FC Krylia Sovetov Samara

Krylia Sovetov
Full name	Professional Football Club; Krylia Sovetov Samara
Nickname(s)	Perya (Feathers), Krysy (Rats)
Founded	1942
Ground	Metallurg Stadion, Samara; (Capacity: 33,220[1])
Chairman	TBD
Manager	Leonid Slutsky
League	Russian Premier League
2008	Russian Premier League, 6th
Home colours	Away colours

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Krylia Sovetov (Russian: Профессиональный футбольный клуб "Крылья Советов" Самара) is a football club from Russia based in Samara. In 2004 they finished third in the Russian Premier League.

[edit] History

FC Krylia Sovetov Samara was founded in 1942.

Krylia Sovetov first played in a match for the Cup of the USSR. The match was held on July 30, 1944. In the 1/16 final, Krylia Sovetov lost to Lokomotiv Moscow 1:5.

Their first game in the Championship of the USSR (second group) took place on June 4, 1945 at Kuybyshev stadium Lokomotiv against Torpedo from Gorky. The game ended in a draw 1:1.

On April 21, 1946 in Alma-Ata the team played its first match in the highest division in the USSR, which they lost to Zenit Leningrad (1:2).

Krylia Sovetov participated in 48 championships of the USSR and 13 Russian Championships, as well as 43 USSR Cups and 13 Russian Cups.

During the second round of the season of 1953 the team bore the name of Zenit.

On July 6, 2002 Krylia Sovetov first played in a European competition, in the second round of the UEFA Intertoto Cup. They won this game with Dinaburg (Daugavpils, Latvia) played in Metallurg Stadium, by a score of 3:0. The goals were scored by Andrei Karyaka, Robertas Poškus, and Rogério Gaúcho. In 2005 the team played in UEFA Cup 2005-06 and defeated BATE Borisov in the 2nd qualifing round (2:0, 2:0), but in the 1st round lost to AZ Alkmaar (5:3, 1:3).

[edit] Achievements

The highest achievement in the championships of the USSR: 4th place (1951)
The highest achievement in the championships of Russia: 3rd place (2004)
Cup of the USSR finalist (1953, 1964)
Finalist of the Cup of Russia (2003/04)

[edit] Current squad

As of 12 March 2009, according to the Official Russian Premier League site. Club's official website lists the main squad players and reserves on the same page without distinguishment. Reserves are eligible to play for the main squad.

No.	Position	Player
2	MF	Timofei Kalachev
3	DF	Leilton
4	DF	Roman Shishkin (on loan from FC Spartak Moscow)
5	MF	Vladislav Kulik
7	MF	Anton Bober
8	MF	Ivan Taranov
9	MF	Denis Kovba
10	FW	Yevgeni Savin
14	DF	Oh Beom-Seok
15	FW	Aleksandr Salugin
19	MF	Juan Carlos Escobar

No.	Position	Player
20	DF	Jiří Jarošík
21	MF	Ruslan Adzhindzhal
23	MF	Vladislav Ignatyev
29	DF	Sergei Budylin
31	GK	Eduardo Lobos
40	DF	Sergei Shustikov
63	DF	Aleksandr Belozerov
77	GK	David Yurchenko
89	FW	Jan Koller
99	MF	Oleg Ivanov
--	MF	Stanislav Ivanov (on loan from FC Lokomotiv Moscow)

[edit] Reserve squad

No.	Position	Player
18	MF	Yevgeni Pesegov
25	DF	Vladimir Drukovskiy
27	DF	Sergei Politevich
28	MF	Sergei Andrianov
34	MF	Nikita Antonov
35	MF	Vladimir Yaroslavtsev
36	DF	Vadim Tkachenko
37	MF	Vitali Kurov
39	MF	Aleksei Popov
42	DF	Andrei Redya
43	MF	Dmitri Kostyayev

No.	Position	Player
44	MF	Aleksandr Budanov
46	MF	Ibragim Tsallagov
47	MF	Roman Razdelkin
55	GK	Artyom Moskvin
57	FW	Artyom Butyvskiy
68	FW	Andrei Chasovskikh
69	MF	Dmitri Podrezov
81	MF	Yevgeni Popkov
88	MF	Mikhail Kuzmin
90	MF	Vitali Rushnitsky
98	GK	Aleksandr Budakov

[edit] Notable players

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