FC Orenburg explained

Clubname:Orenburg
Fullname:Football Club Orenburg
Ground:Gazovik Stadium
Capacity:10,046
Owner:Gazprom (through subsidiaries)
Chairman:Vasily Eremyakin[1]
Manager:David Deogracia
League:Russian Premier League
Season:2023–24
Position:12th of 16
Current:2024–25 FC Orenburg season
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Website:http://fcorenburg.ru/main.html

FC Orenburg (Russian: ФК «Оренбург») is a Russian professional football club based in Orenburg. Founded in 1976, it earned promotion to the Russian Premier League in 2022–23 season.

History

It played professionally as Gazovik from 1976 to 1982 and from 1989 on. Before 1976 another Orenburg team, Lokomotiv Orenburg, played professionally, including three seasons in the second-highest Soviet First League in 1960–62. In 1989 Gazovik was called Progress Orenburg. Gazovik began Russian League at Zone 5 of Second League and relegated from Zone 6 from one to Third League in 1993. They stayed in Zone 5 of Third League until 1997 season, when they returned to third level. They finished Ural Povolzhye (Volga Region in Russian) as runner-up in 2006, 2007 and 2008 seasons and finally promoted to the Russian First League in 2010.

On 2 May 2016, the club secured top-two finish in the 2015–16 Russian National Football League and with that, the promotion to the Russian Premier League for the 2016–17 season for the first time in club's history.[2]

On 25 May 2016, the club was renamed from its historical name FC Gazovik Orenburg to FC Orenburg.[3]

The club was relegated back to the second tier at the end of the 2016–17 season after losing a penalty shootout in the relegation playoffs to FC SKA-Khabarovsk. It was promoted back to the Russian Premier League after one season in the second tier.[4] It was relegated at the end of the 2019–20 Russian Premier League season. They were forced to forfeit two games late in the season due to COVID-19 infections in the squad and play more games with a weakened line-up. On 8 May 2021, they secured a second-place finish in the FNL and return to the Russian Premier League after one season in the second tier.[5] However, Russian Football Union rejected the club's application for a RPL license on 5 May 2021 due to the stadium not passing capacity requirements and other conditions, and their appeal was rejected on 12 May 2021. The club considered filing a complaint with the Court of Arbitration for Sport.[6] On 24 May 2021, the club announced they will not file a lawsuit with CAS and will accept the RFU decision. They also announced that the club will begin the stadium reconstruction in June 2021 to bring it up to Premier League standards.[7]

In the 2021–22 season, Orenburg led the FNL for most of the season, before dropping out of the direct promotion spot to the 3rd place on the last matchday. That qualified Orenburg for the promotion play-offs against FC Ufa, which finished 14th in the Premier League. Orenburg won the play-offs 4–3 on aggregate thanks to the second-leg added-time goal by Andrei Malykh and returned to the Russian Premier League after two seasons in the second tier.[8] They finished their first season upon return in 7th place.

Honours

Domestic Competitions

Current squad

As of 1 August 2024, according to the official RPL website.

Reserve squad

Coaching staff

Managers

Notable players

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

USSR/Russia
Former USSR countries
Africa
Europe
CONCACAF

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: "Оренбург" объявил имя нового президента клуба. ru. sport24. 21 May 2020. 6 January 2023.
  2. Web site: Russian National Football League. http://www.1fnl.ru/news/4975. ru:«Газовик» в Премьер-лиге!. 2 May 2016. ru.
  3. Web site: FC Orenburg. http://fcgazovik.ru/content/view/3593/1/. ru:Футбольный Клуб "Оренбург". 25 May 2016. ru. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160729144151/http://fcgazovik.ru/content/view/3593/1. 29 July 2016.
  4. Web site: Russian Football National League. Orenburg and Krylia Sovetov promoted to Premier League. ru. 6 May 2018.
  5. Web site: Russian Football National League. "Оренбург" завоевал путевку в Премьер-Лигу. 8 May 2021. ru.
  6. Web site: RIA Novosti. "Оренбург" готов обратиться в CAS при недопуске в РПЛ в виде исключения. 12 May 2021. ru.
  7. Web site: FC Orenburg. Заявление ФК "Оренбург". 24 May 2021. ru.
  8. Web site: Russian Premier League. "Оренбург" вырвал победу у "Уфы" и завоевал право играть в РПЛ. 28 May 2022. ru.