FC Rostov

The FK Rostov (Russian Футбольный клуб Ростов, scientific transliteration: FK Rostov ) is a Russian football club based in the southern Russian city of Rostov -on-Don.

History

Soviet Union

The club was founded in May 1930 and was until 1953 the name tractor Rostov. In 1950, the team first participated in the League of the Russian SFSR operation. As part of the reform leagues, the team from Rostov was renamed in 1953 in torpedo and then played in Group B of the Soviet championship. Just four years later, the club name was changed again, this time in Rostselmash after the main sponsor and the largest agricultural machinery manufacturer in Russia and Eastern Europe Rostselmash. 1964 reached Rostov took first place in the zone championships in Group B, hit the play-off match Terek Grozny and rose to the second highest Soviet League, where the team stayed until 1969. Between 1970 and 1974, Rostov did not take part in the game mode and just played some regional tournaments. Only in 1975 the team took the league operating again and started again after reforms in the third highest league. After 10 years, the club reached 1985, the long-awaited goal to return to play in the second division. Meanwhile, there was a considerable Stadium and a private sports school of that ever- young and talented players came into the first team. In the said season Rostselmash managed 26 games without defeat. In the second division the team played the best attacking football and scored 86 goals in his first season - most of the league - and finished at the end of the seventh place in the table. Until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the team played in the second-highest Soviet league.

Russia

After the collapse of the Soviet Union there was from 1992, the new Russian Supreme League, in which the team Rostov was recorded and could reach the eighth place in the table in the first season. The second season was less successful for the club, as many good players move abroad and others were injured, so that at the end of the season had to be taken up the bitter transition to the second division. Contrary to all expectations, the club won against great competition as Zenit St Petersburg or the Sokol Saratov and managed its chances of promotion. In the 1998 Rostov reached the greatest success in their history with the sixth place in the table and the associated right to participate in the UEFA Intertoto Cup. There, the club met in the semifinals on one of the largest and most famous European football clubs: Juventus. Two years later the club again reached the " Strohhalmcup " and was eliminated by the French representative AJ Auxerre. From 2002 to 2005 Ivan Savvidis was president of the association. 2003, the club reached the final of the Russian Cup, but which was lost on June 15 in the capital's Lokomotiv Stadium 0-1 against Spartak Moscow. In this season so far last name change was made in FK Rostov. 2007 Rostov experienced a very unsuccessful year. Only two wins this season and the last place in the table left the club after 14 years for the first time again relegated to the second league. After just one season in the second division the team achieved in the year 2008 the chances of promotion to the Premjer League. In the 2012/13 season, the club saved to 13th place in the table ( relegation zone ). In the relegation Rostov met SKA- Energiya Khabarovsk and secured with two wins in the league.

Name Changes

Tractor (1930-1953)
Torpedo (1953-1957)
Rostselmash (1957-2003)
FK (since 2003)

Stadium

The FK Rostov plays its home matches at the 15,840 -seat Olimp- 2 of Rostov, which was opened in 1930. Early 2000s was the transformation into a pure football stadium without a running track, which is designed to host football matches.

Achievements

Master of the 1st Division: 2008
Russian Cup finalist: 2003

Current squad

Well-known former players

Russia and CIS

Dmitri Kruglov Estonia
Georgia Rati Aleksidse
Georgia Mikheil Aschwetia
Georgia Otar Chisaneischwili
Kazakhstan Andrei Karpovich
Kazakhstan Mikhail Rozhkov
Kazakhstan Samat Smaqow
Latvia Aleksandrs Koļinko
Latvia Juris Laizāns
Latvia Vīts Rimkus
Lithuania Robertas Poškus
Russia Roman Adamov
Russia Sergei Andreyev
Russia Vladimir Djadjun
Russia Roman Garrus
Russia Spartak Gognijew
Russia Oleg Ivanov
Russia Alexander Karatayev
Russia Denis Kolodin
Russia Yuri Kovtun
Russia Dmitri Loskow
Russia Alexei Rebko
Ukraine Yuri Maximov

Europe

Bulgaria Chavdar Jankow
England David Bentley
Montenegro Ivica Kralj
Romania Razvan Cociş
Romania Sorin Ghionea
Serbia Danko Lazović
Serbia Albert Nađ
Serbia Branimir Petrović
Serbia Nenad Šljivić
Czech Republic Martin Horák
Czech Republic Martin Lejsal
Czech Republic Roman Lengyel
Czech Republic Michal Papadopulos

South America

Africa

Isaac Okoronkwo Nigeria
Tunisia Anis Boussaidi

Asia

North Korea Hong Yong -jo

Well-known former coach

Ukraine Pavlo Yakovenko
Ukraine Volodymyr Ljutyj
Ukraine Oleh Protasov

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