 | Nurbol Zhumaskaliyev | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| TOTALS | 33 | 2 | 5 | 40 | |||||||||||||
| Number | Nation | Position | Name | Premier League | Kazakhstan Cup | UEFA Europa League | Total | ||||||
| 1 | | GK | Sultan Busurmanov | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 4 |  | DF | Fernander Kassaï | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
| 5 | | DF | Ionuț Larie | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 7 | | DF | Dmitri Miroshnichenko | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | ||
| 8 | | DF | Viktor Dmitrenko | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | ||
| 10 | | MF | Nika Kvekveskiri | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 11 | | MF | Aslan Darabayev | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | ||
| 12 | | GK | Dmytro Nepohodov | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 13 | | MF | Azat Nurgaliev | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | ||
| 14 | | MF | Samat Zharynbetov | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
| 15 | | FW | Bauyrzhan Turysbek | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
| 18 | | DF | Timur Zhakupov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 20 | | MF | Jaba Kankava | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 21 | | DF | Sultan Abilgazy | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 44 |  | MF | Artūras Žulpa | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
| 79 | | FW | Tanat Nusserbayev | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | ||
| 92 | | DF | Marat Bystrov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 96 | | MF | Maxim Fedin | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Players who left Tobol during the season: | |||||||||||||
| 6 | | DF | Vanče Šikov | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
| 17 | | FW | Zhasulan Moldakaraev | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| TOTALS | 71 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 81 | 4 | |||||