FC Kaluga (Russian: ФК Калуга) is an association football club from Kaluga, Russia, founded in 2009. The club is playing in the third-tier Russian Second League Division A. The team appeared after uniting two football Clubs from Kaluga: FC MiK Kaluga and FC Lokomotiv Kaluga. The two teams finished 1st and 2d in Russian Amateur Football League Chernozemic Zone championship in 2009 and Kaluga faced the opportunity to promote a football club that could represent the city to Russian Professional Football League so the two teams were united.

FC Kaluga
Full nameFootball Club Kaluga
Nickname(s)Kosmonavty (the Cosmonauts)
Founded2009
GroundAnnenki Arena
Capacity3,643
OwnerKaluga / Kaluga Oblast / Oleg Mitrofanov
ChairmanOleg Mitrofanov[1]
ManagerMikhail Belov
LeagueRussian Second League,
Division A,
Gold Group
2023–24Silver Group, 3rd
WebsiteClub website

Current squad edit

As of 30 June 2024, according to the Second League website.

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
2 DF   RUS Vladislav Vasilyev
5 MF   RUS Aleksandr Golubtsov
6 MF   RUS Ivan Kozlov
7 FW   RUS Nikolay Sukhanov
8 MF   RUS Daniil Knyazev
9 FW   RUS Dmitri Kamenshchikov
10 FW   RUS Vadim Karev
11 FW   RUS Maksim Stavtsev
12 MF   RUS Yegor Lipayev
13 DF   RUS Ilya Klementyev
14 DF   RUS Ivan Rapakov
15 DF   RUS Bogdan Rogochy
No. Pos. Nation Player
17 MF   RUS Aleksandr Bastrykin
18 DF   RUS Denis Romanyuk
19 DF   RUS Yevgeny Ignatovich
20 FW   RUS Robert Kortyayev
22 DF   RUS Artyom Gutsa
27 FW   RUS Artur Uvarov
28 MF   RUS Danil Novikov
31 GK   RUS Artyom Gerasimov
44 MF   RUS Timur Abdrashitov
70 MF   RUS Dmitri Zakharov
74 GK   RUS Pavel Kovalyov

References edit

  1. ^ "Олег Митрофанов рассказал, как живет ФК "Калуга"" (in Russian). mngz.ru. 2018-02-22. Retrieved 2022-12-13.

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