FC Ural Yekaterinburg () is a Russian professional

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

club based in

Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburg (, ; ), alternatively Romanization of Russian, romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk ( ; 1924–1991), is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia. The ci ...

that plays in the

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History

The club was founded in 1930 and was known as Avangard (1930–1948, 1953–1957), Zenit (1944–1946), Mashinostroitel (1958–1959), and Uralmash (1949–1952, 1960–2002). The club is currently named after the Russian region of Ural, where

is the capital. The club participated in the Soviet championships beginning in 1945. They mostly played in the higher leagues, with the exception of the 1969 season spent in the lowest league. They were the easternmost Russian SFSR club to compete in the third Soviet division (the easternmost Soviet club overall was FC Kairat from Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR). Uralmash reached the quarterfinals of the Soviet Cup in 1965/66, 1967/68, and 1990/91. After the dissolution of the USSR, Uralmash were entitled to enter the Russian Top Division and played there for five seasons, from 1992 to 1996. Their best result was eighth position in 1993 and 1995. Despite reaching the semifinal of the Intertoto Cup in 1996, Uralmash finished 16th out of 18 in the league and were relegated. In 1997 another relegation followed, now to the Second Division. From 1998 to 2002 Uralmash played in the Second Division. After winning promotion, the club was renamed Ural. In 2003, the team were relegated from the Russian First Division, but were promoted again after the 2004 season. The team's best finish in the First Division was third in 2006. Poskus

FC Ural reached the Russian cup final in 2017 for the first time in their history. They lost the final against

Lokomotiv Moscow FC Lokomotiv Moscow (, ) is a Russian professional association football, football club based in Moscow. Lokomotiv have won the Russian Premier League on three occasions; the Soviet Cup twice; and the Russian Cup (football), Russian Cup a record ...

. In 2019, FC Ural faced Lokomotiv Moscow again in their second Russian cup final. Lokomotiv Moscow defeated FC Ural in that final. In the 2023–24 season, Ural finished 13th, qualifying for the relegation play-offs. They lost 2–3 to Akron Tolyatti on aggregate and were relegated to the

after 11 seasons at the top tier. In the 2024–25 season, Ural finished 4th in the First League and qualified for the promotion play-offs. They lost to Akhmat Grozny with an aggregate score of 2–3 and remained in the First League.

Domestic

Current squad

First team

Out on loan

Reserve team

Retired numbers

* 23 – Pyotr Khrustovsky, forward (2003) – ''posthumous honor''

Coaching staff

*Head coach – Yuri Matveyev *Assistant coach – Vladimir Kalashnikov, Andrei Danilov, Ivan Jovanovski *Goalkeeping coach – Andrei Shpilyov

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Ural/Uralmash. ;Russia/USSR * Viktor Shishkin *

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* Nikita Chernov * Yury Gazinsky * Aleksei Ionov * Yuri Matveyev *

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* Aleksandr Podshivalov *

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* Oleg Veretennikov * Dmitry Yefremov * Artyom Yenin * Aleksandr Yerokhin * Aleksandr Yushin * Artur Yusupov * Anton Zabolotny * Denis Zubko ;Former USSR countries ;Armenia *

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;Belarus * Andrey Chukhley * Alyaksandr Hrapkowski * Alyaksandr Martynovich * Nikolay Zolotov * Aleh Shkabara * Yuri Zhevnov ;Estonia * Aleksandr Dmitrijev ;Georgia *

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;Kazakhstan * Vitaliy Abramov * Sergei Anashkin * Renat Dubinskiy * Vitaliy Kafanov * Konstantin Ledovskikh * Aleksandr Sklyarov *

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;Lithuania *

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;Moldova *

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;Tajikistan * Vitaliy Levchenko * Igor Vityutnev * Anatoli Volovodenko * Shamsiddin Shanbiev ;Ukraine * Denys Kulakov * Oleksandr Pomazun * Dmytro Topchiev ;Uzbekistan * Vladimir Radkevich * Yevgeni Safonov *

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;Israel *

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;Norway *

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;Poland *

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* Michał Kucharczyk * Maciej Wilusz ;Romania * Eric Bicfalvi ;South America ;Chile * Gerson Acevedo ;Africa ;Cameroon * Petrus Boumal ;Congo * Emmerson ;Zambia * Chisamba Lungu

Managers

* Pavel Gusev (2003–04) * Aleksandr Pobegalov (2005–09) * Vladimir Fedotov (2009–10) *

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(2013–15) *

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(2015) * Vadim Skripchenko (2015–2016)

Honours

Domestic

Soviet Second League The Soviet Second League (, Soviet football championship (Second League)) was the third highest division of Soviet Union, Soviet football (soccer), football, below the Soviet First League. The league was formed in 1971 in place of the Class A Se ...

Russian Football National League The Russian First League (, Pervaya liga), formerly called Russian First Division () and Russian Football National League (FNL) () is the second level of the Russian football league system. The Russian Professional Football League (PFL) used t ...

**Champions (2):

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2012–13 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sp ...

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: ...

**Champions (2): 2002, 2004 * Russian Cup **Runners-up (2): 2016–17, 2018–19

Invitational

ANFA Cup The ANFA Cup refers to a series of invitational association football knockout tournaments organised by the All Nepal Football Association. Both List of men's national association football teams, National football teams as well as football clubs pa ...

**Champions (1): 1989

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fc Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast Association football clubs established in 1930 Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast Sports clubs and teams in Yekaterinburg 1930 establishments in Russia Soviet Top League clubs