FC Tambov

FC Tambov (Russian: ФК Тамбов) is a Russian football team from Tambov. It plays in the Russian Premier League, having won promotion to the top division of Russian football in 2019.

FC Tambov
Full nameFK Tambov
Nickname(s)The Wolves
Founded2013 (2013)
GroundMordovia Arena
Capacity44,442
OwnerTambov Oblast
ChairmanGeorgi Yartsev
ManagerSergei Pervushin
LeagueRussian Premier League
2019–20Russian Premier League, 14th
WebsiteClub website

History

FC Tambov started out on the professional level in the third-tier Russian Professional Football League in the 2013–14 season. Despite coming in last in their zone in their first professional season, the team was not relegated, as a team that came ahead of them in the table dropped out for financial reasons.

For the 2016–17 season, they were promoted to the Russian Football National League for the first time. On the last day of the 2016–17 season, they needed to defeat FC SKA-Khabarovsk away to achieve 4th place and a spot in the promotion play-offs for the Russian Premier League, but the game ended with a score of 2–2, leaving Tambov in 5th place. At the end of the next 2017–18 season they secured 4th place and a chance to play in the promotion play-offs.[1] They lost both legs of the play-offs to FC Amkar Perm and remained in the FNL.

On 11 May 2019, the club secured a top-two finish in the 2018–19 Russian National Football League and subsequently promotion to the Russian Premier League for the 2019–20 season, for the first time in the club's history.[2] For Premier League football purposes, they will share ground at the Mordovia Arena in Saransk, 184 miles away.

Players

Current squad

As of 3 February 2021, according to the RFPL 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
1 GK  RUS Sergey Ryzhikov
8 MF  RUS Anton Kilin
13 DF  RUS Vitali Shakhov
17 DF  RUS Zurab Gigashvili
18 DF  ARM Varazdat Haroyan
19 MF  GHA Mohammed Rabiu
25 MF  RUS Pavel Karasyov
30 DF  RUS Soslan Takazov
No. Pos. Nation Player
42 MF  NGA Lawrence Nicholas
44 DF  RUS Nikita Chicherin
73 GK  RUS Nikita Chagrov
81 MF  RUS Vladimir Kabakhidze
90 FW  RUS Dmitri Merenchukov
— DF  RUS Savely Kozlov (on loan from Orenburg)
— FW  RUS Artyom Arkhipov

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 Adessoye Oyewole (at Orenburg)

Coaching staff

Honours

Russian Football National League

Russian Professional Football League

References
  1. "Yenisey and Tambov will play in the playoffs" (in Russian). Russian Football National League. 6 May 2018.
  2. ""Tambov" and "Sochi" went to the Premier League!" (in Russian). Russian Football National League. 11 May 2019.
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