FC Khimki explained

Clubname:Khimki
Fullname:City District Khimki Municipality's Autonomous Institution "Football Club Khimki"[1]
Nickname:Krasno-chyornye (The Red-Blacks)
Ground:Arena Khimki
Capacity:18,636
Owner:Khimki
Chairman:Nikolay Olenev[2]
Manager:Franc Artiga
League:Russian Premier League
Season:2023–24
Position:Russian First League, 1st of 18 (promoted)
Website:http://www.fckhimki.ru/
Current:2024–25 FC Khimki season
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FC Khimki (Russian: ФК "Химки") is a Russian professional football club based in Khimki. It will return to the Russian Premier League for the 2024–25 season.

History

The team was formed in 1996 by merging two amateur clubs from Khimki, Rodina, and Novator. Khimki entered the amateur league and played their first official match on 17 May 1997. Of more than 150 amateur teams in the competition, only the champions would be promoted to the Third League. Khimki won the tournament, overcoming Energiya Ulyanovsk in the final match in a penalty shootout.

On 30 January 1997, Khimki became a professional football club. In the Third League regional tournament, Khimki finished second and were promoted to the Second League.

Khimki were promoted to the First Division after the 2000 season. They finished first in the Centre zone of the Second Division, but lost the promotion play-off to Severstal Cherepovets on away goals. After Severstal refused to play in the First Division, their place was given to Khimki.

In 2005, Khimki had a very good run in the Russian Cup, reaching the final. They lost the final match 0–1 to CSKA. In the 2019–20 Russian Cup, they reached the final once again.

On 15 May 2020, FNL season was abandoned due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia. As the club was in the 2nd position in the standings, they were promoted to the Russian Premier League for the 2020–21 season, returning to the top level after an 11-year break.[3]

On 22 May 2023, Khimki were relegated from the Russian Premier League after three seasons.[4]

On 20 May 2024, Khimki secured return to the top tier after one season down.[5]

League history

SeasonDiv.Pos.Pl.WDLGSGAPCupEuropeTop Scorer
(League)
Head Coach
19974th, Zone 3align=center bgcolor="lightgreen"2402668803884align=center-align=center colspan=2 Kravchuk – 17 Shtapov
19983rd, "West"104015817636053align=center-align=center colspan=2 Georgievsky – 11 Dementyev
Bychkov
Sabitov
1999align=center rowspan="2"3rd, "Centre"63617118513562R256align=center colspan=2 Khamzin – 11 Sabitov
Kots
2000align=center bgcolor="lightgreen"1382846682288R64align=center colspan=2 Genich – 18 Piskaryov
Papaev
2001align=center rowspan="6"2nd123413417425443R32align=center colspan=2 Shcheglov – 5
Voronkov – 5
Kovardayev – 5
Petrushin
Sabitov
2002734141010382752R32align=center colspan=2 Kovardayev – 6 Sabitov
Derkach
2003124216917364657QFalign=center colspan=2 Kiselyov – 15 Derkach
Galyamin
2004542171015393361R32align=center colspan=2 Pogrebnyak – 6 Shevchuk
Yakovenko
200544223136753682align=center bgcolor="silver"RUalign=center colspan=2 Tikhonov – 15 Yakovenko
2006align=center bgcolor="lightgreen"1423093833099R64align=center colspan=2 Tikhonov – 22 Kazachyonok
2007align=center rowspan="3"1st93091011323337R32align=center colspan=2 Shirokov – 7 Muslin
200814306915345427R16align=center colspan=2 Nizamutdinov – 9 Yuran
2009align=center bgcolor="pink"16302424206410R32align=center colspan=2 Antipenko – 6 Sarsaniya
Chugainov
2010align=center rowspan="3"2nd1338111710393850R32align=center colspan=2 Yusupov – 7
Dudchenko – 7
Tarkhanov
Bushmanov
2011–121348161121547459R32align=center colspan=2 Mamtov – 10 Grigoryan
Dolmatov
Tarkhanov
2012–13bgcolor=pink163261016234028R16 Komkov – 3
Khatazhyonkov – 3
Tarkhanov
Tetradze
Petrakov
2013–143rd, "West"33216106673758R64 Antonnikov – 9
Zemchenkov – 9
Tarkhanov
Mukhanov
Gridin
2014–154301596422754R256 Lipatkin – 6 Maminov
2015–161241950491262R16 Markosov – 11 Khafizov
2016–17align=center rowspan="4"2nd1138111611404749R32align=center colspan=2 Kazaev – 8 Irkhin
2017–18133812719334943R64align=center colspan=2 Kuzmichev – 7 Irkhin
2018–19938141113474953R32align=center colspan=2 Kukharchuk – 10 Shalimov
2019–202271665501954align=center bgcolor="silver"RUalign=center colspan=2 Aliyev – 8 Yuran
2020–211st83013611353945R16align=center colspan=2 Mirzov – 6 Yuran
2021–221st133071112344732GSalign=center colspan=2 Glushakov – 10 Cherevchenko

Current squad

Reserve team

Notable players

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

Europe
Russia
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Czech Republic
Estonia
Finland
Georgia
Kazakhstan
Latvia
Lithuania
Moldova
Romania
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Sweden
Ukraine
Asia
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Africa
Burkina Faso
Morocco
Nigeria
Senegal

Club records

Most league appearances for Khimki

  1. Miodrag Jovanović: 224
  2. Roman Berezovsky: 175
  3. Nikolai Barkalov: 164
  4. Sergei Kravchuk: 145
  5. Aleksandr Shulenin: 140
  6. Andrey Tikhonov: 124
  7. Aleksandr Makarov: 119
  8. Aleksandr Shvetsov: 116
  9. Igor Nekrasov: 115
  10. Sergei Shcheglov: 112

Most league goals for Khimki

  1. Sergei Kravchuk

46

  1. Andrey Tikhonov

43

  1. Yuri Georgiyevsky

30

  1. Konstantin Genich

29

  1. Nikolai Kovardayev

27

  1. Vadim Shatalin

23

  1. Aleksandr Antipenko

20

  1. Denis Kiselyov

18

  1. Anton Arkhipov

16

Coaching staff

PositionStaff
First-Team Manager Spartak Gogniyev
First-Team Assistant Manager Dmitri Vyazmikin
Andrey Shatov
First-Team Coach Branimir Petrović
Goalkeeper Coach Aleksandr Guteev
Fitness Coach Evgeniy Bondarenko
Doctor Nikita Konovalov
Masseur Aleksey Lyashchenko

Managers

Honours

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.rfpl.org/clubs.shtml?team=86&act=info Official Russian Premier League website
  2. Web site: Заместитель министра спорта Московской области Оленев стал генеральным директором "Химок". ru. championat.com. 2022-09-20. 2022-11-02.
  3. Web site: Russian Football National League. Исполком РФС утвердил итоги Олимп-Первенства ФНЛ-2019/20. "Ротор" и "Химки" выходят в Тинькофф-РПЛ. 15 May 2020. Russian.
  4. Web site: Sports.ru. "Химки" вылетели из РПЛ после трех сезонов в лиге. 22 May 2023. ru.
  5. Web site: Sports.ru. "Динамо" Махачкала впервые сыграет в РПЛ. "Химки" вернулись в высший дивизион. 20 May 2024. ru.