FC Mordovia Saransk

FC Mordovia

Full name	Футбольный клуб Мордовия Саранск (Football Club Mordovia Saransk)
Nickname(s)	Krasno-Belo-Siniye (The Red-White-Blue) Mordva (Mordovians)
Founded	1961 (1961)
Ground	Mordovia Arena
Capacity	44,442
Chairman	Aleksei Porfenov
Manager	Marat Mustafin
League	Russian Football National League
2017–18	PFL, Zone Ural-Privolzhye, 1st (promoted)
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours

FC Mordovia Saransk (Russian: ФК Мордовия Саранск) is a Russian association football club from Saransk, Republic of Mordovia. In its current state it was formed in 2005, through the merge of Biokhimik-Mordovia and Lisma-Mordovia.

History

The club was founded in 1961. In 2010, the club won promotion to the Russian First Division. On 8 May 2012 Mordovia beat Shinnik Yaroslavl 2–0 at home. This result meant that with a round to spare the team won promotion to the Russian Premier League for the 2012–13 season for the first time in its history. It was relegated back to the second tier after one season, and then returned to the Premier League for the 2014–15 season, taking 8th spot. After the next 2015–16 season, it was once again relegated. At the end of the 2016–17 season they were relegated for the second year in a row, to the third-tier Russian Professional Football League. They returned to the second tier after one season down for 2018–19 season.

Domestic history

Season	League									Russian Cup	Top goalscorer		Manager
	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P		Name	League
2009	3rd	1st	30	24	5	1	68	13	77	Quarterfinal	Dmitri Sysuyev	14	F.Shcherbachenko
2010	2nd	6th	38	16	10	12	53	40	58	Round of 32	Ruslan Mukhametshin	13	F.Shcherbachenko
2011–12		1st	52	29	13	10	91	56	100	Round of 32	Ruslan Mukhametshin	31	F.Shcherbachenko
2012–13	1st	15th	30	5	5	20	30	57	20	Round of 16	Ruslan Mukhametshin	11	F.Shcherbachenko / V.Bibikov / D.Munteanu
2013–14	2nd	1st	36	22	7	7	59	30	73	Round of 16	Aleksei Ivanov	11	S.Podpaly / M.Mustafin / Y.Maksymov
2014–15	1st	8th	30	11	5	14	22	43	38	Quarterfinal	Marko Lomić	3	Y.Semin
2015–16		16th	30	4	12	14	30	50	24	Round of 32	Yevgeni Lutsenko	10	A.Gordeyev / M.Mustafin
2016–17	2nd	17th	38	11	7	20	39	50	40	Round of 16	Artur Sarkisov Pavel Deobald	5

Honours

Players

Current squad

As of 31 August 2018^[1]

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 Denis Shebanov 2 MF Ruslan Navlyotov 3 DF Yevgeni Strelov 4 DF Alan Bagayev 5 DF Pavel Derevyagin 9 MF Rustem Mukhametshin 10 FW Mikhail Markin 11 FW Aleksandr Yermakov 13 MF Denis Sobolev 16 GK Aleksandr Kobzev 17 MF Igor Kireyev 18 DF Sergei Sukharev 19 DF Radik Yusupov 20 FW Vladimir Obukhov 21 MF Filipp Dvoretskov 23 FW Ruslan Mukhametshin

No. Position Player 24 DF Igor Klimov 25 MF Denis Poyarkov 29 DF Maksim Kuznetsov 30 DF Danila Kalikhanov 32 MF Daniil Fedak 33 DF Yevgeni Yatchenko 35 DF Ilya Mukhin 36 DF Artyom Sarychev 37 MF Danila Afanasyev 51 GK Vladislav Chekashkin 77 GK Yaroslav Maloletkov 87 DF Yuri Lebedev 94 MF German Povetkin 95 MF Ilya Petrov 96 MF Vladislav Adayev 97 MF Anton Orlov

Notable players

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

Managerial history

• Yuri Utkin (March 2005 – Dec 08)
• Fyodor Shcherbachenko (Jan 1, 2009 – Nov 19, 2012)
• Vladimir Bibikov (caretaker) (Nov 20, 2012 – Dec 28, 2012)
• Dorinel Munteanu (Dec 29, 2012 – July 30, 2013)
• Sergei Podpaly (July 1, 2013 – Aug 9, 2013)
• Marat Mustafin (Aug 9, 2013 – Aug 21, 2013)
• Yuriy Maksymov (Aug 21, 2013 – May 18, 2014)
• Yuri Semin (May 27, 2014 - May 30, 2015)

References

External links

• Official website (in Russian)