FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod

FC Volga

Full name	Некоммерческое партнерство Футбольный Клуб Волга Нижний Новгород (Non-Commercial Partnership Football Club Volga Nizhny Novgorod)
Nickname(s)	Volgari (The Volga Natives)
Founded	1963 (1963)
Ground	Lokomotiv Stadium
Ground Capacity	17,856
Chairman	Oleg Alyoshin
Manager	Andrei Talalayev
League	Football National League
2013–14	Premier League, 15th (relegated)
Home colours Away colours Third colours

FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod (Russian: Футбольный Клуб "Волга" Нижний Новгород) is a Russian football club from Nizhny Novgorod, founded in 1963. In 2008, FC Volga won the Ural-Povolzhye (Volga Region in Russian) zone of the Russian Second Division and advanced to the Russian First Division. It finished First Division as 4th in 2009 and finished one as 2nd in 2010 and promoted to Russian Premier League for 2011 season. Promotion to the top league was secured after 2-2 draw with Nizhny Novgorod at Nizhny Novgorod derby on 3 November 2010. After the 2013-14 season, it was relegated to the second level once more.

History

The team was founded in 1963 after a merger of two teams from Gorky - Torpedo and Raketa. The team played in the Soviet Top League, where its best result was 14th place in 1964. The team was disbanded in 1984. In 1998, a new club called FC Elektronika Nizhny Novgorod was founded. It played in Russian Second Division. In 2004 it was renamed to Volga.

FC Torpedo-Viktoriya Nizhny Novgorod was another squad to claim the legacy of FC Volga Gorky.

League History

Russia

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Cup	Europe		Top Scorer (League)
1999	KFK(4th), "Povolzhye"	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-
2000		3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-
2001	3rd, "Ural-Povolzhye"	9	34	13	10	11	54	43	49	-	-		Kuznetsov - 12
2002		6	30	12	8	10	40	38	44	R256	-		Podolyanchik - 9
2003		14	38	11	5	22	41	62	38	R256	-		Podolyanchik - 14
2004		12	36	12	9	15	41	46	45	R512	-		Georgiev - 9
2005		6	36	15	12	9	44	30	57	R256	-		Udodov - 7
2006		7	24	10	8	6	31	23	38	R512	-		Loginov - 5
2007		4	26	15	5	6	52	30	50	R256	-		Kaynov - 11
2008		1	34	23	9	2	73	23	78	R512	-		Prokofyev - 17
2009	2nd	4	38	17	14	7	54	32	65	R16	-		Khazov - 10
2010		2	38	19	14	5	62	25	71	R64	-		Martsvaladze - 21
2011–12	1st	14	44	12	5	27	37	60	41	SF	-		Bibilov - 7
2012–13		12	30	7	8	15	28	46	29	R32	-		Sapogov - 9

Current squad

Updated 1 March 2015, according to the FNL official website.

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Artur Nigmatullin 4 MF Mikhail Kostyukov 6 DF Dmitriy Polyanin 7 FW Artur Sarkisov 10 FW Andrei Kozlov 13 FW Ilya Kukharchuk 14 MF Eduard Sukhanov 17 MF Artur Minosyan 19 DF Maksim Zhestokov 20 MF Dmitri Malyaka 21 MF Merabi Uridia 25 DF Andrei Buivolov

No. Position Player 27 GK Mikhail Komarov 29 DF Iskandar Dzhalilov 31 MF Leandro 39 FW Artyom Danilenko 50 DF Dmitri Kurayev 53 MF Andrei Churin 77 DF Andrei Proshin 78 MF Luton Shelton 83 MF Nikita Yurkov 95 MF Ilya Petrov 96 DF Nikita Nikolayev

Out on loan

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

Notable players

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

Managers

References

External links

• Official website