FC Khimki

Khimki

Full name	Football Club Khimki
Founded	1997
Ground	Arena-Khimki, Khimki
Capacity	18,000
Chairman	Boris Khalfin
Manager	Sergei Yuran
League	Russian Premier League
2008	RPL, 14th
Home colours Away colours

FC Khimki (Template:Lang-ru) is a Russian football club based in Khimki.

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 on 17 May 1996.

FC Khimki in alternative third kit in 2008

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 Official Russian Premier League Site.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
2	DF	ROU	Florin Costin Şoava
4	DF	MDA	Victor Golovatenco
5	MF	UKR	Serhiy Pilipchuk
6	DF	BIH	Vule Trivunović
8	MF	RUS	Artyom Pershin
10	MF	SVN	Nastja Čeh
11	FW	SVK	Martin Jakubko
12	FW	RUS	Vladislav Nikiforov
14	DF	EST	Andrei Stepanov
15	DF	LTU	Mantas Samusiovas
16	GK	RUS	Vladimir Suleimanov
18	DF	SRB	Miodrag Jovanović
19	FW	BIH	Dragan Blatnjak2
20	FW	RUS	Aleksandr Antipenko

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
21	GK	ARM	Roman Berezovsky1 (C)
23	MF	NGA	Richard Eromoigbe
26	DF	BLR	Artem Radkov
27	FW	TKM	Wladimir Baýramow
30	GK	RUS	Andrei Chichkin
31	MF	RUS	Eldar Nizamutdinov
33	MF	MDA	Radu Rebeja
55	MF	RUS	Oleg Dineyev
77	DF	RUS	Renat Sabitov
79	DF	BRA	Gabriel
81	DF	BRA	Danielson
90	MF	RUS	Yegor Titov
97	DF	RUS	Aleksei Bugaev
99	DF	RUS	Fyodor Kudryashov

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

Vladimir Shtapov (1996–1997) Igor Bychkov (1997, interim) Ravil Sabitov (1997–1999, 2001–2002) Alexandr Piskarev (2000) Viktor Papayev (2000) Aleksey Petrushin (2001) Sergey Derkach (2002–2003)

Dmitry Galyamin (2003) Vasily Kulkov (2004) Vladimir Shevchuk (2004) Pavel Yakovenko (2004–2005) Vladimir Kazachyonok (2006-2007) Slavoljub Muslin (2007-2008) Sergei Yuran (2008- )

Notes

1. Player has dual citizenship (Russian being the second one)
2. Player has dual citizenship (Croatian being the second one)

External links

• Official website Template:Ru icon
• History at KLISF