FC Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod

FC Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod
Full name Football Club Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod
Founded 2015 [1]
Ground
capacity		 4,500
Chairman Maksim Metlin
Manager Konstantin Galkin
League Russian Professional Football League, Zone Ural-Privolzhye
2015–16 3rd

FC Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod (Russian: ФК «Олимпиец» Нижний Новгород) is a Russian football team from Nizhny Novgorod, founded in 2015. Beginning with the 2015-16 season, it plays in the Russian Professional Football League (third level). It was founded a farm club for FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod. On 15 June 2016, the parent club Volga was dissolved, with Olimpiyets becoming the top club in Nizhny Novgorod.[2]

"Olimpiyets" means Olympian in Russian.

Team name history

Current squad

As of 2 November 2016, according to the PFL website.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
Russia GK Artur Anisimov
Russia GK Yaroslav Maloletkov
Russia DF Artyom Abramov
Russia DF Aleksandr Kulikov
Russia DF Yury Morozov
Russia DF Nikita Nikolayev
Russia DF Dmitri Polyanin
Russia DF Yegor Yevteyev
Russia DF Konstantin Zhiltsov
Russia MF Timur Ayupov
Russia MF Shota Bibilov
No. Position Player
Russia MF Anton Frolov
Russia MF Vladimir Gogberashvili
Russia MF Igor Gorbunov
Russia MF Andrei Khripkov
Russia MF Igor Lambarschi
Russia MF Anatoli Nezhelev
Russia MF Sergei Vaganov
Russia FW Igor Belyakov
Russia FW Anton Khazov
Russia FW Sergey Tsyganov

References

  1. ↑ http://volga-olympic.ru/index.php/istoriya.html
  2. ↑ ФК «Волга» будет расформирован (in Russian). FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod. 15 June 2016.

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