FC Tambov
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| Full name | FK Tambov | ||
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| Nickname(s) | The Wolves | ||
| Founded | 2013 | ||
| Ground | Mordovia Arena | ||
| Capacity | 44,442 | ||
| Owner | Tambov Oblast | ||
| Chairman | Georgi Yartsev | ||
| Manager | Sergei Pervushin | ||
| League | Russian Premier League | ||
| 2019–20 | Russian Premier League, 14th | ||
| Website | http://fc-tambov.ru | ||
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FC Tambov (Russian: ФК Тамбов) is a Russian football team from Tambov. It will be playing in the Russian Premier League in the 2020–21 season.
History
FC Tambov started out on the professional level in the third-tier Russian Professional Football League in the 2013–14 season. Despite coming in last in their zone in their first professional season, the team was not relegated, as a team that came ahead of them in the table dropped out for financial reasons.
For the 2016–17 season, they were promoted to the Russian Football National League for the first time. On the last day of the 2016–17 season, they needed to defeat FC SKA-Khabarovsk away to achieve 4th place and a spot in the promotion play-offs for the Russian Premier League, but the game ended with a score of 2–2, leaving Tambov in 5th place. At the end of the next 2017–18 season they secured 4th place and a chance to play in the promotion play-offs.[1] They lost both legs of the play-offs to FC Amkar Perm and remained in the FNL.
On 11 May 2019, the club secured a top-two finish in the 2018–19 Russian National Football League and subsequently promotion to the Russian Premier League for the 2019–20 season, for the first time in the club's history.[2] For Premier League football purposes, they will share ground at the Mordovia Arena in Saransk, 184 miles away.
Players
Current squad
As of 11 August 2020, according to the RFPL website.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Out on loan
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Coaching staff
- Head coach - Sergei Pervushin
- Assistant coaches - Timur Shipshev
- Goalkeeping coach - Sergei Kulikov
Honours
Russian Football National League
- Champions: 2018–19
Russian Professional Football League, Central Group
- Champions: 2015–16
References
- ^ "Yenisey and Tambov will play in the playoffs" (in Russian). Russian Football National League. 6 May 2018.
- ^ ""Tambov" and "Sochi" went to the Premier League!" (in Russian). Russian Football National League. 11 May 2019.
External links
- (in Russian) Official website