FC Arsenal Tula
| Full name | Football Club Arsenal Tula | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Red-yellows, Canoneers, "Pryaniki" (Gingercakes), "Pushkari" (artillerymen), "Oruzheyniki" (Gunmen), Samovars. | ||
| Founded | 1946 | ||
| Ground | Arsenal Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 20,048 | ||
| Chairman | Pyotr Koshelnikov | ||
| Manager | Viktor Bulatov | ||
| League | Russian Football National League | ||
| 2014–15 | Russian Football Premier League, 16th (relegated) | ||
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Arsenal Tula (Russian: ФК «Арсенал» Тула) is a Russian football team from Tula playing in the Russian Football National League.
After the end of the 2013–14 season, FC Arsenal Tula was promoted to the Russian Premier League after finished the competition as runner-up. Thus Arsenal Tula made three successive promotions and made their debut in the 2014–15 Russian Premier League. It came in last place in the Premier League and was relegated back to the FNL after one season.
Team name history
- 1946–58: FC Zenit Tula
- 1959–61: FC Trud Tula
- 1962–63: FC Shakhtyor Tula
- 1964–74: FC Metallurg Tula
- 1975–79: FC Mashinostroitel Tula
- 1980–83: FC TOZ Tula
- 1984–06: FC Arsenal Tula
- 2007: FC Oruzheynik Tula (formed based on the squad and staff of FC Arsenal Tula, but was not a legal successor to Arsenal)
- 2008–12: FC Arsenal-Tula (formed based on the squad and staff of FC Oruzheynik Tula, but was not a legal successor to Oruzheynik)
- 2011–: FC Arsenal Tula
Current squad
As of 11 February 2016, according to the official FNL website.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Farm club
The farm club FC Arsenal-2 Tula participates in the third tier of professional Russian soccer, Russian Professional Football League, beginning with the 2014–15 season. Another team was called Arsenal-2 and competed professionally from 1998 to 2002, it last competed as FC Dynamo Tula.
Notable players
Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Arsenal.
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Managers
Yevhen Kucherevskyi (1997–99)- Leonid Buryak (1999)
Vladimir Fedotov (2001)- Boris Stukalov (2004)
- Dmitri Alenichev (2011–15)
- Viktor Bulatov (2015–)
References
External links
- Official website
- (Russian) Official fan-club site
- (Russian) Team history at KLISF