FC Yenisey Krasnoyarsk

The club was founded in 1937 as Lokomotiv Krasnoyarsk and spent one season in Class D of the Soviet league. In 1957 the club was re-formed and entered the Far East zone of Class B. In 1968 Lokomotiv was renamed Rassvet and, in 1970, Avtomobilist. In 1991 it became Metallurg, a title it held until February 2010 when it was renamed Metallurg-Yenisey (formally, Metallurg was excluded from the league and a new independent club Metallurg-Yenisey was admitted into the league).[1] In 2011, the club was renamed to Yenisey.[2] The club is named after the river of Yenisei, where Krasnoyarsk is located.

Yenisey (or their predecessors) never played in the Soviet Top League or Russian Premier League until 2018. Their best result in Soviet League was a 2nd position in Group 7 of Class B in 1959, while their best result in Russian history is the 3rd position in Russian National Football League in 2016–17 and 2017–18. Since the end of the Soviet Union the club has suffered relegation to the Second Division on five occasions, most recently in 2006. In the 2015–16 season, Yenisey took 16th spot in the FNL and should have been relegated, but one of the third-tier Russian Professional Football League zone winners, FC Smena Komsomolsk-na-Amure, refused to be promoted due to lack of financing, and Yenisey stayed in the FNL.[3] At the end of the 2016–17 season, Yenisey reached the Russian Premier League promotion play-offs, but lost to FC Arsenal Tula on away goals rule (2–1 at home, 0–1 away) and stayed in the FNL. Despite spending a portion of the next 2017–18 season in the top-two direct-promotion spot, by the end of the season Yenisey dropped into 3rd position and qualified for promotion play-offs again.[4] They defeated FC Anzhi Makhachkala 6–4 on aggregate in the promotion play-offs and were promoted to the Russian Premier League for the 2018–19 season for the first time in team's history.

They were relegated back to the second tier after one year in the Premier League.

Domestic history

Season	League									Russian Cup	Top goalscorer		Manager
	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P		Name	League
2010	2nd	11th	38	15	8	15	37	39	53	Second round	Aleksei Bazanov	14
2011–12	2nd	10th	48	17	15	16	53	53	66	Round of 32	Aleksei Bazanov	13
2012–13	2nd	10th	32	9	12	11	30	31	39	Quarter-finals	Sergei Pyatikopov Aleksei Bazanov	7
2013–14	2nd	13th	36	12	9	15	40	47	45	Fourth Round	Juan Lescano	7
2014–15	2nd	8th	34	11	9	14	39	42	42	Round of 32	Ilya Gultyayev	5
2015–16	2nd	16th	38	12	8	18	36	49	44	Round of 32	Juan Lescano	7
2016–17	2nd	3rd	38	19	6	13	54	42	63	Round of 16	Sergey Samodin	10
2017–18	2nd	3rd	38	25	6	7	68	32	81	Round of 16	Andrei Kozlov	15	Dmitri Alenichev
2018–19	1st	16th	30	4	8	18	24	55	20	Round of 16	Mikhail Kostyukov	4	Dmitri Alenichev
2019–20	2nd	14th	27	7	7	13	23	40	28	Round of 32	Andrei Kozlov	15	Alexander Alekseev Yuri Gazzaev

As of 25 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 1 GK  RUS Mikhail Oparin 2 DF  KGZ Valery Kichin 4 DF  RUS Valeri Ganus 5 DF  RUS Nikolay Markov 7 MF  RUS Aleksandr Zotov 8 MF  RUS Aleksandr Lomakin 9 FW  RUS Anzor Sanaya 10 MF  RUS Mikhail Komkov 12 MF  RUS Nikita Razdorskikh 13 MF  RUS Aleksandr Galimov 14 MF  RUS Maksim Semakin 15 DF  RUS Valeri Tskhovrebov 17 MF  RUS Yevgeni Pesikov 19 DF  RUS Konstantin Garbuz 20 MF  RUS Timur Sakharov 21 MF  RUS Yegor Ivanov 23 FW  ARG Juan Lescano

No. Pos. Nation Player 27 DF  RUS Pavel Rozhkov 29 MF  RUS Yaroslav Matviyenko 30 GK  RUS Dmitri Rebrov 32 MF  RUS Nikita Glushkov 33 DF  RUS Maksim Sukhomlinov 37 FW  RUS Fyodor Dvornikov 64 MF  RUS Oleg Lanin 77 MF  RUS Denis Samoylov 80 DF  RUS Artyom Abramov 81 MF  RUS Danila Polshikov 82 MF  RUS Aleksei Tretyakov 83 MF  RUS Aleksandr Kharitonov 84 DF  RUS Vladislav Kozhemyakin 85 MF  RUS Denis Churkin 86 FW  RUS Danil Novikov 88 MF  RUS Denis Shnitov 89 GK  RUS Andrei Shirokov

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 — FW  RUS Ilya Karpuk (at Volga Ulyanovsk)

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

• Official website (in Russian)