FC Rotor Volgograd

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Rotor

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Full name

Football Club Rotor Volgograd

Founded

1929 as Dzerzhinets

Ground

Rotor Stadium, Volgograd
(Capacity 38,000)

Chairman

Vladimir Goryunov

Manager

Valery Burlachenko

League

Russian Second Division,
South Zone

2006

6th

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Home colours

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Away colours

FC Rotor Volgograd is a football club from Volgograd, Russia.

Rotor was the last champion of the old USSR Second Division, in 1991, thus forming the new Russian Top Division after the USSR collapsed.

In mid-1990s, Rotor was one of the strongest clubs in Russia, rivalling with Spartak Moscow for the championship, yet never winning it. Rotor became the league runners-up in 1993 and 1997. They also enjoyed some success at the European stage, having eliminated Manchester United from the UEFA Cup in 1995.

In 2000s, Rotor's results came into a decline, and in 2004, the team finished last in the Russian Premier League. The following winter Rotor was denied professional licence, and chose not to participate in the amateur competitions.

However, Rotor's former B-team, Rotor-2 Volgograd, spent 2005 season in the Russian Second Division. On January 12, 2006, Rotor-2 was renamed Rotor.