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| Full name | Football Club Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod | ||
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| Nickname | Zheleznodorozhniki (Railwaymen) | ||
| Founded | 1916 | ||
| Dissolved | 2019 | ||
| Ground | Lokomotiv Stadium, Nizhny Novgorod | ||
| Capacity | 17,856 | ||
| Manager | Alexander Vlasov | ||
| League | Russian Amateur Football League | ||
| 2019 | Russian Amateur Football League, Privolzhie zone, 6th | ||
| Website | http://fclnn.ru/ | ||
FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod was a Russianfootball club based inNizhny Novgorod. They spent eight seasons in theRussian Premier League.
The team of the railway workers was founded in Nizhny Novgorod in 1916. Later it was known asChervonka (1918–1922),Spartak (1923–1930),Tyaga (1931),Zheleznodorozhniki (1932–1935). In 1936 the team was renamedLokomotiv and retained this name until 2002 when it was renamedLokomotiv-NN.[citation needed] During the existence of theUSSR the club was a part of theLokomotivVoluntary Sports Society.
Lokomotiv was mostly known for its football school and did not play in the Soviet league until 1987. In 1989, Lokomotiv won promotion to theFirst League and spent two years there.
In 1992, after the dissolution ofUSSR, Lokovotiv was entitled to enter theRussian Premier League and reached the best result in the club's history, a 6th position. Lokomotiv finished 8th in 1994 and 1996 before being relegated after the 1997 season, during which it reached the semifinal of theIntertoto Cup.[1] However, the club won promotion back immediately and spent another two seasons in the Premier League (1999 and 2000). After finishing last in the 2001First Division, the club was relegated. Before starting in the Second League it folded.
In 2002, a new club Lokomotiv-GZhD was created by the Gorkiy Railways and sponsored by the Nizhniy Novgorod Oblast Administration entering the Amateur Football League. In 2002, Lokomotiv won promotion to theSecond Division and played there until 2005. In 2006, the club was disbanded.[2][3]
On December 26, 2018, the Ministry of Justice of the Nizhny Novgorod Region registered the legal entity “Nizhny Novgorod City Public Organization Football Club Lokomotiv-NN”. For the season of 2019, the Lokomotiv-NN club announced at the Championship of Russia among exercise therapy (III division, Privolzhie zone), and in the 2019 championship of the region a second team remained to play, receiving a Balakhna registration.[4] At the end of the first round in the MFS "Privolzhye" championship, the team withdrew from the competition.
Lokomotiv's reserve squad played professionally asFC Lokomotiv-d Nizhny Novgorod in theRussian Third League in 1996–97.
Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed inbold represented their countries while playing for Lokomotiv.
Dmitri KuznetsovSergei GorlukovichVladimir Tatarchuk
Ivan HetskoDmitri CheryshevAndrei AfanasyevPyotr BystrovLyubomir KantonistovYuri MatveyevGennadiy NizhegorodovAndrei Novosadov
Andrey MovsisyanArthur Petrosyan
Alyaksandr OreshnikowMikalay RyndzyukAndrei SatsunkevichVladimir ShelegValer Shantalosau
Kakhaber GogichaishviliGocha GogrichianiZurab IonanidzeZurab Popkhadze
Igor AvdeevAleksandr FamiltsevRuslan GumarSergey TimofeevArsen TlekhugovViktor Zubarev
Zakir JalilovNazim Adzhiyev
Aleksandrs Isakovs
Virginijus BaltušnikasVidas DančenkaDarius GvildysVadimas PetrenkoNerijus Vasiliauskas
Marek Hollý
Arsen AvakovMukhsin MukhamadievRustam KhaidaraliyevYuri KalitvintsevYuri MorozVladyslav Prudius
Aleksandr Sayun
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