WFC Rossiyanka

WFC Rossiyanka

Full name	WFC Rossiyanka
Founded	1990 (1990)
Ground	Rossijanka Stadion
Ground Capacity	5050
League	Premier League
2011–12	1st
Home colours Away colours

WFC Rossiyanka is a Russian women's football club from Krasnoarmeysk near Moscow.

The team was founded in 1990 as Nadezhda Krasnoarmeysk, being initially a futsal club. Futsal was played until 1998, when the club left it to concentrate in association football. Nadezhda played for two years in the second tier, attaining 5th and 3rd spots, before being disbanded at the end of the 2000 season, with most players moving to newly founded Nadezhda Noginsk.

In 2003 the team was back as Rossiyanka, attaining promotion to the Russian Championship in the first try. Rossiyanka immediately consolidated itself as one of the championship's leading teams and won the 2005 and 2006 championships, preceded by a silver in its 2004 debut. From 2007 to 2009 the team was second to Zvezda Perm, before winning its third championship in 2010.

Rossiyanka is a regular of the Champions League, where it has reached the quarter-finals in 2008 and 2012. As Russia ranks among the top 8 UEFA Leagues by coefficient,^[1] Rossiyanka has entered the competition both as the Russian Championship's champion or vice-champion.

Titles

• 4 Russian Leagues: 2005, 2006, 2010, 2011–12
• 5 Russian Cups: 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010

Record in UEFA competitions

Season	Competition	Stage	Result	Opponent
2006-07	UEFA Women's Cup	Qualifying Stage	5-2	Alma KTZh
			7-0	Clujana
			6-1	Slovan Duslo Šaľa
		Group Stage	4-5	Arsenal
			1-2	Brøndby
			4-2	Femina Budapest
2007-08	UEFA Women's Cup	Qualifying Stage	7-0	Napredak Kruševac
			18-0	Dinamo Tbilisi
			3-0	Arsenal Kharkiv
		Group Stage	3-1	Universitet Vitebsk
			2-1	Clujana
			2-2	Umeå
		Quarter-finals	0-0 1-2	Frankfurt
2009-10	Champions League	Qualifying Stage	11-0	St. Francis
			1-0	Apollon Limassol
			7-0	Maccabi Holon
		Round of 32	3-1 2-1	Rayo Vallecano
		Round of 16	0-1 1-1	Umeå
2010-11	Champions League	Qualifying Stage	5-0	Osijek
			9-0	St. Francis
			4-1	1º Dezembro
		Round of 32	3-1 4-0	Lehenda Chernihiv
		Round of 16	1-6 0-5	Lyon
2011-12	Champions League	Round of 32	2-0 1-0	Twente
		Round of 16	4-0 3-3	Energiya Voronezh
		Quarter-finals	0-2 0-3	Turbine Potsdam
2012-13	Champions League	Round of 32	1-4 1-2	Den Haag
		Round of 16	0-1 2-2	Sparta Praha
		Quarter-finals	2-1 0-2	Wolfsburg
2013-14	Champions League	Round of 32	2-4 1-1	Spartak Subotica
		Round of 16	1-0 2-0	Torres

Current squad

As of 24 October 2013^[2] 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 Elvira Todua 3 DF Anna Kozhnikova 5 DF Olga Petrova 9 MF Anna Cholovyaga 10 FW Natalia Shlyapina 11 FW Oksana Yakovyshyn 12 MF Kristen Nicole Edmonds 13 GK Ekaterina Ulasevich 17 MF Elvira Ziyastinova 18 FW Nompumelelo Nyandeni 20 DF Nadezhda Koltakova

No. Position Player 21 DF Tatiana Ananyeva 22 DF Natalia Pertseva 23 MF Tatiana Sheykina 24 DF Ekaterina Dmitrienko 25 MF Tatiana Skotnikova 27 MF Anastasia Akimova 33 MF Anastasia Efimova 81 GK Margarita Shirokova 87 MF Olesya Mashina 88 FW Marina Kiskonen 89 MF Natalia Osipova

Former players

References

External links

• Official Website (Russian)
• Official Twitter profile (Russian)
• Club at UEFA.com