FC Ural Yekaterinburg

FC Ural Yekaterinburg is a Russian professional association football club based in Yekaterinburg. They play in the Russian Premier League.
History
The club was founded in 1930 and was known as Avangard (1930–1948, 1953–1957), Zenit (1944–1946), Mashinostroitel (1958–1959), and Uralmash (1949–1952, 1960–2002). The club is currently named after the Russian region of Ural, where Yekaterinburg is the capital.
The club participated in the Soviet championships beginning in 1945. They mostly played in the higher leagues, with the exception of the 1969 season spent in the lowest league. They were the easternmost Russian SFSR club to compete in the third Soviet division (the easternmost Soviet club overall was FC Kairat from Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR).
Uralmash reached the quarterfinals of the Soviet Cup in 1965/66, 1967/68, and 1990/91.
After the dissolution of the USSR, Uralmash were entitled to enter the Russian Top Division and played there for five seasons, from 1992 to 1996. Their best result was eighth position in 1993 and 1995. Despite reaching the semifinal of the Intertoto Cup in 1996, Uralmash finished 16th out of 18 in the league and were relegated. In 1997 another relegation followed, now to the Second Division. From 1998 to 2002 Uralmash played in the Second Division. After winning promotion, the club was renamed Ural. In 2003, the team were relegated from the Russian First Division, but were promoted again after the 2004 season. The team's best finish in the First Division was third in 2006.
Domestic
Current squad
First team
Out on loan
Reserve team
Retired numbers
23 – Pyotr Khrustovsky, forward (2003) – posthumous honor
Coaching staff
Head coach – Yuri Matveyev
Assistant coach – Vladimir Kalashnikov, Andrei Danilov, Ivan Jovanovski
Goalkeeping coach – Andrei Shpilyov
Notable players
Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Ural/Uralmash.
Russia/USSR
Viktor Shishkin
Arsen Adamov
Nikita Chernov
Yury Gazinsky
Yuri Matveyev
Roman Pavlyuchenko
Aleksandr Podshivalov
Ilya Pomazun
Aleksandr Ryazantsev
Oleg Shatov
Igor Smolnikov
Fyodor Smolov
Oleg Veretennikov
Dmitry Yefremov
Artyom Yenin
Aleksandr Yerokhin
Aleksandr Yushin
Anton Zabolotny
Denis Zubko
Former USSR countries
Armenia
Artak Aleksanyan
Edgar Manucharyan
Artur Sarkisov
Varazdat Haroyan
Belarus
Andrey Chukhley
Alyaksandr Hrapkowski
Alyaksandr Martynovich
Nikolay Zolotov
Aleh Shkabara
Yuri Zhevnov
Estonia
Aleksandr Dmitrijev
Georgia
Giorgi Chanturia
Kazakhstan
Vitaliy Abramov
Sergei Anashkin
Renat Dubinskiy
Vitaliy Kafanov
Konstantin Ledovskikh
Aleksandr Sklyarov
Georgy Zhukov
Lithuania
Arūnas Klimavičius
Robertas Poškus
Moldova
Igor Bugaiov
Serghei Rogaciov
Tajikistan
Vitaliy Levchenko
Igor Vityutnev
Anatoli Volovodenko
Shamsiddin Shanbiev
Ukraine
Denys Kulakov
Oleksandr Pomazun
Dmytro Topchiev
Uzbekistan
Vladimir Radkevich
Yevgeni Safonov
Vladimir Shishelov
Oston Urunov
Europe
Hungary
Vladimir Koman
Iceland
Sölvi Ottesen
Israel
Toto Tamuz
Norway
Stefan Strandberg
Poland
Rafał Augustyniak
Michał Kucharczyk
Maciej Wilusz
Romania
Eric Bicfalvi
South America
Chile
Gerson Acevedo
Africa
Cameroon
Petrus Boumal
Congo
Emmerson
Zambia
Chisamba Lungu
Managers
Pavel Gusev (2003–04)
Aleksandr Pobegalov (2005–09)
Vladimir Fedotov (2009–10)
Boris Stukalov (2010)
Dmitriy Ogai (2011)
Yuri Matveyev (2011)
Aleksandr Pobegalov (2012)
Sergei Bulatov (2012)
Pavel Gusev (2012–13)
Oleg Vasilenko (2013)
Aleksandr Tarkhanov (2013–15)
Viktor Goncharenko (2015)
Vadim Skripchenko (2015–2016)
Honours
Domestic
Soviet Second League / Russian Football National League
Champions (2): 1990, 2012–13
Russian Second Division
Champions (2): 2002, 2004
Russian Cup
Runners-up (2): 2016–17, 2018–19
Invitational
ANFA Cup
Champions (1): 1989
References
External links
Association football clubs established in 1930
Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast
Sports clubs and teams in Yekaterinburg
1930 establishments in Russia
Soviet Top League clubs