FC Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast

Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast
Full name Football Club Ural
Sverdlovsk Oblast
or FC Ural Yekaterinburg
Nickname(s) Uraltsy (Ural men), Uralmashi, Oral
Founded 1930
Ground Uralmash Stadium,
Yekaterinburg
(Capacity: 13,000)
Chairman Grigori Ivanov
Manager Yuri Matveyev
League Russian First Division
2010 7th
Home colours
Away colours
Third colours

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.

Contents

Club colours

Black Orange

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 the Soviet championships beginning in 1945. They mostly played in the lower leagues, with the exception of the 1969 season spent in the Top League. They were the easternmost Russian SFSR club to compete in the top Soviet division (the easternmost Soviet club overall was FC Kairat from Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR).

Uralmash reached the quarterfinals of the Soviet Cup in 1965/66, 1967/68, and 1990/91.

After the dissolution of the USSR, Uralmash were entitled to enter the Russian Top Division and played there for five seasons, from 1992 to 1996. Their best result was eighth 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 were promoted again after the 2004 season. The team's best finish in the First Division was third in 2006.

League History

Soviet Union



Russia


Season Div. Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA P Cup Europe Top Scorer
(League)
Head Coach
1992 1st 9 30 14 8 8 50 36 36 Matveyev - 20 Agafonov
Shishkin
1993 8 24 16 4 14 51 52 36 QF Andreyev - 12 Shishkin
1994 14 30 7 9 14 33 49 23 R32 Matveyev - 9 Shishkin
Kalashnikov
1995 8 30 12 3 15 43 47 39 QF Matveyev - 9 Kalashnikov
1996 16 34 8 9 17 38 57 33 R16 IC SF Fedotov - 6 Voytenko
Shevchenko
1997 2nd 20 42 9 8 25 43 77 35 R32 Ignatov - 9 Vik.Erokhin
1998 3rd, "Ural" 3 34 20 6 8 63 29 66 R64 Alekseev - 12 V.Kalashnikov
Val.Erokhin
1999 7 30 14 7 9 49 30 49 R64 Alekseev - 10 Agafonov
2000 2 30 23 4 3 70 21 73 R1024 Palachyov - 36 Agafonov
2001 1 30 27 2 1 83 11 83 R64 Palachyov - 21 Agafonov
2002 1 28 22 5 1 55 11 71 R128 Markov - 15 Kokarev
2003 2nd 19 42 11 8 23 43 65 41 R32 Salnikov - 14 Kokarev
Gusev
2004 3rd,
"Ural-Povolzhye"
1 36 27 6 3 68 18 87 R64 Markov - 20 Gusev
Kalashnikov
2005 2nd 7 42 21 10 11 51 34 73 R256 Markov - 13 Pobegalov
2006 3 42 27 9 6 67 23 90 R32 Alkhimov - 25 Pobegalov
2007 5 42 21 14 7 70 33 77 R32 Mysin - 21 Pobegalov
2008 4 42 22 9 11 69 39 75 SF Dubrovin - 14 Pobegalov
2009 8 38 15 15 8 40 32 60 R32 Shishelov - 16 Pobegalov
Fedotov
2010 7 38 14 16 8 38 28 58 R16 Sikimić - 7 Fedotov
Stukalov

Current squad

As of August 31, 2011, according to the official FNL website.

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 GK Artur Nigmatullin (on loan from CSKA Moscow)
3 MF Ivan Melnik
4 DF Aleksandr Katsalapov
5 FW Andrey Chukhley
6 DF Ivan Drannikov
7 DF Aleksandr Dantsev
8 MF Sergei Rashevsky
9 FW Anton Zabolotny (on loan from CSKA Moscow)
11 MF Aleksandr Stavpets (on loan from Krylia Sovetov Samara)
12 MF Aleksandr Novikov
13 DF Denis Tumasyan
14 MF Maksim Semakin
15 MF Andrei Bochkov
16 GK Dmitri Yashin
No. Position Player
17 FW Chisamba Lungu
18 MF Branimir Petrović
19 MF Aleksandr Dmitrijev
20 MF Ivan Chudin
22 MF Pavel Pechyonkin
24 MF Yevgeni Yatchenko
25 DF Aleksei Revyakin
27 MF Oleg Shatov
33 GK Igor Kot
58 DF Adessoye Oyewole
70 MF Nikolai Safronidi
87 FW Edgar Manucharyan
92 GK Grigori Lyubimov
99 FW Predrag Sikimić

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
87 FW Denis Matyugin (at Gornyak Uchaly)
MF Andrei Perov (at Volgar-Gazprom Astrakhan)
No. Position Player
MF Andrei Vavilchenkov (at Sheriff Tiraspol)

Reserve squad

Uralmash's reserve squad played professionally as FC Uralmash-d Yekaterinburg in the Russian Third League in 1994-1996.

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Ural/Uralmash.

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