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Volgar FC
Full nameVolgar Football Club
Founded1960; 64 years ago (1960)
GroundCentral Stadium,
Astrakhan
Capacity21,500
OwnerAstrakhan Oblast
CEOAndrey Nikitin
ManagerDenis Klyuyev
LeagueRussian Second League
Division A
Gold Group
2024–25First stage: 5th
Websitehttps://www.volgar-fc.ru/
Home colours Away colours

Volgar FC (Russian: Футбольный Клуб "Волгарь") is an association football club based in Astrakhan, Russia. They play in the Russian Second League Division A (third tier).

History

The club has been known under following names:

  • Pishchevik (food industry worker) (1925−1958)
  • Trud (labour) (1958–59)
  • Volgar (1960–94) (2012–)
  • 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.

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.

On 20 May 2024, Volgar was relegated to the Russian Second League.

Current squad

As of 12 September 2024, according to the Russian Second League website.

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Russia RUS Vladislav Yampolsky
3 DF Russia RUS Aly Tagiyev
6 DF Russia RUS Yelisey Krivokhizhin
7 MF Russia RUS Aleksei Pavlishin
9 FW Russia RUS Yevgeni Tatarinov
10 MF Russia RUS Danila Smirnov
11 MF Kazakhstan KAZ Akmal Bakhtiyarov
13 MF Russia RUS Aydin Iskindirov
17 FW Russia RUS Dmitri Lesnikov
18 DF Russia RUS Vladislav Volkov (on loan from Akhmat Grozny)
19 FW Russia RUS Nikolai Prudnikov
23 DF Russia RUS Sergei Zuykov
No. Pos. Nation Player
24 FW Russia RUS Artyom Pogosov
27 MF Russia RUS Daniil Gorovykh
28 DF Russia RUS Yegor Proshkin
56 DF Russia RUS Sergey Loskutov (on loan from Ural Yekaterinburg)
58 DF Russia RUS Ilya Zuyev
69 MF Russia RUS Danil Anosov (on loan from Sochi)
77 MF Russia RUS Igor Druzhinin
78 DF Russia RUS Daniil Melnikov (on loan from Arsenal Tula)
86 GK Russia RUS Sergey Dmitriyev
88 FW Russia RUS Denis Mironov (on loan from Kuban-Holding)
90 FW Russia RUS Aleksandr Shcherbakov
99 GK Russia RUS Oleg Smirnov

Notable past players

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

Russia/USSR
Former USSR countries

Danila Yashchuck

Europe

References

  1. "У астраханского "Волгаря" новый руководитель" (in Russian). 2019-10-29. Retrieved 2022-12-01.
  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. Archived from the original on 7 August 2020. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  5. ""ДИНАМО" И "ХИМКИ" ДОСРОЧНО ВЫШЛИ В РПЛ. "ВОЛГАРЬ" ВЫЛЕТАЕТ ВО ВТОРУЮ ЛИГУ А" (in Russian). Russian First League. 20 May 2024.

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