FC Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod

FC Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod
Full name Football Club Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod
Founded 2015 [1]
Ground Lokomotiv Stadium, Nizhny Novgorod
Ground Capacity 17,856
Chairman Maksim Metlin
Manager Nikolai Pisarev
League Russian National Football League
2016–17 PFL, Zone Ural-Privolzhye, 1st (promoted)
Website Club website

FC Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod (Russian: ФК «Олимпиец» Нижний Новгород) is a Russian football team from Nizhny Novgorod, founded in 2015. Beginning with the 2015-16 season, it plays in the Russian Professional Football League (third level). It was founded a farm club for FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod. On 15 June 2016, the parent club Volga was dissolved, with Olimpiyets becoming the top club in Nizhny Novgorod.[2] At the end of the 2016–17, Olimpiyets won their PFL zone and were promoted to the second-level Russian National Football League.

"Olimpiyets" means Olympian in Russian.

Team name history

Current squad

As of 31 July 2017, according to the FNL website.

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

No. Position Player
1 Russia GK Artur Anisimov
2 Russia DF Kirill Malyarov
4 Russia DF Artyom Abramov
5 Russia MF Timur Ayupov
6 Russia DF Dmitri Polyanin
7 Russia MF Anatoli Nezhelev
8 Russia MF Sergey Karetnik
9 Russia FW Mikhail Sorochkin
10 Russia FW Igor Belyakov
11 Russia MF Igor Gorbunov
14 Russia FW Dmitri Malikov
17 Russia MF Anton Frolov
20 Russia MF Igor Lambarschi
27 Russia MF Arkady Simanov
No. Position Player
29 Russia FW Vadim Manzon
36 Russia MF Aleksandr Pantsyrev
42 Russia MF Yuri Kirillov
55 Russia DF Yury Morozov
74 Russia MF Daniil Fomin
77 Russia GK Mikhail Borodko
87 Russia MF Vladimir Gogberashvili
88 Russia DF Irek Ganiyev
90 Russia DF Andrei Khripkov
91 Russia FW Viktor Karpukhin
92 Russia DF Radik Khayrullov
97 Russia DF Maksim Zhigalov
99 Russia GK Nikolai Sysuyev

References

  1. ↑ http://volga-olympic.ru/index.php/istoriya.html
  2. ↑ ФК «Волга» будет расформирован (in Russian). FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod. 15 June 2016.


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