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2009 Russian First Division
The Russian First Division 2009 was the 18th season of Russia's second-tier football league since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The season began on 28 March 2009 and ended on 4 November 2009. Teams The league has been reduced from 22 to 20 teams. It features eleven clubs from Russian First Division 2008, two clubs relegated from Russian Premier League 2008, five zone winners from Russian Second Division 2008 and two of the third-placed clubs from Russian Second Division 2008. Movement between Premier League and First Division FC Rostov as 2008 champions and Kuban Krasnodar as runners-up have been promoted to the Premier League. They will be replaced by relegated teams Shinnik Yaroslavl and Luch-Energia Vladivostok. Movement between First Division and Second Division Due to the league contraction, seven instead of the regular five teams were relegated to their respective Second Division group. These teams, ranked 16th through 22nd in 2008, were Metallurg-Kuzbass Nov ...
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Russian First Division
The Russian First League (russian: Первая лига, Pervaya liga), formerly called Russian First Division (russian: Первый дивизион) and Russian Football National League (FNL) (russian: Первенство Футбольной Национальной Лиги, Pervenstvo Futbol'noy Natsional'noy Ligi) is the second level of the Russian football league system. The Russian Professional Football League (PFL) used to run the division. Since 2011, it has been managed by the Football National League. The league consists of 18 clubs. After each season the two top clubs are promoted to the Premier League, and the bottom four clubs are relegated to the Russian Professional Football League. Third and fourth team play in home-and-away promotion play-offs against the 13th and 14th Premier League teams. In case one or more clubs are not licensed to participate for the upcoming season, the teams previously relegated are kept in the league instead, in the order of las ...
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FC Mashuk-KMV Pyatigorsk
FC Mashuk-KMV Pyatigorsk (russian: Кавминводский Фонд ФК «Машук-КМВ») is a Russian football club based in Pyatigorsk. The club plays in the FNL 2. History The history of Mashuk-KMV dates back to the 1920s and the team named Dynamo. The team was known under different names: *Dynamo until 1965 *Mashinostroitel in 1966–1967 *Mashuk in 1968–1993 and 1998–2002 *Energia in 1994–1997 *Mashuk-KMV since 2003 Dynamo played in the Soviet League in its first year in 1936, but would not participate in the national competition again until 1966, when the team was renamed Mashinostroitel. After three seasons the team won promotion to the Class A, Group 2. However, Mashuk were not very successful at that level and played in the Second League from the reform of Soviet football in 1971 to 1990, when they were relegated to the Second League B. After the dissolution of USSR Mashuk played in the Russian Second League in 1992–1993 and in 1995–1997. In 1996 ...
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FC Torpedo Vladimir
Football Club Torpedo Vladimir (russian: Футбольный клуб "Торпедо" Владимир) is a Russian football (soccer), football club from Vladimir, Russia, Vladimir, founded in 1959. In 2011, they played in the Russian First Division after winning their zone of the Russian Second Division in 2010. The club has been called Trud (1959), Traktor (1960–1968) and Motor (1969–1972). Their best historical result was 6th place in the Russian First Division in 1993. They played on the second-highest level (Soviet First League and Russian First Division from 1960 to 1963, 1992 to 1994 and again from 2011). History The football team of masters in Vladimir was organized in 1959 on the initiative of the regional committee of the Communist Party and the leadership of the local tractor plant. The first success for Vladimir football players came in 1966, when FC Traktor took first place in the zonal tournament and second in the semi-finals. In the next decade, the team twi ...
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FC Bataysk-2007
FC Bataysk-2007 (russian: ФК Батайск-2007) was a Russian association football club from Bataysk, founded in 1998 and playing on the professional level since 2007 until 2010. On July 31, 2010 it dropped out from the Russian Second Division The Russian Second League (russian: Первенство России II дивизиона ФНЛ), formerly Russian Professional Football League is the third level of Russian professional football. History In 1998–2010, it was run by the Pr ... due to lack of finances. From 1998 to 2006 it was called FC Bataysk. External linksOfficial website {{DEFAULTSORT:Bataysk-2007, FC Association football clubs established in 1998 Association football clubs disestablished in 2010 Defunct football clubs in Russia Sport in Rostov Oblast 1998 establishments in Russia 2010 disestablishments in Russia ...
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FC SKA Rostov-on-Don
FC SKA Rostov-on-Don (russian: ФК СКА Ростов-на-Дону) is a Russian association football club based in Rostov-on-Don. The club's history includes becoming runners-up of the Soviet Top League in 1966 and winning the Soviet Cup in 1981. History The club was founded on 27 August 1937 and was known as ''RODKA'' (1937–1953), ''ODO'' (1954–1956) and ''SKVO'' (1957–1959 and 2013–2015). The team was given its most familiar name back in March 2015. SKVO entered the Class B of the Soviet league in 1958. Prior to that, the team only played in regional tournaments. SKVO became the champions of Class B in 1958 and were promoted to Class A. They stayed at the top level of Soviet football until 1973, winning silver medals in 1966 and finishing fourth in 1959, 1960, 1963, and 1964. In the 1970s and 1980s SKA moved between Top and First leagues several times. After relegation 1973, they played in the First League in 1974, 1976–1978, 1982–1983, and 1986–1989, and ...
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Sport-Express
''Sport-Express'' (russian: Спорт-Экспресс) is a Russian daily sports newspaper founded by Vladimir Kuchmiy. Printed in 31 cities of Russia, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and the United States, it is the biggest-selling sports newspaper in Russia, with the daily audience of over 700,000 people. ''Sport-Express'' was founded in 1991. It is a part of European Sports Media. Notable journalists * Vsevolod Kukushkin, ice hockey and sports correspondent (22 years) * Elena Vaytsekhovskaya, sports correspondent (26 years) * Aksel Vartanyan, sports historian * Vladimir Kuchmiy, founder and chief editor (18 years) * Igor Rabiner, football reviewer and sports correspondent (1994-2012, since 2014) * Alexey Popov, Formula One correspondent See also *List of non-English newspapers with English language subsections *Sovetsky Sport , logo = SovSport.png , image = Sovetskiy Sport nameplate May 19 1988.png , caption = ''Soviet ...
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FC Sportakademklub Moscow
FC Sportakademklub Moscow (russian: ФК «Спортакадемклуб») is a Russian professional association football club, based in Moscow. Despite finishing outside the Russian First Division relegation zone in 2008 (the only season the team spent in the second-tier competition), the club could not afford to participate in the 2009 season in the division and volunteered to get relegated to the Russian Second Division for 2009 season. In 2010 season they were relegated from the Russian Second Division to the amateur fourth-tier Amateur Football League. Before 1997 the team was called FC Mashinostroitel and represented Sergiyev Posad. It played professionally overall from 1994 to 2010. See also * Higher School of Coaches (Moscow) Higher School of Coaches (russian: Высшая школа тренеров, ВШТ, Vysshaya shkola trenerov) is a professional school which specializes in sports education. It was first created as part of the Soviet sports education system in ...
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FC Chita
FC Chita is a Russian association football club based in Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai, Chita. The club was founded in 1984 as a result of reorganization of FC Lokomotiv Chita which was excluded from the Russian First Division, First Division. FC Chita was immediately admitted to the Second Division. Colours (Home) all red. (Away) all black. History Before 1974 Chita was first represented in the Soviet league in 1937, when DKA played in Group D. After one more occasional appearance in 1946 (by Dynamo), the city was represented in the league since 1957. Many different names were used for the Chita team: *''DKA'' before 1945 *''Dynamo'' in 1946–1956 *''OSK'' in 1957 *''SKVO'' in 1957–1959 *''SKA'' in 1960 and 1967–1973 *''Zabaykalets'' in 1961–1966 The best league result was SKA's victory in zone 6 in 1967 and their 7th position in subsequent Class B final tournament. Lokomotiv In 1974 FC Lokomotiv Chita was founded. Sources disagree on whether Lokomotiv is a continuation of ...
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FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod
FC may refer to: Businesses, organisations, and schools * Fergusson College, a science and arts college in Pune, India * Finncomm Airlines (IATA code) * FranklinCovey company, NYSE stock symbol FC * Frontier Corps, a paramilitary force in Pakistan Science and technology Computing * fc (Unix), computer program that relists commands * FC connector, a type of optical-fiber connector * Flash controller * Family Computer, Japanese version of the Nintendo Entertainment System game console * Fibre Channel, a serial computer bus * Microsoft File Compare program * fc a casefolding feature in perl Vehicles * Fairchild FC, 1920s and 1930s aircraft * Holden FC, a motor vehicle * A second generation Mazda RX-7 car * Fully cellular, a type of container ship Medicine A two-in-one vaccine against the flu and common cold. Other sciences * Female condom (FC1, FC2), a contraceptive * Foot-candle (symbol fc or ft-c), a unit of illumination * Formal charge, a Lewis structure concept in chemist ...
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FC Volgar-Gazprom Astrakhan
Volgar FC (russian: Футбольный Клуб "Волгарь") is an association football club based in Astrakhan, Russia. They play in the Russian First League. History The club has been known under following names: *''Pishchevik'' (food industry worker) (1925−1958) *''Trud'' (labour) (1958–59) *''Volgar'' (1960–94) (2012–) *''Volgar-Gazprom'' (1995–2007), (2010–2012) *''Volgar-Gazprom-2'' (2007–10) Pishchevik played in the Second Group of the Soviet League. Trud (and later Volgar) played in the Class B (1958, 1960–1967), in Class A, Group 2 (1968–1969), in Class A, Group 1 (1970), Soviet First League (1971), Soviet Second League (1972–1990), Soviet Second League B (1991). In 1992 Volgar entered the Russian Second League, played in the Third League in 1994 (finished top and were promoted), returned to the Second League in 1995 and stayed until 1998. In 1998 Volgar-Gazprom were promoted and in 1999 they started playing in the Russian First Division. With t ...
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FC Metallurg Lipetsk
FC Metallurg Lipetsk (russian: Футбольный клуб «Металлург» Липецк) is an association football club in Lipetsk, Russia, formed in 1957. Their home, Metallurg Stadium, is located on Pervomayskaya Street, 59, in Lipetsk. History Their best result came in 1997 when they came 2nd in the Russian First Division. Coach Stanislav Bernikov of Metallurg was attacked by fans after a defeat on 25 September 2006 on his players, they shot at the coach and team with rubber bullets. Three players suffered with injuries and went to hospital; the coach Bernikov was then summarily dismissed. In 2008, they won the Russian Second Division in the Center Zone and were promoted for 2009 Russian First Division but relegated again to third level after finishing First Division as 19th. On 10 June 2021, they secured first place in their PFL group and promotion to the second-tier Russian Football National League for the 2021–22 season, for the first time since 2009. The club ...
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FC MVD Rossii Moscow
FC MVD Rossii (russian: ФК МВД России Москва) is a Russian football club from Moscow, founded in 2007. It represents the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. Historically the ministry was represented by FC Dynamo Moscow, but Dynamo is now not directly dependent on MVD. Still, several players on the 2008 FC MVD roster played for Dynamo or its youth teams in the past. In 2008, FC MVD won the West zone of the Russian Second Division and advanced to the Russian First Division. On July 17, 2009, the team resigned from the Russian First Division (due to financial strait) after playing 19 games. In 2007 the team was called FC MUVD na VVT Moscow. Among the club's head coaches were Yuri Kovtun (2008-2009) and Vladimir Eshtrekov (2009). Notable players Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for MVD Rossii. ;USSR/Russia * Lyubomir Kantonistov * Aleksandr Shirko ;Former USS ...
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