FC Rostov

FC Rostov (Russian: Футбольный клуб Ростов) is a Russian professional football club based in Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast. The club are members of the Russian Premier League and play at the Rostov Arena.

Rostov
Full nameФутбольный клуб Ростов
(Football Club Rostov)
Nickname(s)Selmashi (Derived from the historical name Rostselmash), Muzhiki (Tough Guys)
Founded10 May 1930 (1930-05-10)
GroundRostov Arena
Capacity45,000
OwnerRostov Oblast
PresidentArtashes Arutyunyants
Head coachValeri Karpin
LeagueRussian Premier League
2019–20Russian Premier League, 5th of 16
WebsiteClub website

History
The club's former home stadium, Olimp-2

The club was established on 10 May 1930, and was initially named Selmashstroy (Сельмашстрой). They were renamed Selmash in 1936 and Traktor in 1941. In 1950, the club joined the South Zone of the Azov-Don group of the Russian SFSR Championship. The following season they were placed in Group B of the championship. After finishing first in their group, they played in Group A in 1952. A third-place finish meant the club were promoted to the Class B for the 1953 season, during which they were renamed again, becoming Torpedo. In 1958, they were renamed Rostselmash.

In 1964 the club won their Division of Class B. In the Russian-zone play-offs they finished second in the first round and top in the second after defeating Terek Grozny 2–0 in the deciding match, earning promotion to the Soviet First League. The following season they finished bottom of the division, but were not relegated as the number of teams in the division was increased.

By the early 1970s the club was back in the Russian leagues. In 1975 they returned to Class B (now known as the Soviet Second League). Following several near misses, the club won their zone of the Second League in 1985. They went on to win a play-off tournament, earning promotion back to the First League.

In 1991 the club finished fourth in what was the final season of Soviet football following the USSR's disintegration. This was enough to earn them a place in the new Russian Top League. Following an eighth-place finish in their first season, the 1993 season saw the club struggle, eventually finishing second bottom, resulting in relegation to the First League.

The club made an immediate return to the Top League after finishing second in the 1994 First League season. In 2003, they adopted their current name and reached the Russian Cup final for the first time, losing 1–0 to Spartak Moscow.[1] In 2007 they finished bottom of the (now renamed) Premier Division and were relegated to the First Division. However, they made another immediate return to the top division as First Division champions.

Rostov won the 2013–14 Russian Cup, defeating FC Krasnodar on penalties 6–5, and earned qualification to the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League. However Rostov were excluded from the competition at the end of May 2014, due to breached financial rules, being replaced by Spartak Moscow.[2][3] Later Rostov appealed the decision of the local football federation to lift the club from the tournament in the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, the club won the right to play.[4]

The club's current home stadium, Rostov Arena

On 18 December 2014, the official website of FC Rostov announced the appointment of Kurban Berdyev as head coach. Under his leadership, the team has maintained a place in the Premier League on aggregate (1–0, 4–1) beating "Tosno" in the play-offs Premier League – First Division. In the summer 2015 the club bought César Navas, Christian Noboa and Sardar Azmoun who worked together with Berdyev in FC Rubin. Throughout the second half of 2015, the club had problems with the payment of salaries and bonuses the players, but it has not prevented the club at the end of the first part of the season 2015–16 to hold 2nd place in the championship.

In the 2016–17 season, Rostov earned a UEFA Champions League spot in the League Route as runners-up of the Russian Premier League. In the third qualifying round, they were drawn against Anderlecht. After a 2–2 home draw, they beat Anderlecht 2–0 away. In the play-off, Rostov were drawn against Dutch giants Ajax. In the first leg in Amsterdam, Netherlands, they held on to a 1–1 draw, which gave them an away goal advantage. In the return leg, Rostov earned a historical 4–1 surprise win over Ajax and qualified for the UEFA Champions League group stages, a stunning performance as was their first qualification into the group stages of a European tournament.[5] Rostov were drawn in Group D, against Bayern Munich, Atlético Madrid and PSV Eindhoven,[6][7] gaining their first Champions League victory on 23 November 2016, defeating Bayern Munich 3–2 at Olimp-2.[8]

On 9 June 2017, Rostov announced Leonid Kuchuk as their new manager on a one-year contract with the option of an additional year.[9] Kuchuk resigned and was replaced by Valeri Karpin during the winter break in December 2017.[10]

On 19 June 2020, Rostov were due to play their first match of the restarted Russian Premier League season, which had been suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic, against PFC Sochi. Rostov had had a good season and were in fourth place, just a few points of UEFA Champions League qualification. A few days before the match, six players in Rostov's first-team squad tested positive for the coronavirus, putting the entire first-team squad into a fourteen day quarantine period.[11] This forced the club to select their Under-18 squad to play the match, making it the youngest starting 11 and the youngest matchday squad in Russian Premier League history. Rostov would go on to lose 10–1, but the youngsters were highly praised for their performance with 17-year-old goalkeeper Denis Popov named man-of-the-match after saving a penalty and making 15 saves[12], a Russian Premier League record[13], and 17-year-old Roman Romanov scoring his first senior goal on his debut in the first minute of the match.

Seasons

Domestic
Russian Premier LeagueRussian Premier LeagueRussian Premier League

European
Season Competition Round Opponent Home Away Aggregate
1999 UEFA Intertoto Cup 2R FK Cementarnica 55 2–1 1–1 3–2
3R NK Varaždin 0–1 2–1 2–2 (a)
SF Juventus 0–4 1–5 1–9
2000 UEFA Intertoto Cup 3R AJ Auxerre 0–2 1–3 1–5
2014–15 UEFA Europa League PO Trabzonspor 0–2 0–0 0–2
2016–17 UEFA Champions League 3R Anderlecht 2–2 2–0 4–2
PO Ajax 4–1 1–1 5–2
Group D Bayern Munich 3–2 0–5 3rd place
Atlético Madrid 0–1 1–2
PSV Eindhoven 2–2 0–0
UEFA Europa League R32 Sparta Prague 4–0 1–1 5–1
R16 Manchester United 1–1 0–1 1–2
2020–21 UEFA Europa League 3R
Notes
  • 3Q: Third qualifying round
  • 2R: Second round
  • 3R: Third round
  • PO: Play-off round
  • SF: Semi–finals

Achievements

Domestic competitions
Winners (1): 2014
  • Russian National Football League
Winners (1): 2008

Players
FC Rostov vs. Bayern Munich. 2016–17 UEFA Champions League (3:2)
As of 14 August 2020, according to the Official Russian Premier League 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
1 GK  RUS Yegor Baburin
5 DF  SWE Dennis Hadžikadunić
6 MF  JPN Kento Hashimoto
7 MF  FIN Roman Eremenko
8 MF  BUL Ivelin Popov
9 FW  MKD David Toshevski
10 MF  RUS Pavel Mamayev
11 MF  RUS Aleksei Ionov
12 DF  RUS Aleksandr Smirnov
14 FW  UZB Eldor Shomurodov
15 MF  RUS Danil Glebov
17 MF  NOR Mathias Normann
18 MF  KAZ Baktiyar Zaynutdinov
No. Pos. Nation Player
19 MF  RUS Khoren Bayramyan
25 DF  RUS Arseny Logashov
26 MF  RUS Aleksandr Saplinov
28 DF  RUS Yevgeni Chernov
30 GK  RUS Sergei Pesyakov
34 DF  RUS Aleksei Kozlov
47 FW  RUS Aleksandr Dolgov
51 MF  RUS Yevgeni Cherkes
55 DF  RUS Maksim Osipenko
71 DF  RUS Nikolai Poyarkov
77 GK  RUS Maksim Rudakov
78 DF  RUS Dmitri Chistyakov

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
— DF  RUS Danila Vedernikov (at Volgar Astrakhan)
— DF  RUS Mikhail Osinov (at Nizhny Novgorod)
No. Pos. Nation Player
— FW  RUS Danila Proshlyakov (at Torpedo Moscow)

Other players under contract

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
— DF  RUS Konstantin Pliyev
— MF  SWE Anton Salétros
No. Pos. Nation Player
— FW  ISL Viðar Kjartansson

Coaching staff
Position Staff
Head coach Valeri Karpin
Senior coach Vitaliy Kafanov
Assistant coach Mikhail Osinov
Assistant coach Jonatan Alba Cabello
Goalkeeping coach Gleb Presnyakov
Fitness coach Luís Casais Martínez
Rehabilitation coach Hugo Ogando Berea
Rehabilitation coach Gabriele Mattiussi
Rehabilitation coach Álvaro Sayabera Iñarrea
Physiotherapist-rehabilitator Raúl Álvarez Canle

Source: Rostov

References
  1. "Russian Cup 2003". RSSSF.com. Retrieved 2012-09-24.
  2. "Spartak Moscow will replace FC Rostov". www.espnfc.com. ESPN. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  3. "Moscow "Spartak" because of "sanctions" was in the Europa League". ru-facts.com. ru-facts. Archived from the original on 31 May 2014. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  4. «РОСТОВ» СЫГРАЕТ В ЛИГЕ ЕВРОПЫ!!!
  5. "Rostov stun Ajax to book group stage debut". UEFA.com. UEFA. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
  6. "UEFA Champions League group stage draw". UEFA.com. UEFA. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  7. "Champions League roundup: four-time winners Ajax crash out to FC Rostov". Guardian. 24 August 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
  8. "FC Rostov 3–2 Bayern Munich". bbc.co.uk. BBC Sport. 23 November 2016. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
  9. "Леонид Кучук – новый главный тренер Ростова". fc-rostov.ru (in Russian). FC Rostov. 9 June 2017. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
  10. "Валерий Карпин – новый главный тренер ФК Ростов" (in Russian). FC Rostov. 19 December 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  11. "FC Rostov goes on a two-week quarantine" (in Russian). FC Rostov. 17 June 2020.
  12. "Заслуженная награда реально лучшему игроку этого матча" (in Russian). FC Rostov. 19 June 2020.
  13. "17-летний вратарь Ростова Попов сделал 15 сэйвов в матче с Сочи. Это рекорд РПЛ" (in Russian). Sports.ru. 19 June 2020.
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