| Full name | Football Club Torpedo-ZIL | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Avtozavodtsy (Automobile plant workers) | ||
| Founded | 1997 | ||
| Dissolved | 2004 (became FC Moscow) | ||
| Ground | Eduard Streltsov Stadium, Moscow (Capacity: 13,200) |
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| League | Russian Premier League | ||
| 2002 | 14th | ||
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This article refers to the Torpedo-ZIL which existed from 1997 to 2003 and was known as Torpedo-Metallurg during its final season. For the successors in the Russian Premier League, see FC Moscow. For the successors from the viewpoint of belonging to ZIL, see FC Torpedo-ZIL Moscow (2003).
FC Torpedo-ZIL (Russian: Футбольный клуб Торпедо-ЗИЛ) was a Russian football club from Moscow.
The team was founded in 1997 after Torpedo Moscow, which played in the Russian Top Division, became a property of SC Luzhniki and was not related to the automobile plant anymore. Soon afterwards ZIL decided to revive their own team.
Torpedo-ZIL made a debut in the Third Division in 1997. The club won promotion to the Premier League in 2000. In both 2001 and 2002, Torpedo-ZIL finished 14th out of 16 teams. In the beginning of 2003, due to inability to finance a Premier League team, ZIL had to sell first 55 percent,[1] and two months later all remaining stock to Norilsk Nickel.[2] Metallurgy giant renamed the team FC Torpedo-Metallurg. At the same time, ZIL created another team in the Third Division which is was originally known as FC Torpedo-RG and is now renamed back to FC Torpedo-ZIL Moscow.