# FC Pari Nizhny Novgorod

FC Pari Nizhny Novgorod (Russian: ФК «Пари Нижний Новгород»), also known as FC Pari NN or simply Nizhny Novgorod is a Russian professional football club from Nizhny Novgorod, founded in 2015. It made its debut in the Russian Premier League in the 2021–22 season.

## History

The club has been known under different names:
* 2015–2016: FC Volga-Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod
* 2016–2018: FC Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod
* 2018–2022: FC Nizhny Novgorod
* Since 2022: FC Pari Nizhny Novgorod
In the 2015–16 season, it began to play in the third-tier Russian Professional Football League. It was founded as a farm club for FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod. On 15 June 2016, the parent club Volga was dissolved, with Olimpiyets becoming the top club in Nizhny Novgorod. At the end of the 2016–17, Olimpiyets won their PFL zone and were promoted to the second-level Russian Football National League. At the end of the 2018–19 season, they qualified for the Russian Premier League promotion play-offs, but lost to PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara with an aggregate score of 2–3.
In the 2020–21 season, the club finished 3rd in FNL. As the second-placed club FC Orenburg failed to receive a Premier League license due to issues with their stadium, Nizhny Novgorod was promoted to the RPL for the first time for the 2021–22 season.
Former Nigeria striker Sylvester Igboun suspended his contract with the team because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
On 10 June 2022, the club announced that the name of the club will be changed to FC Pari Nizhny Novgorod (or Pari NN for short) due to a sponsorship deal with a bookmaker Pari, previously known as Paribet. The name change was approved by the Russian Football Union on the same day. Pari NN finished the 2022–23 season in 14th place, qualifying for relegation play-offs against FC Rodina Moscow. After winning the first leg of the play-offs away with the score of 3–0, Pari lost 0–2 at home and won 3–2 on aggregate, retaining their Premier League spot.
In the 2023–24 season, Pari NN finished 14th once again, qualifying for the relegation play-offs. Pari defeated Arsenal Tula with the aggregate score of 3–2 and remained in the Premier League.
On 26 December 2024, four players of Pari's Under-19 squad have been punished by the Russian Football Union for match fixing games of the Under-19 Russian Championship. Nikita Milyukov has been banned from football for life, Zakhar Mozin, Maksim Galochkin and Pavel Shalimov were banned for one year (with an additional four years suspended sentence and a two years probation), and Denis Chuprunov received a three-year suspended sentence ban with a two-year probation. None of the club management or staff were punished.

### League

| Season | League | League | League | League | League | League | League | League | League | League | Russian Cup | Europe | Top goalscorer | Top goalscorer | Manager |
| Season | Div. | Pos. | Pl. | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | P | Russian Cup | Europe | Name | Goals | Manager |
| 2015–16 | 3rd | 3rd | 27 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 38 | 19 | 19 | 53 | 2R | — | Igor Belyakov | 11 | Valeri Bogdanets Konstantin Galkin |
| 2016–17 | 3rd | 1st | 24 | 17 | 4 | 3 | 47 | 17 | 30 | 55 | 2R | — | Igor Gorbunov | 10 | Konstantin Galkin Nikolai Pisarev |
| 2017–18 | 2nd | 12th | 38 | 11 | 11 | 16 | 37 | 50 | -13 | 55 | R16 | — | Radik Khayrullov | 9 | Nikolai Pisarev |
| 2018–19 | 2nd | 4th | 38 | 18 | 8 | 12 | 41 | 31 | +10 | 62 | R16 | — | Maksim Paliyenko | 9 | Dmitri Cheryshev |
| 2019–20 | 2nd | 11th | 27 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 28 | 29 | -1 | 36 | R16 | — | Maksim Paliyenko Pavel Ignatovich Igor Portnyagin | 5 | Dmitri Cheryshev Robert Yevdokimov |
| 2020–21 | 2nd | 3rd | 42 | 27 | 7 | 8 | 67 | 28 | +39 | 88 | R16 | — | Timur Suleymanov | 9 | Robert Yevdokimov |
| 2021–22 | 1st | 11th | 30 | 8 | 9 | 13 | 26 | 39 | -13 | 33 | R16 | — | Nikolay Kalinsky | 8 | Aleksandr Kerzhakov |

## Current squad

As of 19 February 2025, according to the RPL website.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | RUS | Vadim Lukyanov |
| 2 | DF | RUS | Viktor Aleksandrov |
| 5 | MF | RUS | Konstantin Maradishvili (on loan from Lokomotiv Moscow) |
| 7 | MF | RUS | Vladislav Karapuzov |
| 8 | MF | MLI | Mamadou Maiga |
| 9 | FW | URU | Thiago Vecino (on loan from Vélez Sarsfield) |
| 10 | MF | RUS | Aleksandr Troshechkin |
| 11 | DF | BUL | Mateo Stamatov |
| 15 | DF | RUS | Aleksandr Ektov (on loan from Krasnodar) |
| 16 | DF | RUS | Yaroslav Krashevsky |
| 17 | FW | RUS | Stanislav Lapinsky |
| 19 | MF | RUS | Nikita Yermakov |
| 20 | FW | URU | Juan Manuel Boselli |
| 22 | DF | RUS | Nikita Kakkoyev |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 23 | DF | COL | Juan Castillo |
| 24 | DF | RUS | Kirill Gotsuk |
| 25 | DF | SVN | Sven Karič |
| 27 | FW | RUS | Vyacheslav Grulyov |
| 29 | MF | SVN | Luka Vešner Tičić |
| 30 | GK | RUS | Nikita Medvedev |
| 52 | DF | RUS | Artyom Chistyakov |
| 61 | DF | RUS | Yevgeny Lukinykh |
| 70 | DF | RUS | Maksim Shnaptsev |
| 78 | MF | RUS | Nikolay Kalinsky |
| 80 | MF | RUS | Valeri Tsarukyan |
| 86 | DF | RUS | Ilya Agapov (on loan from CSKA Moscow) |
| 96 | FW | RUS | Aleksandr Koksharov (on loan from Krasnodar) |
| 99 | DF | RUS | Stanislav Magkeyev |

### Other players under contract

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | DF | RUS | Danila Vedernikov |

### Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | GK | RUS | Ivan Kukushkin (at Baltika Kaliningrad until 30 June 2025) |
| — | DF | RUS | Kirill Glushchenkov (at Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino until 31 December 2025) |
| — | DF | ARM | Artyom Gyurdzhan (at KAMAZ until 30 June 2025) |
| — | MF | RUS | Kirill Bozhenov (at Chelyabinsk until 30 June 2025) |
| — | MF | RUS | Dmitry Kalayda (at Amkar Perm until 30 June 2025) |
| — | MF | RUS | Ilya Kukharchuk (at Rotor Volgograd until 30 June 2025) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | RUS | Anton Mukhin (at Dynamo Vladivostok until 31 December 2025) |
| — | MF | RUS | Ivan Sutugin (at Rotor Volgograd until 30 June 2025) |
| — | FW | UZB | Ruslanbek Jiyanov (at Navbahor until 31 December 2025) |
| — | FW | GEO | Nikoloz Kutateladze (at Dinamo Tbilisi until 31 December 2025) |
| — | FW | SRB | Ognjen Ožegović (at Sakaryaspor until 30 June 2025) |
| — | FW | GNB | Zé Turbo (at AEL Limassol until 30 June 2025) |

### Reserve team
## Club officials

    As of 16 June 2022
| Position | Staff |
| Chairman | Ravil Izmaylov |
| Director of Football | Igor Kudryashov |
| Manager | Artyom Gorlov |
| Assistant managers | Leonid Ablizin |
| First-team coach | Oleg Levin |
| Senior Goalkeeper Coach | Valeriy Kleimenov |
| Fitness coach | Dmitriy Polyanin Kirill Zhinkin |
| Chief analyst | Vladimir Savchenko |
| Video analyst | Andrey Ankudimov |
| Scout | Pavel Naboyshchikov |
| Head of Medical | Oleg Vinokurov |
| Doctor | Sergey Vjalitsyn |
| Masseur | Vyacheslav Vishnevskiy |
| Team Organiser | Aleksandr Trishin |