FC Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast

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Ural
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Full name Football Club Ural
Sverdlovsk Oblast
or FC Ural Yekaterinburg
Founded 1930
Ground Uralmash Stadium known locally as Central,
Yekaterinburg
(Capacity 22,000)
Chairman Grigory Ivanov
Manager Aleksandr Pobegalov
League Russian First Division
2007 5th
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FC Ural (Russian: ФК Урал) 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.

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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. The best position of her in First Division was 3rd in 2006 season.

[edit] Current squad

No. Position Player
1 Flag of Russia GK Sergey Armishev
16 Flag of Russia GK Nikita Talalikhin
30 Flag of Russia GK Aleksandr Malyshev
2 Flag of Russia DF Marat Mahmutov
4 Flag of Russia DF Yevgeny Averyanov
5 Flag of Russia DF Adessoye Oyevole
10 Flag of Russia DF Andrei Lukanchenkov
20 Flag of Russia DF Aleksey Katulsky
21 Flag of Russia DF Mikhail Sinyov
25 Flag of Russia DF Maksim Povorov
3 Flag of Serbia MF Zoran Kostić
6 Flag of Russia MF Maksin Ryazantsev
7 Flag of Russia MF Andrey Klimenko
No. Position Player
12 Flag of Russia MF Konstantin Skrylnikov
15 Flag of Russia MF Artyom Fidler
19 Flag of Russia MF Artur Valikayev
24 Flag of Russia MF Sergei Miroshnichenko
26 Flag of Russia MF Aleksandr Shchanitsin
27 Flag of Russia MF Oleg Shatov
9 Flag of Russia FW Stanislav Dubrovin
11 Flag of Moldova FW Serghei Rogaciov
17 Flag of Russia FW Nikita Zhdankin
22 Flag of Russia FW Mikhail Mysin
29 Flag of Russia FW Yevgeny Alkhimov

Note: players in the First Division do not have fixed numbers.

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