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Aleksandr Selikhov
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Selikhov (; born 7 April 1994) is a Russian association football, football player who plays as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper for Ural Yekaterinburg and the Russian national football team. Club career FC Oryol He made his debut in the Russian Second Division for FC Rusichi Oryol, Rusichi Oryol on 29 May 2012 in a game against FC Kaluga. Amkar Perm After a loan spell with Russian Football Premier League club FC Amkar Perm, Amkar Perm, in July 2014 he signed 2-year deal for Amkar. He made his Russian Football Premier League debut for Amkar in a game against FC Rostov on 28 August 2015 when the first two goalkeeping choices for Amkar, Roman Gerus and Dmitri Khomich were injured. Spartak Moscow On 22 November 2016, he signed a contract with FC Spartak Moscow, Spartak Moscow that began on 6 December 2016, he continued to play for Amkar until that date. Following injury to Artem Rebrov in September 2017 during a UEFA Champions League 1-1 home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FC Spartak Moscow
FC Spartak Moscow (, ) is a Russian professional association football, football club based in Moscow. Having won 12 Soviet Top League, Soviet championships (second only to FC Dynamo Kyiv, Dynamo Kyiv) and 10 Russian Premier League, Russian championships (a record jointly held with FC Zenit Saint Petersburg, Zenit St Petersburg), it is the country's most successful club. They have also won a record 10 Soviet Cups, 4 Russian Cup (football), Russian Cups and one Russian Super Cup. Spartak have also reached the semi-finals of UEFA Europa League, UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, UEFA Cup Winner's Cup. History Foundation and early period (1883–1941) In the early days of Soviet football, government agencies such as the police, army, and railroads created their own Football team, clubs. Many statesmen saw in the wins of their teams the superiority over the opponents patronising other teams. Almost all the teams had such kind of patrons; FC Dynamo Moscow, Dynamo M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Football Union
The Russian Football Union (, ''Rossiyskiy Futbolnyy Soyuz'' or RFS) is the official governing body of association football in the Russian Federation. With headquarters in Moscow, it organizes Russian amateur and professional football, including the men's, women's, youth, beach soccer, futsal and Paralympic national teams. The RFS sanctions referees and football tournaments for the Russian Premier League and other football leagues in Russia. RFS is headed by Aleksandr Dyukov, the CEO of Gazprom Neft. Structure The RFS is governed by a board of directors led by a chairman, Nikita Simonyan, and a director general, Aleksandr Alayev. The RFU is a member of international football bodies FIFA and UEFA, and also has a relationship with the International Olympic Committee (IOC). History Russian Empire The All-Russian Football Union (VFS) was created on 19 January 1912 and in the same year was admitted to FIFA. The Unions initially consisted of 52 organizations across the Russian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024–25 Russian Cup
The 2024–25 Russian Cup was the 33rd season of the Russian football knockout tournament since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The competition started on 30 July 2024 and concluded on 1 June 2025. The winner of the cup would normally gain entry into the 2025–26 UEFA Europa League; however, on 28 February 2022, Russian football clubs were suspended from FIFA & UEFA international competitions until further notice due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Representation of clubs by league * Russian Premier League (1): 16 clubs * Russian First League (2): 18 clubs * Division A of Russian Second League (3): 18 clubs (without 2 farm teams) * Division B of Russian Second League (4): 42 clubs (without 17 farm teams and 2 Crimean teams) * Amateur leagues: ** Third division (5): 8 clubs ** Fourth division (regional leagues) (6): 2 clubs ** Media amateur clubs (7): 3 clubs * Total: 107 clubs. Distribution The teams of Premier League and the other teams will qualify to knockout phase ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UEFA Europa League
The UEFA Europa League (UEL), usually known simply as the Europa League, is an annual association football, football club competition organised since 1971 by the UEFA, Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for eligible European football clubs. It is the second-tier competition of UEFA competitions, European club football, ranking below the UEFA Champions League and above the UEFA Conference League. Introduced in 1971 as the UEFA Cup, it replaced the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. From the 2004–05 UEFA Cup, 2004–05 season a group stage was added before the knockout phase. The competition took on its current name in 2009–10 UEFA Europa League, 2009, following a change in format. The 2009 re-branding included a merge with the UEFA Intertoto Cup, producing an enlarged competition format, with an expanded group stage and a change in qualifying criteria. In the 2024–25 UEFA Europa League, 2024–25 season, the group stage was replaced with an expanded league phase of 36 te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legia Warsaw
Legia Warszawa (), commonly referred to as Legia Warsaw or simply Legia, is a professional football club based in Warsaw, Poland. Legia is the most successful Polish football club in history, winning a record 15 champions titles, a record 21 Polish Cup and 5 Polish Super Cup trophies. The club's home venue is the Polish Army Stadium (''Stadion Wojska Polskiego''). Legia is the only Polish club never to have been relegated from the top flight of Polish football since World War II (see: 1936 Legia Warsaw season). Legia was formed between 5 and 15 March 1916 during military operations in World War I, as the main football club of the Polish Legions. After the war, the club was reactivated on 14 March 1920 in an officer casino in Warsaw as Wojskowy Klub Sportowy Warszawa, renamed Legia in 1923 after merger with another local club, Korona. It became the main official football club of the Polish Army – ''Wojskowy Klub Sportowy Legia Warszawa'' (). From 1949 to 1957, Legi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FC Spartak-2 Moscow
FC Spartak-2 Moscow () is a Russian football team from Moscow, founded in 1964. It is the reserve club of Russian Premier League team FC Spartak Moscow. History The club has participated in professional competition in the past, as FC Spartak-d Moscow (Russian Second League in 1992–1993, Russian Third Division in 1994–1997) and as FC Spartak-2 Moscow (Russian Second Division in 1998–2000). It started playing professionally again in 2013 in the third-tier Russian Professional Football League. On 24 May 2015, they secured the top spot in the West Zone of the PFL and promotion for the first time in history to the second-tier Russian Football National League for the 2015–16 season. On 23 May 2022, FC Spartak Moscow announced that Spartak-2 will be dissolved and not participate in the 2022–23 season for budgetary reasons. On 25 December 2023, Spartak announced the revival of the team and their plans to enter the Russian Second League The Russian Second League (), formerl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandr Maksimenko (footballer, Born 1998)
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Maksimenko (; born 19 March 1998) is a Russian football player who plays for Spartak Moscow and the Russia national team. Club career Maksimenko made his debut in the Russian Football National League for Spartak-2 Moscow on 13 August 2016 in a game against Tyumen. He made his debut for the main Spartak squad on 25 October 2017 in a Russian Cup game against Spartak Nalchik. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League for Spartak Moscow on 28 July 2018 in a game against Orenburg. Maksimienko became the starting Spartak goalkeeper after that in the beginning of the 2018–19 season over Artyom Rebrov as Aleksandr Selikhov was suffering from a tendon injury, and later became the joint-first choice keeper along with Selikhov. Maksimenko won the Russian Cup in 2022. In 2025, as Selikhov left Spartak, Maksimienko became the sole first-choice goalkeeper. International career He played in the 2015 UEFA European Under-17 Championship and 2015 FIFA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 FIFA World Cup
The 2018 FIFA World Cup was the 21st FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for national association football, football teams organized by FIFA. It took place in Russia from 14 June to 15 July 2018, after the country was awarded the hosting rights in late 2010. It was the eleventh time the championships had been held in Europe and the first time they were held in Eastern Europe, also featuring one or two venues, depending on definition, located across Boundary between Asia and Europe, the boundary with Asia. At an estimated cost of over $14.2 billion, it was the most expensive World Cup ever held until it was surpassed by the 2022 FIFA World Cup, 2022 World Cup in Qatar. The tournament phase involved 32 teams, of which 31 came through 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, qualifying competitions, while the host nation Russia national football team, Russia qualified automatically. Of the 32, 20 had also appeared in the 2014 FIFA World Cup, 2014 event, while Iceland nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liverpool F
Liverpool is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the eastern side of the River Mersey, Mersey Estuary, near the Irish Sea, north-west of London. With a population of (in ), Liverpool is the administrative, cultural and economic centre of the Liverpool City Region, a combined authority, combined authority area with a population of over 1.5 million. Established as a borough in Lancashire in 1207, Liverpool became significant in the late 17th century when the Port of Liverpool was heavily involved in the Atlantic slave trade. The port also imported cotton for the Textile manufacture during the British Industrial Revolution, Lancashire textile mills, and became a major departure point for English and Irish emigrants to North America. Liverpool rose to global economic importance at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century and was home to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UEFA Champions League
The UEFA Champions League (UCL) is an annual club association football competition organised by the UEFA, Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) that is contested by List of top-division football clubs in UEFA countries, top-division European clubs. The competition begins with a Round-robin tournament, round robin league phase to qualify for the double-legged knockout rounds, and a single-leg final. It is the most-watched club competition in the world and the third most-watched football competition overall, behind only the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European Championship. It is one of the most prestigious football tournaments in the world and the most prestigious club competition in European football, played by the national league champions (and, for some nations, one or more runners-up) of their national associations. Introduced 1955–56 European Cup, in 1955 as the European Champion Clubs' Cup (), and commonly known as the European Cup, it was initially a straigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artem Rebrov
Artyom Gennadyevich Rebrov (, born 4 March 1984) is a Russian former football goalkeeper who works as a technical coordinator at Spartak Moscow. Club career He made his Russian Premier League debut for FC Tom Tomsk on 27 September 2008 in a game against PFC CSKA Moscow. He gained national prominence after moving to Spartak Moscow, for which he played between 2011 and 2021. A successor to Andriy Dikan, he was the first-choice goalkeeper for different periods during the decade, including in years Spartak participated in the UEFA Champions League. He was also the team's Vice Captain. In 2021, he retired to focus on his new role of technical coordinator, focusing on communications between Spartak's coaching staff (of which he is a key member) and the club administration. He was succeeded as goalkeeper by Aleksandr Selikhov and Alexander Maksimenko. Career statistics Notes Club honours ;Spartak Moscow *Russian Premier League: 2016–17 * Russian Super Cup: 2017 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmitri Khomich
Dmitri Nikolayevich Khomich (, born 4 October 1984) is a Russian football coach and a former goalkeeper. He is a goalkeeping coach with Khimki-M. Career He made his Russian Premier League debut for FC Alania Vladikavkaz on 16 August 2003 in a game against PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara, at the age of 18. In February 2014, Khomich signed for a three-year contract with FC Kairat of the Kazakhstan Premier League. In October 2014, Khomich, along with Mikhail Bakayev, Zaurbek Pliyev, Aleksandr Kislitsyn and Samat Smakov, was banned from training with FC Kairat by the club. Khomich left FC Kairat in November 2014, following the conclusion of the 2014 season. In February 2015, Khomich signed a contract with Amkar Perm FC Amkar Perm ( ) is a professional football club. Originally founded in 1994, it is based in the city of Perm. It was a participant in second-tier football from 1995 and in the Russian Premier League from 2004 to 2018, after which it was dissol ... till the end of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
