FC Orenburg

It played professionally as Gazovik from 1976 to 1982 and from 1989 on. Before 1976 another Orenburg team, Lokomotiv Orenburg, played professionally, including 3 seasons in the second-highest Soviet First League in 1960–62. In 1989 Gazovik was called Progress Orenburg. Gazovik began Russian League at Zone 5 of Second League and relegated from Zone 6 from one to Third League in 1993. They stayed in Zone 5 of Third League until 1997 season, when they returned to third level. They finished Ural Povolzhye (Volga Region in Russian) as runner-up in 2006, 2007 and 2008 seasons and finally promoted to the Russian First League in 2010.

On 2 May 2016, the club secured top-two finish in the 2015–16 Russian National Football League and with that, the promotion to the Russian Premier League for the 2016–17 season for the first time in club's history.[1]

On 25 May 2016, the club was renamed from its historical name FC Gazovik Orenburg to FC Orenburg.[2]

The club was relegated back to the second tier at the end of the 2016–17 season after losing a penalty shootout in the relegation playoffs to FC SKA-Khabarovsk. It was promoted back to the Russian Premier League after one season in the second tier.[3] It was relegated at the end of the 2019–20 Russian Premier League season. They were forced to forfeit two games late in the season due to COVID-19 infections in the squad and play more games with a weakened line-up.

Domestic Competitions

• Russian National Football League: 2

2015–16, 2017–18

As of 21 January 2021, according to the official FNL website.

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 3 DF  BLR Mikhail Sivakow 5 MF  RUS Timur Ayupov 7 FW  RUS Nikolai Prudnikov 9 FW  RUS Andrei Kozlov 11 FW  RUS Andrea Chukanov 12 DF  RUS Andrei Malykh 14 MF  RUS Sergei Eremenko 15 DF  BIH Renato Gojković 19 MF  RUS Aleksandr Ektov 20 FW  GHA Joel Fameyeh 22 MF  RUS Maksim Paliyenko 23 MF  RUS Sergei Breyev 25 MF  RUS Denis Tkachuk

No. Pos. Nation Player 37 MF  UKR Oleksandr Noyok 38 GK  BLR Andrey Klimovich 46 DF  RUS Artyom Mamin (on loan from Ural Yekaterinburg) 55 MF  RUS Kirill Kaplenko (on loan from Zenit St. Petersburg) 57 MF  RUS Yevgeni Bolotov 58 DF  RUS Adessoye Oyewole (on loan from Tambov) 83 MF  RUS Aleksei Mironov (on loan from Lokomotiv Moscow) 84 MF  RUS Ilya Vorobyov (on loan from Zenit St. Petersburg) 90 GK  RUS Aleksei Kenyaykin 92 MF  RUS Aleksei Skvortsov 96 DF  RUS Aleksandr Smirnov (on loan from Rostov) 97 GK  RUS Yevgeni Goshev

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  RUS Daniil Krivoruchko (at Tyumen) — DF  RUS Ivan Lapshov (at Tom Tomsk)

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  RUS Sergei Terekhov (at Sochi) — MF  RUS David Bidlovskiy (at Akron Tolyatti)

• Head coach - Marcel Lička
• Assistant coaches - Ilshat Aitkulov (senior), Konstantin Yemelyanov, Radik Yamlikhanov
• Goalkeeping coach - Platon Zakharchuk
• Conditioning coach - Yevgeni Stukalov

• Valeri Bogdanov (1997–98)
• Aleksandr Korolyov (1999–01)
• Adyam Kuzyayev (interim) (2003)
• Andrei Piatnitski (2003)
• Yevgeni Smertin (2004)
• Aleksandr Averyanov (2006–09)
• Ilshat Aitkulov (interim) (2009)
• Konstantin Galkin (2009–2011)
• Robert Yevdokimov (2011–2017)
• Temur Ketsbaia (2017)
• Vladimir Fedotov (2017–2019)
• Konstantin Yemelyanov (2019–2020)
• Konstantin Paramonov (2020)
• Ilshat Aitkulov (interim) (2020)
• Marcel Lička (2020–)

Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Orenburg.

• Official website