FC KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny

KAMAZ (Russian: Футбольный клуб КАМАЗ Набережные Челны) is a Russian football club based in Naberezhnye Chelny, Russia. The club is currently in the third-tier Russian Professional Football League.

KAMAZ

Full name	Football Club KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny
Nickname(s)	Gruzoviki (Грузовики, The Trucks), Avtozovodci (Автозаводцы, The Car Workers)
Founded	1981 (1981)
Ground	KAMAZ stadium
Capacity	6,504
Chairman	Nail Magadeyev
Manager	Mikhail Belov
League	Russian Professional Football League, Group 4
2019–20	Zone Ural-Privolzhye, 4th
Home colours Away colours

Colours are (Home) all white. (Away) Light blue shirts, white shorts.

History

The club was founded on 11 November 1981 at the KAMAZ plant under the name Trud-PRZ. The team played in local tournaments until 1988, when they entered Soviet Second League.

KAMAZ stayed in this league until 1992, when following the collapse of the Soviet Union they were entitled to play in the Russian First League. They won the Centre Zone tournament and were promoted into the Top League.

The best result achieved by KAMAZ in the Top League was a 6th position in 1994. It allowed the club to participate in the Intertoto Cup, where KAMAZ reached the semifinals, defeating München 1860 in the group stage.

KAMAZ stayed in the top flight from 1993 to 1997, when the financial troubles of their owner, KAMAZ plant, forced them into the First Division and into the Second Division a year later. The team played in the Ural Zone of the Second Division from 1999 to 2003, where they earned promotion.

KAMAZ became one of the leaders of the First Division in the 2000s, finishing 4th in 2004, 2006, 2007, and 2010 and 3rd in 2005 and 2008. They were relegated back to the third-tier at the end of the 2015–16 season.

The club has been known as Trud-PRZ (1981–1987), Torpedo (1988–1989), and KAMAZ-Chally (1995–2000).

KAMAZ in Europe

UEFA Intertoto Cup 1996

Group 8

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1. FC KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny	10	4	3	1	0	8	3	+5
2. TSV 1860 München	6	4	2	0	2	8	3	+5
3. Kaucuk Opava	6	4	2	0	2	5	4	+1
4. PFC Spartak Varna	5	4	1	2	1	5	5	0
5. ŁKS Łódź	1	4	0	1	3	1	12	−11

22 June 1996
FC KAMAZ	3–0	ŁKS Łódź
29 June 1996
Kaucuk Opava	1–2	FC KAMAZ
13 July 1996
FC KAMAZ	2–2	PFC Spartak Varna
20 July 1996
TSV 1860 München	0–1	FC KAMAZ

Semi-finals (27–28 & 31 July)

FC KAMAZ 2–0, 0–4 En Avant Guingamp

League history

Soviet Union

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W.	D.	L.	GS	GA	Pts.	Cup	Europe		Top Scorer (league)	Head Coach
1988	3rd, Group 2	14	32	8	12	12	32	36	28	—	—		Gibadullin – 7 Dm. Smirnov – 7	Chetverik
1989		7	42	20	8	14	59	50	48	—	—		Zakiyev – 11	Chetverik
1990	4th, Group 7	1	32	21	5	6	67	26	47	—	—		Baryshev – 17	Chetverik
1991	3rd, "Centre"	10	42	19	3	20	60	55	41	—	—		Y. Kuznetsov – 28	Chetverik
1992	—									R128	—		—	Chetverik

Russia

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W.	D.	L.	GS	GA	Pts.	Cup	Europe		Top Scorer (league)	Head Coach
1992	2nd, "Centre"	1	34	26	3	5	78	19	55	—	—		Panchenko – 26	Chetverik
1993	PL (1st)	10	34	12	6	16	45	53	30	R32	—		Panchenko – 21	Chetverik
1994		6	30	11	9	10	38	38	31	QF	—		Tropanets – 7 Panchenko – 7	Chetverik
1995		9	30	10	8	12	34	30	38	R16	—		Durnev – 9	Chetverik
1996		14	34	10	6	18	43	57	36	QF	UIC	SF	Babenko – 9	Chetverik Butaliy
1997		18	34	8	3	23	38	75	21^(−6)	R32	—		Shukanov – 7	Zelkevičius
1998	2nd	22	42	7	5	30	32	82	26	R16	—		Vekovishchev – 9	Butaliy
1999	3rd, "Ural"	10	30	11	7	12	41	46	40	R256	—		Tsarayev – 11	Chetverik
2000		3	30	20	4	6	80	23	64	R1024	—		Strizhov – 20	Shubin
2001		3	30	21	1	8	81	26	64	R512	—		Yermilov – 26	Shubin Butaliy
2002		6	28	15	6	7	41	24	51	R64	—		Yermilov – 15	Butaliy Gazzaev
2003	3rd, "Ural-P."	1	38	30	4	4	85	20	94	R128	—		Yermilov – 23	Gazzaev
2004	2nd	4	42	19	12	11	52	49	69	R32	—		Kalimullin – 9	Gazzaev
2005		3	42	26	6	10	80	32	84	R32	—		Monaryov – 18	Gazzaev
2006		4	42	22	11	9	54	26	77	R64	—		Belozyorov – 8	Gazzaev
2007		4	42	23	8	11	67	34	77	R64	—		Zeba – 12	Gazzaev
2008		3	42	23	10	9	68	41	79	R16	—		Gogniyev – 17	Gazzaev
2009		5	38	18	10	10	50	31	64	R32	—		Gogniyev – 17	Gazzaev Panov
2010		4	38	19	9	10	55	43	66	R16	—		Gogniyev – 13 Serdyukov – 13	Yevdokimov
2011–12		9	48	19	10	19	53	46	67	R32	—		Koronov – 12	Yevdokimov Klontsak
2012–13	3rd, "Ural-P."	10	28	8	6	14	23	29	30	R128	—		Lukyanov – 4	Klontsak
2013–14		3	27	15	4	8	43	36	39	R256	—		Akbashev – 6	Klontsak
2014–15		1	25	16	7	2	39	10	55	R64	—		Safronov – 8	Klontsak
2015–16	FNL (2nd)	20	38	6	6	26	20	60	24	R32	—		Davydov – 4	Klontsak
2016–17	PFL (3rd), "Ural-P."	7	24	8	5	11	23	25	29	R64	—		Ayukin – 4	Klontsak Shinkarenko Klontsak
2017–18		4	24	13	6	5	37	19	45	R128	—		Khubayev – 6	Klontsak Yefremov
2018–19		2	25	13	6	6	44	25	45	R128	—		Karayev – 7 Galiakberov – 7	Yefremov
2019–20		4	17	10	2	5	37	23	32	R16	—		Karayev – 11	Mikhail Belov

Current squad

As of 6 August 2020, 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 Niyaz Gilmutdinov GK Aleksei Mamin (on loan from Ural Yekaterinburg) GK Vladislav Suslov DF Astemir Abazov DF Ruslan Ayukin DF Mingiyan Beveyev DF Georgi Bugulov DF Daniil Krivoruchko (on loan from Orenburg) DF Aleksandr Kulikov DF Andrei Nuzhin DF Yegor Teslenko MF Ilnur Badrtdinov

No. Position Player MF Denis Chushyalov MF Aleksandr Gagloyev MF Linaz Kadermetov MF Oleg Kalugin MF Mikhail Kazimir MF Yuri Kirillov MF Yevgeni Voronin MF Roman Yanushkovsky MF Danis Zubairov FW Ruslan Galiakberov FW Redvan Osmanov

Out on loan

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

No. Position Player GK Valeri Ionin (at Lada Dimitrovgrad) DF Ruslan Shcherbin (at Lada Dimitrovgrad)

No. Position Player DF Grigori Ziganshin (at Lada Dimitrovgrad)

Reserve squad

KAMAZ's reserve squad played professionally as FC KAMAZ-d Naberezhnye Chelny (Russian Second League in 1993, Russian Third League in 1994) and as FC KAMAZ-Chally-d Naberezhnye Chelny (Russian Third League in 1995–1997).

Notable players

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

Ivan Yaremchuk Akhrik Tsveiba Anton Bober Soslan Dzhanayev Vladislav Ignatyev Ruslan Nigmatullin Andrei Novosadov Yevgeni Varlamov Barsegh Kirakosyan Ruslan İdiqov

Alyaksandar Lukhvich Yuri Shukanov Zajko Zeba Iuri Gabiskiria Revaz Gotsiridze Mikheil Jishkariani Oleg Kapustnikov Maksim Shevchenko Sergei Zhunenko Valdemaras Martinkenas

Aidas Preikšaitis Tomas Ražanauskas Giedrius Žutautas Essau Kanyenda Nicolae Josan Alexandru Onica Badran Al-Shagran Adnan Awad

External links

• Official website (in Russian)