FC Volgar Astrakhan

Volgar FC
Full name Volgar Football Club
Founded 1925 (1925)
Ground Central Stadium,
Astrakhan
Capacity 17,712
Owner Astrakhan Oblast
Manager Russia Vitali Panov
League Russian Professional Football League
2017–18 FNL, 10th (voluntarily relegated)

Volgar FC (Russian: Футбольный Клуб "Волгарь") is an association football club based in Astrakhan, Russia. They play in the Russian Professional Football League.

History

The club has been known under following names:

  • Pishchevik (food industry worker) (−1958)
  • Trud (labour) (1958–59)
  • Volgar (1960–94) (2012–)[1]
  • Volgar-Gazprom (1995–2007), (2010–2012)
  • Volgar-Gazprom-2 (2007–10)

Pishchevik played in the Second Group of the Soviet League. Trud (and later Volgar) played in the Class B (1958, 1960–1967), in Class A, Group 2 (1968–1969), in Class A, Group 1 (1970), Soviet First League (1971), Soviet Second League (1972–1990), Soviet Second League B (1991). In 1992 Volgar entered the Russian Second League, played in the Third League in 1994 (finished top and were promoted), returned to the Second League in 1995 and stayed until 1998. In 1998 Volgar-Gazprom were promoted and in 1999 they started playing in the Russian First Division. With the exception of the relegation for the 2004 season, Volgar-Gazprom had been in the First Division until 2006. The club was denied the professional licence and thus relegated to amateur level in 2007. Another club was organized called FC Volgar-Gazprom-2. The new club advanced to the Russian First Division for the 2009 season.

After the 2017–18 season, the club experienced financial difficulties and decided to be voluntarily relegated to the third-tier PFL.[2]

Current squad

As of 31 August 2018[3], according to the 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 Dmitri Saganovich
Russia GK Vladislav Tselovalnikov
Russia GK Vladislav Yampolsky
Russia DF Andrei Alekseyev
Russia DF Aleksei Berdnikov
Russia DF Aleksei Birbin
Russia DF Yevgeni Kirisov
Russia DF Roman Loktionov
Russia DF Dauren Shadiyev
Russia DF Aleksandr Stepanov
Russia DF Yuri Zhuravlyov
Russia MF Vladlen Babayev
Russia MF Pavel Bashilin
No. Position Player
Russia MF Aleksandr Bolonin
Russia MF Artur Karpov
Russia MF Batradz Kokoyev
Russia MF Danila Kozlov
Russia MF Aleksei Pavlishin
Russia MF Roman Razzhivin
Russia FW Vitali Gorulyov
Russia FW Dmitri Lesnikov
Russia FW Artyom Pogosov
Russia FW Mark Polushin
Russia FW Yuri Pugachyov
Russia FW Ivan Stolbovoy
Russia FW Andrei Zenin

Notable past players

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

References

  1. ↑ Sergey Sergeyev: Return the name of "Volgar" Archived 2012-05-02 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ "«Волгарь» не будет играть в ФНЛ, его может заменить «Ротор-Волгоград»" (in Russian). Russian National Football League. 28 May 2018.
  3. ↑ http://www.volgar-fc.ru/volgar/footballer
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