- FC Khimki
Football club infobox
clubname = Khimki
fullname = Football Club Khimki
nickname =
founded = 1997
ground =Arena-Khimki ,Khimki
capacity = 18,000
chairman = Boris Khalfin
manager = flagicon|RUSSergei Yuran
league =Russian Premier League
season = 2007
position = RPL, 9
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leftarm2=FFFF00|body2=FFFF00|rightarm2=FFFF00|shorts2=000000|socks2=FFFF00FC Khimki ( _ru. ФК Химки) is a
Russia nfootball club based inKhimki .History
The team was formed in 1996 by merging two amateur clubs from
Khimki , Rodina and Novator. Khimki entered the amateur league and played their first official match on17 May 1996 . Of more than 150 amateur teams in the competition, only champions would be promoted to the Third League. Khimki won the tournament, overcoming Energia Ulyanovsk in the final match in a penalty shootout.On
30 January 1997 Khimki became a professional football club. In the Third League regional tournament, Khimki finished second and were promoted to the Second League.Khimki were promoted to the First Division after the 2000 season. They finished first in the "Centre" zone of the Second Division, but lost the promotion play-off to Severstal Cherepovets on away goals. After Severstal refused to play in the First Division, their place was given to Khimki.
In 2005 Khimki had a very good run in the
Russian Cup , reaching the final. They lost the final match 0–1 to CSKA.Current squad
As of
August 31 ,2008 , according to the [http://www.rfpl.org/clubs.shtml?team=86&act=squad&year=2008 Official Russian Premier League Site] .Notable former players
;Russia and former USSR countries
*Vladimir Beschastnykh
*Yuri Drozdov
*Andrei Kondrashov
*Pavel Pogrebnyak
*Roman Shirokov
*Andrei Tikhonov
*Roman Vorobyov
*Renat Yanbayev
*Timofei Kalachev
*Gogita Gogua
*Giorgi Lomaia
*Dmitriy Lyapkin
*Dmytro Parfenov ;Europe
*Ajdin Maksumić
*Mate Dragičević
*Nikola Mijailović
*Dragan Mrđa Managers
Notes
# Player has dual citizenship (Russian being the second one)
# Player has dual citizenship (Croatian being the second one)External links
* [http://www.fckhimki.ru Official website] ru icon
* [http://www.klisf.info/numeric/index.app?cmd=comm&lang=en&id=053084245657544662100077799237 History] at "KLISF"
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