PFC CSKA Moscow

CSKA Moscow

Full name	Профессиональный футбольный клуб ЦСКА Москва (Professional Football Club, Central Sport Club of the Army, Moscow)
Nickname(s)	Koni (Horses) Krasno-sinie (Red-blues) Armeitsy (Militarians)
Founded	27 August 1911 (1911-08-27)
Ground	Arena Khimki
Ground Capacity	18,636
Owner	Yevgeni Giner
Chairman	Yevgeni Giner
Manager	Leonid Slutsky
League	Russian Premier League
2014–15	2nd
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

Departments of CSKA Moscow
Football	Futsal	Beach soccer
Basketball (Men's)	Basketball (Women's)	Ice Hockey
Volleyball (Men's)	Volleyball (Women's)	Bandy
Water polo	Handball

PFC Central Sport Club of the Army, Moscow (Russian: Профессиональный футбольный клуб – ЦСКА) is a Russian professional football club. It is based in Moscow, playing its home matches at the 18,630-capacity Arena Khimki. The club is the most known division of the CSKA Moscow sports club.

Founded in 1911, CSKA had its most successful period after World War II with five titles in six seasons. It won a total of 7 Soviet Top League championships, including the last-ever season in 1991. The club has also won 5 Russian Premier League titles, and the 2004–05 UEFA Cup.

CSKA was the official team of the Soviet Army during the communist era. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union it has become privately owned, with the Ministry of Defence as a shareholder. Russian businessman Roman Abramovich's Sibneft corporation was a leading sponsor of the club from 2004 to 2006.

History

Officially, CSKA is a professional club and thus no longer a section of the Russian military's CSKA sports club. The Russian Ministry of Defense is a PFC CSKA shareholder, however, and the central club claims them as their own (see CSKA Moscow). The Moscow Army men won their 10th national title back in 2006 and they are one of the most successful clubs in Russian football, having an extensive legacy in Soviet football as well. CSKA won the Soviet championship seven times (1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1970, 1991), silver – 1938, 1945, 1949, 1990, bronze – 1939, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1964, 1965; the Soviet Cup five times (1945, 1948, 1951, 1955, 1991); the Russian Cup in 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013; won the Russian Premier League champions title in 2003, 2005, 2006,2012–13,2013–14 finishing second in 1998, 2002, 2004, 2008 and 2010, bronze 1999, 2007, 2012 and the Russian Super Cup in 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009,2012–13. After winning the Soviet championship in 1951, the club started the 1952 championship with 3 wins, but were forced to withdraw from the league as punishment for a disappointing showing of the Soviet Union football team at the Helsinki Olympics.^[1] In 2004, the club received a major financial infusion from a sponsorship deal with Sibneft, an oil company owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich. Abramovich did not take an ownership interest in the club, as he was the owner of English Premier League club Chelsea and UEFA rules allow only one club controlled by any one entity (person or corporation) to participate in European club competition in a given season. The partnership with Sibneft lasted until 2006, when VTB became the sponsor of the club. CSKA started 2009 without a shirt sponsor.

СDKA,СDSA

1945,1948,1951,1955 Soviet Cup final.

On 4 November 1992, CSKA qualified for the group stage of the UEFA Champions League which contained only 8 teams after defeating Spanish champion FC Barcelona 4–3 on aggregate.

CSKA won the 2005 UEFA Cup by beating Sporting CP 3–1 in the Final at Sporting's own Estádio José Alvalade in Lisbon. It became the first Russian club to win a major European title, as well as the first one to complete a treble.

On 16 March 2010, CSKA qualified for the quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League after defeating Sevilla FC 3–2 on aggregate. They were later eliminated from competition by Internazionale, losing by 1–0 scorelines in both Milan and Moscow.

On 7 December 2011, CSKA qualified for the knockout phase of the UEFA Champions League after winning crucial 3 points by defeating Internazionale with scoreline 1–2 in Milan.

In 2016, the club is due to move into a new stadium.

Nickname

CSKA was nicknamed Horses because the first stadium was built on the old racecourse/hippodromo in Moscow.^[2] It was considered offensive, but later it was transformed into The Horses, and currently this nickname is used by players and fans as the name, along with other variants such as Army Men (Russian: армейцы) and Red-Blues (Russian: красно-синие ).

CSKA Moscow team in 2011 against PAOK at a UEFA Europa League match

Previous names of the club

Previous CSKA logo

• 1911–22 : Amateur Society of Skiing Sports (OLLS) (Russian: Общество Любителей Лыжного Спорта)
• 1923 : Experimental & Demonstrational Playground of Military Education Association (OPPV) (Russian: Опытно-Показательная Площадка Всеобуча)
• 1924–27 : Experimental & Demonstrational Playground of Military Administration (OPPV) (Russian: Опытно-Показательная Площадка Военведа)
• 1928–50 : Sports Club of Central House of the Red Army (CDKA) (Russian: Спортивный Клуб Центрального Дома Красной Армии)
• 1951–56 : Sports Club of Central House of the Soviet Army (CDSA) (Russian: Спортивный Клуб Центрального Дома Советской Армии)
• 1957–59 : Central Sports Club of the Ministry of Defense (CSK MO) (Russian: Центральный Спортивный Клуб Министерства Обороны)
• 1960– : Central Sports Club of Army (CSKA) (Russian: Центральный Спортивный Клуб Армии)

Stadium

CSKA has its own stadium called "Light-Athletic Football Complex CSKA" and abbreviated as LFK CSKA. Its capacity is very small for a club of its stature; no more than 4,600 spectators. This is one of the primary reasons the club uses other venues in the city. Their new stadium broke ground in 2007 in place of the former Army's Grigory Fedotov Stadium and is due to be completed in 2015. In the meantime, CSKA has been playing in Arena Khimki since 2010. They are currently sharing the stadium with Dynamo Moscow, as they too are awaiting the completion of their own new stadium.

Achievements

Arena Khimki

CSKA Moscow fans

Domestic competitions

• Soviet Top League / Russian Premier League^[3]

Champions (12): 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1970, 1991, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2012–13, 2013–14

Runners-up (10): 1938, 1945, 1949, 1990, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2014–15

• Soviet First League: 2

1986, 1989

• Soviet Cup / Russian Cup^[4]

Champions (12): 1945, 1948, 1951, 1955, 1990–91, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013

Runners-up (6): 1944, 1966–67, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1999–00

• Russian Super Cup: 6

2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2014

• Progress Cup: 1

1990

International competitions

• UEFA Cup: 1

2005

• UEFA Super Cup:

• Runners-up (1): 2005

Non-official

• Channel One Cup: 1

2007

• Runners-up: none

• Copa del Sol: 1

2010

• Runners-up: none

• La Manga Cup: 1

2013

• Runners-up: none

Players

Current squad

As of 9 February 2016. 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 Sergei Chepchugov 2 DF Mário Fernandes 3 MF Pontus Wernbloom 4 DF Sergei Ignashevich (Vice-captain) 5 DF Viktor Vasin 6 DF Aleksei Berezutski 7 MF Zoran Tošić 8 FW Kirill Panchenko 10 MF Alan Dzagoev 14 DF Kirill Nababkin 15 MF Roman Shirokov 17 MF Sergei Tkachyov

No. Position Player 18 FW Ahmed Musa 19 MF Aleksandrs Cauņa 20 MF Amir Natkho 23 MF Georgi Milanov 24 DF Vasili Berezutski 25 MF Roman Eremenko 35 GK Igor Akinfeev (Сaptain) 42 DF Georgi Schennikov 60 MF Aleksandr Golovin 66 MF Bibras Natkho 97 FW Carlos Strandberg FW Aaron Olanare

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 FW Alibek Aliev (at FF Jaro) MF Dmitri Yefremov (at Slovan Liberec) MF Vitinho (at Internacional) MF Konstantin Bazelyuk (at SKA-Energiya)

No. Position Player DF Vyacheslav Karavayev (at FK Jablonec) DF Pyotr Ten (at FC Tom Tomsk) DF Nikita Chernov (at FC Baltika Kaliningrad) FW Aleksandr Makarov (at FC Baltika Kaliningrad)

Reserves squad

The following players are listed by club's website as reserve players. They are registered with the Russian Premier League and are eligible to play for the first team.

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

No. Position Player 37 DF Denis Masyutin 44 GK Georgiy Kyrnats 45 GK Ilya Pomazun 46 FW Nikolai Dergachyov 49 MF Nikita Titov 51 MF Aleksandr Ektov 52 MF Khetag Khosonov 55 DF Mutalip Alibekov 59 DF Roman Krivulkin 61 MF Kirill Leonov 62 DF Aleksandar Stanisavljević 63 FW Fyodor Chalov

No. Position Player 64 MF Timur Pukhov 71 FW Ilya Zuev 72 MF Astemir Gordyushenko 73 MF Dmitriy Sokolov 75 FW Timur Zhamaletdinov 77 GK Dmitriy Gerasimov 78 DF Ivan Maklakov 79 FW Ilya Ferapontov 84 GK Pavel Ovchinnikov 89 MF Konstantin Kuchaev 95 GK Maksim Yedapin 96 MF Renat Yusupov

The reserves team played on the professional level as FC CSKA-d Moscow (Russian Second League in 1992–93, Russian Third League in 1994–97, Russian Second Division in 1998–00). A separate farm club called FC CSKA-2 Moscow played in the Soviet Second League in 1986–89, Soviet Second League B in 1990–91, Russian Second League in 1992–93 and Russian Third League in 1994. That latter team was called FC Chaika-CSKA-2 Moscow for one season in 1989.

Retired numbers

• 12 – Club supporters (the 12th man)
• 16 – Serhiy Perkhun, goalkeeper (2001) – posthumous honor.

Technical staff

Main squad

As of 13 September 2015, according to the Official PFC CSKA Moscow website

Name	Role
Leonid Slutsky	Head Coach
Viktor Goncharenko	Senior Assistant Coach
Viktor Onopko	Assistant Coach
Sergei Ovchinnikov	Assistant Coach
Paulino Granero	Physiotherapist

Reserve team

As of 8 May 2015, according to the Official PFC CSKA Moscow website

Name	Role
Aleksandr Grishin	Senior Coach
Valeri Minko	Assistant Coach
Andrei Shiryayev	Goalkeeping Coach
Igor Aksyonov	Conditioning Coach

Notable players

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

Club records

As of 2 December 2014

Players highlighted in bold are still playing professionally.

Managers

Name Nationality From To Pavel Khalkiopov  Soviet Union 1936 1936 Mikhail Rushchinsky  Soviet Union 1937 1939 Sergei Bukhteev  Soviet Union 1940 1941 Pyotr Yezhov  Soviet Union 1941 1941 Yevgeni Nikishin  Soviet Union 1942 1944 Boris Arkadyev  Soviet Union 1944 1952 Grigory Pinaichev  Soviet Union 1954 1957 Boris Arkadyev  Soviet Union 1958 1959 Grigory Pinaichev  Soviet Union 1959 1960 Konstantin Beskov  Soviet Union 1961 1962 Vyacheslav Solovyov  Soviet Union 1963 1964 Valentin Nikolayev  Soviet Union 1964 1965 Sergei Shaposhnikov  Soviet Union 1966 1967 Vsevolod Bobrov  Soviet Union 1967 1969 Valentin Nikolayev  Soviet Union 1970 1973 Vladimir Agapov  Soviet Union 1973 1974 Anatoli Tarasov  Soviet Union 1975 1975 Aleksei Mamykin  Soviet Union 1976 1977 Vsevolod Bobrov  Soviet Union 1977 1978 Sergei Shaposhnikov  Soviet Union 1979 1979

Name Nationality From To Oleh Bazylevych  Soviet Union 1980 1982 Albert Shesternyov  Soviet Union 1982 1983 Sergei Shaposhnikov  Soviet Union 1983 1983 Yury Morozov  Soviet Union 1984 1987 Sergei Shaposhnikov  Soviet Union 1987 1988 Pavel Sadyrin  Soviet Union  Russia 1989 1992 Gennadi Kostylev  Russia 1992 1993 Boris Kopeikin  Russia 1993 1994 Aleksandr Tarkhanov  Russia July 5, 1994 Jan 23, 1997 Pavel Sadyrin  Russia Jan 23, 1997 July 2, 1998 Oleg Dolmatov  Russia July 2, 1998 May 29, 2000 Pavel Sadyrin  Russia July 1, 2000 Oct 2, 2001 Valery Gazzaev  Russia Oct 2, 2001 Nov 24, 2003 Artur Jorge  Portugal Nov 24, 2003 July 12, 2004 Valery Gazzaev  Russia July 12, 2004 Nov 22, 2008 Zico  Brazil Jan 9, 2009 Sept 10, 2009 Juande Ramos  Spain Sept 10, 2009 Oct 26, 2009 Leonid Slutsky  Russia Oct 26, 2009 present

League and cup history

Soviet Union

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Europe		Notes	Top Scorer	Head Coach
1936(s)	1st	4	6	2	1	3	13	18	11	-				Shelagin – 3	Khalkiopov
1936(a)	1st	8	7	2	0	5	9	20	11	Round of 32				Mitronov / Isaev – 2	Khalkiopov
1937	1st	9	16	3	1	12	18	43	23	Semi-finals				Kireev – 5	Rutshinsky
1938	1st	2	25	17	3	5	52	24	37	Round of 64				G.Fedotov – 20	Zhiboedov
1939	1st	3	26	14	4	8	68	43	32	Quarter-finals				G.Fedotov – 21	Zhiboedov
1940	1st	4	24	10	9	5	46	35	29	-				G.Fedotov – 21	Bukhteev
1941	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-					Bukhteev
1942	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1943	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1944	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Runner-Up					Nikishin / Arkadyev
1945	1st	2	22	18	3	1	69	23	39	Winner				Bobrov – 24	Arkadyev
1946	1st	1	22	17	3	2	55	13	37	Quarter-finals				Nikolayev – 16	Arkadyev
1947	1st	1	24	17	6	1	61	16	40	Semi-finals				Nikolayev / Bobrov – 14	Arkadyev
1948	1st	1	26	19	3	4	82	30	41	Winner				Bobrov – 23	Arkadyev
1949	1st	2	34	22	7	5	86	30	51	Semi-finals				G.Fedotov – 18	Arkadyev
1950	1st	1	36	20	13	3	91	31	53	Semi-finals				Koverznev – 21	Arkadyev
1951	1st	1	28	18	7	3	53	19	43	Winner				Grinin / Solovyov – 10	Arkadyev
1952	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-					Arkadyev
1953	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1954	1st	6	24	8	8	8	30	29	24	Quarter-finals				Fyodorov – 6	Pinaichev
1955	1st	3	22	12	7	3	35	20	31	Winner				Yemyshev / Belyaev – 8	Pinaichev
1956	1st	3	22	10	5	7	40	32	25	-				Belyaev – 15	Pinaichev
1957	1st	5	22	12	2	8	51	31	27	Semi-finals				Buzunov – 16	Pinaichev
1958	1st	3	22	9	9	4	40	25	27	Round of 16				Apukhtin – 10	Arkadyev
1959	1st	9	22	8	3	11	29	27	19	-				Apukhtin – 9	Arkadyev
1960	1st	6	30	15	2	13	45	35	32	Round of 16				Streshniy – 12	Pinaichev
1961	1st	4	30	16	6	8	61	43	38	Round of 64				Mamykin – 18	Beskov
1962	1st	4	32	14	12	6	39	22	40	Round of 32				V.Fedotov – 6	Beskov
1963	1st	7	38	14	17	7	39	27	45	Round of 32				V.Fedotov – 8	Solovyov
1964	1st	3	32	16	11	5	49	23	43	Quarter-finals				V.Fedotov – 16	Solovyov / Nikolayev
1965	1st	3	32	14	10	8	38	24	38	Round of 16				Kazakov – 15	Nikolayev
1966	1st	5	36	16	9	11	60	45	41	Round of 32				Kazakov – 15	Shaposhnikov
1967	1st	9	36	12	12	12	35	35	36	Runner-Up				Shulyatitsky – 6	Shaposhnikov / Kalinin / Bobrov
1968	1st	4	38	20	10	8	50	30	50	Round of 16				Polikarpov – 10	Bobrov
1969	1st	6	32	13	11	8	25	18	37	Semi-finals				Abduraimov – 7	Bobrov
1970	1st	1	32	20	5	7	46	17	45	Round of 16				Kopeikin – 15	Nikolayev
1971	1st	12	30	7	12	11	34	36	26	Round of 16	EC	R2		Kopeikin – 8	Nikolayev
1972	1st	5	30	15	4	11	37	33	34	Semi-finals				Polikarpov / Dorofeev / Tellinger – 6	Nikolayev
1973	1st	10	30	10	9	11	33	36	25	Quarter-finals				Dorofeev – 9	Nikolayev
1974	1st	13	30	7	12	11	28	33	26	Round of 16				V.Fedotov / Smirnov – 5	Agapov
1975	1st	13	30	6	13	11	29	36	25	Semi-finals				Kopeikin – 13	Tarasov
1976(s)	1st	7	15	5	5	5	20	16	15	-				Kopeikin – 6	Mamykin
1976(a)	1st	7	15	5	5	5	21	16	15	Quarter-finals				Kopeikin – 8	Mamykin
1977	1st	14	30	5	17	8	28	39	27	Round of 16				Chesnokov – 12	Mamykin / Bobrov
1978	1st	6	30	14	4	12	36	40	32	Round of 16				Belenkov – 8	Bobrov
1979	1st	8	34	12	8	14	46	46	32	Semi-finals				Chesnokov – 16	Shaposhnikov
1980	1st	5	34	13	12	9	36	32	36	Round of 16				Tarkhanov – 14	Bazilevich
1981	1st	6	34	14	9	11	39	33	37	Round of 16	UC	R1		Chesnokov – 9	Bazilevich
1982	1st	15	34	10	9	15	41	46	29	Qualifying				Tarkhanov – 16	Bazilevich / Shesternev
1983	1st	12	34	11	12	11	37	33	32	Semi-finals				Kolyadko – 13	Shesternev
1984	1st	18	34	5	9	20	24	55	19	Quarter-finals			Relegated	Shtromberger – 4	Morozov
1985	2nd	2	42	21	14	7	81	37	56	Quarter-finals				Shmarov – 29	Morozov
1986	2nd	1	47	27	9	11	65	35	63	Round of 32			Promoted	Berezin – 19	Morozov
1987	1st	15	30	7	11	12	26	35	24	Winner			Relegated	Tatarchuk – 6	Morozov
1988	2nd	3	42	23	10	9	69	35	56	Winner				Masalitin – 16	Shaposhnikov
1989	2nd	1	42	27	10	5	113	28	64	Round of 128			Promoted	Masalitin – 32	Sadyrin
1990	1st	2	24	13	5	6	43	26	31	Semi-finals				Masalitin / Korneev – 8	Sadyrin
1991	1st	1	30	17	9	4	57	32	43	Winner	CWC	R1		Kuznetsov – 12	Sadyrin
1992	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Runner-Up					Sadyrin

Russia

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Europe		Notes	Top Scorer	Head Coach
1992	1st	5	26	13	7	6	46	29	33	Runner-Up	ECL	Group stage		Grishin – 10	Sadyrin / Kostylev
1993	1st	9	34	12	6	16	43	45	42	Runner-Up				Fayzulin / Sergeev – 8	Kostylev / Kopeikin
1994	1st	10	30	8	10	12	30	32	26	Round of 16	CWC	Qualifying		Fayzulin / Sergeev – 5	Kopeikin / Tarkhanov
1995	1st	6	30	16	5	9	56	34	53	Quarter-finals				Karsakov – 10	Tarkhanov
1996	1st	5	34	20	6	8	58	35	66	Round of 16	UC	Round of 64		Khokhlov / Gerasimov – 10	Tarkhanov
1997	1st	12	34	11	9	14	31	42	42	Quarter-finals				Kulik – 9	Sadyrin
1998	1st	2	30	17	5	8	50	22	56	Semi-finals				Kulik – 14	Sadyrin / Dolmatov
1999	1st	3	30	15	10	5	56	29	55	Runner-Up	ECL	Qualifying		Kulik – 14	Dolmatov
2000	1st	8	30	12	5	13	45	39	41	Round of 16	UC	1st round		Kulik – 10	Dolmatov / Sadyrin
2001	1st	7	30	12	11	7	39	30	47	Winner				Ranđelović – 8	Sadyrin / Kuznetsov
2002	1st	2	30	21	3	6	60	27	66	Round of 32	UC	2nd round		Gusev / Kirichenko – 15	Gazzaev
2003	1st	1	30	17	8	5	56	32	59	Winner	ECL	Qualifying		Gusev – 9	Gazzaev
2004	1st	2	30	17	9	4	53	22	60	Winner	UC	Winner	ECL – Group Stage	Olić / Vagner / Kirichenko – 9	Artur Jorge / Gazzaev
2005	1st	1	30	18	8	4	48	20	62	Winner	UC	Group Stage		Olić – 10	Gazzaev
2006	1st	1	30	17	7	6	47	28	58	Winner	UC	Round of 32	ECL – Group Stage	Jô – 14	Gazzaev
2007	1st	3	30	14	11	5	43	24	53	Winner	ECL	Group Stage		Jô / Vagner – 13	Gazzaev
2008	1st	2	30	16	8	6	53	24	56	Winner	UC	Round of 16		Vagner – 20	Gazzaev
2009	1st	5	30	16	4	10	48	30	52	Winner	ECL	Quarter-finals		Krasić, Necid – 9	Zico / Juande Ramos / Leonid Slutsky
2010	1st	2	30	18	8	4	51	22	59	Round of 16	EL	Round of 16		Vagner – 9	Leonid Slutsky
2011–12	1st	3	44	19	9	16	72	47	73	Round of 16	CL	Round of 16		Doumbia – 28	Leonid Slutsky
2012–13	1st	1	30	20	4	6	49	25	64	Winner	EL	Qualifying		Musa – 11	Leonid Slutsky
2013–14	1st	1	30	20	4	6	49	26	64	Semi-finals	CL	Group Stage		Doumbia – 18	Leonid Slutsky

Affiliated clubs

• Chelsea F.C.
• FK Partizan
• CSKA Sofia
• PAOK
• Widzew Łódź
• Steaua București

References

Bibliography

• Marc Bennetts, 'Football Dynamo – Modern Russia and the People's Game,' Virgin Books, (March 2009), 0753513196

External links

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• Official website
• Fans site CSKA
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