FC Metallurg-Kuzbass Novokuznetsk

Metallurg-Kuzbass Novokuznetsk

Full name	Football Club Metallurg-Kuzbass Novokuznetsk
Nickname(s)	Kuznya, MetKuz
Founded	1946
Ground	Metallurg Stadium, Novokuznetsk (Capacity: 8,500)
Chairman	Dmitri Kochadze
Manager	Vladimir Fedotov
League	Russian Second Division, Zone East
2010	6th
Home colours Away colours

FC Metallurg-Kuzbass Novokuznetsk (Russian: ФК Металлург-Кузбасс Новокузнецк) is a Russian football club. In 2008, the club was relegated to the Russian Second Division.

Recent history

MKN were relegated to the Russian Second Division after an 18th-placed finish in 2005, and only finished 2nd in the "East" region, thus keeping them down another season. However, Lada Togliatti and Dinamo Makhachkala were denied licences for the First Division and thus also relegated. This, alongside the bankruptcy of Angusht Nazran, pushed Metallurg up alongside other second-place finishers SKA Rostov-na-Donu and Mordovia Saransk.

League results

Current squad

As of August 30, 2011, according to the official RFU website.

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

No. Position Player GK Timur Bagautdinov GK Mikhail Shutikov GK Aleksandr Sautin DF Yevgeni Dyachkov DF Igor Nedorezov DF Aleksei Puchkov DF Pavel Samoylov DF Denis Shevelev DF Sergei Shubin DF Andrei Smirnov DF Roman Tkachuk MF Vladimir Avsyuk MF Andrei Klimenko

No. Position Player MF Kirill Makarov MF Vyacheslav Nurmagombetov MF Nikolai Shabalin MF Roman Skorobogatov MF Eduard Uchurov MF Andrei Volgin MF Sergei Yemelyanov MF Igor Yurganov FW Aleksandr Golubev FW Semyon Melnikov FW Ivan Shpakov FW Valentin Yegunov

2011 transfers

In

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

No. Position Player FW Sergei Anokhin (from FC Vityaz Podolsk) MF Vladimir Avsyuk (from FC Dynamo St. Petersburg) GK Timur Bagautdinov (from FC Sibir Novosibirsk) DF Yevgeni Dyachkov (from FC SOYUZ-Gazprom Izhevsk) FW Aleksandr Golubev (from FC Astrakhan) MF Eduard Kobozev (from FC SOYUZ-Gazprom Izhevsk) MF Kirill Makarov (from FC Sokol Saratov) FW Semyon Melnikov (from FC Dynamo St. Petersburg) DF Igor Nedorezov (from FC SKA-Energiya Khabarovsk) DF Aleksei Puchkov (from FC Tyumen) DF Pavel Samoylov (from FC Gornyak Uchaly)

No. Position Player GK Aleksandr Sautin (from FC SOYUZ-Gazprom Izhevsk) MF Nikolai Shabalin (from FC KUZBASS Kemerovo) DF Denis Shevelev (from FC Volga Tver) FW Ivan Shpakov (from FC Zhemchuzhina-Sochi) DF Sergei Shubin (from FC Vityaz Podolsk) DF Andrei Smirnov (from FC SKA-Energiya Khabarovsk) MF Eduard Uchurov (from FC Radian-Baikal Irkutsk) MF Andrei Volgin (from FC KUZBASS Kemerovo) MF Sergei Yemelyanov (from FC SOYUZ-Gazprom Izhevsk) MF Igor Yurganov (from FC Metallurg-Kuzbass-2 Novokuznetsk)

Out

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

No. Position Player MF Stanislav Ageyev (to FC KUZBASS Kemerovo) FW Sergei Anokhin (to FC Kaluga) FW Yuri Barkov GK Dmitri Belousov (to FC Sokol Saratov) DF Aleksandr Bulanovskiy (to FC Yakutiya Yakutsk) FW Aleksei Gorelov (to FC Oktan Perm) DF Aleksandr Grushin (to FC KUZBASS Kemerovo) MF Eduard Kobozev (to FC Zenit-Izhevsk Izhevsk) MF Aleksandr Kochnev (to FC Yakutiya Yakutsk) GK Kirill Kondratyev (to FC Sibiryak Bratsk)

No. Position Player DF Pavel Kravtsov (to FC Druzhba Maykop) DF Denis Panteleyev (retired) FW Konstantin Pogreban MF Nikolai Shabalin (to FC KUZBASS Kemerovo) DF Sergei Ukharev (to FC Amur-2010 Blagoveshchensk) FW Denis Uryvkov (to FC Chelyabinsk) MF Aleksei Vereshchak (to FC Syzran-2003 Syzran) MF Aleksei Zarubin (to FC KUZBASS Kemerovo) MF Vyacheslav Zemlyanskiy (to FC Smena Komsomolsk-na-Amure)

Notable past players

• Serghei Clescenco
• Konstantīns Igošins

Team Colours

MKN's home kit features green shirts, white shorts and green socks.

External links

• Official site (Russian)
• 2006 results
• 2005 results
• Metallurg Novokuznetsk team profile