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| Full name | Russian:Автономная Некоммерческая Организация «Футбольный Клуб «Пари Нижний Новгород»/ Football Club Pari Nizhny Novgorod | ||
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| Founded | 2015; 11 years ago (2015)[1] | ||
| Ground | Nizhny Novgorod Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 44,899 | ||
| Owner | City of Nizhny Novgorod | ||
| General director | David Melik-Guseynov | ||
| Manager | Aleksey Shpilevsky | ||
| League | Russian Premier League | ||
| 2024–25 | 13th of 16 | ||
| Website | fcnn | ||
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FC Pari Nizhny Novgorod (Russian:ФК «Пари Нижний Новгород»), also known asFC Pari NN or simplyNizhny Novgorod is a Russian professionalfootball club fromNizhny Novgorod, founded in 2015. It made its debut in theRussian Premier League in the 2021–22 season.
The club has been known under different names:
In the 2015–16 season, it began to play in the third-tierRussian Professional Football League. It was founded as a farm club forFC Volga Nizhny Novgorod. On 15 June 2016, the parent club Volga was dissolved, with Olimpiyets becoming the top club inNizhny Novgorod.[3] At the end of the 2016–17, Olimpiyets won their PFL zone and were promoted to the second-levelRussian Football National League. At the end of the 2018–19 season, they qualified for theRussian Premier League promotion play-offs, but lost toPFC Krylia Sovetov Samara with an aggregate score of 2–3.
In the 2020–21 season, the club finished 3rd in FNL. As the second-placed clubFC Orenburg failed to receive a Premier League license due to issues with their stadium, Nizhny Novgorod was promoted to the RPL for the first time for the 2021–22 season.[4][5]
Former Nigeria strikerSylvester Igboun suspended his contract with the team because of theRussian invasion of Ukraine.[6]
On 10 June 2022, the club announced that the name of the club will be changed to FC Pari Nizhny Novgorod (or Pari NN for short) due to a sponsorship deal with abookmaker Pari, previously known as Paribet.[7][8] The name change was approved by theRussian Football Union on the same day.[9] Pari NN finished the 2022–23 season in 14th place, qualifying for relegation play-offs againstFC Rodina Moscow.[10] After winning the first leg of the play-offs away with the score of 3–0, Pari lost 0–2 at home and won 3–2 on aggregate, retaining their Premier League spot.[11]
In the2023–24 season, Pari NN finished 14th once again, qualifying for the relegation play-offs.[12] Pari defeatedArsenal Tula with the aggregate score of 3–2 and remained in the Premier League.[13]
On 26 December 2024, four players of Pari's Under-19 squad have been punished by theRussian Football Union formatch fixing games of the Under-19 Russian Championship. Nikita Milyukov has been banned from football for life, Zakhar Mozin, Maksim Galochkin and Pavel Shalimov were banned for one year (with an additional four yearssuspended sentence and a two years probation), and Denis Chuprunov received a three-year suspended sentence ban with a two-year probation. None of the club management or staff were punished.[14]
In the2024–25 season, Pari finished 13th and qualified for relegation play-offs. However, as 12th-placedKhimki was denied the 2025–26 RPL license, Pari was not expected be relegated even if they lost in the play-offs, as they would be the priority replacement for Khimki in that case.[15] Pari lost toSochi in the playoffs with an aggregate score of 3–4.[16] On 16 June 2025, Russian Football Union confirmed that Pari will remain in the Premier League.[17]
| Season | League | Russian Cup | Europe | Top goalscorer | Manager | ||||||||||
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| Div. | Pos. | Pl. | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | P | Name | Goals | ||||
| 2015–16 | 3rd | 3rd | 27 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 38 | 19 | 19 | 53 | 2R | — |  Igor Belyakov | 11 | Valeri BogdanetsKonstantin Galkin |
| 2016–17 | 3rd | 1st | 24 | 17 | 4 | 3 | 47 | 17 | 30 | 55 | 2R | — | Igor Gorbunov | 10 | Konstantin GalkinNikolai Pisarev |
| 2017–18 | 2nd | 12th | 38 | 11 | 11 | 16 | 37 | 50 | -13 | 55 | R16 | — | Radik Khayrullov | 9 | Nikolai Pisarev |
| 2018–19 | 2nd | 4th | 38 | 18 | 8 | 12 | 41 | 31 | +10 | 62 | R16 | — | Maksim Paliyenko | 9 | Dmitri Cheryshev |
| 2019–20 | 2nd | 11th | 27 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 28 | 29 | -1 | 36 | R16 | — | Maksim PaliyenkoPavel IgnatovichIgor Portnyagin | 5 | Dmitri CheryshevRobert Yevdokimov |
| 2020–21 | 2nd | 3rd | 42 | 27 | 7 | 8 | 67 | 28 | +39 | 88 | R16 | — | Timur Suleymanov | 9 | Robert Yevdokimov |
| 2021–22 | 1st | 11th | 30 | 8 | 9 | 13 | 26 | 39 | -13 | 33 | R16 | — | Nikolay Kalinsky | 8 | Aleksandr Kerzhakov |
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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| Position | Staff |
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| Chairman | Ravil Izmaylov |
| Director of Football | Igor Kudryashov |
| Manager | Artyom Gorlov |
| Assistant managers | Leonid Ablizin |
| First-team coach | Oleg Levin |
| Senior Goalkeeper Coach | Valeriy Kleimenov |
| Fitness coach | Dmitriy Polyanin Kirill Zhinkin |
| Chief analyst | Vladimir Savchenko |
| Video analyst | Andrey Ankudimov |
| Scout | Pavel Naboyshchikov |
| Head of Medical | Oleg Vinokurov |
| Doctor | Sergey Vjalitsyn |
| Masseur | Vyacheslav Vishnevskiy |
| Team Organiser | Aleksandr Trishin |
