FC Rostov

Rostov

Full name	Футбольный клуб Ростов (Football Club Rostov)
Nickname(s)	Selmashi (Rednecks), Muzhiki (Tough Guys)
Founded	1930 (1930)
Ground	Olimp-2
Ground Capacity	15,840
Owner	Rostov Oblast
Chairman	Artashes Arutyunyants
Manager	Leonid Kuchuk
League	Russian Premier League
2016–17	6th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

FC Rostov (Russian: Футбольный клуб Ростов) is a Russian professional football club based in Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast. The club are currently members of the Russian Premier League and play at the Olimp-2 stadium.^[1]

History

The club's home stadium

The club was established on 10 May 1930, and was initially named Selmashstroy (Сельмашстрой). They were renamed Selmash in 1936 and Traktor in 1941. In 1950, the club joined the South Zone of the Azov-Don group of the Russian SFSR Championship. The following season they were placed in Group B of the championship. After finishing first in their group, they played in Group A in 1952. A third-place finish meant the club were promoted to the Class B for the 1953 season, during which they were renamed again, becoming Torpedo. In 1958, they were renamed Rostselmash.

In 1964 the club won their Division of Class B. In the Russian-zone play-offs they finished second in the first round and top in the second after defeating Terek Grozny 2–0 in the deciding match, earning promotion to the Soviet First League. The following season they finished bottom of the division, but were not relegated as the number of teams in the division was increased.

By the early 1970s the club was back in the Russian leagues. In 1975 they returned to Class B (now known as the Soviet Second League). Following several near misses, the club won their zone of the Second League in 1985. They went on to win a play-off tournament, earning promotion back to the First League.

In 1991 the club finished fourth in what was the final season of Soviet football following the USSR's disintegration. This was enough to earn them a place in the new Russian Top League. Following an eighth-place finish in their first season, the 1993 season saw the club struggle, eventually finishing second bottom, resulting in relegation to the First League.

The club made an immediate return to the Top League after finishing second in the 1994 First League season. In 2003, they adopted their current name and reached the Russian Cup final for the first time, losing 1–0 to Spartak Moscow.^[2] In 2007 they finished bottom of the (now renamed) Premier Division and were relegated to the First Division. However, they made another immediate return to the top division as First Division champions.

Rostov won the 2013–14 Russian Cup, defeating FC Krasnodar on penalties 6–5, and earned qualification to the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League. However Rostov were excluded from the competition at the end of May 2014, due to breached financial rules, being replaced by Spartak Moscow.^[3][4] Later Rostov appealed the decision of the local football federation to lift the club from the tournament in the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, the club won the right to play.^[5]

On 18 December 2014, the official website of FC Rostov announced the appointment of Kurban Berdyev as head coach. Under his leadership, the team has maintained a place in the Premier League on aggregate (1–0, 4–1) beating "Tosno" in the play-offs Premier League – First Division. In the summer 2015 the club bought César Navas, Christian Noboa and Sardar Azmoun who worked together with Berdyev in FC Rubin. Throughout the second half of 2015, the club had problems with the payment of salaries and bonuses the players, but it has not prevented the club at the end of the first part of the season 2015–16 to hold 2nd place in the championship.

In the 2016–17 season, Rostov earned a UEFA Champions League spot in the League Route as runners-up of the Russian Premier League. In the third qualifying round, they were drawn against Anderlecht. After a 2–2 home draw, they beat Anderlecht 2–0 away. In the play-off, Rostov were drawn against Dutch giants Ajax. In the first leg in Amsterdam, Netherlands, they held on to a 1–1 draw, which gave them an away goal advanage. In the return leg, Rostov earned a historical 4–1 surprise win over Ajax and qualified for the UEFA Champions League group stages, a stunning performance as was their first qualification into the group stages of a European tournament.^[6] Rostov were drawn in Group D, against Bayern Munich, Atlético Madrid and PSV Eindhoven,^[7][8] gaining their first Champions League victory on 23 November 2016, defeating Bayern Munich 3–2 at Olimp-2.^[9]

On 9 June 2017, Rostov announced Leonid Kuchuk as their new manager on a one-year contract with the option of an additional year.^[10]

Domestic

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Cup	Europe		Top scorer (league)	Head coach
1992	1st	8	26	8	7	11	22	28	23	R8			Tikhonov – 7	Yulgushov
1993		17	34	8	12	14	35	52	28	R8			Spanderashvili – 8	Yulgushov
1994	2nd	2	42	27	8	7	92	44	62	R16			Maslov – 32	Yulgushov
1995	1st	14	30	8	4	18	35	56	28	R16			Maslov – 18	Yulgushov Andreev
1996		11	34	11	8	15	58	60	41	R8			Maslov – 23	Andreev
1997		13	34	9	14	11	34	38	41	R16			Gerasimenko – 8	Andreev
1998		6	30	11	11	8	42	38	44	QF			Matveev – 14	Andreev
1999		7	30	11	8	11	32	37	41	R16	UIC	SF	Pestryakov – 7	Andreev
2000		12	30	6	14	10	24	27	32	R16	UIC	3R	Kirichenko – 14	Andreev
2001		12	30	8	8	14	29	43	32	R16			Kirichenko – 13	Balakhnin Baidachny
2002		11	30	7	10	13	29	49	31	RU			Baba Adamu – 5	Baidachny Balakhnin
2003		11	30	8	10	12	30	42	34	QF			Osinov – 7	Balakhnin
2004		12	30	7	8	15	28	42	29	R8			Pérez – 5	Shevchenko Balakhnin
2005		13	30	8	7	15	26	41	31	R16			Buznikin – 8	Stepushkin Petrakov
2006		12	30	10	6	14	42	48	36	QF			Osinov – 12	Balakhnin
2007		16	30	2	12	16	18	44	18	R8			Osinov – 4 Kanyenda – 4	Dolmatov
2008	2nd	1	42	29	9	4	78	29	96	R32			Osinov – 16	Dolmatov
2009	1st	14	30	7	11	12	28	39	32	R16			Akimov – 6 Ahmetović – 6	Dolmatov
2010		9	30	10	4	16	27	44	34	SF			Adamov – 8	Protasov
2011–12		13	44	12	12	20	45	61	48	SF			Adamov – 11	Protasov Lyutyi Talalayev Balakhnin Baidachny
2012–13		13	30	7	8	15	30	41	29	SF			Holenda – 6	Božović
2013–14		7	30	10	9	11	40	40	39	Winner			Dzyuba – 17	Božović
2014–15		14	30	7	8	15	27	51	29	R16	UEL	PO	Grigoryev – 5	Božović Berdyev
2015–16		2	30	19	6	5	41	20	63	R32			Azmoun – 9	Berdyev
2016–17		6	30	13	9	8	36	18	48	R32	UEL	R16	Azmoun Poloz – 7	Berdyev

European

Season	Competition	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Aggregate
1999	UEFA Intertoto Cup	2R	FK Cementarnica 55	2–1	1–1	3–2
		3R	NK Varaždin	0–1	2–1	2–2 (a)
		SF	Juventus	0–4	1–5	1–9
2000	UEFA Intertoto Cup	3R	AJ Auxerre	0–2	1–3	1–5
2014–15	UEFA Europa League	PO	Trabzonspor	0–2	0–0	0–2
2016–17	UEFA Champions League	3R	Anderlecht	2–2	2–0	4–2
		PO	Ajax	4–1	1–1	5–2
		Group D	Bayern Munich	3–2	0–5	3rd place
			Atlético Madrid	0–1	1–2
			PSV Eindhoven	2–2	0–0
	UEFA Europa League	R32	Sparta Prague	4–0	1–1	5–1
		R16	Manchester United	1–1	0–1	1–2

Notes

• 3Q: Third qualifying round
• 2R: Second round
• 3R: Third round
• PO: Play-off round
• SF: Semi–finals

Achievements

Domestic competitions

• Russian Premier League

• Runners-up (1): 2015–16

• Russian National Football League: 1

Winners 2008

• Runners-up (1): 1994

• Russian Cup: 1

Winners 2014

• Runners-up (1): 2003

• Russian Super Cup

• Runners-up (1): 2014

Players

FC Rostov-Bayern Munich. 2016–17 UEFA Champions League

As of 17 July 2017 according to the Official Russian Premier League 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 MF Timofei Kalachev 3 DF Maciej Wilusz 4 DF Sergei Parshivlyuk 5 DF Matija Boben 6 MF Saeid Ezatolahi 7 MF Artur Yusupov (loan from Zenit) 8 MF Igor Kireyev 10 MF Aleksandr Zuyev (loan from Spartak) 11 FW Aleksandr Bukharov 14 FW Eldor Shomurodov 15 DF Sverrir Ingi Ingason 16 DF Yevgeni Makeyev

No. Position Player 17 MF Moussa Doumbia 18 MF Pavel Mogilevets 19 MF Khoren Bayramyan 20 MF Žan Majer 22 FW Vladimir Dyadyun 23 DF Miha Mevlja 28 MF Andrei Prepeliță 30 GK Sergei Pesyakov 31 GK Ilya Abayev 44 MF Josimar Quintero (loan from Chelsea) 84 MF Alexandru Gațcan (Captain) 91 DF Vitali Ustinov (loan from Rubin)

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 MF Reziuan Mirzov (at Tosno) MF Aleksandr Troshechkin (at Tosno) FW Nika Kacharava (at Korona Kielce)

Coaching staff

Position	Staff
Manager	Leonid Kuchuk
Assistants	Dmitri Kirichenko
	Sergey Kleschenko
	Ivan Fedyk
Goalkeeper Coach	Evgeniy Ivanov
Fitness Coach	Vitaliy Milyutin

Source: Rostov

References

External links

• Official website