FC Volga Ulyanovsk

Volga
Full name Football Club Volga Ulyanovsk
Founded 1947 (1947)
Ground Trud
Capacity 15,000
Chairman Mikhail Navolokin
Manager Sergei Sedyshev
League Russian Professional Football League, Zone Ural-Privolzhye
2017–18 7th

FC Volga Ulyanovsk (Russian: ФК «Во́лга» Улья́новск) is a professional association football club based in Ulyanovsk, Russia. In 2008, they were relegated to the Russian Second Division 2009 after they finished 17th in Russian First Division. In December 2008, Volga signed a partnership agreement with Floriana FC of Malta, the most successful club in Maltese football.

Their reserve team FC Volga-d Ulyanovsk used to play professionally as FC Energiya Ulyanovsk.

Club name and location history

  • 1947–1957: FC Torpedo Ulyanovsk
  • 1958: FC Dynamo Ulyanovsk
  • 1959–1961: FC Spartak Ulyanovsk
  • 1961–1985: FC Volga Ulyanovsk
  • 1986–1991: FC Start Ulyanovsk
  • 1992–1995: FC Tekstilshchik Isheyevka
  • 1996–2005: FC Volga Ulyanovsk
  • 2006: FC Volga-Energiya Ulyanovsk (the reserves team currently known as FC Volga-d Ulyanovsk played as FC Volga-Energiya Ulyanovsk in the Amateur Football League in 2007)
  • 2007–present: FC Volga Ulyanovsk

Current squad

As of 31 August 2018, according to the official 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
Russia GK Konstantin Baranov
Russia GK Dmitri Chernyayev
Russia GK Maksim Pavlov
Russia DF Yevgeni Kachan
Russia DF Denis Kaykov
Russia DF Andrei Kuznetsov
Russia DF Aleksei Makushkin
Russia DF Aleksei Shlyapkin
Russia DF Aleksandr Tenyayev
Russia DF Aleksei Tsygantsov
Russia MF Ilya Altyshev
No. Position Player
Russia MF Vadim Bilyukov
Russia MF Vadim Chyorny
Russia MF Sergei Mitrenko
Russia MF Konstantin Pavlov
Russia MF Denis Rakhmanov
Russia MF Dmitri Rakhmanov
Russia MF Marat Safin
Russia MF Aleksandr Sergeyev
Russia FW Ildar Bikchantayev
Russia FW Yevgeni Voronin
Russia FW Georgi Zaikin


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