FC Rostov

Rostov

Full name	Футбольный клуб Ростов (Football Club Rostov)
Nickname(s)	Selmashi (Hillbillies)
Founded	1930
Ground	Olimp-2 Rostov-on-Don
Capacity	15,840
Chairman	Viktor Goncharov
Manager	Kurban Berdyev
League	Russian Premier League
2014–15	14th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

FC Rostov (Russian: Футбольный клуб "Ростов") is a Russian football club based in Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast. The club are currently members of the Russian Premier League and play at the Olimp – 2 stadium.^[1]

History

The club was established on 10 May 1900, and was initially named Selmashstroy (Сельмашстрой). They were renamed Selmash in 1913 and Traktor in 1941. In 1950 the club joined the South Zone of the Azov-Don group of the Russian SFSR Championship. The following season they were placed in Group B of the championship. After finishing first in their group, they played in Group A in 1952. A third-place finish meant the club were promoted to the Class B for the 1953 season, during which they were renamed again, becoming Torpedo. In 1958 they were renamed Rostselmash.

In 1964 the club won their Division of Class B. In the Russian-zone play-offs they finished second in the first round and top in the second after defeating Terek Grozny 2–0 in the deciding match, earning promotion to the Soviet First League. The following season they finished bottom of the division, but were not relegated as the number of teams in the division was increased.

By the early 1970s the club was back in the Russian leagues. In 1975 they returned to Class B (now known as the Soviet Second League). Following several near misses, the club won their zone of the Second League in 1985. They went onto win a play-off tournament, earning promotion back to the First League.

In 1991 the club finished fourth in what was the final season of Soviet football following the USSR's disintegration. This was enough to earn them a place in the new Russian Top League. Following an eighth-place finish in their first season, the 1993 season saw the club struggle, eventually finishing second bottom, resulting in relegation to the First League.

The club made an immediate return to the Top League after finishing second in the 1994 First League season. In 2003 they adopted their current name and reached the Russian Cup final for the first time, losing 1–0 to Spartak Moscow.^[2] In 2007 they finished bottom of the (now renamed) Premier Division and were relegated to the First Division. However, they made another immediate return to the top division as First Division champions.

Rostov won the 2013–14 Russian Cup, defeating FC Krasnodar on penalties 6–5, and earned qualification to the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League. However Rostov were excluded from the competition at the end of May 2014, due to breached financial rules, being replaced by Spartak Moscow.^[3][4] Later Rostov appealed the decision of the local football federation to lift the club from the tournament in the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, the club won the right to play.^[5]

Final league positions since 1992

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Cup	Europe		Top scorer (league)	Head coach
1992	1st	8	26	8	7	11	22	28	23	R8			Tikhonov – 7	Yulgushov
1993		17	34	8	12	14	35	52	28	R8			Spanderashvili – 8	Yulgushov
1994	2nd	2	42	27	8	7	92	44	62	R16			Maslov – 32	Yulgushov
1995	1st	14	30	8	4	18	35	56	28	R16			Maslov – 18	Yulgushov Andreev
1996		11	34	11	8	15	58	60	41	R8			Maslov – 23	Andreev
1997		13	34	9	14	11	34	38	41	R16			Gerasimenko – 8	Andreev
1998		6	30	11	11	8	42	38	44	QF			Matveev – 14	Andreev
1999		7	30	11	8	11	32	37	41	R16	UIC	SF	Pestryakov – 7	Andreev
2000		12	30	6	14	10	24	27	32	R16	UIC	3R	Kirichenko – 14	Andreev
2001		12	30	8	8	14	29	43	32	R16			Kirichenko – 13	Balakhnin Baidachny
2002		11	30	7	10	13	29	49	31	RU			Baba Adamu – 5	Baidachny Balakhnin
2003		11	30	8	10	12	30	42	34	QF			Osinov – 7	Balakhnin
2004		12	30	7	8	15	28	42	29	R8			Perez – 5	Shevchenko Balakhnin
2005		13	30	8	7	15	26	41	31	R16			Buznikin – 8	Stepushkin Petrakov
2006		12	30	10	6	14	42	48	36	QF			Osinov – 12	Balakhnin
2007		16	30	2	12	16	18	44	18	R8			Osinov – 4 Kanyenda – 4	Dolmatov
2008	2nd	1	42	29	9	4	78	29	96	R32			Osinov – 16	Dolmatov
2009	1st	14	30	7	11	12	28	39	32	R16			Akimov – 6 Ahmetovic – 6	Dolmatov
2010		9	30	10	4	16	27	44	34	SF			Adamov – 8	Protasov
2011–12		13	44	12	12	20	45	61	48	SF			Adamov – 11	Protasov Lyutyi Talalayev Balakhnin Baidachny
2012–13		13	30	7	8	15	30	41	29	SF			Holenda – 6	Božović
2013–14		7	30	10	9	11	40	40	39	Winner			Dzyuba – 17	Božović
2014–15		14	30	7	8	15	27	51	29	R16	UEL	PO	Grigoryev – 5	Božović Berdyev

European record

Season	Competition	Round	Opponent	1st leg	2nd leg	Aggregate
1999	UEFA Intertoto Cup	2R	FK Cementarnica 55	1–1	2–1	3–2
		3R	NK Varaždin	2–1	0–1	2–2(a)
		Semi–finals	Juventus	0–4	1–5	1–9
2000	UEFA Intertoto Cup	3R	AJ Auxerre	0–2	1–3	1–5
2014–15	UEFA Europa League	PO	Trabzonspor	0–2	0–0	0–2

Notes

• 2R: Second round
• 3R: Third round
• PO: Play-off round

Achievements

Domestic competitions

• Russian National Football League: 1

2008

• Runners-up (1): 1994

• Russian Cup: 1

2014

• Runners-up (1): 2003

• Russian Super Cup

• Runners-up (1): 2014

Current squad

As of 26 February 2016. According to the Official Russian Premier League website

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Stas Pokatilov 2 MF Timofei Kalachev 4 DF Denis Terentyev 6 MF Saeid Ezatolahi 7 FW Dmitry Poloz 8 MF Moussa Doumbia 9 MF Guélor Kanga 11 FW Aleksandr Bukharov 15 DF Bastos 16 MF Christian Noboa 17 MF Igor Kireyev 18 MF Pavel Mogilevets (on loan from Zenit) 19 MF Khoren Bayramyan 20 FW Sardar Azmoun (on loan from Rubin Kazan)

No. Position Player 21 FW Said-Ali Akhmaev 23 MF Aleksandr Troshechkin 25 DF Ivan Novoseltsev 28 DF Boris Rotenberg (on loan from Dynamo Moscow) 30 DF Fyodor Kudryashov 32 FW Nika Kacharava 34 DF Timofei Margasov 35 GK Soslan Dzhanayev 44 DF César Navas 77 GK Nikita Medvedev 84 MF Alexandru Gațcan (Captain) 86 FW Yoo Byung-Soo 89 MF Aleksandr Yerokhin 97 GK Yevgeni Goshev

The following players are listed on the official club's website as reserves and are registered with the Premier League. They are eligible to play for the main squad.

Reserve squad

Rostov's reserve squad played professionally as FC Rostselmash-d Rostov-on-Don (Russian Second League in 1992–93, Russian Third League in 1996–97) and FC Rostselmash-2 Rostov-on-Don (Russian Second Division in 1998–00).

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 12 GK Nikita Chagrov 31 MF Ruslan Shapovalov 37 MF Sergei Zabrodin 40 DF Dmitri Khristis 41 MF Nikolai Stankevich 45 DF Anton Lazutkin 46 FW Danila Lyuft 48 MF Artyom Maksimenko 49 MF Dmitri Tananeyev 51 GK Ivan Zozin 56 MF Artyom Sobol 58 MF Maksim Kondrashyov 59 DF Ivan Reutenko 60 MF Aleksei Neskoromny 62 GK Vladislav Suslov 63 DF Aleksandr Logunov 66 DF Daniil Ostapenko 68 MF Vasiliy Lipin

No. Position Player 69 MF Nikita Kovalyov 70 MF Andrei Sidenko 71 MF Dmitri Veber 73 DF Aleksei Grechkin 74 MF Yevgeni Stukanov 78 FW Dmitri Solovyov 80 MF Dzhambulat Dulayev 81 MF Roman Khodunov 83 MF Ilya Zakharov 87 MF Maksim Sukhomlinov 88 MF Denis Mashkin 90 MF Filipp Kondryukov 91 FW Danila Khakhalev 94 GK Roman Pshukov 96 DF Nikita Bocharov 98 DF Sergei Kiryakov 99 FW Nemanja Nikolić

Coaching staff

Position	Staff
Manager	Kurban Berdyev
Assistant Manager	Ivan Daniliants
	Ýakub Urazsahatow
	Dmitri Kirichenko
	Alexandru Mațiura
Goalkeeper Coach	Vitaliy Kafanov
Analyst	Vladimir Kulaev
Fitness Coaches	Yuri Fernando Sanchez Solano
	Jose Pastor Verchili

Source: Rostov

References

1. Dan Ripley (2012-09-07). "David Bentley joins FC Rostov – but who are they? | Mail Online". Dailymail.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-09-24.
2. "Russian Cup 2003". RSSSF.com. Retrieved 2012-09-24.
3. "Spartak Moscow will replace FC Rostov". www.espnfc.com. ESPN. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
4. "Moscow "Spartak" because of "sanctions" was in the Europa League". ru-facts.com. ru-facts. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
5. «РОСТОВ» СЫГРАЕТ В ЛИГЕ ЕВРОПЫ!!!

External links

• Club website (Russian)