FC Kaluga

FC Kaluga
Full nameFootball Club Kaluga
Nickname(s)Kosmonavty (the Cosmonauts)
Founded2009
GroundAnnenki Arena
Capacity3,643
OwnerKaluga / Kaluga Oblast / Oleg Mitrofanov
ChairmanOleg Mitrofanov[1]
ManagerYevgeni Losev
LeagueRussian Second League,
Division A,
Gold Group
2023–24Silver Group, 3rd
Websitehttps://fc-kaluga.ru/

FC Kaluga (Russian: ФК Калуга) is an association football club from Kaluga, Russia, founded in 2009. The club is playing in the third-tier Russian Second League Division A. The team appeared after uniting two football Clubs from Kaluga: FC MiK Kaluga and FC Lokomotiv Kaluga. The two teams finished 1st and 2d in Russian Amateur Football League Chernozemic Zone championship in 2009 and Kaluga faced the opportunity to promote a football club that could represent the city to Russian Professional Football League so the two teams were united.

Current squad

As of 12 September 2024, according to the Second League website.

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
4 DF Russia RUS Ivan Belik
5 MF Russia RUS Aleksandr Golubtsov
6 DF Russia RUS Timofey Kalistratov
7 FW Russia RUS Nikolay Sukhanov
8 MF Russia RUS Daniil Knyazev
9 MF Russia RUS Daniil Agureyev
10 MF Russia RUS Ilyas Muminov
12 MF Russia RUS Yegor Lipayev
13 DF Russia RUS Ilya Klementyev
14 DF Russia RUS Ivan Rapakov
15 DF Russia RUS Bogdan Rogochy
17 MF Russia RUS Aleksandr Bastrykin
No. Pos. Nation Player
19 DF Russia RUS Yevgeny Ignatovich
22 DF Russia RUS Artyom Gutsa
28 MF Russia RUS Danil Novikov
31 GK Russia RUS Artyom Gerasimov
37 MF Russia RUS Yevgeni Ushakov
38 FW Russia RUS Ivan Khleborodov (on loan from Ufa)
57 MF Russia RUS Rasil Asaydulin
65 FW Russia RUS Ivan Gulko (on loan from Orenburg)
70 MF Russia RUS Dmitri Zakharov
74 GK Russia RUS Pavel Kovalyov
75 GK Russia RUS Vladimir Tsapurin (on loan from SKA-Khabarovsk)
77 DF Russia RUS Magomed Temishev (on loan from Mashuk-KMV Pyatigorsk)

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
FW Russia RUS Robert Kortyayev (at Kvant Obninsk until 31 December 2024)
No. Pos. Nation Player
FW Russia RUS Maksim Stavtsev (at Oryol until 31 December 2024)

References

  1. ^ "Олег Митрофанов рассказал, как живет ФК "Калуга"" (in Russian). mngz.ru. 2018-02-22. Retrieved 2022-12-13.