FC Volga Ulyanovsk

Volga

Full name	Football Club Volga Ulyanovsk
Founded	1947
Ground	Trud (Capacity: 10,000)
Chairman	[Dmitry Ryabov
Manager	Armen Adamyan
League	Russian Second Division, Zone Ural-Povolzhye
2010	11th
Home colours Away colours

FC Volga Ulyanovsk (Russian: ФК «Во́лга» Улья́новск) is professional association football club based in Ulyanovsk, Russia. In 2008, they were relegated to the Russian Second Division 2009 after they finished 17th in Russian First Division. In December 2008, Volga signed a partnership agreement with Floriana FC of Malta, the most successful club in Maltese football.

Their reserve team FC Volga-d Ulyanovsk used to play professionally as FC Energiya Ulyanovsk.

Club name and location history

• 1947–1957: FC Torpedo Ulyanovsk
• 1958: FC Dynamo Ulyanovsk
• 1959–1961: FC Spartak Ulyanovsk
• 1961–1985: FC Volga Ulyanovsk
• 1986–1991: FC Start Ulyanovsk
• 1992–1995: FC Tekstilshchik Isheyevka
• 1996–2005: FC Volga Ulyanovsk
• 2006: FC Volga-Energiya Ulyanovsk (the reserves team currently known as FC Volga-d Ulyanovsk played as FC Volga-Energiya Ulyanovsk in the Amateur Football League in 2007)
• 2007–present: FC Volga Ulyanovsk

Current squad

As of August 22, 2011, according to the official RFU 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 1 GK Renat Sokolov 2 DF Andrei Zlydarev 3 DF Aleksei Tsygantsov 5 DF Ildar Vagapov 7 MF Andrei Pavlenko 8 MF Mikhail Mustafin 9 MF Mikhail Kuzmin 10 MF Maksim Samoylov 11 FW Ivan Luzhnikov 15 MF Marat Safin 17 FW Sergei Yevin 19 FW Anton Bobylev 20 DF Ilya Deriglazov

No. Position Player 21 DF Aleksei Zhuravlyov 22 DF Ilnur Mukhametdinov 23 GK Vladimir Peshkin 24 MF Nikita Telenkov 30 DF Maksim Mineyev 33 DF Maksim Igoshin 44 GK Pavel Nefyodov 63 FW Valeri Lobanovskiy 71 MF Sergei Simonov 88 MF Rustam Kurbanadamov 99 MF Denis Merte MF Konstantin Sovetkin

2011 transfers

In

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 FW Anton Bobylev (from FC SOYUZ-Gazprom Izhevsk) MF Aleksei Churavtsev (from FC Sokol Saratov) DF Ilya Deriglazov (from FC Metallurg-Yenisey Krasnoyarsk) DF Maksim Igoshin (from FC Metallurg-Yenisey Krasnoyarsk) MF Mikhail Kuzmin FW Valeri Lobanovskiy FW Ivan Luzhnikov MF Andrei Pavlenko (from FC Tyumen)

No. Position Player GK Vladimir Peshkin (from FC Metallurg Lipetsk) MF Maksim Samoylov (from FC Chelyabinsk) DF Sergei Shustikov (from FC Rostov) MF Sergei Simonov (from FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk) GK Renat Sokolov (from FC SKA-Energiya Khabarovsk) MF Konstantin Sovetkin (on loan from FC Spartak Moscow) FW Mikhail Surshkov (from FC Dynamo Barnaul) DF Aleksei Zhuravlyov (from FC Metallurg Lipetsk)

Out

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 DF Rinat Aitov MF Roman Baskov (to FC Energiya Volzhsky) MF Aleksei Churavtsev (to FC Kaluga) GK Nikolai Dementyev DF Roman Dyachenko FW Sergei Dzodziyev (to FC KUZBASS Kemerovo) FW Sergei Guk (to FC Khimik Dzerzhinsk) MF Yevgeni Korotayev (to FC Zenit-Izhevsk Izhevsk) DF Aleksandr Kuzminykh

No. Position Player MF Konstantin Lozbinev (to FC Dynamo Vologda) FW Vyacheslav Pribylov GK Dmitri Ryabov (to FC Amur-2010 Blagoveshchensk) FW Kirill Seleznev MF Ruslan Shaydullin (to FC Spartak Kostroma) MF Aleksandr Shishkin DF Sergei Shustikov FW Mikhail Surshkov

External links

• Official website (Russian)