FC Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast

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Ural

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Full name

Football Club Ural
Sverdlovsk Oblast
or FC Ural Yekaterinburg

Founded

1930

Ground

Uralmash Stadium known locally as Central,
Yekaterinburg
(Capacity 22,000)

Chairman

Grigory Ivanov

Manager

Aleksandr Pobegalov

League

Russian First Division

2006

3rd

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Home colours

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Away colours

FC Ural is a Russian football club. The club is based in Yekaterinburg but represents all Sverdlovsk Oblast. The club is in the Russian First Division.

[edit] History

The club was founded in 1930 and was known as Avangard (1930-1943, 1947-1948, 1953-1957), Zenit (1944-1946), Mashinostroitel (1958-1959), and Uralmash (1949-1952, 1960-2002).

The club participated in Soviet championships since 1945. They mostly played in the lower leagues, with the exception on 1969 season spent in the Top League.

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Uralmash logo

Uralmash reached the quarterfinals of the Soviet Cup in 1965/66, 1967/68, and 1990/91.

After the dissolution of USSR Uralmash were entitled to enter the Russian Top Division and played there for five seasons, from 1992 to 1996. Their best result was eight 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 promoted again after the 2004 season.

[edit] Squad

As of 23 June 2006, according to the Professional Football League official website.

	Position	Player
Image:Flag of Russia.svg	FW	Yevgeny Alkhimov
Image:Flag of Russia.svg	FW	Aleksandr Anisimov
Image:Flag of Russia.svg	GK	Sergey Armishev
Image:Flag of Russia.svg	DF	Yevgeny Averyanov
Image:Flag of Russia.svg	MF	Igor Bakhtin
Image:Flag of Russia.svg	DF	Andrey Durov
Image:Flag of Russia.svg	MF	Artyom Fidler
Image:Flag of Russia.svg	FW	Maksim Galiullin
Image:Flag of Russia.svg	DF	Aleksey Katulsky
Image:Flag of Belarus.svg	DF	Aleksandr Khrapkovsky
Image:Flag of Russia.svg	MF	Andrey Klimenko
Image:Flag of Russia.svg	FW	Yevgeny Losev
Image:Flag of Russia.svg	DF	Artyom Madilov
Image:Flag of Russia.svg	DF	Mikhail Makarov
Image:Flag of Russia.svg	FW	Konstantin Markov
Image:Flag of Russia.svg	FW	Mikhail Mysin

	Position	Player
Image:Flag of Russia.svg	MF	Aleksandr Nikulin
Image:Flag of Russia.svg	DF	Oleg Pichugin
Image:Flag of Russia.svg	DF	Maksim Povorov
Image:Flag of Russia.svg	DF	Sergey Pyatikopov
Image:Flag of Uzbekistan.svg	DF	Vladimir Radkevich
Image:Flag of Russia.svg	MF	Artur Rozyev
Image:Flag of Russia.svg	MF	Maksin Ryazantsev
Image:Flag of Russia.svg	MF	Aleksey Solovyov
Image:Flag of Russia.svg	GK	Nikita Talalikhin
Image:Flag of Poland.svg	GK	Jarosław Tkocz
Image:Flag of Russia.svg	MF	Aleksandr Shchanitsin
Image:Flag of Russia.svg	FW	Maksim Shubkin
Image:Flag of Russia.svg	MF	Aleksandr Vasilyev
Image:Flag of Russia.svg	MF	Sergey Yegorov
Image:Flag of Russia.svg	DF	Aleksey Yepifanov
Image:Flag of Russia.svg	FW	Denis Zubko