On 9 January Krasnodar left for their training camp in Spain with a charter flight. Some foreign players will arrive on their own according to the agreement with the coaches and staff. The first training camp will take place in Estepona town.

The team will be working in Estepona up to 22 January. Two friendly matches are planned for the first training camp. On 14 January Krasnodar will play against U-25 China and on the last day of the training camp the opponent will be one of the strongest Swiss clubs – Basel.

After three days off Krasnodar will move to Marbella to have training camp there in the period between 26 January and 6 February. Murad Musaev planned four friendly matches for his players. The opponent for the game on 29 January will be announced later, on 3 February the team will play two matches with different squads – against Swedish Malmö and American MSL club New England Revolution from Boston. A friendly match against Lokomotiv (Moscow) will be the last one for the team in Spain on 6 February.

As soon as this training camp is over the team will return to Krasnodar to their training base Chetuk for the final preparations before UEFA Europe League Round of 32 match against German Bayer.