| 1 | Fedor Smolov
FC Krasnodar | FC Krasnodar | 29 | 20 |
| 2 | Quincy Promes
Spartak Moscow | Spartak Moscow | 30 | 18 |
| 3 | Hulk
FC Zenit | FC Zenit | 27 | 17 |
| 4 | Artem Dzyuba
FC Zenit | FC Zenit | 30 | 15 |
| 5 | Ahmed Musa
CSKA Moscow | CSKA Moscow | 30 | 13 |
| 6 | Lorenzo Melgarejo
Spartak Moscow | Spartak Moscow | 11 | 10 |
| - | Yevgeni Lutsenko
Mordovya Saransk | Mordovya Saransk | 27 | 10 |
| - | Pavel Mamaev
FC Krasnodar | FC Krasnodar | 29 | 10 |
| 9 | Sardar Azmoun
FC Rostov | FC Rostov | 24 | 9 |
| - | Maciej Rybus
Akhmat Groznyi | Akhmat Groznyi | 28 | 9 |
| - | Yannick Boli
FC Anzhi | FC Anzhi | 28 | 9 |
| - | Aleksandr Samedov
Lokomotiv Moscow | Lokomotiv Moscow | 28 | 9 |
| 13 | Spartak Gogniyev
FC Ural | FC Ural | 17 | 8 |
| - | Oumar Niasse
Lokomotiv Moscow | Lokomotiv Moscow | 15 | 8 |
| - | Zé Luís
Spartak Moscow | Spartak Moscow | 24 | 8 |
| - | Vladislav Ignatyev
Lokomotiv Moscow | Lokomotiv Moscow | 7 | 8 |
| - | Oleg Shatov
FC Zenit | FC Zenit | 27 | 8 |
| 18 | Marko Devic
Rubin Kazan | Rubin Kazan | 19 | 7 |
| - | Dmitri Poloz
FC Rostov | FC Rostov | 30 | 7 |
| - | Aleksandr Sapeta
FC Ural | FC Ural | 29 | 7 |
| 21 | Petar Skuletic
Lokomotiv Moscow | Lokomotiv Moscow | 18 | 6 |
| - | Aleksandr Kokorin
FC Zenit | FC Zenit | 10 | 6 |
| - | Edgar Manucharyan
FC Ural | FC Ural | 22 | 6 |
| - | Danny
FC Zenit | FC Zenit | 23 | 6 |
| - | Gerson Acevedo
FC Ural | FC Ural | 22 | 6 |
| - | Aleksandr Erokhin
FC Rostov | FC Rostov | 11 | 6 |
| - | Ilya Maksimov
FC Anzhi | FC Anzhi | 22 | 6 |
| - | Ruslan Mukhametshin
Mordovya Saransk | Mordovya Saransk | 28 | 6 |
| - | Alan Dzagoev
CSKA Moscow | CSKA Moscow | 29 | 6 |
| 30 | Zaur Sadaev
Akhmat Groznyi | Akhmat Groznyi | 15 | 5 |
| - | Wanderson
FC Krasnodar | FC Krasnodar | 23 | 5 |
| - | Seydou Doumbia
CSKA Moscow | CSKA Moscow | 13 | 5 |
| - | Ari
FC Krasnodar | FC Krasnodar | 21 | 5 |
| - | Gökdeniz Karadeniz
Rubin Kazan | Rubin Kazan | 22 | 5 |
| 35 | Alikhan Shavaev
Amkar Perm | Amkar Perm | 17 | 4 |
| - | Ibrahima Baldé
Kuban Krasnodar | Kuban Krasnodar | 21 | 4 |
| - | Sergei Kornilenko
Krylya Sovetov Samara | Krylya Sovetov Samara | 16 | 4 |
| - | Magomed Mitrishev
Akhmat Groznyi | Akhmat Groznyi | 22 | 4 |
| - | Igor Portnyagin
Rubin Kazan | Rubin Kazan | 24 | 4 |
| - | Georgiy Gabulov
Krylya Sovetov Samara | Krylya Sovetov Samara | 22 | 4 |
| - | Aleksey Kozlov
Dynamo Moscow | Dynamo Moscow | 22 | 4 |
| - | Sylvester Igboun
FC Ufa | FC Ufa | 25 | 4 |
| - | Maurício
FC Zenit | FC Zenit | 11 | 4 |
| - | Christian Noboa
FC Rostov | FC Rostov | 24 | 4 |
| - | Zoran Tošic
CSKA Moscow | CSKA Moscow | 28 | 4 |
| - | Ivelin Popov
Spartak Moscow | Spartak Moscow | 29 | 4 |
| - | Pontus Wernbloom
CSKA Moscow | CSKA Moscow | 27 | 4 |
| - | Denis Glushakov
Spartak Moscow | Spartak Moscow | 27 | 4 |
| - | Aleksey Ionov
Dynamo Moscow | Dynamo Moscow | 29 | 4 |
| - | Maksim Kanunnikov
Rubin Kazan | Rubin Kazan | 30 | 4 |