FC Tver

FC Tver (Russian: ФК «Тверь») is an association football club from Tver, Russia, firstly founded in 1908 as FC Volga Tver. It has played professionally in 1937, 1949, 1953 to 1956, 1958 to 1999, 2004 to 2017, and from 2020. In 1992–1995, the club was called Trion-Volga Tver.

FC Tver
Full nameFootball Club Tver
Founded1908
GroundKhimik Stadium
Capacity8,331
OwnerGovernment of Tver Oblast
ManagerVadim Garanin
LeagueRussian Professional Football League, Group 2
FC Volga Tver old logo, until 2017

It played on the second-highest level (Soviet First League and Russian First Division) in 1957 to 1962, 1964 to 1969 and 1992. Another Tver team, Spartak Tver, existed from 1937 to 1957 and played in the Soviet First League in 1949 and from 1953 to 1956.

The club was dissolved at the end of the 2016–17 season due to lack of financing.[1]

On April 2020, the club was reestablished as professional football club named FC Tver, with financial support from Tver Oblast, and FC Arsenal Tula.[2][3][4] It was licensed for the Russian Professional Football League for 2020–21 season.

Current squad

As of 28 January 2021, according to the PFL 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 Anton Fedyushkin
4 DF  RUS Aleksei Ivanov
6 DF  RUS Ivan Kozlov
7 FW  RUS Igor Tursunov
8 MF  RUS Yuri Petrovskiy
9 FW  RUS Nikita Frasinyuk
10 MF  RUS Yaroslav Ivakin
11 MF  RUS Aleksei Orlov
15 FW  RUS Daniil Yerofeyev
17 FW  RUS Anton Starostin
18 DF  RUS Nikita Melnikov
20 MF  RUS Mikhail Sentyurin
21 DF  RUS Dmitri Rashchupkin
22 MF  RUS Sergei Sharov
No. Pos. Nation Player
23 MF  RUS Kirill Ushatov
32 MF  RUS Igor Varres
33 FW  RUS Artyom Baydatsky
37 DF  RUS Aleksei Rodinkov
44 DF  RUS Ilya Serikov
66 DF  RUS Artyom Sobol
69 MF  RUS Danila Ananko
77 GK  RUS Kirill Dvoretskiy
84 GK  RUS Dmitri Gerasimov
88 DF  RUS Dmitri Starodub
98 FW  RUS Aleksandr Dzhumayev
99 MF  RUS Nurudin Gadzhinazarov
— MF  RUS Ilya Kalendrus

Notable players

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

References
  1. Город простился с профессиональным футболом (in Russian). Komsomolskaya Pravda. 5 June 2017.
  2. "Правительство Тверской области". www.region.tver.ru. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  3. "В Твери намерены создать детскую академию футбола при поддержке тульского "Арсенала"". ТАСС. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  4. В этом году на стадион «Химик» в Твери вернется профессиональный футбол
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