FC Volgar Astrakhan

History

The club has been known under following names:

• Pishchevik (food industry worker) (1925−1958)
• Trud (labour) (1958–59)
• Volgar (1960–94) (2012–)
• Volgar-Gazprom (1995–2007), (2010–2012)
• Volgar-Gazprom-2 (2007–10)

Pishchevik played in the Second Group of the Soviet League. Trud (and later Volgar) played in the Class B (1958, 1960–1967), in Class A, Group 2 (1968–1969), in Class A, Group 1 (1970), Soviet First League (1971), Soviet Second League (1972–1990), Soviet Second League B (1991). In 1992 Volgar entered the Russian Second League, played in the Third League in 1994 (finished top and were promoted), returned to the Second League in 1995 and stayed until 1998. In 1998 Volgar-Gazprom were promoted and in 1999 they started playing in the Russian First Division. With the exception of the relegation for the 2004 season, Volgar-Gazprom had been in the First Division until 2006. The club was denied the professional licence and thus relegated to amateur level in 2007. Another club was organized called FC Volgar-Gazprom-2. The new club advanced to the Russian First Division for the 2009 season.

After the 2017–18 season, the club experienced financial difficulties and decided to be voluntarily relegated to the third-tier PFL.

On 15 May 2020, the 2019–20 PFL season was abandoned due to COVID-19 pandemic in Russia. As Volgar was leading in their PFL zone at the time, they were promoted to the second-tier FNL for the 2020–21 season.

On 20 May 2024, Volgar was relegated to the Russian Second League. In the 2024–25 season, Volgar qualified to the promotion play-offs which they lost in a penalty shoot-out to FC Chelyabinsk.

Current squad

As of 11 September 2025, according to the Russian Second League website.

Out on loan

Notable past players

Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Volgar. ;Russia/USSR

• USSR Rinat Dasayev
• USSR RUS Dmitry Kuznetsov
• USSR Vasili Zhupikov
• Russia Mingiyan Beveyev
• Russia Viktor Bulatov
• Russia Ruslan Kambolov
• Russia Vladimir Lebed
• Russia Ramiz Mamedov
• Russia Yevgeny Morozov
• Russia Gennadiy Nizhegorodov
• Russia Aleksei Sutormin
• Russia Sergei Terekhov
• Russia Vladislav Ternavsky
• Russia Dmitry Vorobyov
• Russia Anton Zabolotny ;Former USSR countries
• Armenia Garnik Avalyan
• Armenia Stanislav Buchnev
• Armenia Manuk Kakosyan
• Armenia Tigran Petrosyan
• Armenia David Yurchenko
• AZE Gurban Gurbanov
• Belarus Barys Haravoy
• Belarus Vasily Khomutovsky
• KAZ Vitaliy Abramov
• KAZ Konstantin Ledovskikh
• KAZ Almir Mukhutdinov
• KAZ Roman Uzdenov
• Latvia Aleksandrs Isakovs
• Latvia Valērijs Ivanovs
• Latvia Ivans Lukjanovs
• Latvia Igors Sļesarčuks
• LIT Artūras Fomenka
• LIT Tadas Gražiūnas
• LIT Nerijus Radžius
• Moldova Ilie Cebanu
• Moldova Alexandr Covalenco
• Moldova Stanislav Namașco
• Tajikistan Farkhod Vosiyev
• UKR Oleksandr Svystunov
• UZB Sergey Andreyev
• UZB Gennadiy Sharipov

Danila Yashchuck

;Europe

• Bosnia and Herzegovina Dželaludin Muharemović
• Czech Republic Luboš Kalouda
• SVK Marek Hollý
• SVN Andrej Pečnik

References

References

1. (2019-10-29). "У астраханского "Волгаря" новый руководитель".
2. [http://volgar-fc.ru/news/allnews/3/439.html Sergey Sergeyev: Return the name of "Volgar"] {{webarchive. link. (2012-05-02)
3. Russian National Football League. link. (28 May 2018)
4. (19 June 2020). ""Волгарь" официально в ФНЛ". FC Volgar Astrakhan.
5. (20 May 2024). ""ДИНАМО" И "ХИМКИ" ДОСРОЧНО ВЫШЛИ В РПЛ. "ВОЛГАРЬ" ВЫЛЕТАЕТ ВО ВТОРУЮ ЛИГУ А". Russian First League.
6. (28 June 2025). ""Челябинск" вышел в Первую лигу, обыграв "Волгарь" в серии пенальти после переходных матчей". Sports.ru.