FC Volgar Astrakhan

The club has been known under following names:

• Pishchevik (food industry worker) (1925−1958)
• Trud (labour) (1958–59)
• Volgar (1960–94) (2012–)[2]
• Volgar-Gazprom (1995–2007), (2010–2012)
• Volgar-Gazprom-2 (2007–10)

Pishchevik played in the Second Group of the Soviet League. Trud (and later Volgar) played in the Class B (1958, 1960–1967), in Class A, Group 2 (1968–1969), in Class A, Group 1 (1970), Soviet First League (1971), Soviet Second League (1972–1990), Soviet Second League B (1991). In 1992 Volgar entered the Russian Second League, played in the Third League in 1994 (finished top and were promoted), returned to the Second League in 1995 and stayed until 1998. In 1998 Volgar-Gazprom were promoted and in 1999 they started playing in the Russian First Division. With the exception of the relegation for the 2004 season, Volgar-Gazprom had been in the First Division until 2006. The club was denied the professional licence and thus relegated to amateur level in 2007. Another club was organized called FC Volgar-Gazprom-2. The new club advanced to the Russian First Division for the 2009 season.

After the 2017–18 season, the club experienced financial difficulties and decided to be voluntarily relegated to the third-tier PFL.[3]

On 15 May 2020, the 2019–20 PFL season was abandoned due to COVID-19 pandemic in Russia. As Volgar was leading in their PFL zone at the time, they were promoted to the second-tier FNL for the 2020–21 season.[1][4]

As of 27 January 2021,[5] according to the 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  RUS Daniil Kornyushin (on loan from Krasnodar) 4 DF  RUS Roman Loktionov 5 DF  RUS Ivan Khomukha 6 DF  RUS Danila Vedernikov (on loan from Rostov) 7 MF  RUS Aleksei Pavlishin 10 FW  RUS Yuri Pugachyov 11 MF  RUS Aleksandr Bolonin 14 MF  RUS Andrei Zenin 15 FW  RUS Viktor Sergeyev 18 MF  RUS Andrei Mendel 19 DF  RUS Yelisey Krivokhizhin 20 MF  RUS Danil Poluboyarinov 22 GK  RUS Stanislav Antipin

No. Pos. Nation Player 23 MF  RUS Danila Yemelyanov (on loan from Ufa) 24 FW  RUS Ilya Belous 27 DF  RUS Yuri Zhuravlyov 28 FW  RUS Mikhail Nesterov 29 MF  RUS Artur Karpov 30 GK  RUS Dmitri Saganovich 71 MF  RUS Aleksandr Butenko 77 DF  RUS Aleksei Berdnikov 88 GK  RUS Daniil Stratan 95 FW  RUS Artyom Pogosov — MF  RUS Oleg Nikolayev (on loan from Rotor Volgograd) — FW  RUS Gamid Agalarov (on loan from Ufa) — FW  RUS Artyom Yusupov (on loan from Ural Yekaterinburg)

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 — GK  RUS Vladislav Yampolsky (at Kolomna)

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

• Official website (in Russian)