FC Volga-Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod

FC Volga-Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod (Russian: ФК «Волга-Олимпиец» Нижний Новгород) is a Russian football team from Nizhny Novgorod, founded in 2006. Beginning with the 2015-16 season, it plays in the Russian Professional Football League (third level). It is a farm club for FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod.

"Olimpiyets" means Olympian in Russian.

Team name history

• 2006–2009: FC Vodnik Nizhny Novgorod
• 2010–2012: FC Volga-Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod
• 2012: FC Nizhny Novgorod-Olimpiyets-DYuSSh Nizhny Novgorod
• 2013: FC Volga-Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod
• 2014: FC Shakhtyor-Volga-Olimpiyets Peshelan (Peshelan is a village of less than 200 inhabitants in the Arzamassky District)
• 2015–: FC Volga-Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod

Current squad

As of 19 January 2016, according to the PFL website.

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

No. Position Player GK Artur Anisimov GK Nikolai Sysuyev DF Artyom Abramov DF Dmitri Golubev DF Dmitri Karasyov DF Igor Maslov DF Aleksandr Nedogoda DF Mikhail Yershov DF Konstantin Zhiltsov

No. Position Player MF Nikolai Kabayev MF Andrei Khripkov MF Maksim Nesterov MF Nikita Nikolayev MF Aleksei Tkach FW Igor Belyakov FW Artyom Danilenko FW Mikhail Sorochkin FW Nikolay Vdovichenko

External links

• (Russian) Team history by footballfacts