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FC Moskva (Russian: Футбольный клуб Москва), is a Russian football club, based in Moscow. Moskva's best result in Russian Premier League is a 5th position in 2005. Dmitry Kirichenko, Moskva's striker, become the league top goalscorer the same year.
[edit] History
Since 1924, there was a football club in Moscow sponsored by the automobile plant ZIL, called Torpedo Moscow. In the mid-1990s, when Russia was moving towards free market economy, ZIL could no longer afford to sponsor a Premier League team. Torpedo got sold to the company that owns the giant Luzhniki Stadium, and the new owners moved their home games to Luzhniki as well. A few years later ZIL decided to re-create their own team to play at the traditional Torpedo Stadium, and for a while there were two teams named Torpedo in Moscow, Torpedo-Luzhniki and Torpedo-ZIL. In 2003 ZIL sold the team again to a metal producing company, the team's name was changed to Torpedo-Metallurg. In July 2004 the team's ownership got transferred yet again, this time to the Moscow city government, and a new FC Moskva team got created (Moskva means "Moscow" in Russian).
[edit] Nicknames
Fans and journalists call FC Moskva The Citizens (Russian: Горожане). The colloquial nickname for the club is The Caps (Russian: Кепки), which refers to Moscow government ownership (Moscow mayor Yuriy Luzhkov usually wears a cap).
[edit] 2006 UEFA Intertoto Cup
FC Moskva in its first appearance on the European arena reached the second round of Intertoto Cup and was eliminated by Hertha BSC Berlin.
[edit] Current squad
As of 7 March 2007, according to the Russian Premier League official website.
The following players are listed by Moskva's website as reserve players. They are eligible to play for the first team.
| No. |
|
Position |
Player |
| 32 |
 |
DF |
Nikita Korolyov |
| 33 |
|
MF |
Andrei Moiseyenkov |
| 37 |
|
MF |
Kirill Loskutov |
| 44 |
|
DF |
Aleksandr Ponomaryov |
|
|
| No. |
|
Position |
Player |
| 47 |
|
MF |
Artyom Varakin |
| 50 |
|
DF |
Andrei Lukanchenkov |
| 55 |
|
MF |
Aleksandr Sukhov |
|
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