FC Rubin Kazan
The FK Rubin Kazan (Russian Футбольный клуб Рубин Казань; Tatar Рубин Казан футбол төркеме; engl FC Rubin Kazan, . Scientific transliteration Futbol'nyj club Rubin Kazan ' ) is a Russian football club from Kazan, the capital of the autonomous republic of Tatarstan. Rubin Kazan plays since 2003 in Russia's highest league ( Premjer league) and has been in the seasons 2008 and 2009 Russian Champion and in 2012 Russian Cup winner.
- 3.1 National
- 3.2 International
History
Soviet Union
In 1936 was founded a football team in the environment of the Kazan factory Gorbunov, that rapidly became the most numerous branch of Kazan club. They first played under the name Komanda Leninskowo Rajona ( "Team of the Rajons Lenin " ), Krylia Sovetov, Dinamo, Iskra and finally since 1964 Rubin.
As the actual birth year of the professional association, the then club Iskra is the year 1958., As he was known from 1958 to 1964, made his debut in the class B of the Russian Soviet Republic.
Russia
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the club was called until 1993, Rubin - TAN and was admitted to the second Russian league. From 1994 to 1997 the team from Tatarstan played in the third Russian league. In 2002, the championship of the Second Division was won under the leadership of head coach neuverpflichteten Gurban Berdiýew and the team grew the first time in the Premjer League, the highest Russian professional league. Rubin ended his first season in the Russian top flight in 3rd place and qualified directly for the UEFA Cup in 2004/05. In the second preliminary round of the club difference against Rapid Vienna (2-0 in Vienna, 0-3 in the home game ), against which they had to compete in the third round of the Intertoto Cup 2007 (1:3 in Vienna, 0-0 Kazan ) and again lost and therefore not qualified for the UEFA Cup in 2007 /08. Before that they had prevailed in the second round against the Hungarian representative Zalaegerszegi TE FC.
In the 2008 season the team was for the first time Russian champion after seven wins were recorded in the first seven games of the season. The title of the team secured early by a 2-1 success at Saturn Ramenskoje.
In the season 2009, this success could be repeated by a 0-0 draw against Zenit St. Petersburg in the penultimate game. This was possible because Spartak Moscow Matchday lost in the Moscow derby against CSKA Moscow 2:3. 2009 for the first time the finals of the Russian Cup was reached. On May 31, 2009 game against CSKA Moscow was lost 0-1 at the Arena Khimki. Due to the profit of the championship in 2008 and the associated direct qualification for the Champions League, the team participated in the 2009/10 season in part for the first time at this. In the second group match, the defending champion FC Barcelona was, sensationally defeated in the Nou Camp 2-1. The scorers for the team from Tatarstan were Alexander Rjasanzew and Gökdeniz Karadeniz. In the group stage, the team took finally the third place behind FC Barcelona and Inter Milan, Dynamo Kiev before. As a result, Rubin played in the Europa League 2009/10, where the team from Kazan initially could conquer the Round of the Hapoel Tel Aviv and in the subsequent second round VfL Wolfsburg defeated after extra time. In addition, it was announced that this season the players in the penultimate round still waiting for three months outstanding salaries despite higher funding by participating in the UEFA Champions League.
In January 2010, the CIS Cup was won after the Kazakh representative of FK Aktobe was defeated 5-2 in the final. After the 2010 season, Rubin finished third in the league Premjer. By winning the championship in 2009 and the associated direct qualification for the group stage of the Champions League 2010/ 11, the team took the second year in a row participating in this. In the group phase, the team took third place behind FC Barcelona and FC Copenhagen and Panathinaikos Athens. This Rubin played in the Europa League 2010/11 on, where the team was eliminated in the Round of against FC Twente Enschede.
By the third place of the 2010 season, the team took from Kazan at the third qualifying round of the Champions League 2011/ 12, where Dynamo Kiev could be eliminated from the Ukraine. However, the team was defeated in the subsequent play-off round of the French representatives of Olympique Lyon. Thus Rubin Kazan took part in the group stage of the Europa League in part 2011/12, where the second place behind the Greek club PAOK Thessaloniki could be demonstrated in group A. In the Round of Rubin Kazan failed to Olympiakos Piraeus. In the same year, the first national cup victory was celebrated when the team of Dynamo Moscow in the Central Stadium in Yekaterinburg was defeated 1-0 by the hit by Roman Eremenko on May 9 in the final.
In the subsequent European campaign, the association claimed in the group stage of the Europa League uA against Inter Milan and eliminated as group winners in the sixteenth and first knockout round, the Spanish representatives Atlético Madrid, the defending champion, and UD Levante. In the quarter- finals of the 3-2 win against Chelsea was not enough after a 1-3 defeat at Stamford Bridge to reach the semi-finals. Nevertheless, the European Cup 2012/13 season was thus one of the most successful seasons in the club's history.
After successes in the qualifying rounds and in the play-offs, Rubin reached the group stage of the Europa League 2013 / 14th They occupied in their group the first place and thus qualified for the knockout stage, where they at Betis Seville, where they were inferior and were eliminated from the competition, met. On 20 December 2013, the Turkmen coach Gurban Berdiýew was released after 12 years in office.
Stadium
The club plays its home matches at the 30,133 -seat Central Stadium in Kazan, which was opened on 25 June 1960.
Achievements
National
- Championship Champion of Russia: 2008, 2009
- Champion of Russia in the First Division (equivalent to 2 league): 2002
- Champion of Russia in the Second Division (equivalent to 3 League ): 1997
- Cup Russian Super Cup winner: 2010, 2012
- Russian Cup winner: 2012
- Russian Cup finalist: 2009
Internationally
- Group stage in the Champions League: 2009 /10 2010/11 October 2009: 2-1 away win over defending champions FC Barcelona
Current squad 2013/14
Well-known former players
Russia and former Soviet Union
- Georgia Mikheil Aschwetia
- Georgia Giorgi Kinkladse
- Georgia Dato Kwirkwelia
- Georgia Nukri Rewischwili
- Lithuania Giedrius Arlauskis
- Latvia Vitālijs Astafjevs
- Russia Roman Adamov
- Russia Denis Bojarinzew
- Russia Alexander Bucharow
- Russia Vladimir Djadjun
- Russia Lenar Gilmullin
- Russia Alexei Medvedev
- Russia Alexei Rebko
- Russia Alexander Rjasanzew
- Russia Roman Sharonov
- Russia Roman Shirokov
- Russia Sergei Semak
- Russia Andrei Chernyshev
- Turkmenistan Vladimir Baýramow
- Turkmenistan Pawel Harçik
- Uzbekistan Marat Bikmaev
- Ukraine Serhiy Rebrov
Europe
- Croatia Stjepan Tomas
- Alexei Eremenko Finland
- Italy Salvatore Bocchetti
- Poland Rafał Murawski
- Gabriel Giurgiu Romania
- Savo Milošević Serbia
- Veljko Paunovic Serbia
- Serbia Branimir Petrović
- Spain Iván Marcano
- Spain Pablo Orbaiz
- Spain Jonatan Valle
- Czech Republic Tomáš Čížek
- Czech Republic Richard Dostálek
- Czech Republic Jiří Novotný
- Czech Republic Adam Petrouš
- Turkey Gökhan
Rest of the world
- Argentina Cristian Ansaldi
- Argentina Alejandro Domínguez
- Brazil Gabriel
- Brazil Roni
- Brazil Carlos Eduardo
- Ecuador Christian Noboa
- Ecuador Wálter Chalá
- Paraguay Nelson Valdez
- Uruguay Andrés Scotti
- Venezuela Salomon Rondon
- Jamaica Damani Ralph
- Gambia Ebou Sillah
- Nigeria Obafemi Martins
- Tunisia Selim Benachour
- Israel Bebars Nathko
Well-known former coach
- Russia Pavel Sadyrin
- Turkmenistan Gurban Berdiýew