FC Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast

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Ural

Full name

Football Club Ural
Sverdlovsk Oblast

Founded

1930

Ground

Uralmash Stadium,
Yekaterinburg

Capacity

11,000

Chairman

Grigory Ivanov

Manager

Aleksandr Pobegalov

League

Russian First Division

2005

7th





Home colours





Away colours

FC Ural is a Russian football club. The club is based in Yekaterinburg but represents all Sverdlovsk Oblast. The club is in the Russian First Division.

[edit] History

The club was founded in 1930 and was known as Avangard (1930-1943, 1947-1948, 1953-1957), Zenit (1944-1946), Mashinostroitel (1958-1959), and Uralmash (1949-1952, 1960-2002).

The club participated in Soviet championships since 1945. They mostly played in the lower leagues, with the exception on 1969 season spent in the Top League. Uralmash reached the quarterfinals of the Soviet Cup in 1965/66, 1967/68, and 1990/91.

After the dissolution of USSR Uralmash were entitled to enter the Russian Top Division and played there for five seasons, from 1992 to 1996. Their best result was eight position in 1993 and 1995. Despite reaching the semifinal of the Intertoto Cup in 1996, Uralmash finished 16th out of 18 in the league and were relegated. In 1997 another relegation followed, now to the Second Division. From 1998 to 2002 Uralmash played in the Second Division. After winning promotion the club was renamed Ural. In 2003 the team were relegated from the Russian First Division, but promoted again after the 2004 season.

[edit] Squad

As of 23 June 2006, according to the Professional Football League official website.

No.		Position	Player
		FW	Yevgeny Alkhimov
		FW	Aleksandr Anisimov
		GK	Sergey Armishev
		DF	Yevgeny Averyanov
		MF	Igor Bakhtin
		DF	Andrey Durov
		MF	Artyom Fidler
		FW	Maksim Galiullin
		DF	Aleksey Katulsky
		DF	Aleksandr Khrapkovsky
		MF	Andrey Klimenko
		FW	Yevgeny Losev
		DF	Artyom Madilov
		DF	Mikhail Makarov
		FW	Konstantin Markov
		FW	Mikhail Mysin

No.		Position	Player
		MF	Aleksandr Nikulin
		DF	Oleg Pichugin
		DF	Maksim Povorov
		DF	Sergey Pyatikopov
		DF	Vladimir Radkevich
		MF	Artur Rozyev
		MF	Maksin Ryazantsev
		MF	Aleksey Solovyov
		GK	Nikita Talalikhin
		GK	Jarosław Tkocz
		MF	Aleksandr Shchanitsin
		FW	Maksim Shubkin
		MF	Aleksandr Vasilyev
		MF	Sergey Yegorov
		DF	Aleksey Yepifanov
		FW	Denis Zubko