FC Volgar-Gazprom Astrakhan
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| Full name | Football Club Volgar-Gazprom Astrakhan |
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| Ground | Central Stadium, Astrakhan |
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| Capacity | 30,500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman | Yury Makhoshvili | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Khazret Dyshekov | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Russian First Division | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006 | 11th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FC Volgar-Gazprom Astrakhan are a Russian football club based in Astrakhan. Currently the club plays in the Russian First Division.
[edit] History
The club has been known under following names:
- Pishchevik (food industry worker) before 1958
- Trud (labour) in 1958–1959
- Volgar in 1960–1994
- Volgar-Gazprom since 1995
Pishchevik played in the Second Group of the Soviet League. Trud (and later Volgar) played in the Class B (1958, 1960–1967), in Class A, Group 2 (1968–1969), in Class A, Group 1 (1970), Soviet First League (1971), Soviet Second League (1972–1990), Soviet Second League B (1991). In 1992 Volgar entered the Russian Second League, played in the Third League in 1994 (finished top and were promoted), returned to the Second League in 1995 and stayed until 1998. In 1998 Volgar-Gazprom were promoted and in 1999 they started playing in the Russian First Division. With the exception of the relegation for the 2004 season, Volgar-Gazprom have been in the First Division until now.
[edit] External links
- Official website (Russian)
- Club history at KLISF
