FC Olimpia Volgograd (russian: «Олимпия» (Волгоград)) is a Russian

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team from the large city of

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. They are the second- or third-largest club in the city after the famous

Rotor Volgograd SC Rotor Volgograd (russian: СK Ротор) is a Russian professional football club from the large city of Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast (formerly Stalingrad). The club will play in the third-tier Russian Football National League 2 in the 2022– ...

History

From their founding in 1989 until 1997, the club participated in various youth leagues. Some time between 1993 and 1994 the Volgograd native Leonid Slutsky, future coach of the Russian national team, joined the training staff. Among the Olimpia youth players developed under Slutsky were

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, Andrei Bochkov,

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and Aleksei Zhdanov, all of whom went on to play in the

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. As this group of players graduated from the youth team, they and Olimpia joined first the senior

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in 1998 and, after winning the South Zone in 1999, the professional

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. Slutsky stayed with the club until 2001 when he left for Uralan Elista. The squad he left at Olimpia narrowly missed promotion to the second tier three times, with successive 3rd, 3rd and 2nd-place finishes in their zone. Olimpia continued to play professionally until 2008, though their fortunes faded after Slutsky's players left. Before the 2009 season their professional license was taken over by the new club

FC Volgograd FC Volgograd (russian: ФК Волгоград) is a former Russian football club from Volgograd, founded in late 2008, later reformed as FC Rotor Volgograd. History Before it was founded, it was originally supposed to be called FC Rotor-Volgog ...

. This was meant to allow FC to assume the name and identity of Rotor who were suffering off-field troubles, but Rotor survived and ended up playing simultaneously with the new FC in 2009, while Olimpia dropped into the Volgograd Oblast Championship. They stayed there until 2011, winning the title in 2010. With confusion ongoing over the future of the Rotor name and club, Olimpia were allowed to resume their place in the Second Division in 2012 and managed a 4th-place finish in 2013/14. However, following Rotor's decision to enter the fourth-level Amateur Football League for 2015, Olimpia once again withdrew from the national pyramid and entered the Volgograd Oblast championship.

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Official website
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Team history at KLISF
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