FC SKA Rostov-on-Don

SKA Rostov
Full name Football Club
Sports Club of Army
Rostov-on-Don
Nickname(s) Pony, Armeytsy (Military men)
Founded 1937
Ground SKA SKVO Stadium,
Rostov-on-Don
(Capacity: 27,300)
Chairman Aleksandr Razorenov
Manager Igor Khankeyev
League Russian Second Division
South zone
2010 14th
Home colours
Away colours

FC SKA Rostov-on-Don (Russian: ФК СКА Ростов-на-Дону) is a Russian association football club based in Rostov-on-Don. The club's rich history includes becoming runners-up of the Soviet Top League in 1966 and winning the Soviet Cup in 1981.

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History

"SKA"

In final 1981.

The club was founded on 27 August 1937 and was known as RODKA (1937–1953), ODO (1954–1956), SKVO (1957–1959). The team was given its present name in 1960.

SKVO entered the Class B of the Soviet league in 1958. Prior to that, the team only played in regional tournaments. SKVO became the champions of Class B in 1958 and were promoted to Class A. They stayed at the top level of Soviet football until 1973, winning silver medals in 1966 and finishing fourth in 1959, 1960, 1963, and 1964.

In 1970s and 1980s SKA moved between Top and First leagues several times. After relegation 1973, they played in the First League in 1974, 1976–1978, 1982–1983, and 1986–1989, and in the Top League in 1975, 1979–1981, and 1984-1985. SKA spent two last years of the Soviet football (1990 and 1991) in the Second League.

SKA were also successful in the Soviet Cup. They won the trophy in 1981 and were the losing finalists in 1969 and 1971.

After entering the Russian Second Division, SKA have been playing there with a few exceptions: they played in the Third Division in 1994, in the Amateur Football League in 1998, and in the First Division in 2002. In 2002 SKA finished 17th in the First Division, going straight back down but recording the best result in Russian football. She finished 2nd South Zone of Second Division but returned First Division after relegations of Dynamo Makhachkala, FC Volgar-Gazprom Astrakhan and Lada Togliatti due to their licences were refused. She finished 17th in 2007 and 13th in 2008. Despite finishing outside of relegation zone in 2008, the club could not afford to play in the First Division for 2009 and volunteered to get relegated to the Second Division for 2009.

League History

Soviet Union



Russia


Current squad

As of August 22, 2011, according to the PFS 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
GK Aleksandr Afanasyev
GK Yevgeni Malov
DF Vladimir Danilov
DF Aleksandr Gorbachev
DF Yevgeni Okhrimenko
DF Eduard Popov
DF Sergei Poteshkin
DF Anton Sakharov
DF Mnatsakan Tependizhev
DF Oleg Tigiyev
DF Igor Trofimenko
MF Maksim Aleksandrin
MF Vladimir Chechulin
MF Vladislav Gagloyev
No. Position Player
MF Fuad Geydarov
MF Vitali Glushchenko
MF Farkhad Gystarov
MF Stanislav Lebedintsev
MF Aleksei Nikolayev
MF Sergei Sharov
MF David Shaumyan
MF Igor Zhegulin
FW Vyacheslav Bokov
FW Anton Kabanov
FW Aleksandr Lygin
FW Vardan Mazalov
FW Oleg Rezvan

2011 transfers

In

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 Viktor Akulinichev
DF Vladimir Danilov
MF Vladislav Gagloyev (in from FC Mashuk-KMV Pyatigorsk)
MF Vitali Glushchenko (in from FC Dynamo Stavropol)
FW Anton Kabanov
FW Yevgeni Khotimskiy
MF Stanislav Lebedintsev (in from FC Lokomotiv Liski)
FW Aleksandr Lygin
FW Vardan Mazalov
MF Aleksei Nikolayev (in from FC Astrakhan)
No. Position Player
DF Yevgeni Okhrimenko
DF Sergei Poteshkin (in from FC Druzhba Maykop)
DF Anton Sakharov (in from FC SOYUZ-Gazprom Izhevsk)
MF Sergei Sharov
DF Mnatsakan Tependizhev
DF Oleg Tigiyev
DF Igor Trofimenko (in from FC Arsenal-Tula)
FW Pavel Tsybin (in from FC Fakel-d Voronezh)
MF Igor Zhegulin (in from FC Druzhba Maykop)

Out

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 Viktor Akulinichev
MF Aleksei Buznyakov (to FC Tyumen)
MF Aleksandr Grantovskiy (to FC Slavyansky Slavyansk-na-Kubani)
FW Yevgeni Khotimskiy
MF Kirill Kolchenko
MF Andrey Kuzmenko
MF Yuri Kuznetsov
DF Yevgeni Natalich (to FC Slavyansky Slavyansk-na-Kubani)
No. Position Player
DF Artyom Orekhov
FW Yevgeni Orlov (to FC Volochanin-Ratmir Vyshny Volochyok)
FW Viktor Shkurat (to FC Tyumen)
MF Aleksandr Soklakov (to FC Volochanin-Ratmir Vyshny Volochyok)
FW Pavel Tsybin (to FC MITOS Novocherkassk)
MF Maksim Ustinov (to FC Slavyansky Slavyansk-na-Kubani)
FW Artyom Vyatkin
MF Yevgeni Yerastov

Notable past players

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