CSKA Pamir Dushanbe () is a professional

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club based in

Dushanbe Dushanbe is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Tajikistan. , Dushanbe had a population of 1,564,700, with this population being largely Tajiks, Tajik. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe, and from 1929 to 1961 as St ...

Tajikistan Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Dushanbe is the capital city, capital and most populous city. Tajikistan borders Afghanistan to the Afghanistan–Tajikistan border, south, Uzbekistan to ...

, that currently plays in the

Tajikistan Higher League The Ligai Olii Tojikiston or Tajikistan Higher League (; ) is the top division of professional association football, football in Tajikistan. It is part of the Tajikistan Football League Organization and Tajikistan Football Federation. It was fou ...

, the country's top division. Since 1997, the club has been under the patronage of the Tajik Army, like its former rivals CSKA Dushanbe.

History

Created in 1970 based on FC Energetik Dushanbe, the new Pamir Dushanbe was the only Tajik club to be promoted to the former

Soviet Top League The Soviet Top League, known after 1970 as the Higher League (), served as the top division (tier) of Soviet Union football from 1936 until 1991. The league's name was a conditional designation used for brevity since being completely owned and g ...

, in which the club played for the last three seasons that the league existed just prior to the dissolution of the

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1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

, and

1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...

. They made the semi-finals of the last Soviet Cup, losing to

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. Due to the ongoing

Tajik Civil War The Tajikistani Civil War,, group=pron also known as the Tajik Civil War, began in May 1992 and ended in June 1997. Regional groups from the Garm, Tajikistan, Garm and Gorno-Badakhshan regions of Tajikistan rose up against the newly formed gover ...

, the club was dissolved and its players moved to

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. A couple of Dushanbe-based clubs were removed from the

Tajik League The Ligai Olii Tojikiston or Tajikistan Higher League (; ) is the top division of professional association football, football in Tajikistan. It is part of the Tajikistan Football League Organization and Tajikistan Football Federation. It was fou ...

after 1996. Originally, at least since the

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in Stalinabad (Soviet name for Dushanbe) existed FC Dinamo Stalinabad which in 1950 carried the name of Bolshevik. Sometime in 1956 the local football team was taken over by Tajikistani agrarian sports society of Kolhosci and later until 1969 by a sports society of power generation workers, Energetik. The club formerly played at the

Pamir Stadium The Markazii Jumhuriyavii Stadium () or Republican Central Stadium, formerly known as Pamir Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium currently holds 20,000. It is cu ...

, but today plays at the smaller CSKA Stadium.

CSKA Pamir

Sometime in 1997 the club was recreated under aegis of the Ministry of Defense of Tajikistan and was transformed into the Tajikistani CSKA club which was coached by newly retired former Pamir footballer Damir Kamaletdinov. In July 2016, CSKA fired manager Rahmatullo Fuzailov, replacing him with Tokhirjon Muminov. On 5 January 2019, Rustam Khojayev was appointed as the new manager of CSKA. On 23 June 2019, Khojayev resigned as manager. On 8 July 2019, Sergey Zhitsky was appointed as CSKA's new manager.

Domestic history

Continental history

Honours

* USSR Second Division (2): 1988 * Ligai Olii Tojikiston (3):

1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

, *

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(2): 1992

Statistics

The following are statistics on CSKA Pamir Dushanbe's footballers' performance in USSR Top League between 1988 and 1991.

Most matches in USSR Top League

Most goals in USSR Top League

Current squad

Notable players

Players who had international caps for their respective countries. ;Tajikistan * Alier Ashurmamadov *

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* Yuri Baturenko * Igor Cherevchenko * Khakim Fuzailov * Rahmatullo Fuzailov * Shuhrat Mamajonov * Andrei Manannikov * Vazgen Manasyan * Sergey Mandreko * Mukhsin Mukhamadiev * Tokhirjon Muminov * Vasili Postnov * Rashid Rakhimov *

Valeri Sarychev Valeri Konstantinovich Sarychev (; born 12 January 1960), also known as Shin Eui-son (), is a former Tajikistani football (soccer), footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is regarded as one of the greatest K League goalkeepers of all time. I ...

* Oleg Shirinbekov * Georgi Takhokhov * Anatoli Volovodenko * Oleksiy Cherednyk * Edgar Gess ;Former USSR countries * Charyar Mukhadov * Röwşen Muhadow *

Azamat Abduraimov Azamat Abduraimov (born 27 April 1966) is a former Uzbekistan, Uzbek professional Association football, football player, who represented Uzbekistan national football team on 22 occasions between 1992 and 1997. Early years Azamat Abduraimov was ...

* Ravshan Bozorov * Rustam Zabirov ;Africa * Wisdom Mumba Chansa * Derby Makinka * Pearson Mwanza

Managers

* Nikolay Potapov (1964) * Andrei Zazroyev (1964–66) * Vladimir Alyakrinskii (1967–68) * Ivan Vasilevich (1968–69) * Ahmad Alaskarov (1972) * Ishtvan Sekech (1973–78) * Vladimir Gulyamhaydarov (1982–83) * Yuri Semin (1983–85) * Sharif Nazarov (1986–88), (1992–??) *

Damir Kamaletdinov Damir is a male given name. In the Balkans, Damir is popular among Bosniaks, Croats, and Serbs in the former Yugoslav nations, where it is interpreted as a locally originated given name, derived from ''da-'' meaning "give" and ''mir'' meaning "p ...

(1998–05) * Makhmadjon Khabibulloev (2012–2015) * Rahmatullo Fuzailov (2016) * Tokhirjon Muminov (2016) * Abdugaffor Yuldashev (2017) * Rustam Khojayev (2018–2019) * Serhiy Zhytskyi (2019–2021) * Amin Sobhani (2022–)

References

* http://fft.tj/index.php?limitstart=3

External links

* (archived)
Club statistics
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Pamir Dushanbe CSKA Pamir Dushanbe () is a professional football club based in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, that currently plays in the Tajikistan Higher League, the country's top division. Since 1997, the club has been under the patronage of the Tajik Army, like its ...