FC Volgar Astrakhan

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

Volgar FC
Full nameVolgar Football Club
Founded1925 (1925)
GroundCentral Stadium,
Astrakhan
Capacity21,500
OwnerAstrakhan Oblast
CEOAndrei Sharokhin
Manager Vitali Panov
LeagueFNL[1]
2019–20PFL, Zone South, 1st (promoted)[1]
WebsiteClub website

History

The club has been known under following names:

  • Pishchevik (food industry worker) (1925−1958)
  • 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 were promoted to the second-tier FNL for the 2020–21 season.[1][4]

Current squad

As of 11 August 2020,[5] according to the FNL 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
3 DF  RUS Daniil Kornyushin (on loan from Krasnodar)
4 DF  RUS Roman Loktionov
5 DF  RUS Ivan Khomukha
7 MF  RUS Aleksei Pavlishin
8 FW  RUS Artur Sagitov (on loan from Rubin Kazan)
9 FW  RUS Aleksei Gasilin
10 FW  RUS Yuri Pugachyov
11 MF  RUS Aleksandr Bolonin
14 MF  RUS Andrei Zenin
15 FW  RUS Viktor Sergeyev
17 FW  RUS Dmitri Lesnikov
18 MF  RUS Andrei Mendel
19 DF  RUS Yelisey Krivokhizhin
20 MF  RUS Danil Poluboyarinov
21 DF  RUS Svyatoslav Shabanov
No. Pos. Nation Player
22 GK  RUS Stanislav Antipin
27 DF  RUS Yuri Zhuravlyov
28 FW  RUS Mikhail Nesterov
29 MF  RUS Artur Karpov
30 GK  RUS Dmitri Saganovich
33 MF  RUS Nail Zamaliyev
52 DF  RUS Vladimir Lobkaryov
69 DF  RUS Danila Kozlov
71 MF  RUS Aleksandr Butenko
77 DF  RUS Aleksei Berdnikov
78 FW  RUS Dmitry Vorobyov
88 GK  RUS Daniil Stratan
95 FW  RUS Artyom Pogosov
— DF  RUS Danila Vedernikov (on loan from Rostov)

Out on loan

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 Vladislav Yampolsky (at Kolomna)

Notable past players

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

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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. "«Волгарь» официально в ФНЛ" (in Russian). FC Volgar Astrakhan. 19 June 2020.
  5. http://www.volgar-fc.ru/volgar/footballer
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