FC Torpedo-ZIL

Infobox Football club
clubname = Torpedo-ZIL


fullname = Football Club Torpedo-ZIL
nickname = "Avtozavodtsy" (Automobile plant workers)
founded = 1997
dissolved = 2004
ground = Eduard Streltsov Stadium, Moscow
capacity = 13,200
league = Russian Premier League
season = 2002
position = 14th
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"This article refers to the Torpedo-ZIL which existed from 1997 to 2003 and was known as Torpedo-Metallurg during its final season. For the successors in the Russian Premier League, see FC Moscow. For the successors from the viewpoint of belonging to ZIL, see FC Torpedo-RG."

FC Torpedo-ZIL (Russian: Футбольный клуб Торпедо-ЗИЛ) was a Russian football club from Moscow.

History

The team was founded in 1997 after Torpedo Moscow, which played in the Russian Top Division, became a property of SC Luzhniki and was not related to the automobile plant anymore. Soon afterwards ZIL decided to revive their own team.

Torpedo-ZIL made a debut in the Third Division in 1997. The club won promotion to the Premier League in 2000. In both 2001 and 2002, Torpedo-ZIL finished 14th out of 16 teams. In the beginning of 2003, due to inability to finance a Premier League team, ZIL had to sell first 55 percent [http://www.sport-express.ru/art.shtml?62789] , and two months later all remaining stock to Norilsk Nickel [http://www.sport-express.ru/art.shtml?65901] . Metallurgy giant renamed the team "FC Torpedo-Metallurg". At the same time, ZIL created another team in the Third Division which is now known as Torpedo-RG.

External links

* [http://fc-torpedo.atspace.com/history/nostalgi.html Torpedo. Nostalgia and reality]