FC Torpedo Moscow

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Full name Football Club Torpedo Moscow
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Founded 1924
Ground Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow
Capacity 81,029
Chairman Vladimir Alyoshin
Manager Aleksandr Gostenin
League Russian First Division
2006 Russian Premier League, 15th
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FC Torpedo Moscow (Russian: Футбольный клуб "Торпедо" Москва) is a Russian football club, based in Moscow. Founded in 1924, it has had the following names:

  • Proletarskaya kuznitsa (1924-1931)
  • AMO (1931-1932)
  • ZIS (1933-1935)
  • Torpedo (1936-1995)
  • Torpedo-Luzhniki (1996-1997)
  • Torpedo (since 1998)

Originally known as Proletarian Forge before changing their name to Torpedo in 1936. The club used to belong to the ZIL automobile plant until a fallout in the mid-1990s that resulted in Torpedo leaving their historic ground and moving across town to Luzhniki, as they became property of the Luzhniki corporation. In 1957 Torpedo Moscow, as well as other Soviet sport clubs named "Torpedo", became a part of the republican VSS Trud of the Russian SFSR.

Nicknamed the Black-Whites, Torpedo hasn't been a force in Russian football since the days of Eduard Streltsov, the brilliant striker of the 1950s and 1960s, known as "the Russian Pele". Past glories for Torpedo include 3 USSR titles (1960, 1965, and autumn 1976), 6 USSR Cups (1949, 1952, 1960, 1968, 1972, 1986), 1 Russian Cup (1993), and 3 appearances in the quarterfinals of European/UEFA Cup competition.

[edit] Current squad

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

No. Position Player
2 Estonia DF Enar Jääger
3 Belarus DF Dmitry Lentsevich
5 Ukraine MF Serhiy Kormiltsev
6 Russia MF Andrey Perov
7 Russia MF Vitali Volkov
8 Russia MF Konstantin Zyryanov
9 Uzbekistan FW Aleksandr Geynrikh
15 Serbia DF Đorđe Jokić
16 Russia GK Maksim Kabanov
17 Russia MF Pavel Mamayev
18 Georgia (country) MF Beka Zhghenti
19 Russia MF Lyubomir Kantonistov
20 Romania DF Cristian Dancia
21 Russia MF Sergei Budylin
22 Russia GK Dmitri Borodin
24 Russia DF Andrey Kolesnikov
25 Poland DF Marcin Kus
No. Position Player
26 Russia DF Denis Tumasyan
27 Estonia DF Andrei Stepanov
28 Russia MF Igor Smolnikov
29 Russia MF Viktor Bolihov
30 Poland FW Grzegorz Piechna
32 Croatia DF Stjepan Skočibušić
33 Romania FW George Florescu
35 Russia MF Igor Byrlov
38 Russia MF Aleksandr Podymov
48 Russia FW Yevgeni Lutsenko
52 Russia MF Vladimir Yeryomkin
53 Russia MF Ivan Ryakhovsky
54 Russia FW Aleksey Sapogov
77 Russia MF Dmitry Sokolov
85 Russia FW Dmitri Golubov
88 Russia FW Ruslan Tarala

The following players are listed by Torpedo's website as reserve players. They are eligible to play for the first team.

No. Position Player
36 Russia GK Maksim Morgun
37 Russia DF Ruslan Yarhamov
39 Russia DF Artyom Samsonov
40 Russia DF Martin Khorin
41 Russia DF Dmitry Korolyov
No. Position Player
42 Russia DF Sergei Morozov
43 Russia MF Aleksandr Eremeyev
49 Russia DF Maksim Kirsanov
51 Russia GK Ilya Madilov

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