FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod

FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod was a Russian football club from Nizhny Novgorod, founded in 1998. In 2008, FC Volga won the Ural-Povolzhye (Volga Region in Russian) zone of the Russian Second Division and advanced to the Russian First Division. In 2010 they promoted to the Russian Premier League. After the 2013–14 season, they were relegated to the second level once more. On 15 June 2016, the club was dissolved due to inability to service the accumulated debts.
History
The team was founded in 1963 after a merger of two teams from Gorky – Torpedo and Raketa. The team played in the Soviet Top League, where its best result was 14th place in 1964. The team was disbanded in 1984. In 1998, a new club called FC Elektronika Nizhny Novgorod was founded. It played in Russian Second Division. In 2004 it was renamed to Volga.
FC Torpedo-Viktoriya Nizhny Novgorod was another squad to claim the legacy of FC Volga Gorky.
In the 2015–16 season, Volga registered a reserve team FC Volga-Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod that entered the third-tier PFL. After Volga itself was dissolved, Volga-Olimpiyets became independent was renamed to FC Olimpiyets. It eventually was promoted to the Russian Premier League under the name FC Nizhny Novgorod and is called, as of 2023, FC Pari Nizhny Novgorod.
League history
Russia
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! Season
! Div.
! Pos.
! Pl.
! W
! D
! L
! GS
! GA
! P
!Cup
!colspan=2|Europe
!Top Scorer (League)
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||1999||rowspan="2"|KFK(4th), "Povolzhye"||7||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|-
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||2000||bgcolor="lightgreen"|3||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|-
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||2001||rowspan="8"|3rd, "Ural-Povolzhye"||9||34||13||10||11||54||43||49||-||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Kuznetsov – 12
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||2002||6||30||12||8||10||40||38||44||R256||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Andrei Podolyanchik – 9
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||2003||14||38||11||5||22||41||62||38||R256||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Andrei Podolyanchik – 14
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||2004||12||36||12||9||15||41||46||45||R512||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Georgiev – 9
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||2005||6||36||15||12||9||44||30||57||R256||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Udodov – 7
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||2006||7||24||10||8||6||31||23||38||R512||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Loginov – 5
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||2007||4||26||15||5||6||52||30||50||R256||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Kaynov – 11
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||2008||bgcolor="lightgreen"|1||34||23||9||2||73||23||78||R512||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Prokofyev – 17
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||2009||rowspan="2"|2nd||4||38||17||14||7||54||32||65||R16||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Khazov – 10
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||2010||bgcolor="lightgreen"|2||38||19||14||5||62||25||71||R64||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Martsvaladze – 21
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||2011–12||rowspan="3"| 1st||14||44||12||5||27||37||60||41||SF||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Bibilov – 7
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||2012–13||12||30||7||8||15||28||46||29||R32||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Sapogov – 9
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||2013–14||bgcolor="red"|15||30||6||3||21||22||65||21||R32||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Sarkisov, Bibilov – 3
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||2014–15||rowspan="2"| 2nd||13||34||12||4||18||44||57||40||R64||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Sarkisov – 12
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||2015–16||10||38||14||9||15||39||37||51|| R32 ||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|
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Farm club
No farm club
Notable players
Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Volga.
Russia
Evgeni Aldonin
Dmitri Bulykin
Taras Burlak
Andrei Karyaka
Denis Kolodin
Ilya Maksimov
Dmitri Sychev
Andrey Yeshchenko
Europe
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Petar Jelić
Mersudin Ahmetović
Israel
Dani Bondar
Netherlands
Romeo Castelen
Poland
Marcin Kowalczyk
Piotr Polczak
Romania
Mihăiţă Pleşan
Adrian Ropotan
South & Central America
Jamaica
Luton Shelton
Former USSR countries
Artur Sarkisov
Vagif Javadov
Anton Putsila
Igor Stasevich
Gogita Gogua
Gia Grigalava
Gocha Khojava
Otar Martsvaladze
Giorgi Navalovski
Edik Sadzhaya
Lasha Salukvadze
Mate Vatsadze
Valerii Kichin
Vitalie Bordian
Simeon Bulgaru
Sanzhar Tursunov
Managers
Sergey Frantsev (2005)
Sergei Petrenko (7 Dec 2007 – 5 June 2009)
Sergei Perednya (interim) (5 June 2009 – 31 Dec 2009)
Khazret Dyshekov (20 July 2009–09)
Aleksandr Pobegalov (1 Jan 2010 – 7 May 2010)
Omari Tetradze (8 May 2010 – 15 June 2011)
Dmitri Cheryshev (16 June 2011 – 30 June 2012)
Gadzhi Gadzhiev (1 July 2012 – 26 Dec 2012)
Yuriy Kalitvintsev (19 Jan 2013 – 27 March 2014)
Andrei Talalayev (29 March 2014 – 15 June 2016)
References
External links
Official website
Association football clubs established in 1963
Association football clubs disestablished in 2016
Defunct football clubs in Russia
Sport in Nizhny Novgorod
1963 establishments in Russia
2016 disestablishments in Russia
Soviet Top League clubs