Football Club SKA-Khabarovsk (russian: Футбольный клуб СКА-Хабаровск) is a Russian professional

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club based in Khabarovsk which plays in the second-tier

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. They played in the

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for the first time ever in the 2017–18 season. At more than east of

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, SKA Khabarovsk are the most Easterly team to have taken part in a

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domestic top division.

History

The club has been known under different names: * ''DKA'' (−1953) * ''ODO'' (1954) * ''DO'' (1955–56) * ''OSK'' (1957) * ''SKVO'' (1957–59) * ''SKA'' (1960–99) * ''SKA-Energia'' (1999–2016) * ''SKA-Khabarovsk'' (2016–) The club has participated in the Soviet championships since 1957. SKA were the quarter-finalists of the

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in 1963. They had never played in the

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, until 2017. SKA's best result in the

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was the 6th position in 1980, and their best result in the Russian First Division was 4th position in 2012–13. This entitled them to a promotion/relegation play-off against

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, 13th place in the RPL, but they lost 3–0 on aggregate and missed their chance to compete in the top flight. At the end of the 2016–17 season, SKA equalled their record best finish, at the same time qualifying for a promotion play-off against

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. On 28 May 2017, SKA were promoted to the

for the first time in their history, after beating FC Orenburg in the promotion play-off. They won 5–3 in a

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, after 0–0 draws in both the home and away legs. SKA started their first Premier League season with 4 losses. After improving results in the next stretch of games, the losses starting mounting up again. Aleksei Poddubskiy was replaced as manager by Rinat Bilyaletdinov during the winter break, Bilyaletdinov only lasted 4 games before being replaced by Sergei Perednya. On 22 April 2018, SKA lost 0–1 to

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at home (which was their 13th loss in a stretch of 15 winless games) and lost the mathematical chance to avoid relegation back to the second-tier

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. In the 2021–22 season, SKA-Khabarovsk qualified for the Premier League promotion playoffs in which they lost 1–3 on aggregate to

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and remained in the FNL.

Domestic history

Current squad

''As of 21 November 2022, according to th
official First League website
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Out on loan

Reserve team

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for SKA-Khabarovsk. ;USSR and Russia * Vladimir Astapovsky * Viktor Bulatov *

Viktor Fayzulin Viktor Igorevich Fayzulin (russian: link=no, Виктор Игоревич Файзулин; born 22 April 1986) is a former Russian footballer, who played as a midfielder. Career Club A graduate of CYSS based in his hometown Nakhodka, he sta ...

* Andrey Ivanov * Boris Kopeikin * Nikolay Olenikov * Sergey Olshansky * Andrei Semyonov * Aleksandr Tarkhanov * Akhrik Tsveiba * Aleksandr Yerokhin ;Former USSR countries *

Robert Arzumanyan Robert Arzumanyan (also called Arzoumanian) ( hy, Ռոբերտ Արզումանյան, born 24 July 1985 in Yerevan, Armenian SSR) is an Armenian former international footballer who played as a defender and current manager of FC Noah. Club car ...

Ruslan Koryan Ruslan Koryan ( hy, Ռուսլան Կորյան, russian: Руслан Грачевич Корян; born 15 June 1988) is an Armenian former professional footballer who played as either a striker or attacking midfielder. Career Club He is alumn ...

* Gennadi Drozdov * Rizvan Umarov *

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* Andrey Paryvaew * Kakhaber Aladashvili * Gogita Gogua *

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* Otar Martsvaladze * Giorgi Navalovski * Lasha Salukvadze * Vitaliy Artemov * Qayrat Aymanov * Aleksandr Gorbunov * Oleg Musin * Serghei Alexeev * Valeriu Andronic * Serghei Chirilov * Alexandr Covalenco *

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* Roman Radcenco *

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* Adrian Sosnovschi * Igor Vityutnev * Wýaçeslaw Krendelew * Denys Dedechko * Andriy Dikan * Oleksandr Kyryukhin * Vladimir Radkevich ;Europe *

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* Ventsislav Hristov *

Aivars Drupass Aivars Drupass (1963–1999) was a Latvian football forward. Playing career At the age of 18 the talented forward who was previously coached by Latvian footballer Gunārs Ulmanis joined FK Daugava Rīga. In his first season for Daugava he p ...

* Olegs Karavajevs *

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* Tomas Mikuckis ;Africa * MacDonald Mukansi

Coaching staff

References

External links

Official club website
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