FC Volgar-Gazprom Astrakhan

Volgar-Gazprom
Full name Football Club
Volgar-Gazprom Astrakhan
Founded 1925
Ground Central Stadium,
Astrakhan
(Capacity: 21,500)
Chairman Sergey Sergeyev
Manager Khazret Dyshekov
League Russian First Division
2010 Russian First Division, 9th
Home colours
Away colours

FC Volgar-Gazprom Astrakhan (Russian: Футбольный Клуб "Волгарь-Газпром" Астрахань) is an association football club based in Astrakhan, Russia. In 2008, they won the Russian Second Division in the South Zone and were promoted to the Russian First Division for 2009.

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History

The club has been known under following names:

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 had been in the First Division until 2006. The club was denied the professional licence and thus relegated to amateur level in 2007. Another club was organized called FC Volgar-Gazprom-2. The new club advanced to the Russian First Division for the 2009 season.

Current squad

As of August 31, 2011, according to the official PFL 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 Ilie Cebanu (on loan from Rubin Kazan)
2 DF Nikolai Samoylov
4 DF Roman Loktionov
6 DF Vladimir Ponomaryov
8 FW Oļegs Malašenoks
10 FW Aleksandr Antipenko
11 MF Andrei Perov (on loan from Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast)
13 FW Dani Chigou
14 DF Andrej Pečnik
15 MF Aleksei Kolomiychenko
16 GK Ilya Grunin
18 DF Kirill Marushchak
19 FW Andrei Myazin
21 MF Milan Culum
No. Position Player
22 MF Nikolai Nesterenko
23 MF Alan Chochiyev (on loan from Lokomotiv Moscow)
24 MF Roman Tuzovskiy
25 MF Artyom Pershin
27 GK Mikhail Komarov
28 MF Andrei Nesterenko
29 DF Nikola Tonev
32 MF Vitali Chochiyev
33 MF Maksim Volkov
36 FW Stanislav Matyash (on loan from Zenit St. Petersburg)
39 FW Vyacheslav Krotov
44 DF Ruslan Kambolov
77 GK Maksim Kabanov

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
MF Yevgeni Panfilov (at Astrakhan)
MF Denys Skepskyi (at Metalurh Zaporizhya)
FW Nikita Mertsalov (at Astrakhan)
No. Position Player
FW Karen Sargsyan (at Avangard Kursk)
FW Pavel Yesikov (at Chernomorets Novorossiysk)

Notable past players

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

Russia/USSR
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Belarus
  • Artur Matsveychyk
  • Vladimir Sheleg
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kazakhstan
Latvia
Lithuania
Moldova
Slovakia
Slovenia
Tajikistan
  • Vitaly Levchenko
Turkmenistan
  • Aleksandr Ignatov
  • Aleksandr Korobko
Ukraine
Uzbekistan

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