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| Full name | Футбольный клуб СКА-Хабаровск (Football Club SKA-Khabarovsk) | |||
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| Nickname(s) | Krasno-siniye(The red-blues) Armeytsy (Army men) | |||
| Founded | 1946; 79 years ago (1946) | |||
| Ground | Lenin Stadium, Khabarovsk, Russia | |||
| Capacity | 14,800 | |||
| Owner | Khabarovsk Krai RusHydro (through subsidiary) Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Production Association | |||
| Chairman | Mikhail Gusev[1] | |||
| Manager | Aleksei Poddubskiy (caretaker) | |||
| League | Russian First League | |||
| 2023–24 | 13th of 18 | |||
| Website | http://fcska.ru/ | |||
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Football Club SKA-Khabarovsk (Russian:Футбольный клуб СКА-Хабаровск) is a Russian professionalassociation football club based inKhabarovsk which plays in the second-tierRussian First League. They played in theRussian Premier League for the first time ever in the 2017–18 season. At more than 6,000 kilometres (3,700 mi) east ofMoscow, SKA Khabarovsk are the most Easterly team to have taken part in aUEFA domestic top division.
The club has been known under different names:
The club has participated in the Soviet championships since 1957. SKA were the quarter-finalists of theSoviet Cup in 1963. They had never played in theSoviet Top League orRussian Premier League, until 2017.
SKA's best result in theSoviet First League was the 6th position in 1980, and their best result in theRussian First Division was 4th position in 2012–13. This entitled them to a promotion/relegation play-off againstFC Rostov, 13th place in the RPL, but they lost 3–0 on aggregate and missed their chance to compete in the top flight.
At the end of the 2016–17 season, SKA equalled their record best finish, at the same time qualifying for a promotion play-off againstFC Orenburg. On 28 May 2017, SKA were promoted to theRussian Premier League for the first time in their history, after beating FC Orenburg in the promotion play-off. They won 5–3 in apenalty shoot-out, after 0–0 draws in both the home and away legs.
SKA started their first Premier League season with 4 losses. After improving results in the next stretch of games, the losses starting mounting up again.Aleksei Poddubskiy was replaced as manager byRinat Bilyaletdinov during the winter break, Bilyaletdinov only lasted four games before being replaced bySergei Perednya. On 22 April 2018, SKA lost 1–0 toDynamo Moscow at home (which was their 13th loss in a stretch of 15 winless games) and lost the mathematical chance to avoid relegation back to the second-tierRussian Football National League.
In the 2021–22 season, SKA-Khabarovsk qualified for the Premier League promotion playoffs in which they lost 1–3 on aggregate toFC Khimki therefore remaining in the FNL for at least another season.[3]
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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Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed inbold represented their countries while playing for SKA-Khabarovsk.
| Position | Name |
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| Manager |  Roman Sharonov |
| Senior Manager | Alexey Andreevich |
| Assistant Manager | Yuri Shpiryuk |
| Goalkeeping Coach | Maxim Ivanovich |
| Fitness Coach |  Oleg Anatolievich Dmitri Gureev |
| Analyst | Yurievich Vyacheslav |
| Rehabilitologist | Ruslan Gennadievich |
| Team Leader | Sergey Vladimirovich |
| Administrator | Denis Rafailovich |
| Junior Administrator | Ilshat Marsovich |
| Doctor | Anatoly Georgievich |
| Masseur | Marat Ulfatovich Danil Yurievich Marat Ishmurzin |
| Rehabilitation Specialist | Danil Yurievich |
