FC Mordovia Saransk

FC Mordovia

Full name	Football Club Mordovia Saransk
Founded	1961
Ground	Start Stadium (Capacity: 7,486)
Chairman	Nikolay Levin
Manager	Fyodor Shcherbachenko
League	Russian First Division
2010	6th
Home colours Away colours

FC Mordovia Saransk (Russian: ФК Мордовия Саранск) is a Russian association football club from Saransk, Republic of Mordovia. In its current state it was formed in 2005, through the merger of Biokhimik-Mordovia and Lisma-Mordovia.

In 2010, the club won promotion to the Russian First Division.

Team name history

• Stroitel Saransk (1961)
• Spartak Saransk (1962-71)
• Elektrosvet Saransk (1972-79)
• Svetotekhnika Saransk (1980-02)
• Lisma-Mordovia Saransk (2003-04)
• Mordovia Saransk (2005-) (merged with Biokhimik-Mordovia).

Current squad

As of August 31, 2011, according to the official FNL 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 2 DF Maksim Budnikov 3 DF Aleksei Muldarov (captain) 4 MF Yuri Kuleshov 5 MF Vladimir Barmin 7 MF Elbrus Tandelov 8 FW Kirill Panchenko 9 MF Rustem Mukhametshin 10 MF Denis Sobolev 11 MF Maksim Rogov 13 FW Mikhail Markin 14 MF Gerson Acevedo 15 DF Georgi Mikadze 16 GK Aleksandr Agapov 17 DF Konstantin Zaytsev

No. Position Player 18 DF Pavlo Stepanets 19 DF Yevgeni Osipov 23 FW Ruslan Mukhametshin 24 MF Andrei Pazin 26 FW Maksim Zhestkov 27 MF Anton Sobolev 30 FW Alexey Shebanov 32 MF Andrei Gorbanets (on loan from Krasnodar) 33 GK Denis Shebanov 35 MF Aleksandr Dutov 64 FW Vladimir Sandrkin 77 FW Anatoli Gerk 87 DF Aleksandar Simčević

Notable players

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

Europe Borut Semler Africa Elysée Irié Bi Séhi

External links

• Official website (Russian)
• Fans website