FC Tom Tomsk

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Full name Football Club Tom' Tomsk
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Founded 1957
Ground Trud Stadium, Tomsk
Capacity 15,000
Chairman Russia Yuri Stepanov
Manager Russia Valeriy Petrakov
League Russian Premier League
2006 RPL, 8th
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FC Tom' Tomsk (Russian: Футбольный клуб Томь Томск), is a Russian football club, based in the Siberian city of Tomsk. The team plays in Trud Stadium (Tomsk).

The team was previously named "Burevestnik" (1957), "Tomich" (1958, 1961-1963), "Sibelektromotor" (1959-1960), "Torpedo" (1964-1967, 1974-1978), "Tomles" (1968-1973) and "Manometr" (1979-1987).

In the 1990's the team acquired a number of players that would help them begin their ascent out of the Russian Second Division. Victor Sebelyev, Valery Konovalov and Ruslan Akidzhak were key players of the early part of the decade with Sergei Ageev, Vyacheslav Vishnevskii and Dmitry Kudinov strengthening the team as they made a run on the division championship. In 1996, the team finished 2nd in the division, just falling short of promotion to the Russian First Division. In 1997, Tomsk finally achieved a significant goal when the advanced to the First Division with a strong season. However, the team had a long way to go before they would make another run on a division title.

Following promotion, the team acquired a number of new players including Sergei Zhukov, Andrei Talalaev and Mikhail Murashov to help keep the team in the First Division. However, Tomsk suffered a blow when their newly privatised sponsor, Eastern Oil Company (VNK) pulled out and left the team with no sponsor. At this point, advancement was a pipe dream with survival in the tougher division becoming a priority. It was at this point that the team also had to upgrade their stadium to new standards of the league.

The team played middling football for several years until the arrival of a new sponsor brought in needed funds and allowed the team to acquire new players and begin to compete. Third-place finishes in 2002 and 2003 left the team just short of promotion. However, the 2004 season brough new joy and Tomsk finished second in the division, earning promotion for the 2005 season. The 2005 season saw Tomsk survive their first year in top-flight football with a 10th place finish. In 2006, the team improved its position slightly with an 8th place finish.

The current jersey sponsor is Tomskneft, a local subsidiary of Yukos.

[edit] Current squad

As of 1 September 2006, according to the Russian Premier League official website.

No. Position Player
3 Russia MF Valeri Klimov
4 Russia MF Vasili Yanotovsky
5 Russia MF Sergei Skoblyakov
7 Belarus MF Aliaksandr Kulchiy
8 Russia FW Denis Kiselyov
9 Russia FW Pavel Pogrebnyak
10 Bosnia and Herzegovina MF Branislav Krunic
11 Russia MF Yevgeni Kaleshin
12 Russia DF Aleksey Bugayev
14 Moldova MF Oleg Shishkin
15 Russia FW Andrey Dyomkin
16 Russia GK Yevgeny Gorodov
17 Bulgaria MF Aleksandr Mladenov
18 Russia MF Aleksandr Russkikh
19 Belarus FW Vitali Bulyga
No. Position Player
20 Russia DF Sergei Rekhtin
21 Moldova DF Valeriu Catinsus
22 Croatia MF Igor Novaković
25 Estonia GK Sergei Pareiko
26 Russia DF Nikolay Shinkevich
28 Russia DF Ilya Izotov
33 Belarus GK Vasily Khomutovsky
35 Russia MF Dmitry Tarasov
37 Russia DF Dmitry Myachin
39 Russia DF Aleksandr Raschitayev
40 Ukraine DF Andriy Proshyn
41 Ukraine MF Denys Onyschenko (on loan from Dynamo Kyiv)
55 Lithuania DF Andrius Skerla
77 Russia FW Victor Borisov
84 Croatia DF Hrvoje Vejić

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