FC Energetik is a Turkmen professional

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club based in the Türkmenbaşy village,

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. Founded in 2015, the club played its first-ever top flight season in

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. The club finished in third position in

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

, their highest achievement.

Name history

*2010 : Founded as ''Kuwwat'' *2014 : Renamed ''Mary GES'' *2015 : Renamed ''Energetik''

History

The team was established in 2010 as FC Kuwwat. In 2010–2014 they played among the amateur teams in the first division of Turkmenistan under coach Arseniý Ýüzbaşýan. In 2014 the team won the Turkmenistan First League, and won the right to participate in the

Ýokary Liga The Turkmenistan Higher League, also called Türkmenistan Ýokary Liga ( Turkmen: ''Ýokary liga futbol klublarynyň arasyndaky futbol boýunça Türkmenistanyň çempionaty''), is the top division of professional football in Turkmenistan, operat ...

. In 2015 the club changed its name to FC Energetik and became professional. With the new season the club was headed by

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, who was helped in his work with the team by Aleksandr Klimenko and Dmitriý Hasanow. Their debut game in the

2015 Ýokary Liga 2015 Ýokary Liga season was the 23rd edition of the top tier professional Yokary Liga football annual competition in Turkmenistan administered by the Football Federation of Turkmenistan. It began on 5 March 2015 with the first round and ended in ...

was held on 6 March 2015 where FC Energetik was defeated by

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(0:6).

Manager history

Honours

Domestic

** Third place (2): 2016, 2018 *

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** Runners-up (1): 2018

References

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