FC Rubin Kazan

Football club infobox
clubname = Rubin


fullname = Football Club Rubin Kazan
nickname = -
founded = 1958
ground = Central Stadium, Kazan
capacity = 30,133
chairman = Alexandr Gusev
manager = flagicon|TKM Kurban Berdyev
league = Russian Premier League
season = 2007
position = RPL, 10th
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FC Rubin Kazan ( _ru. Футбольный клуб Рубин Казань), is a Russian football club, based in the city of Kazan (Tatarstan republic).

Rubin never played in the Soviet Top League. They advanced to the Russian Premier League in 2003, and came third in the league in their debut year, qualifying for the UEFA Cup. Their 2004 campaign was less successful, they came 10th. In 2005 they were competing for UEFA Cup zone again, finished 4th.

Rubin had a successful start in the 2008 season, having performed 7 consecutive wins, including the one in the game with defending champions Zenit Saint Petersburg and thus beating the previous record of 6 wins held by FC Dynamo Moscow. The winning streak ended in the 8th leg when Rubin was beaten 0:3 by FC Spartak Moscow after which the team lost form and won very little games in the next few matches but picked up momentum in the second half of the season and is currently in first place significantly ahead of any other team by points.

The team was also previously called "Iskra" (1958-1964), "Rubin-TAN" (1992-1993).

Current squad

As of August 31, 2008, according to the [http://www.rfpl.org/clubs.shtml?team=4&act=squad Official Russian Premier League] .

Reserve team

* 48 MF Vadim Afonin
* 49 MF Vagiz Galiullin
* 56 FW Ruslan Nagayev
* 64 GK Dmitri Kortnev
* 65 DF Maksim Zhestokov
* 67 FW Davron Mirzayev
* 68 FW Ilya Kukharchuk
* 80 DF Dmitri Tarabrikov
* 81 FW Ildar Bikchantayev
* 82 DF Mikhail Mishchenko
* 83 MF Vladimir Chernov
* 92 FW Vakhyt Orazsakhedov
* 93 MF Shamil Alimagomayev
* 94 MF Artyom Ivanov
* 95 MF Valeri Zimakov
* 97 FW Igor Portnyagin

Transfers in 2007/2008

*Fs player|no=--|pos=DF|nat=GEO|name=Dato Kvirkvelia|other=from FC Metalurh Zaporizhya
*Fs player|no=--|pos=MF|nat=TUR|name=Gökdeniz Karadeniz|other=from Trabzonspor for 8.7 mio. €

Honors

*La Manga Cup: 2::2005, 2006

Notable past players

;Russia & Former USSR Countries
* Jambulad Bazayev
* Denis Boyarintsev
* Valeri Chizhov
* Lenar Gilmullin
* Peter Gitselov
* Valeri Klimov
* Aleksei Rebko
* Dmitri Sennikov
* Roman Sharonov
* Roman Shirokov
* Igor Simutenkov
* Dmitri Vasilyev
* Mikheil Ashvetia
* David Chaladze
* Georgi Kinkladze
* Levan Silagadze
* Vitālijs Astafjevs
* Aleksandrs Koļinko
* Mihails Ziziļevs
* Mindaugas Kalonas
* Alexandru Gatcan
* Vladimir Bairamov
* Pavel Kharchik
* flagicon|Russia Aleksei Bakharev

;Europe
* Cédric Roussel
* Jiří Novotný
* Adam Petrouš
* Jørgen Jalland
* Fábio Felício
* Veljko Paunović
* Branimir Petrović
* Gökdeniz Karadeniz

;Africa
* Ebou Sillah
* Abdelkarim Kissi
* Selim Ben Achour

;South America and the Caribbean
* Alejandro Domínguez
* Walter García
* Aloísio
* Baiano
* Calisto
* Gabriel
* Jaílson
* Carlos Castro Mora
* Damani Ralph
* Andrés Scotti

;Asia
* Kim Dong Hyun

External links

* [http://www.eng.rubin-kazan.ru/ Club's web site]
* [http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20367694660 Facebook group]