FC Volgar Astrakhan

Volgar FC (Russian: Футбольный Клуб "Волгарь") is an association football club based in Astrakhan, Russia. They played in the Russian Professional Football League in the 2019–20 season, it has not yet been determined which league they will play in the 2020–21 season.

Volgar FC
Full nameVolgar Football Club
Founded1925 (1925)
GroundCentral Stadium,
Astrakhan
Capacity17,712
OwnerAstrakhan Oblast
CEOAndrei Sharokhin
Manager Vitali Panov
LeagueFNL
(pending licensing for 2020–21 season)[1]
2019–20PFL, Zone South, 1st (promoted)[1]

History

The club has been known under following names:

  • Pishchevik (food industry worker) (−1958)
  • Trud (labour) (1958–59)
  • Volgar (1960–94) (2012–)[2]
  • 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.[3]

On 15 May 2020, the 2019–20 PFL season was abandoned due to COVID-19 pandemic in Russia. As Volgar was leading in their PFL zone at the time, they will be promoted to the second-tier FNL for the 2020–21 season, if they pass licensing requirements.[1]

Current squad

As of 5 June 2020,[4] 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
GK Stanislav Antipin
GK Dmitri Saganovich
GK Daniil Stratan
GK Vladislav Yampolsky
DF Aleksei Berdnikov
DF Roman Loktionov
DF Yuri Zhuravlyov
MF Vladlen Babayev
MF Aleksandr Bolonin
MF Artur Karpov
MF Danila Kozlov
No. Position Player
MF Aleksandr Manukovsky
MF Aleksei Pavlishin
MF Andrei Zenin
FW Ilya Azyavin
FW Aleksei Gasilin
FW Ivan Khleborodov
FW Dmitri Lesnikov
FW Artyom Pogosov
FW Mark Polushin
FW Yuri Pugachyov

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. "ИТОГИ ИСПОЛКОМА РФС" (in Russian). Russian Professional Football League. 15 May 2020.
  2. Sergey Sergeyev: Return the name of "Volgar" Archived 2012-05-02 at the Wayback Machine
  3. «Волгарь» не будет играть в ФНЛ, его может заменить «Ротор-Волгоград» (in Russian). Russian National Football League. 28 May 2018.
  4. http://www.volgar-fc.ru/volgar/footballer
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