FC SKA-Khabarovsk

SKA-Khabarovsk

Full name	Футбольный клуб СКА-Хабаровск (Football Club SKA-Khabarovsk)
Founded	1946 (1946)
Ground	Lenin Stadium, Khabarovsk, Russia
Ground Capacity	15,200[1]
Owner	Khabarovsk Krai RusHydro (through subsidiary) Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Production Association
Chairman	Sergey Feldman
Manager	Aleksei Poddubskiy
League	Russian Premier League
2016–17	Russian FNL, 4th (promoted)
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Football Club SKA-Khabarovsk (Russian: Футбольный клуб СКА-Хабаровск) is a Russian professional association football club based in Khabarovsk. They will play in the Russian Premier League for the first time ever in the 2017–18 season.

History

The club has been known under different names:

• DKA (–1953)
• ODO (1954)
• DO (1955–56)
• OSK (1957)
• SKVO (1957–59)
• SKA (1960–99)
• SKA-Energia (1999–2016)
• SKA-Khabarovsk (2016–)^[2]

The club has participated in the Soviet championships since 1957. SKA were the quarter-finalists of the Soviet Cup in 1963. They had never played in the Soviet Top League or Russian Premier League, until 2017.

SKA's best result in the Soviet First League was the 6th position in 1980, and their best result in the Russian First Division was 4th position in 2012–13. This entitled them to a promotion/relegation play-off against FC Rostov, 13th place in the RPL, but they lost 3–0 on aggregate and missed their chance to compete in the top flight.

At the end of the 2016-17 season, SKA equalled their record best finish, at the same time qualifying for a promotion play-off against FC Orenburg. On 28 May 2017, SKA were promoted to the Russian Premier League for the first time in their history, after beating FC Orenburg in the promotion play-off. They won 5-3 in a penalty shoot-out, after 0-0 draws in both the home and away legs.

Domestic history

Season	League									Russian Cup	Top goalscorer		Manager
	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P		Name	League
2011–12	2nd	11th	48	16	14	18	57	66	62	Fifth round	Yevgeni Lutsenko	13	Igor Protasov Aleksandr Grigoryan
2012–13	2nd	4th	32	13	13	6	36	26	52	Round of 16	Yevgeni Lutsenko	8	Aleksandr Grigoryan Giorgi Daraselia
2013–14	2nd	7th	36	15	11	10	43	34	56	Round of 16	Nathan Júnior	9	Valdas Ivanauskas
2014–15	2nd	14th	38	13	10	15	36	35	49	Fourth Round	Nathan Júnior	6	Valdas Ivanauskas Aleksandr Grigoryan
2015–16	2nd	14th	38	13	10	15	36	35	49	Round of 16	Konstantin Bazelyuk	10	Aleksandr Grigoryan
2016–17	2nd	4th	38	15	14	9	45	33	59	Round of 16	Ruslan Koryan	12	Aleksandr Grigoryan Aleksei Poddubskiy

Current squad

As of 6 August 2017, according to the official RFPL website.^[3] 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 Aleksandr Dovbnya 3 DF Ismail Ediyev 4 DF Maksim Tishkin 5 DF Aleksandr Putsko 8 MF Georgy Gabulov 9 FW Ruslan Koryan 10 MF Vladislav Nikiforov 11 FW Miroslav Marković 13 DF Aleksandr Dimidko 15 MF Yevgeni Balyaikin 19 MF Vitaliy Fedotov 20 FW Nikita Dyachenko

No. Position Player 22 FW Anton Kobyalko 26 MF Aleksandr Cherevko 29 GK Vladislav Soromytko 30 MF Aleksei Druzin 37 DF Dmytro Hryshko 55 GK Aleksandr Krivoruchko 69 MF Denys Dedechko 77 MF Konstantin Savichev 78 MF Nikolay Kalinsky 87 MF Maksim Kazankov 88 DF Giorgi Navalovski FW Ventsislav Hristov

Notable players

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

References

External links

• Official club website (in Russian)