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2016–17 PFC CSKA Moscow Season
The 2016–17 CSKA season was the 25th successive season that the club played in the Russian Premier League, the highest tier of association football in Russia. CSKA were defending Russian Premier League champions, and as a result will enter the Champions League at the Groups stage, and also take part in the Russian Cup. They finished the season in second place, behind Spartak Moscow, were knocked out of the Russian Cup by Yenisey Krasnoyarsk and finished fourth in their Champions League group that contained AS Monaco, Bayer Leverkusen and Tottenham Hotspur. Season Events On 6 October 2016, Finland announced that Roman Eremenko had been handed a 30-day ban from football by UEFA, with UEFA announcing on 18 November 2016, that Eremenko had been handed a 2-year ban from football due to testing positive for cocaine. On 2 December 2016, Golovin extended his contract with CSKA Moscow until the end of the 2020–21 season. On 6 December 2016, CSKA announced that manager Leonid Sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PFC CSKA Moscow
Professional Football Club CSKA (, derived from the historical name 'Центральный спортивный клуб армии', English language, English: ''Central Sports Club of the Army''), commonly referred to as CSKA Moscow or ''CSKA Moskva'' outside of Russia, or simply as CSKA (), is a Russian professional association football, football club. It is based in Moscow, playing its home matches at the 30,000-capacity VEB Arena. It plays in red and blue colours, with various plain and striped patterns having been used. Founded in 1911, CSKA is one of the oldest football clubs in Russia and it had its most successful period after World War II with five titles in six seasons. It won a total of 7 Soviet Top League championships and 5 Soviet Cups, including the Double (association football), double in the last season in 1991 Soviet Top League, 1991. The club has also won 6 Russian Premier League titles as well as 8 Russian Cup (football), Russian Cups. CSKA Moscow became th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders of Russia, land borders with fourteen countries. Russia is the List of European countries by population, most populous country in Europe and the List of countries and dependencies by population, ninth-most populous country in the world. It is a Urbanization by sovereign state, highly urbanised country, with sixteen of its urban areas having more than 1 million inhabitants. Moscow, the List of metropolitan areas in Europe, most populous metropolitan area in Europe, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, while Saint Petersburg is its second-largest city and Society and culture in Saint Petersburg, cultural centre. Human settlement on the territory of modern Russia dates back to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain (association Football)
The captain of a association football, football/soccer team, sometimes known as the skipper, is a team member chosen to be the on-pitch leader of the team; they are often one of the older or more experienced members of the squad, or a player that can heavily influence a game or has good leadership qualities. The team captain is usually identified by the wearing of an armband. In the 2024/25 edition of the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, it was made mandatory for each team to have a captain and for each captain to be identified by the previously traditional but non-mandatory captain's armband. Responsibilities The only official responsibility of a captain specified by the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game is to participate in the Coin flipping, coin toss prior to Kick-off (association football), kick-off (for choice of ends or to have kick-off) and prior to a penalty shoot-out (association football), penalty shoot-out. Captain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Akinfeev
Igor Vladimirovich Akinfeev ( rus, Игорь Владимирович Акинфеев, Igor' Vladimirovich Akinfeyev, p=ˈiɡərʲ vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ ɐkʲɪnˈfʲe(j)ɪf; born 8 April 1986) is a Russian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for and captains Russian Premier League club CSKA Moscow. He has spent his entire career at CSKA, making more than 700 official appearances. He has won six Russian Premier League titles and eight Russian Cups, as well as the UEFA Cup in 2005. He is a record holder for most games played in the Russian top-level league at 596 (as of 24 May 2025). A full international for Russia between 2004 and 2018, he earned 111 caps and was selected in their squads for four UEFA European Championships and two FIFA World Cups. He was named captain of Russia in March 2017, after the retirement of his predecessor Vasili Berezutski. Akinfeev is a member of the Lev Yashin Club and has kept more clean sheets in Russian football than a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FC Sibir Novosibirsk
FC Sibir Novosibirsk () was a Russian association football club based in Novosibirsk, playing at the Spartak Stadium. They played their first-ever season in the Russian Premier League in 2010, and ended with relegation to the Russian First Division. History The club was founded in 1936 and has been known as: *''Krylya Sovetov'' (Soviet Wings) in 1936–1956 *''Sibselmash'' (Siberian Agricultural Machinery) in 1957–1965 *''SETM'' (Siberian Electrical Heavy Engineering) in 1969–1970 *''Dzerzhinets'' (after Felix Dzerzhinsky) in 1971 *''Chkalovets'' (after Valery Chkalov) in 1972–1991 and 1993–1999 *''Chkalovets-FoKuMiS'' in 1992 *''Chkalovets-1936'' in 2000–2005 *''Sibir'' (Siberia) 2006–2019 The team played in the Soviet leagues in 1937 (Group E), 1946–1947 (Third Group and Second Group), in 1957–1962 (Class B), 1963–1968 (Class A), 1969–1984 (Class B and Second League), and in 1987–1991 (Second League and Second League B). In 1992 Chkalovets entered the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goalkeeper (association Football)
The goalkeeper (sometimes written as goal-keeper, abbreviated as GK, keeper, keeps, or goalie) is a association football positions, position in association football. It is the most specialised position in the sport. The goalkeeper's main role is to stop the opposing football team, team from Scoring in association football, scoring a 'Football pitch#Goals, goal' (i.e. putting the football (ball), ball over the Goal_(sports)#Association_football, goal Goal line (association football), line). This is accomplished by having the goalkeeper move into the trajectory of the ball to either catch it or direct it further from the vicinity of the goal line. Within the penalty area, goalkeepers are allowed to use their hands, giving them (outside throw-ins) the sole rights on the field to handle the ball. The goalkeeper is indicated by wearing a different coloured kit (association football), kit from their teammates and opposition. The back-pass rule is a rule that disallows handling passes b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergei Chepchugov
Sergei Andreyevich Chepchugov (; born 15 July 1985) is a Russian former professional footballer. Career He made his professional debut in the Russian Second Division in 2004 for FC Metallurg Krasnoyarsk. On 23 December 2009 PFC CSKA Moscow have signed the goalkeeper from FC Sibir Novosibirsk until 2011. Honours Club ;CSKA *Russian Premier League (3): 2012–13, 2013–14, 2015–16 * Russian Cup (2): 2010–11, 2012–13 *Russian Super Cup (2): 2013, 2014 Individual * Russian First Division best goalkeeper (1): 2009 * Russian Second Division The Russian Second League (), formerly the Russian Professional Football League, are both the third (Division A) and fourth level (Division B) of Russian professional Association football, football. History In 1998–2010, it was run by the :ru: ... Zone East best goalkeeper (2): 2005, 2007 References 1985 births Footballers from Krasnoyarsk Living people Russian men's footballers Men's association football goalkeepers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandr Golovin (footballer)
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Golovin ( rus, Александр Сергеевич Головин, p=ɐlʲɪˈksandr sʲɪrˈgʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ gəlɐˈvʲin; born 30 May 1996) is a Russian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or left winger for Ligue 1 club Monaco and captains the Russia national team. Golovin began his professional career at CSKA Moscow in 2014, where he played in four Russian Premier League seasons, winning the league title in his second season, before moving to Monaco in 2018, for a club record fee of €30 million, becoming the first Russian to play for the club. Golovin made his senior international debut for Russia in 2015 and was part of their squads at the UEFA European Championship in 2016 and 2020, and the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Early life Golovin was born to a mining family in the small mining town of Kaltan in Southern Siberia, Russia. His father was friends with Aleksandr Plyasunov, a coach at the local youth sports school. When Gol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
