FC Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast

Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast

Full name	Football Club Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast or FC Ural Yekaterinburg
Nickname(s)	Uraltsy (Ural men), Bumblebees, Orange and Black
Founded	1930 (1930)
Ground	Central Stadium
Ground Capacity	27,000
Chairman	Grigori Ivanov
Manager	Alexander Tarkhanov
League	Premier League
2013–14	11th
Home colours Away colours

FC Ural (Russian: ФК Урал) is a Russian football club based in Yekaterinburg. As of 2014–15 they play in the Russian Premier League.^[1]

History

The club was founded in 1930 and was known as Avangard (1930–1948, 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 higher leagues, with the exception of the 1969 season spent in the lowest league. They were the easternmost Russian SFSR club to compete in the third 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
2011–12		6	52	19	21	12	71	52	78	R32	—		Petrović – 8	Ogai Matveyev Pobegalov Bulatov
2012–13		1	32	19	11	2	61	12	68	R32	—		Gogniyev – 17	Gusev
2013-14	1st	11	30	9	7	14	28	46	34	R32	—		Gogniyev – 9	Tarkhanov

Current squads

First team

As of 3 March 2015, according to the official RFPL website.

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

No. Position Player 2 DF Vladimir Khozin 3 FW Chisamba Lungu 7 DF Aleksandr Dantsev 8 MF Ivan Chudin 9 FW Spartak Gogniyev 10 FW Edgar Manucharyan 12 DF Aleksandr Novikov 14 MF Vyacheslav Podberyozkin 21 MF Gerson Acevedo 24 DF Denis Fomin 25 FW Aleksandr Stavpets 28 GK Nikolay Zabolotnyi 29 DF Pablo Fontanello

No. Position Player 33 GK Igor Kot 34 FW Denis Dorozhkin 35 GK Dmitri Arapov 41 MF Aleksandr Sapeta 50 DF Nikolay Markov (on loan from Krasnodar) 57 MF Artyom Fidler 63 DF Aleksandr Belozyorov 88 DF Aleksei Gerasimov 89 MF Aleksandr Yerokhin 90 FW Fyodor Smolov (on loan from Dynamo Moscow) 92 MF Roman Yemelyanov 93 MF Semyon Pomogayev 99 MF Kostyantyn Yaroshenko

Out on loan

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

No. Position Player 17 MF Andrei Gorbanets (at Tom) 18 FW Georgi Nurov (at Baltika) 19 FW Arsen Goshokov (at Spartak Nalchik)

No. Position Player 20 MF Igor Lambarschi (at Tyumen) MF Ivan Melnik (at Khimik)

Youth team

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

No. Position Player 16 GK Aleksandr Shubin 26 MF Aleksandr Scherbakov 32 DF Artemiy Dorozhinskiy 36 MF Ilya Korelin 37 MF Evgeniy Shumikhin 38 MF Nikita Mamonov 39 MF Ignat Saburzyanov 43 MF Pavel Repin 44 GK Ivan Kluev 45 FW Aleksandr Sobolev 47 DF Artyom Vakurin 51 GK Evgeniy Zharikov 52 DF Roman Shalin 55 MF Anatoliy Sedov 58 DF Denis Drozhalkin 61 DF Pavel Parshin 62 MF Rezo Gavtadze 64 MF Vladislav Zolotukhin

No. Position Player 69 MF Aleksey Nelubin 70 MF Dmitriy Davletshin 71 FW Elbeyi Guliev 74 DF Danil Chernov 75 MF Sergei Serchenkov 78 MF Mikhail Filippov 79 FW Artyom Yusupov 80 DF Yegor Zlygostev 81 FW Semyon Voronov 82 MF Vladimir Lisov 84 DF Evgeniy Ivanov 87 MF Rustam Nisafutdinov 91 FW Nikita Durandin 94 DF Aleksandr Kashkarov 95 FW Aleksandr Babushkin 96 GK Andrey Timofeev 97 MF Eduard Valiakhmetov

Retired numbers

• 23 – Pyotr Hrustovsky, Forward (2003) – posthumous honor.

Notable players

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

Coaching staff

• Head coach – Alexander Tarkhanov
• Coaches – Vladimir Kalashnikov, Yuri Matveyev, Yevgeny Averyanov, Igor Bakhtin
• Goalkeeping coach – Sergei Alyapkin

References

External links

• Official website (Russian)

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