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| Full name | Football Club Orenburg | ||
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| Founded | 1976; 49 years ago (1976) | ||
| Ground | Gazovik Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 10,046 | ||
| Owner | Gazprom (through subsidiaries) | ||
| Chairman | Vasily Eremyakin[1] | ||
| Manager | Vladimir Slišković | ||
| League | Russian Premier League | ||
| 2023–24 | 12th of 16 | ||
| Website | fcorenburg.ru | ||
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FC Orenburg (Russian:ФК «Оренбург») is a Russianprofessional football club based inOrenburg. Founded in 1976, it earned promotion to theRussian Premier League in 2022–23 season.
It played professionally asGazovik from 1976 to 1982 and from 1989 on. Before 1976 another Orenburg team, Lokomotiv Orenburg, played professionally, including three seasons in the second-highestSoviet First League in 1960–62. In 1989 Gazovik was called Progress Orenburg. Gazovik began Russian League at Zone 5 of Second League and relegated from Zone 6 from one to Third League in 1993. They stayed in Zone 5 of Third League until 1997 season, when they returned to third level. They finished Ural Povolzhye (Volga Region in Russian) as runner-up in 2006, 2007 and 2008 seasons and finally promoted to theRussian First League in 2010.
On 2 May 2016, the club secured top-two finish in the2015–16 Russian National Football League and with that, the promotion to theRussian Premier League for the 2016–17 season for the first time in club's history.[2]
On 25 May 2016, the club was renamed from its historical name FC Gazovik Orenburg to FC Orenburg.[3]
The club was relegated back to the second tier at the end of the2016–17 season after losing a penalty shootout in the relegation playoffs toFC SKA-Khabarovsk. It was promoted back to theRussian Premier League after one season in the second tier.[4] It was relegated at the end of the2019–20 Russian Premier League season. They were forced to forfeit two games late in the season due toCOVID-19 infections in the squad and play more games with a weakened line-up. On 8 May 2021, they secured a second-place finish in the FNL and return to theRussian Premier League after one season in the second tier.[5] However,Russian Football Union rejected the club's application for a RPL license on 5 May 2021 due to the stadium not passing capacity requirements and other conditions, and their appeal was rejected on 12 May 2021. The club considered filing a complaint with theCourt of Arbitration for Sport.[6] On 24 May 2021, the club announced they will not file a lawsuit with CAS and will accept the RFU decision. They also announced that the club will begin the stadium reconstruction in June 2021 to bring it up to Premier League standards.[7]
In the 2021–22 season, Orenburg led the FNL for most of the season, before dropping out of the direct promotion spot to the 3rd place on the last matchday. That qualified Orenburg for the promotion play-offs againstFC Ufa, which finished 14th in the Premier League. Orenburg won the play-offs 4–3 on aggregate thanks to the second-leg added-time goal byAndrei Malykh and returned to theRussian Premier League after two seasons in the second tier.[8] They finished their first season upon return in 7th place.
Domestic Competitions
As of 19 February 2025, according to theofficial RPL website.
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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Valeri Bogdanov (1997–1998)Aleksandr Korolyov (1999–2001)Adyam Kuzyayev(interim) (2003)Andrei Piatnitski (2003)Yevgeni Smertin (2004)Aleksandr Averyanov (2006–2009)Ilshat Aitkulov(interim) (2009)Konstantin Galkin (2009–2011)Robert Yevdokimov (2011–2017)
Temur Ketsbaia (2017)Vladimir Fedotov (2017–2019)Konstantin Yemelyanov (2019–2020)Konstantin Paramonov (2020)Ilshat Aitkulov(interim) (2020)
Marcel Lička (2020–2023)Jiří Jarošík (2023–present)Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed inbold represented their countries while playing for Orenburg.
