Zenit St. Petersburg

      Club manager: Luciano Spalletti

      Incoming players: midfielder Alexander Ryazantsev (Rubin)

      Outgoing players: defender Jamaldin Hojanyýazow (Amkar, on loan), midfielder Ivan Solovyov (Amkar, on loan), forward Alexander Bukharov (Anzhi Makhachkala, on loan), forward Danko Lazović (Partizan, Serbia), midfielder Vladimir Bystrov (Anzhi Makhachkala, on loan).

Lokomotiv Moscow

      Club manager: Leonid Kuchuk

      Outgoing players: forward Felipe Caicedo (Al Jazira, UAE), goalkeeper Dario Krešić (Mainz 05, Germany)

Spartak Moscow

      Club manager: Valery Karpin

      Incoming players: defender Nikolay Fadeyev (Amkar, on loan)

      Outgoing players: midfielder Aiden McGeady (Everton), forward Abdul Majeed Waris (Valenciennes, France)

Dynamo Moscow

      Club manager: Dan Petrescu

      Incoming players: forward (Anzhi Makhachkala, on loan), midfielder (Anzhi Makhachkala, on loan)

      Outgoing players: defender Igor Shitov, defender Nikita Chicherin, defender Alexander Epuryanu (Anzhi Makhachkala)

CSKA Moscow

      Club manager: Leonid Slutsky

      Incoming players: none.

      Outgoing players: midfielder Mark Gonzalez (Universidad Católica, Chile, on loan), forward Ricardo Jesus da Silva (Querétaro, Mexico), forward Tomas Necid (Slavia, the Czech Republic), midfielder Keisuke Honda (AC Milan, Italy), midfielder Pavel Mamayev (Krasnodar)