Volgar FC (russian: Футбольный Клуб "Волгарь") is an

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club based in

Astrakhan Astrakhan ( rus, Астрахань, p=ˈastrəxənʲ) is the largest city and administrative centre of Astrakhan Oblast in Southern Russia. The city lies on two banks of the Volga, in the upper part of the Volga Delta, on eleven islands of the ...

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. They play in the

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History

The club has been known under following names: *''Pishchevik'' (food industry worker) (1925−1958) *''Trud'' (labour) (1958–59) *''Volgar'' (1960–94) (2012–) *''Volgar- Gazprom'' (1995–2007), (2010–2012) *''Volgar-Gazprom-2'' (2007–10) Pishchevik played in the Second Group of the Soviet League. Trud (and later Volgar) played in the Class B (1958, 1960–1967), in Class A, Group 2 (1968–1969), in Class A, Group 1 (1970),

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 ...

(1971),

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(1972–1990), Soviet Second League B (1991). In 1992 Volgar entered the

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, played in the Third League in 1994 (finished top and were promoted), returned to the Second League in 1995 and stayed until 1998. In 1998 Volgar-Gazprom were promoted and in 1999 they started playing in the Russian First Division. With the exception of the relegation for the 2004 season, Volgar-Gazprom had been in the First Division until 2006. The club was denied the professional licence and thus relegated to amateur level in 2007. Another club was organized called FC Volgar-Gazprom-2. The new club advanced to the Russian First Division for the 2009 season. After the 2017–18 season, the club experienced financial difficulties and decided to be voluntarily relegated to the third-tier PFL. On 15 May 2020, the 2019–20 PFL season was abandoned due to

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. As Volgar was leading in their PFL zone at the time, they were promoted to the second-tier FNL for the 2020–21 season.

Current squad

''As of 5 December 2022, according to th
Russian First League website
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Out on loan

Notable past players

Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Volgar. ;Russia/USSR * Rinat Dasayev * Dmitry Kuznetsov * Vasili Zhupikov * Viktor Bulatov * Ruslan Kambolov * Vladimir Lebed * Ramiz Mamedov * Gennadiy Nizhegorodov *

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* Sergei Terekhov * Vladislav Ternavsky * Anton Zabolotny ;Former USSR countries * Garnik Avalyan *

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* Luboš Kalouda * Marek Hollý * Andrej Pečnik

References

External links

Official website
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