FC Ural Yekaterinburg

Ural Yekaterinburg

Full name	Football Club Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast or FC Ural Yekaterinburg
Nickname(s)	Bumblebees, Orange and Black, Uraltsy (Ural men)
Founded	September 1, 1930; 93 years ago (1930-09-01)
Ground	Ekaterinburg Arena
Capacity	35,061
Owner	Sverdlovsk Oblast
Chairman	Grigori Ivanov
Manager	Viktor Goncharenko
League	Russian Premier League
2022–23	Russian Premier League, 11th of 16
Website	Club website
Current season

FC Ural Yekaterinburg (Russian: ФК Урал) is a Russian professional association football club based in Yekaterinburg. They play in the Russian Premier League.^[1]

History

The club was founded in 1930 and was known as Avangard (1930–1948, 1953–1957), Zenit (1944–1946), Mashinostroitel (1958–1959), and Uralmash (1949–1952, 1960–2002).^{[citation needed]} The club is currently named after the Russian region of Ural, where Yekaterinburg is the capital.

The club participated in the Soviet championships beginning in 1945. They mostly played in the higher leagues, with the exception of the 1969 season spent in the lowest league. They were the easternmost Russian SFSR club to compete in the third Soviet division (the easternmost Soviet club overall was FC Kairat from Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR).^{[citation needed]}

Uralmash reached the quarterfinals of the Soviet Cup in 1965/66, 1967/68, and 1990/91.^{[citation needed]}

After the dissolution of the USSR, Uralmash were entitled to enter the Russian Top Division and played there for five seasons, from 1992 to 1996. Their best result was eighth position in 1993 and 1995. Despite reaching the semifinal of the Intertoto Cup in 1996, Uralmash finished 16th out of 18 in the league and were relegated. In 1997 another relegation followed, now to the Second Division. From 1998 to 2002 Uralmash played in the Second Division. After winning promotion, the club was renamed Ural. In 2003, the team were relegated from the Russian First Division, but were promoted again after the 2004 season. The team's best finish in the First Division was third in 2006.^{[citation needed]}

Domestic

Season	League									Russian Cup	Top goalscorer		Manager
	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P		Name	League
2008	2nd	4th	42	22	9	11	69	39	75	Fourth Round			Aleksandr Pobegalov
2009	2nd	8th	38	15	15	8	40	32	60	Round of 16	Vladimir Shishelov	16	Aleksandr Pobegalov Vladimir Fedotov
2010	2nd	7th	38	14	16	8	38	28	58	Fifth Round	Predrag Sikimić	7	Vladimir Fedotov Boris Stukalov
2011–12	2nd	6th	52	19	21	12	71	52	78	Round of 32	Branimir Petrović	8	Dmitry Ogai Yuri Matveyev
2012–13	2nd	1st	32	19	11	2	61	18	68	Round of 32	Spartak Gogniyev	17	Aleksandr Pobegalov Sergei Bulatov Pavel Gusev
2013–14	1st	11th	30	9	7	14	28	46	34	Fifth Round	Spartak Gogniyev	9	Pavel Gusev Oleg Vasilenko Aleksandr Tarkhanov
2014–15	1st	13th	30	9	3	18	31	44	30	Round of 32	Fyodor Smolov	8	Aleksandr Tarkhanov
2015–16	1st	8th	30	10	9	11	39	46	39	Round of 16	Spartak Gogniyev	8	Viktor Goncharenko Vadim Skripchenko
2016–17	1st	11th	30	8	6	16	24	44	30	Runners-Up	Vladimir Ilyin Roman Pavlyuchenko	4	Vadim Skripchenko Yuri Matveyev (caretaker) Aleksandr Tarkhanov
2017–18	1st	12th	30	8	13	9	31	32	37	Round of 32	Eric Bicfalvi	8	Aleksandr Tarkhanov
2018–19	1st	10th	30	10	8	12	33	45	38	Runners-Up	Eric Bicfalvi Andrei Panyukov	6	Dmytro Parfenov
2019–20	1st	11th	30	9	8	13	36	53	35	Semi-final	Eric Bicfalvi	8	Dmytro Parfenov
2020–21	1st	12th	30	7	13	10	26	36	34	Round of 16	Eric Bicfalvi	7	Yuri Matveyev
2021–22	1st	12th	30	8	9	13	27	35	33	Round of 32	Eric Bicfalvi	10	Yuri Matveyev Igor Shalimov

Current squad

First team

As of 22 February 2024^[2]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  RUS Ilya Pomazun (on loan from CSKA Moscow) 2 DF  CRO Silvije Begić 3 MF  BLR Valery Bocherov 4 DF  CGO Emmerson 5 MF  RUS Andrei Yegorychev 8 MF  CRO Danijel Miškić 9 FW  BRA Guilherme Schettine 10 FW  ROU Eric Bicfalvi 11 FW  RUS Aleksei Ionov 15 DF  UKR Denys Kulakov 16 DF  BRA Ítalo (on loan from Santa Clara) 17 DF  BLR Vladislav Malkevich 18 MF  RUS Yury Gazinsky 20 FW  NED Rai Vloet 21 MF  RUS Igor Dmitriyev

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 DF  RUS Mingiyan Beveyev 24 DF  BLR Yegor Filipenko 25 DF  POR Kiki 40 DF  RUS Dmitry Burkin 42 DF  RUS Yegor Mosin 44 MF  GUI Ibrahima Cissé 46 DF  RUS Artyom Mamin 55 MF  RUS Timur Ayupov 71 GK  RUS Aleksei Mamin 75 MF  RUS Fanil Sungatulin 77 GK  BLR Denis Shcherbitsky 79 FW  RUS Aleksei Kashtanov 80 MF  BLR Artyom Kontsevoy 97 FW  RUS Ilya Ishkov

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  RUS Aleksey Gerasimov (at Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk until 30 June 2024) — DF  RUS Leo Goglichidze (at Orenburg until 30 June 2024) — MF  RUS Ramazan Gadzhimuradov (at Rotor Volgograd until 30 June 2024) — MF  RUS Roman Yemelyanov (at Shinnik Yaroslavl until 30 June 2024)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  RUS Yuri Zheleznov (at Krasnodar-2 until 30 June 2024) — FW  RUS Daniil Arsentyev (at Rotor Volgograd until 30 June 2024) — FW  RUS Yevgeni Tatarinov (at Tyumen until 30 June 2024)

Reserve team

Retired numbers

• 23 – Pyotr Khrustovsky, forward (2003) – posthumous honor

Coaching staff

• Head coach – Yuri Matveyev
• Assistant coach – Vladimir Kalashnikov, Andrei Danilov, Ivan Jovanovski
• Goalkeeping coach – Andrei Shpilyov

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Ural/Uralmash.

Managers]

• Pavel Gusev (2003–04)
• Aleksandr Pobegalov (2005–09)
• Vladimir Fedotov (2009–10)
• Boris Stukalov (2010)
• Dmitriy Ogai (2011)
• Yuri Matveyev (2011)
• Aleksandr Pobegalov (2012)
• Sergei Bulatov (2012)
• Pavel Gusev (2012–13)
• Oleg Vasilenko (2013)
• Aleksandr Tarkhanov (2013–15)
• Viktor Goncharenko (2015)
• Vadim Skripchenko (2015–2016)

Honours

Domestic

• Soviet Second League / Russian Football National League
  • Champions (2): 1990, 2012–13
• Russian Second Division
  • Champions (2): 2002, 2004
• Russian Cup
  • Runners-up (2): 2016–17, 2018–19

Invitational

• ANFA Cup
  • Champions (1): 1989^[3]

References

External links

• Official website (in Russian)