FC Khimik-Arsenal (russian: «Химик-Арсенал») is a Russian
football team from
Novomoskovsk. It played professionally from 1954 to 1979, from 1993 to 2007 and again from the 2017–18 season to 2020–21. They played on the second-highest level in the
Soviet First League
The Soviet First League in football (russian: Первая лига СССР по футболу) was the second highest division of Soviet football,Evgeni Kazakov. The Soviet First Football League (Первая лига СССР по футбо ...
from 1954 to 1979, where their best result was 2nd place in Zone 1 in 1970. They were a farm-club for
FC Arsenal Tula
FC Arsenal Tula (russian: ФК Арсенал Тула) is a Russian professional football club from Tula playing in the second-tier Russian First League.
Originally founded in 1923, FC Arsenal Tula was promoted to the Russian Premier League i ...
. For the 2021–22 season, Arsenal registered
FC Arsenal-2 Tula
FC Arsenal-2 Tula (russian: ФК «Арсенал-2» Тула) is a Russian football team from Tula, founded in 2012. Beginning in the 2014–15 season, it started playing in the Russian Professional Football League (third level). It is a farm ...
for the third tier as their farm club.
Team name history
* 1954–1955: FC Shakhtyor Stalinogorsk (Novomoskovsk was called Stalinogorsk at the time)
* 1956–1957: FC Shakhtyor Mosbass (Mosbass was a regional subdivision of
Moscow Oblast that Stalinogorsk was a capital of at the time)
* 1958: FC Trud Stalinogorsk
* 1959–1960: FC Shakhtyor Stalinogorsk
* 1961–1992: FC Khimik Novomoskovsk
* 1993–2009: FC Don Novomoskovsk
* 2010–2019: FC Khimik Novomoskovsk
* 2019–p.d: FC Khimik-Arsenal
References
External links
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Official website
Association football clubs established in 1954
Football clubs in Russia
Sport in Tula Oblast
1954 establishments in Russia
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