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| Full name | Football Club Akron Tolyatti | |||
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| Founded | 2018; 7 years ago (2018) | |||
| Ground | Kristall Stadium,Zhigulyovsk | |||
| Capacity | 3,065 | |||
| Chairman | Aleksey Vlasov | |||
| Manager | Zaur Tedeyev | |||
| League | Russian Premier League | |||
| 2024–25 | 9th of 16 | |||
| Website | https://fcakron.ru/ | |||
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FC Akron Tolyatti (Russian:ФК «Акрон» Тольятти) is a Russian professionalfootball club based inTolyatti founded in 2018 who play in theRussian Premier League.
In June 2019, it was confirmed that the club will enter theRussian Professional Football League in the 2019–20 season.[1]
On 15 May 2020, the 2019–20 PFL season was abandoned due toCOVID-19 pandemic in Russia. As Akron was leading in their PFL zone at the time, they were promoted to the second-tierFNL for the 2020–21 season.[2]
Akron finished their first FNL season in 17th place, which would normally mean relegation. On 15 May 2021, FNL confirmed thatFC Tambov, which placed last in thePremier League and was expected to be relegated to FNL, did not apply for the FNL license for the 2021–22 season and therefore Akron would not be relegated.[3]
In June 2022, Akron became the backer ofKonoplyov football academy.[4]
In the 2022–23 season, Akron had an impressive run in theRussian Cup. They consecutively eliminated four Moscow-basedRussian Premier League clubs (Torpedo,Lokomotiv,Dynamo andSpartak, including twopenalty-shoots) and reached the Regions Path final of the competition, where they lost, also in a shootout, toFC Krasnodar.[5] The cup competition structure was changed todouble-elimination for RPL teams that season as Russia was banned from the European competitions due to theRusso-Ukrainian War, in the traditional cup structure, eliminating four RPL teams would have been sufficient for Akron to qualify for the final.
In the 2023–24 season, Akron qualified for theRussian Premier League promotion play-offs.[6] They defeatedUral Yekaterinburg 3–2 on aggregate and qualified for RPL for the first time in its history.[7]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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