FC Tver

FC Tver (Russian: ФК «Тверь») is an association football club from Tver, Russia, firstly founded in 1957 as FC Volga Tver. It has played professionally in 1937, 1949, 1953 to 1956, 1958 to 1999, 2004 to 2017, and from 2020. In 1992–1995, the club was called Trion-Volga Tver.

FC Tver
Full nameFootball Club Tver
Founded1957
GroundKhimik Stadium
Capacity8,331
OwnerGovernment of Tver Oblast
ManagerVadim Garanin
LeagueRussian Professional Football League, Group 2
FC Volga Tver old logo, until 2017

It played on the second-highest level (Soviet First League and Russian First Division) in 1957 to 1962, 1964 to 1969 and 1992. Another Tver team, Spartak Tver, existed from 1937 to 1957 and played in the Soviet First League in 1949 and from 1953 to 1956.

The club was dissolved at the end of the 2016–17 season due to lack of financing.[1]

On April 2020, the club was reestablished as professional football club named FC Tver, with financial support from Tver Oblast, and FC Arsenal Tula.[2][3][4] It was licensed for the Russian Professional Football League for 2020–21 season.

Current squad

As of 7 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. Pos. Nation Player
— GK  RUS Kirill Dvoretskiy
— GK  RUS Anton Fedyushkin
— GK  RUS Dmitri Gerasimov
— DF  RUS Aleksei Ivanov
— DF  RUS Ivan Kozlov
— DF  RUS Nikita Melnikov
— DF  RUS Dmitri Rashchupkin
— DF  RUS Aleksei Rodinkov
— DF  RUS Ilya Serikov
— DF  RUS Artyom Sobol
— MF  RUS Danila Ananko
— MF  RUS Nurudin Gadzhinazarov
— MF  RUS Yaroslav Ivakin
— MF  RUS Ilya Kalendrus
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF  RUS Aleksei Orlov
— MF  RUS Yuri Petrovskiy
— MF  RUS Insar Salakhetdinov
— MF  RUS Mikhail Sentyurin
— MF  RUS Sergei Sharov
— MF  RUS Kirill Ushatov
— MF  RUS Igor Varres
— FW  RUS Artyom Baydatsky
— FW  RUS Nikita Frasinyuk
— FW  RUS Ilya Gilyazutdinov
— FW  RUS Anton Starostin
— FW  RUS Igor Tursunov
— FW  RUS Daniil Yerofeyev

Notable players

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

References
  1. Город простился с профессиональным футболом (in Russian). Komsomolskaya Pravda. 5 June 2017.
  2. "Правительство Тверской области". www.region.tver.ru. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  3. "В Твери намерены создать детскую академию футбола при поддержке тульского "Арсенала"". ТАСС. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  4. В этом году на стадион «Химик» в Твери вернется профессиональный футбол
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