FC Ural Yekaterinburg

Ural Yekaterinburg

Full name	Football Club Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast or FC Ural Yekaterinburg
Nickname(s)	Uraltsy (Ural men), Bumblebees, Orange and Black
Founded	1930
Ground	SKB-Bank Arena
Capacity	10,000
Owner	Sverdlovsk Oblast
Chairman	Grigori Ivanov
Manager	Aleksandr Tarkhanov
League	Premier League
2015–16	8th
Home colours Away colours

FK Ural Sverdlovskaya Oblast (Russian: ФК Урал) is a Russian football club based in Ekaterinburg. As of 2016–17 season, they play in the Russian Premier League.^[1]

Current squads

First team

As of 31 August 2016^[2]

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Dmitri Arapov 2 DF Vladimir Khozin 5 DF Dominik Dinga 7 DF Aleksandr Dantsev 8 MF Aleksandr Pavlenko 9 FW Roman Pavlyuchenko 10 MF Chisamba Lungu 11 FW Aleksandr Stavpets 12 DF Aleksandr Novikov 13 DF Radovan Pankov 14 FW Jean-Jacques Bougouhi 15 DF Denys Kulakov 16 GK Aleksandr Shubin 25 MF Georgy Zhukov

No. Position Player 27 DF Mikhail Merkulov 28 GK Nikolai Zabolotny 29 DF Pablo Fontanello 39 FW Giorgi Chanturia 53 MF Sergei Podoksyonov 57 MF Artyom Fidler (captain) 62 MF Rezo Gavtadze 85 MF Sergei Serchenkov 86 FW Mohamed Konate 88 MF Dmitri Korobov 90 MF Aleksandr Scherbakov 92 MF Roman Yemelyanov 94 FW Georgi Nurov 97 MF Eduard Valiakhmetov

Youth team

As per Russian Football Premier League.^[3] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 19 FW Valeriy Kuznetsov 20 GK Yevgeni Zharikov 21 DF Dmitri Borovkov 22 DF Kirill Kochnev 33 MF Vartan Karkaryan 38 FW Vladislav Blinov 40 DF Maksim Gorin 43 MF Aleksandr Golubtsov 45 MF Ilya Korelin 46 DF Vyacheslav Berdnikov 48 DF Denis Drozhalkin 51 DF Roman Shalin 55 DF Pavel Vlasenko 58 FW Bogdan Mishukov

No. Position Player 60 GK Vladislav Poletayev 65 MF Dmitri Khlyoskin 69 MF Andrei Sheptiy 71 GK Aleksei Mamin 72 DF Osman Suleymanov 73 FW Konstantin Reshetnikov 74 DF Danil Chernov 81 MF Aleksei Gontsa 82 DF Volodya Israelyan 87 MF Rustam Nisafutdinov 88 MF Aleksandr Bunakov 93 FW Lev Popov 96 GK Andrey Timofeev

Retired numbers

• 23 – Pyotr Khrustovskiy, Forward (2003) – posthumous honor.

Coaching staff

• Head coach – Vadim Skripchenko
• Coaches – Vladimir Kalashnikov, Yuri Matveyev, Yevgeny Averyanov, Igor Bakhtin
• Goalkeeping coach – Sergei Alyapkin

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Ural/Uralmash.

Russia/USSR Viktor Shishkin Yuri Matveyev Roman Pavlyuchenko Aleksandr Podshivalov Aleksandr Ryazantsev Oleg Shatov Igor Smolnikov Fyodor Smolov Oleg Veretennikov Artyom Yenin Aleksandr Yerokhin Denis Zubko Former USSR countries Artak Aleksanyan Edgar Manucharyan Artur Sarkisov Andrey Chukhley

Alyaksandr Hrapkowski Alyaksandr Martynovich Aleh Shkabara Yuri Zhevnov Aleksandr Dmitrijev Giorgi Chanturia Vitali Abramov Sergei Anashkin Renat Dubinskiy Vitaliy Kafanov Konstantin Ledovskikh Aleksandr Sklyarov Georgy Zhukov Arūnas Klimavičius Robertas Poškus Igor Bugaiov Serghei Rogaciov Vitaliy Levchenko

Igor Vityutnev Anatoli Volovodenko Denys Kulakov Oleksandr Pomazun Dmytro Topchiev Vladimir Radkevich Yevgeni Safonov Vladimir Shishelov Europe Vladimir Koman Sölvi Ottesen Toto Tamuz South America Gerson Acevedo Africa Chisamba Lungu

Managers

• Pavel Gusev (2003–04)
• Aleksandr Pobegalov (2005–09)
• Vladimir Fedotov (2009–10)
• Boris Stukalov (2010)
• Dmitriy Ogai (2011)
• Yuri Matveyev (2011)
• Aleksandr Pobegalov (2012)
• Sergei Bulatov (2012)
• Pavel Gusev (2012–13)
• Oleg Vasilenko (2013)
• Aleksandr Tarkhanov (2013–15)
• Viktor Goncharenko (2015)
• Vadim Skripchenko (2015–)

References

1. "FK URAL SVERDLOVSKAYA OBLAST". Soccerway. Perform. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
2. http://www.fc-ural.ru/main/team/ural/players/
3. "Ural Roster" (in Russian). Russian Football Premier League.

External links

• Official website (Russian)