FC SKA-Khabarovsk explained

Clubname:SKA-Khabarovsk
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Fullname:Футбольный клуб СКА-Хабаровск
Ground:Lenin Stadium,
Khabarovsk, Russia
Capacity:14,800
Owner:Khabarovsk Krai
RusHydro (through subsidiary)
Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Production Association
Chairman:Mikhail Gusev[1]
Manager:Aleksei Poddubskiy (caretaker)
League:Russian First League
Season:2023–24
Position:13th of 18
Current:2024–25 FC SKA-Khabarovsk season
Website:http://fcska.ru/
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Football Club SKA-Khabarovsk (Russian: Футбольный клуб СКА-Хабаровск) is a Russian professional association football club based in Khabarovsk which plays in the second-tier Russian First League. They played in the Russian Premier League for the first time ever in the 2017–18 season. At more than 6000km (4,000miles) east of Moscow, SKA Khabarovsk are the most Easterly team to have taken part in a UEFA domestic top division.

History

The club has been known under different names:

The club has participated in the Soviet championships since 1957. SKA were the quarter-finalists of the Soviet Cup in 1963. They had never played in the Soviet Top League or Russian Premier League, until 2017.

SKA's best result in the Soviet First League was the 6th position in 1980, and their best result in the Russian First Division was 4th position in 2012–13. This entitled them to a promotion/relegation play-off against FC Rostov, 13th place in the RPL, but they lost 3–0 on aggregate and missed their chance to compete in the top flight.

At the end of the 2016–17 season, SKA equalled their record best finish, at the same time qualifying for a promotion play-off against FC Orenburg. On 28 May 2017, SKA were promoted to the Russian Premier League for the first time in their history, after beating FC Orenburg in the promotion play-off. They won 5–3 in a penalty shoot-out, after 0–0 draws in both the home and away legs.

SKA started their first Premier League season with 4 losses. After improving results in the next stretch of games, the losses starting mounting up again. Aleksei Poddubskiy was replaced as manager by Rinat Bilyaletdinov during the winter break, Bilyaletdinov only lasted four games before being replaced by Sergei Perednya. On 22 April 2018, SKA lost 1–0 to Dynamo Moscow at home (which was their 13th loss in a stretch of 15 winless games) and lost the mathematical chance to avoid relegation back to the second-tier Russian Football National League.

In the 2021–22 season, SKA-Khabarovsk qualified for the Premier League promotion playoffs in which they lost 1–3 on aggregate to FC Khimki therefore remaining in the FNL for at least another season.[3]

Domestic history

SeasonLeagueRussian CupTop goalscorerManager
Div.Pos.Pl.WDLGSGAPNameLeague
20082nd8th42171015636061Round of 32 Aleksandr Yarkin21
20092nd11th38121115434247Fifth round Vasili Karmazinenko9
20102nd11th3815815373953Round of 16 Vasili Karmazinenko10
2011–122nd11th48161418576662Fifth round
Fifth round
Yevgeni Lutsenko13 Igor Protasov
Aleksandr Grigoryan
2012–132nd4th3213136362652Round of 16 Yevgeni Lutsenko8 Aleksandr Grigoryan
Giorgi Daraselia
2013–142nd7th36151110433456Round of 16 Nathan Júnior9 Valdas Ivanauskas
2014–152nd14th38131015363549Fourth Round Nathan Júnior6 Valdas Ivanauskas
Aleksandr Grigoryan
2015–162nd14th38131015363549Round of 16 Konstantin Bazelyuk10 Aleksandr Grigoryan
2016–172nd4th3815149453359Round of 16 Ruslan Koryan12 Aleksandr Grigoryan
Aleksei Poddubskiy
2017–181st16th302721165513Quarterfinal Miroslav Marković4 Aleksei Poddubskiy
Rinat Bilyaletdinov
Sergei Perednya
2018–192nd7th38151310464158Round of 32 Maksim Kazankov7 Sergei Perednya
Vadim Evseev
Aleksei Poddubskiy
2019–202nd6th271278423043Round of 32 Adlan Katsayev9 Aleksei Poddubskiy
2020–212nd11th4217916524760Round of 16 Konstantin Bazelyuk12 Aleksei Poddubskiy
Sergei Yuran
2021–222nd4th3819811483865Qualifying Round 3 David Karayev14 Sergei Yuran
Aleksei Poddubskiy
2022–232nd10th34111112503944Qualifying Round 4 Ilya Petrov
Said Aliyev
7 Roman Sharonov
2023–242nd13th3411815333641Qualifying Round 3 Oleg Kozhemyakin
Said Aliyev
6 Roman Sharonov

Current squad

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Reserve team

Notable players

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

USSR and Russia
Former USSR countries
Europe
Africa

Coaching staff

PositionName
Manager Roman Sharonov
Senior Manager Alexey Andreevich
Assistant Manager Yuri Shpiryuk
Goalkeeping Coach Maxim Ivanovich
Fitness Coach Oleg Anatolievich
Dmitri Gureev
Analyst Yurievich Vyacheslav
Rehabilitologist Ruslan Gennadievich
Team Leader Sergey Vladimirovich
Administrator Denis Rafailovich
Junior Administrator Ilshat Marsovich
Doctor Anatoly Georgievich
Masseur Marat Ulfatovich
Danil Yurievich
Marat Ishmurzin
Rehabilitation Specialist Danil Yurievich

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Михаил Гусев назначен генеральным директором «СКА-Хабаровск». ru. 1 June 2022. 14 December 2022.
  2. Web site: FC SKA-Khabarovsk . http://fcska.ru/main/index.php/the-news-lenta/35/2187 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160614061136/http://fcska.ru/main/index.php/the-news-lenta/35/2187 . dead . 14 June 2016 . ru:С 1 июня мы – ФК "СКА-Хабаровск"! . 2 June 2016 . Russian .
  3. Web site: Russian Premier League. "Химки" сохранили место в РПЛ благодаря победе над "СКА-Хабаровском". 28 May 2022. ru.
  4. http://1fnl.ru/teams/20/ official First League website