FC Avangard Kursk

Avangard

Full name	Football Club Avangard Kursk
Founded	1946 (1946)
Ground	Trudovye Rezervy Stadium, Kursk
Ground Capacity	11,329
Owner	RubEx Group/Kursk/Kursk Oblast
Chairman	Nikolai Volokitin
Manager	Igor Belyayev
League	Russian Professional Football League, Zone Center
2015–16	5th
Home colours Away colours

FC Avangard Kursk is an association football club based in Kursk, Russia, currently playing in the third tier of Russian football. The teams colors are: home all blue, and away all white.

History

The club has been known under the following names:

• Spartak from 1946–57
• Trudovye Rezervy from 1958–65 and 1967–72
• Trud in 1966
• Avangard 1973–

Spartak made an appearance in the Soviet league in 1946. Since 1957 Kursk was continuously represented in the league by Trudovye Rezervy, Trud, and Avangard. The club played in Class B and in the Second League. The best achievement was the second position in the zone in 1962 and 1964.

Avangard entered the Russian Second League in 1992 and was moved to the Third League in 1994, after the number of clubs in the Second League was significantly reduced. In 1995 they won promotion to the Second League, and in 2004 Avangard finished second in their Second Division zone, obtaining promotion to the First Division. Avangard played 3 seasons in First Division and relegated to Second Division in 2007 as 18th. Avangard returned to second level in 2009 as Center Group champion. But, Avangard finished in the last place and was relegated to third level in 2010.

League history

Russia

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Cup	Europe		Top scorer (league)	Head coach
1992	3rd, zone 2	10	42	22	3	17	67	67	47	-	-		Tolmachov – 21	Galkin
1993		6	30	15	1	14	44	59	31	R512	-		Sukhorukov – 14	Galkin
1994	4th, zone 2	4	32	19	4	9	51	39	42	R128	-		Sukhorukov – 12	Galkin
1995		1	30	21	2	7	52	30	65	R256	-		Gershun – 10	Galkin
1996	3rd, "West"	15	38	13	4	21	50	78	43	R128	-		Delov – 10	Galkin
1997		15	38	11	7	20	40	58	40	R512	-		Delov – 16	Galkin
1998	3rd, "Center"	18	40	9	9	22	34	54	36	R256	-		Buda – 10	Galkin
1999		15	36	10	7	19	40	59	37	R256	-		Delov – 9	Galkin
2000		8	38	16	6	16	36	41	54	R128	-		Gershun – 9	Galkin
2001		8	38	17	7	14	47	41	58	R512	-		Gershun – 12	Galkin
2002		15	38	11	8	19	40	55	41	R512	-		E. Kalashnikov – 10	Galkin
2003		13	36	10	7	19	28	37	37	R512	-		E. Kalashnikov – 5	Galkin Delov
2004		2	32	21	5	6	60	23	68	R512	-		Larin – 12	Delov
2005	2nd	16	42	11	15	16	36	45	48	R256	-		Sigachev – 6	Delov
2006		10	42	16	13	13	45	38	61	R64	-		Martynov – 7	Borzykin
2007		18	42	15	6	21	50	55	51	R64	-		Bukievsky – 11 Korovushkin – 11	Gorlukovich
2008	3rd, "Center"	2	34	23	6	5	48	18	75	R32	-		S. Mikhailov – 10	Esipov
2009		1	32	24	1	7	68	23	73	R64	-		Borozdin – 11	Esipov
2010	2nd	20	38	7	6	25	31	67	27	R32	-		Korovushkin – 7	Esipov Sergeyev Ignatenko
2011–12	3rd, "Center"	2	39	21	7	11	62	36	79	R128	-		Sargsyan – 17	Ignatenko Frantsev
2012–13	3rd, "Center"	9	30	11	8	11	42	40	41	R64	-		Akhba – 8	Frantsev Zazulin

Current squad

As of 22 July 2016, according to the PFL website.

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

No. Position Player GK Stanislav Kozyrev GK Viktor Suloyev GK Sergei Zhideyev DF Ilya Bobryshov DF Aleksei Foroponov DF Nikita Fursin DF Pavel Kadushkin DF Aleksandr Logunov DF Denis Nikitin DF Ivan Pogrebnyak DF Vladislav Shadrin DF Aleksandr Voynov MF Abumuslim Bogatyryov MF Igor Fateyev

No. Position Player MF Artur Gazdanov MF Vladimir Gorchakov MF Nikita Imullin MF Aleksei Medvedev MF Konstantin Pavlov MF Kirill Pushkin MF Denis Sinyayev MF Denis Soynikov MF Anton Tonkikh FW Roman Minayev FW Sergei Obraztsov FW Andrei Vshivtsev FW Ilmir Yakupov

Notable players

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

External links

• Fans' website (Russian)
• Official site