FC Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast
The OAO FK Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast and FK Ural Yekaterinburg (Russian ОАО ФК Урал Свердловская область or ОАО ФК Урал Екатеринбург ) is a Russian football club was established in 1930 in Yekaterinburg Sverdlovsk Oblast. Under its old name Uralmash Swerdlwosk or Yekaterinburg was the Club 1969 Soviet and Russian first division from 1992 to 1996 and 1996 semi-finalist of the UEFA Intertoto Cup. After a few years in the third-class 2nd Division played the club since 2005 continuously in the middle of the second Russian league, the 1st Division, to return to the Premjer league after the season was celebrated in 2012/13.
USSR
The association was created in 1930 by the under construction Uralmash plant in the former Sverdlovsk and was named most of the time after that. First names were Uralmaschstroja 1930-33 (Russian Уралмашстроя ), 1933 with opening of the plant up to the Second World War Uralmaschsawoda (Russian Уралмашзавода ). In the 1940er/50er years, the club usually called Avangard (1943, 1947/48, 1953-57, Russian Авангард ), but also Zenit ( 1944-46, Russian Зенит ) Maschinostroitel ( 1958/59, Russian Машиностроитель ) and also first Uralmash 1949-52 (Russian Уралмаш ). In the early years of the club at the city championship of Sverdlovsk participated and was in 1935/36 city champions. Immediately after the Second World War, the club played in the second division of the USSR. In 1950, the number of seasons the league has been massively reduced, the club was excluded, but resumed in 1953. In 1962 the club won its season of second division, in the subsequent promotion round to the other four first season was not enough, third place for advancement to the highest Union League. In the 1960s, however, the club reached, followed by two quarter-final of the Soviet Cup ( 1965/66 and 1967 /68), and succeeded as master of Union-wide 2nd league promotion to the top Soviet league, but to which was followed by the immediate descent. In the remaining years until the end of the USSR fluctuated Club 2-3 league, only in the last years of the Soviet Union, we took the club back uphill. 1990/91 reached Uralmash again the quarter-finals of the Cup of the USSR and was able to qualify in third place last season, the second-rate first league of the USSR for the first season of the highest division of the Russian Championship.
Russian Championship
In the Russian championship, the club usually could hold in midfield. In 1992 Uralmaschs striker Yuri Matveyev was Russian scorer, but the club suffered heavily from the financial difficulties of its owner Uralmash. 1995 after qualifying for the UEFA Intertoto Cup 1996. Yet lost the club between the seasons 1995 and 1996, the core of his team. Matveyev went to CSKA Moscow goalkeeper Valeri Gorodow to Fakel Voronezh, also Captain and Chief of the Defence Alexei Juschow left the club; Nevertheless, the association in the UI Cup prevailed among other things against the CSKA Sofia and Racing Strasbourg and failed in the semi-finals only to the away goals rule. In the championship, it was worse and the team rose from the 16th, after 1997, the immediate relegation from the first division followed in the third-class second division. 2003 declared Uralmash the end of the support of the club, the renamed to FK Ural. The Ural season of the 2nd Division was won by the club several times, but failed on a regular basis to the license conditions, to the team in 2004 as one of the season champions of the 2nd Division in the 1st Division climb, where the club since holding in the upper midfield. The highlight of the years since 2004, was the semi-finals of the Russian Cup 2007/ 08, where the team 0-1 away failed to Amkar Perm.
In the 2012/13 season of FK Ural could after a permanent increase, already at the third last game to celebrate the step into the Premier League. On the second last game was even the victory firmly in the FNL.
Leagues and Rankings
USSR
Russia
(green = 1st League, yellow = 2 League (1st Division), pink = 3 League (2nd division); * First of Season 4 Class B / Russian SFSR, third in the final round of the season winner. )
Current squad 2013/14
Well-known former players
Russia and CIS
- Armenia Artak Aleksanyan
- Estonia Aleksandr Dmitriev
- Lithuania Arūnas Klimavičius
- Lithuania Robertas Poškus
- Moldova Igor Bugaiov
- Moldova Serghei Rogaciov
- Russia Yevgeny Pomasan
- Russia Vladimir Schischelow
Europe
- Israel Toto Tamuz
- Serbia Zoran Kostic
- Serbia Branimir Petrović
Well-known former coach
- Kazakhstan Dmitri Ogai