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| Full name | OOO Football Club Tom'[1] | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Sibiryaki (Siberians), Belo-Zelyonye (White-Greens) | ||
| Founded | March 9, 1957; 68 years ago (1957-03-09) | ||
| Dissolved | 2022; 3 years ago (2022) | ||
| Ground | Trud Stadium,Tomsk | ||
| Capacity | 10,028 | ||
| Owner | Tomsk Oblast | ||
| 2021–22 | FNL, 14th | ||
| Website | fctomtomsk | ||
FC Tom Tomsk (Russian:Футбольный клуб Томь Томск) was a Russian professionalfootball club, based in theSiberian city ofTomsk. The team played inTrud Stadium (Tomsk) before being dissolved in 2022.
The team was previously namedBurevestnik (1957),Tomich (1958, 1961–1963),Sibelektromotor (1959–1960),Torpedo (1964–1967, 1974–1978),Tomles (1968–1973) andManometr (1979–1987). The club is currently named after the river ofTom, where Tomsk is located.
In the 1990s, the team acquired a number of players that would help them begin their ascent out of theRussian Second Division.Viktor Sebelev,Valery Konovalov andRuslan Akhidzhak were key players of the early part of the decade withSergei Ageyev,Vyacheslav Vishnevskiy andDmitry Kudinov strengthening the team as they made a run on the division championship. In 1996, the team finished 2nd in the division, just falling short of promotion to theRussian First Division. In 1997, Tomsk finally achieved a significant goal when they advanced to the First Division with a strong season performance.
Following the promotion, the team acquired a significant set of new players includingSergei Zhukov,Andrei Talalaev andMikhail Murashov to help keep the team in the First Division. However, Tomsk suffered a blow when their newly privatised sponsor,Eastern Oil Company (VNK) pulled out of the team and left them with no sponsor. At this point, advancement was a pipe dream with survival in the tougher division becoming a priority. It was at this point that the team also had to upgrade their stadium to new standards of the league.
The team played middling football for several years until the arrival of a new sponsor brought in much-needed funds and allowed the team to acquire new players and begin to compete. Third-place finishes in 2002 and 2003 left the team just short of promotion. However, the 2004 season brought new joy and Tomsk finished second in the division, earning promotion to theRussian Premier League for the 2005 season. The 2005 season saw Tomsk survive their first year in top-flight football with a 10th-place finish. In 2006, the team improved its position slightly with an 8th-place finish but in 2007, the club slipped to an 11th-place finish.
The former jersey sponsorTomskneft, a local subsidiary ofYukos, has recently been sold to new investors. Today, the team is sponsored by the regional authorities.
The club's directors disclosed that the club needed to raise funds or it would go out of business due to debts of 200 million roubles in June 2009.[2]
At the end of the 2018–19 season, they qualified for the Premier League promotion play-offs, but lost toFC Ufa with an aggregate score of 1–2.
In the2020–21 Russian Football National League, Tom finished in the relegation zone, but remained in the league because two other clubs were disqualified for separate reasons.
Tom failed to receive the license for the 2022–23 FNL season and announced they will apply for the third-tierRussian Football National League 2 license.[3] The FNL2 license was subsequently denied as well due to lack of financial guarantees.[4]
Largest Margin of Victory — Dynamo Yakutsk – 9–1 (1995),FC Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk – 8–0 (1993),PFC Spartak Nalchik 8–0 (1998)
Largest Margin of Defeat –FC Dynamo Barnaul 0–7 (1962)
All time Leading Scorer –
Viktor Sebelev – 83 goals in 287 matches (1989–2004)
Most goals in a season –Ruslan Akhidzhak – 18 goals in 21 matches (1994),Denis Kiselyov – 18 goals in 37 matches (2004)
A farm clubFC Tom-2 Tomsk began competing professionally in the third-tierRussian Professional Football League in the 2014–15 season. The team was dissolved after the 2015–16 season.
These players have had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed inbold represented their countries while playing for Tom.
