FC Irkutsk (russian: ФК «Иркутск») is a Russian
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
club based in
Irkutsk
Irkutsk ( ; rus, Иркутск, p=ɪrˈkutsk; Buryat language, Buryat and mn, Эрхүү, ''Erhüü'', ) is the largest city and administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. With a population of 617,473 as of the 2010 Census, Irkutsk is ...
.
It started playing on the amateur level in 2019.
For the 2023–24 season, the club was admitted to the newly organized fourth-tier
Russian Second League
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 P ...
Division B.
The city was previously represented in national professional competitions by
FC Zvezda Irkutsk
FC Zvezda Irkutsk (russian: ФК Звезда Иркутск) was a Russian football club based in Irkutsk. Zvezda finished first in the Russian Second Division East in 2006, winning promotion to the Russian First Division. The club previously pl ...
(1957–2008),
FC Baikal Irkutsk
FC Baikal Irkutsk (russian: ФК Байкал Иркутск) was a Russian football team from Irkutsk, founded in 2009. It was relegated from the second-tier FNL back to PFL at the end of the 2015–16 season, but it did not receive a profes ...
(2010–2016) and
FC Zenit Irkutsk (2016–2021).
Current squad
As of 11 April 2024, according to th
Second League Division B website
References
Association football clubs established in 2019
Football clubs in Russia
Sport in Irkutsk
2019 establishments in Russia
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