FC Rotor Volgograd

Football club infobox
clubname = Rotor


fullname = Football Club Rotor Volgograd
nickname =
founded = 1929 as "Dzerzhinets"
ground = Rotor Stadium, Volgograd
capacity = 38,000
chairman = Vladimir Goryunov
manager = Valery Burlachenko
league = Russian Second Division,
"South" Zone
season = 2007
position = 4th
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FC Rotor Volgograd is a football club from Volgograd, Russia.

Rotor was the last champion of the old USSR Second Division, in 1991, thus forming the new Russian Top Division after the USSR collapsed.

In mid-1990s, Rotor was one of the strongest clubs in Russia, rivalling with Spartak Moscow for the championship, yet never winning it. Rotor became the league runners-up in 1993 and 1997. They also enjoyed some success at the European stage, having eliminated Manchester United from the UEFA Cup in 1995. In 2000s, Rotor's results came into a decline, and in 2004, the team finished last in the Russian Premier League. The following winter Rotor was denied professional licence, and chose not to participate in the amateur competitions.

However, Rotor's former B-team, Rotor-2 Volgograd, spent 2005 season in the Russian Second Division. On January 12, 2006, Rotor-2 was renamed Rotor.

The team name is a reference to the Dzherzinsky Tractor Works, once a major producer of tractors, and the scene of heavy fighting during the Battle of Stalingrad during World War II.

Honours

*USSR Second Division
**Winner: 1 (1991)
*Russian Championship
**Runners-up: 2 (1993, 1997)
*Russian Cup
**Runners-up: 1 (1995)
*King's Cup (Thailand)
**Winner: 1 (1995)

Historical names

* 1929 - Traktor Stalingrad
* 1948 - Torpedo Stalingrad
* 1958 - Traktor Stalingrad
* 1961 - Traktor Volgograd
* 1970 - Stal Volgograd
* 1972 - Barrikady Volgograd
* 1975 - Rotor Volgograd

Notable former players

* Oleg Veretennikov
* Valery Yesipov
* Vladimir Niederhaus
* Aleksandr Nikitin
* Yuri Kalitvintsev
* Vladimir Gerashenko
* Aleksandr Shmarko
* Andrey Krivov
* Roman Pavlyuchenko
* Eugeny Aldonin
* Denis Zubko
* Aleksey Bakharev

External links

*ru icon [http://www.rotor-volgograd.ru Fans' website]
*ru icon [http://www.rotor-volgograd.com More updated Fans' website]
* [http://www.rotor-volgograd.com/rotor/history/eng/ ROTOR History on fan site]