FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod

FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod

Full name	Футбольный Клуб Волга Нижний Новгород (Football Club Volga Nizhny Novgorod)
Nickname(s)	Volgari (The Volga Natives)
Founded	1963
Ground	Lokomotiv Stadium (capacity: 17,856)
Chairman	Aleksei Goikhman
Manager	Yuriy Kalitvintsev
League	Russian Premier League
2011–12	14th
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod (Russian: Футбольный Клуб "Волга" Нижний Новгород) is a Russian football club from Nizhny Novgorod, founded in 1963. In 2008, FC Volga won the Ural-Povolzhye (Volga Region in Russian) zone of the Russian Second Division and advanced to the Russian First Division. It finished First Division as 4th in 2009 and finished one as 2nd in 2010 and promoted to Russian Premier League for 2011 season. Promotion to the top league was secured after 2-2 draw with Nizhny Novgorod at Nizhny Novgorod derby on 3 November 2010.

History

The team was founded in 1963 after a merger of two teams from Gorky - Torpedo and Raketa. The team played in the Soviet Top League, where its best result was 14th place in 1964. The team was disbanded in 1984. In 1998, a new club called FC Elektronika Nizhny Novgorod was founded. It played in Russian Second Division. In 2004 it was renamed to Volga.

FC Torpedo-Viktoriya Nizhny Novgorod was another squad to claim the legacy of FC Volga Gorky.

League History

Russia

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Cup	Europe		Top Scorer (League)
1999	KFK(4th), "Povolzhye"	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-
2000		3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-
2001	3rd, "Ural-Povolzhye"	9	34	13	10	11	54	43	49	-	-		Kuznetsov - 12
2002		6	30	12	8	10	40	38	44	R256	-		Podolyanchik - 9
2003		14	38	11	5	22	41	62	38	R256	-		Podolyanchik - 14
2004		12	36	12	9	15	41	46	45	R512	-		Georgiev - 9
2005		6	36	15	12	9	44	30	57	R256	-		Udodov - 7
2006		7	24	10	8	6	31	23	38	R512	-		Loginov - 5
2007		4	26	15	5	6	52	30	50	R256	-		Kaynov - 11
2008		1	34	23	9	2	73	23	78	R512	-		Prokofyev - 17
2009	2nd	4	38	17	14	7	54	32	65	R16	-		Khazov - 10
2010		2	38	19	14	5	62	25	71	R64	-		Martsvaladze - 21
2011–12	1st	14	44	12	5	27	37	60	41	SF	-		Bibilov - 7

Current squad

Updated 25 July 2012, according to the RFPL official website.

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Artur Nigmatullin (on loan from CSKA) 2 DF Valerii Kichin 3 DF Simeon Bulgaru 4 DF Dmitri Aydov 5 MF Andrei Karyaka 6 DF Dmitriy Polyanin 8 DF Gia Grigalava 9 MF Aleksandr Shulenin 10 MF Romeo Castelen 11 FW Shamil Asildarov 13 MF Dmitri Kudryashov 14 FW Artur Sarkisov (on loan from Lokomotiv Moscow) 15 DF Yegor Tarakanov 16 MF Anton Putsila 17 MF Matija Dvornekovic 19 MF Adrian Ropotan

No. Position Player 21 MF Ruslan Adzhindzhal 23 MF Mihăiță Pleșan 24 MF Ruslan Pashtov 25 DF Andrei Buivolov 26 DF Piotr Polczak (on loan from Terek Grozny) 27 FW Aleksei Sapogov 29 MF Shota Bibilov 31 GK Ilya Abayev 33 DF Nikolai Zaytsev 37 DF Vitalie Bordian 41 GK Mikhail Kerzhakov 63 DF Aleksandr Belozyorov 77 FW Aleksandr Salugin 83 MF Aleksandr Kharitonov 89 DF Aleksei Mamonov 98 FW Dmitri Karasyov

Youth team

The following players are listed by club's website as reserve players and are registered with the RFPL. They are eligible to play for the first team.

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 28 MF Aleksandr Semyachkin 34 MF Yevgeni Degtyaryov 40 FW Dmitri Varfolomeyev 44 MF Pavel Isichenko 47 MF Dmitri Vershinin 51 MF Roman Dzhigkayev 52 FW Mikhail Sorochkin 53 MF Andrei Churin 62 DF Vasili Samokhvalov

No. Position Player 66 DF Albert Kulaev 71 GK Aleksandr Kurnikov 79 DF Shamil Kurbanov 80 MF Artyom Bragin 81 GK Fyodor Osin 88 DF David Kokhia 92 MF Ilya Syomin 95 MF Ivan Maksimov

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Volga.

Russia Taras Burlak Andrei Karyaka Andrey Yeshchenko Former USSR countries Artur Sarkisov Vagif Javadov Igor Stasevich Gogita Gogua Gia Grigalava Gocha Khojava Otar Martsvaladze

Giorgi Navalovski Edik Sadzhaya Lasha Salukvadze Mate Vatsadze Vitalie Bordian Sanzhar Tursunov Europe Petar Jelić Dani Bondar Romeo Castelen Mihăiţă Pleşan Adrian Ropotan

Managers

• Sergei Petrenko (July 2007–June 09)
• Sergei Perednya (interim) (June 2009–Dec 09)
• Hazret Dyshekov (July 2009–??)
• Aleksandr Pobegalov (Jan 2010–May 10)

• Omari Tetradze (May 2010–June 11)
• Dmitri Cheryshev (June 2011–June 12)
• Gadzhi Gadzhiev (July 2012–Dec 12)
• Yuriy Kalitvintsev (Jan 2013–)

External links

• Official Website