FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod

FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod (Template:Langx) was a Russian football club from Nizhny Novgorod, founded in 1998. In 2008, FC Volga won the Ural-Povolzhye (Volga Region in Russian) zone of the Russian Second Division and advanced to the Russian First Division. In 2010 they promoted to the Russian Premier League. After the 2013–14 season, they were relegated to the second level once more. On 15 June 2016, the club was dissolved due to inability to service the accumulated debts.

History

The team was founded in 1963 after a merger of two teams from Gorky – Torpedo and Raketa. The team played in the Soviet Top League, where its best result was 14th place in 1964. The team was disbanded in 1984. In 1998, a new club called FC Elektronika Nizhny Novgorod was founded. It played in Russian Second Division. In 2004 it was renamed to Volga.

FC Torpedo-Viktoriya Nizhny Novgorod was another squad to claim the legacy of FC Volga Gorky.

In the 2015–16 season, Volga registered a reserve team FC Volga-Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod that entered the third-tier PFL. After Volga itself was dissolved, Volga-Olimpiyets became independent was renamed to FC Olimpiyets. It eventually was promoted to the Russian Premier League under the name FC Nizhny Novgorod and is called, as of 2023, FC Pari Nizhny Novgorod.

League history

Russia

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Cup	Europe		Top Scorer (League)
1999	KFK(4th), "Povolzhye"	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-
2000		3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-
2001	3rd, "Ural-Povolzhye"	9	34	13	10	11	54	43	49	-	-		Template:Flagicon Kuznetsov – 12
2002		6	30	12	8	10	40	38	44	R256	-		Template:Flagicon Andrei Podolyanchik – 9
2003		14	38	11	5	22	41	62	38	R256	-		Template:Flagicon Andrei Podolyanchik – 14
2004		12	36	12	9	15	41	46	45	R512	-		Template:Flagicon Georgiev – 9
2005		6	36	15	12	9	44	30	57	R256	-		Template:Flagicon Udodov – 7
2006		7	24	10	8	6	31	23	38	R512	-		Template:Flagicon Loginov – 5
2007		4	26	15	5	6	52	30	50	R256	-		Template:Flagicon Kaynov – 11
2008		1	34	23	9	2	73	23	78	R512	-		Template:Flagicon Prokofyev – 17
2009	2nd	4	38	17	14	7	54	32	65	R16	-		Template:Flagicon Khazov – 10
2010		2	38	19	14	5	62	25	71	R64	-		Template:Flagicon Martsvaladze – 21
2011–12	1st	14	44	12	5	27	37	60	41	SF	-		Template:Flagicon Bibilov – 7
2012–13		12	30	7	8	15	28	46	29	R32	-		Template:Flagicon Sapogov – 9
2013–14		15	30	6	3	21	22	65	21	R32	-		Template:Flagicon Sarkisov, Template:Flagicon Bibilov – 3
2014–15	2nd	13	34	12	4	18	44	57	40	R64	-		Template:Flagicon Sarkisov – 12
2015–16		10	38	14	9	15	39	37	51	R32	-

Farm club

No farm club

Notable players

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

Russia

• Template:Flagicon Evgeni Aldonin
• Template:Flagicon Dmitri Bulykin
• Template:Flagicon Taras Burlak
• Template:Flagicon Andrei Karyaka
• Template:Flagicon Denis Kolodin
• Ilya Maksimov
• Template:Flagicon Dmitri Sychev
• Template:Flagicon Andrey Yeshchenko

Europe

Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Template:Flagicon Petar Jelić
• Template:Flagicon Mersudin Ahmetović

Israel

• Template:Flagicon Dani Bondar

Netherlands

• Template:Flagicon Romeo Castelen

Poland

• Template:Flagicon Marcin Kowalczyk
• Template:Flagicon Piotr Polczak

Romania

• Template:Flagicon Mihăiţă Pleşan
• Template:Flagicon Adrian Ropotan

South & Central America

Jamaica

• Template:Flagicon Luton Shelton

Former USSR countries

• Template:Flagicon Artur Sarkisov
• Template:Flagicon Vagif Javadov
• Template:Flagicon Anton Putsila
• Template:Flagicon Igor Stasevich
• Template:Flagicon Gogita Gogua
• Template:Flagicon Gia Grigalava
• Template:Flagicon Gocha Khojava
• Template:Flagicon Otar Martsvaladze
• Template:Flagicon Giorgi Navalovski
• Template:Flagicon Edik Sadzhaya
• Template:Flagicon Lasha Salukvadze
• Template:Flagicon Mate Vatsadze
• Template:Flagicon Valerii Kichin
• Template:Flagicon Vitalie Bordian
• Template:Flagicon Simeon Bulgaru
• Template:Flagicon Rustam Yatimov
• Template:Flagicon Sanzhar Tursunov

Managers

• Template:Flagicon Sergey Frantsev (2005)
• Template:Flagicon Sergei Petrenko (7 Dec 2007 – 5 June 2009)
• Template:Flagicon Sergei Perednya (interim) (5 June 2009 – 31 Dec 2009)
• Template:Flagicon Khazret Dyshekov (20 July 2009–09)
• Template:Flagicon Aleksandr Pobegalov (1 Jan 2010 – 7 May 2010)
• Template:Flagicon Omari Tetradze (8 May 2010 – 15 June 2011)
• Template:Flagicon Dmitri Cheryshev (16 June 2011 – 30 June 2012)
• Template:Flagicon Gadzhi Gadzhiev (1 July 2012 – 26 Dec 2012)
• Template:Flagicon Yuriy Kalitvintsev (19 Jan 2013 – 27 March 2014)
• Template:Flagicon Andrei Talalayev (29 March 2014 – 15 June 2016)

External links

• Official website (archived 24 March 2010)