FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod

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

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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

• Russia Evgeni Aldonin
• Russia Dmitri Bulykin
• Russia Taras Burlak
• Russia Andrei Karyaka
• Russia Denis Kolodin
• Russia Ilya Maksimov
• Russia Dmitri Sychev
• Russia Andrey Yeshchenko ; ; Europe ;Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Bosnia and Herzegovina Petar Jelić
• Bosnia and Herzegovina Mersudin Ahmetović ;Israel
• Israel Dani Bondar ;Netherlands
• Netherlands Romeo Castelen ;Poland
• Poland Marcin Kowalczyk
• Poland Piotr Polczak ;Romania
• Romania Mihăiţă Pleşan
• Romania Adrian Ropotan ; ;South & Central America ;Jamaica
• Jamaica Luton Shelton ; ;Former USSR countries
• Armenia Artur Sarkisov
• Azerbaijan Vagif Javadov
• Belarus Anton Putsila
• Belarus Igor Stasevich
• Georgia Gogita Gogua
• Georgia Gia Grigalava
• Georgia Gocha Khojava
• Georgia Otar Martsvaladze
• Georgia Giorgi Navalovski
• Georgia Edik Sadzhaya
• Georgia Lasha Salukvadze
• Georgia Mate Vatsadze
• Kyrgyzstan Valerii Kichin
• Moldova Vitalie Bordian
• Moldova Simeon Bulgaru
• Tajikistan Rustam Yatimov
• Uzbekistan Sanzhar Tursunov

Managers

• Russia Sergey Frantsev (2005)
• Russia Sergei Petrenko (7 Dec 2007 – 5 June 2009)
• Russia Sergei Perednya (interim) (5 June 2009 – 31 Dec 2009)
• Russia Khazret Dyshekov (20 July 2009–09)
• Russia Aleksandr Pobegalov (1 Jan 2010 – 7 May 2010)
• Georgia Omari Tetradze (8 May 2010 – 15 June 2011)
• Russia Dmitri Cheryshev (16 June 2011 – 30 June 2012)
• Russia Gadzhi Gadzhiev (1 July 2012 – 26 Dec 2012)
• Ukraine Yuriy Kalitvintsev (19 Jan 2013 – 27 March 2014)
• Russia Andrei Talalayev (29 March 2014 – 15 June 2016)

References

References

1. FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod. link. (15 June 2016)