FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod

FC Volga

Full name

Некоммерческое партнерство Футбольный Клуб Волга Нижний Новгород
(Non-Commercial Partnership Football Club Volga Nizhny Novgorod)

Nickname(s)

Volgari (The Volga Natives)

Founded

1963

Dissolved

2016

Ground

Lokomotiv Stadium

Capacity

17,856

Owner

Igor Zheleznyakov/Vladimir Zinovyev/Aleksandr Kuznetsov

Chairman

Oleg Alyoshin

FNL, 2015–16

10th

Home colours

Away colours

Third colours

FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod (Russian: Футбольный Клуб "Волга" Нижний Новгород) was a Russian football club from Nizhny Novgorod, founded in 1998. In 2008, FC Volga won the Ural-Povolzhye (Volga Region in Russian) zone of the Russian Second Division and advanced to the Russian First Division. In 2010 they promoted to the Russian Premier League. After the 2013-14 season, they were relegated to the second level once more. On 15 June 2016, the club was dissolved due to inability to service the accumulated debts.^[1]

History

The team was founded in 1963 after a merger of two teams from Gorky - Torpedo and Raketa. The team played in the Soviet Top League, where its best result was 14th place in 1964. The team was disbanded in 1984. In 1998, a new club called FC Elektronika Nizhny Novgorod was founded. It played in Russian Second Division. In 2004 it was renamed to Volga.

FC Torpedo-Viktoriya Nizhny Novgorod was another squad to claim the legacy of FC Volga Gorky.

League History

Russia

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Cup	Europe	Top Scorer (League)
1999	KFK(4th), "Povolzhye"	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2000	KFK(4th), "Povolzhye"	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2001	3rd, "Ural-Povolzhye"	9	34	13	10	11	54	43	49	-	-	Kuznetsov - 12
2002		6	30	12	8	10	40	38	44	R256	-	Podolyanchik - 9
2003		14	38	11	5	22	41	62	38	R256	-	Podolyanchik - 14
2004		12	36	12	9	15	41	46	45	R512	-	Georgiev - 9
2005		6	36	15	12	9	44	30	57	R256	-	Udodov - 7
2006		7	24	10	8	6	31	23	38	R512	-	Loginov - 5
2007		4	26	15	5	6	52	30	50	R256	-	Kaynov - 11
2008		1	34	23	9	2	73	23	78	R512	-	Prokofyev - 17
2009	2nd	4	38	17	14	7	54	32	65	R16	-	Khazov - 10
2010	2nd	2	38	19	14	5	62	25	71	R64	-	Martsvaladze - 21
2011–12	1st	14	44	12	5	27	37	60	41	SF	-	Bibilov - 7
2012–13		12	30	7	8	15	28	46	29	R32	-	Sapogov - 9
2013–14		15	30	6	3	21	22	65	21	R32	-	Sarkisov, Bibilov - 3
2014–15	2nd	13	34	12	4	18	44	57	40	R64	-	Sarkisov - 12

Farm club

A farm club called FC Volga-Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod is playing professionally in the third-tier Russian Professional Football League beginning with the 2015-16 season.

Notable players

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

Russia


Rest of Europe


South & Central America

Luton Shelton


Former USSR countries

Managers

Sergey Frantsev (2005)
Sergei Petrenko (7 Dec 2007 – 5 June 2009)
Sergei Perednya (interim) (5 June 2009 – 31 Dec 2009)
Khazret Dyshekov (20 July 2009–09)
Aleksandr Pobegalov (1 Jan 2010 – 7 May 2010)

Omari Tetradze (8 May 2010 – 15 June 2011)
Dmitri Cheryshev (16 June 2011 – 30 June 2012)
Gadzhi Gadzhiev (1 July 2012 – 26 Dec 2012)
Yuriy Kalitvintsev (19 Jan 2013 – 27 March 2014)
Andrei Talalayev (29 March 2014 – 15 June 2016)

References

↑ ФК «Волга» будет расформирован (in Russian). FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod. 15 June 2016.

External links

Official website

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