FC Torpedo Moscow
The FK Torpedo Moscow (Russian ФК Торпедо Москва ) is a football club based in the Russian capital Moscow. The club colors are black and white.
History
The club was founded in 1924 and made the following names:
- Proletarskaja kusniza ( Proletarian blacksmith ) ( 1924-1931 )
- AMO (1931-1932)
- CIS (1933-1935)
- Torpedo (1936-1995)
- Torpedo - Luzhniki (1996-1997)
- Torpedo (since 1998)
The black and whites had played their most successful period in the 1950s and 1960s, when Edward Strelzow (the " Russian Pelé " ) with them. The club won three Soviet league titles (1960, 1965, autumn 1976) and six Soviet Cup competitions (1949, 1952, 1960, 1968, 1972, 1986). The last national title was winning the cup in 1993. Torpedo has so far reached the quarter-finals three times in European Cup competitions. The team was during the Soviet era, the works team of the SIL / ЗиЛ - car plants and played in the Torpedo Stadium.
After the collapse of the USSR SIL sold the team. After SIL a new team called Torpedo Moscow in 1997, there was a time in Moscow two teams named Torpedo, with the new team (now FK Moscow) until 2002 the nickname SIL and then Metallurg wore. SIL then founded again in 2003 after the 1997 FK Torpedo - ZIL Moscow. Galt Torpedo Soviet times even than the fourth club in Moscow ( behind Spartak, CSKA and Dynamo ), the club has also fallen behind locomotive rapidly in the post- communist period. Meanwhile even considered to be " real brother club " FK Moscow ( as torpedo from the car factory SIL founded ) as a popular, for which there are two reasons: first, played the FK Moscow until his voluntary retirement in 2010 in the top division, while torpedo since the descent 2006 plays only second-rate. Secondly, the FK plays but also in the old Torpedo Stadium, which has since been renamed Edward Strelzow Stadium. Thus, the home is located in that area, in the torpedo was originally located. So it finally came to the splitting of the old torpedo fan scene.
Some fans remained faithful to the old name and then on a pilgrimage to the Luzhniki Stadium, while others remained loyal to the stadium and from then on regarded the Games of FK Moscow. Still others visited henceforth the games of both teams.
2008 Torpedo rose as the 18th Division from the 2nd Russian football in the top amateur class, the Moscow city amateur league. The club managed by winning the amateur city championship in 2009 its chances of promotion. 2010 saw the team win the championship zone of the 2nd Division and promoted to the first division.
Stadium
The club bears since 2009 its home games at the training ground of Edward Strelzow stadium from. This stadium has been played until the mid -1990s. In between was the home ground for the UEFA five-star stadium Luzhniki Stadium, which had greatly oversized for the now relatively low popularity of the team at the Moscow football fans.
Well-known former players
Russia and CIS
- Armenia Roman Berezovsky
- Estonia Enar Jääger
- Dmitri Kruglov Estonia
- Estonia Andres Oper
- Estonia Andrei Stepanov
- Estonia Vladimir Voskoboinikov
- Latvia Juris Laizāns
- Lithuania Ignas Dedura
- Lithuania Edgaras Jankauskas
- Lithuania Saulius Klevinskas
- Lithuania Aida Preikšaitis
- Lithuania Valdas Trakys
- Russia Dmitri Borodin
- Russia Dmitri Khokhlov
- Russia Pavel Mamajew
- Russia Denis Popov
- Russia Igor Semschow
- Russia Konstantin Zyryanov
- Soviet Union Leonid Buriak
- Soviet Union, Valentin Ivanov
- Soviet Union Anzor Kawasaschwili
- Soviet Union Slava Metreweli
- Soviet Union Yuri Sawitschew
- Soviet Union Sergei Schawlo
- Soviet Union Eduard Strelzow
- Soviet Union Vyacheslav Tschanow
- Soviet Union Valery Voronin
- Uzbekistan Alexander Henry
- Uzbekistan Farchadbek Irismetow
Europe
- Bosnia and Herzegovina Emir Spahić
- Macedonia Artim Polozani
- Poland Marcin Kuś
- Poland Grzegorz Piechna
- Romania George Florescu
- Serbia Nikola Jolović
Africa
- Abdou Jammeh Gambia