FC Leon Saturn Ramenskoye explained

Clubname:Leon Saturn Ramenskoye
Fullname:State-Owned Enterprise
of the Moscow Region
Football Club Leon Saturn Moscow Region
Russian: Государственное учреждение Московской области Футбольный клуб "Леон Сатурн" Московская область
Nickname:The Aliens, The Humanoids
Ground:Saturn Stadium, Ramenskoye
Capacity:14,685
Chairman:Roman Shirokov
Manager:Uladzimir Karytska
League:Russian Second League,
Division B,
Group 2
Season:2023
Position:7th (Group 3)
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FC Leon Saturn Ramenskoye (Russian: ФК Леон Сатурн Ра́менское) is a Russian football club, based in the town of Ramenskoye in Moscow Oblast. It is also sometimes referred to as FC Saturn Moscow Region (Russian: ФК Сатурн Московской области|FK Saturn Moskovskaya Oblast).

History

The club was founded in 1946. Although the club is based in Ramenskoye, the club represents all Moscow Oblast. Due to huge debts it was dissolved in January 2011, but was recreated on the base of their former farm club FC Saturn-2 Moscow Region. It returned to the professional level in Russian Professional Football League in the 2013–14 season. Before the 2015–16 season, the club didn't receive the professional license and moved back to amateur levels.[1] It returned to the third-tier once again for the 2016–17 season.

Their nickname “Aliens” (Russian инопланетяне) comes from the name 'Saturn'.Also, nicknamed "Extraterrestrials."

It was previously called Krylya Sovetov (1946–1957), Trud (1958–1959), Saturn (from 1960 to 2002 and from 2004 to 2023) and Saturn-REN TV (February 2002 to January 2004). In July 2023, the club was renamed to "Leon Saturn" due to a sponsorship deal with bookmaker Leon.[2]

In 2006 the club beat the record of drawn matches played in the Russian Premier League during one season - 16 times.

League and Cup history

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Saturn's reserve squad played professionally as FC Saturn-2 Ramenskoye in the Russian Second Division in 1999 and 2000. Since 2004 exists a separate farm club — Saturn Yegoryevsk, since 2008 called Saturn-2, played in the Russian Second Division to 2012.

Current squad

As of 24 July 2024, according to the Second League website.

Supporters

The football club Saturn Ramenskoye (FCSR) supporters movement was born in the second part of the 1980s when the team started playing on the professional level. The organised group of fans at that time consisted of not more than 20 people; however the first trips (Russian: выезда) to Tula, Kaluga, Pskov and other cities were already done by them in 1986.

The new age for FCSR supportive movement is connected with the year 1995. Then the famous supporter Andrey Egorishev (nicknamed "Arsenal") had begun to unite fans of Saturn. It is believed that the team played in black and blue colors because of him. In 1996 Saturn had played in red and white colors. Fans who disliked these colors (because of ideological views) had many discussions – and finally chose black and blue colors. Some time after that the team changed colors too.

The first union of FCSR fans – Dorf Menschen (the bumpkins; the German translates literally as "Village People") – was organised in January 1996. At that moment it consisted from about 15 people, but its size (as the size of FCSR fans in common) has been increasing. Many groups of fans were formed (mainly according to geographical location). Because a large number of these groups became uncontrollable, it was decided to unite them around a Dorf Menschen. The South-East Confederation (Russian: «Юго-Восточная Конфедерация») was formed in this way. It was able to gather about one thousand supporters at the home game. At the moment the main FCSR band is "BBS firm" whose name means "Black Blue Supporters".

After beginning to play in the highest Russian league, the structure of the FCSR supportive movement has been changed a lot. There are some different unions at the moment, both hooligans and ultras, which are united by the 46 km. The main enemies of Saturn fans are fans of FC Lokomotiv Moscow, FC Shinnik Yaroslavl and FC Khimki. There is the friendship between FCSR fans and fans of Torpedo Moscow and Spartak Moscow.

Many FCSR fans' nicknames are connected with the aliens' club name. The black and blue fans themselves mostly use the nickname gumy ("гумы") (short form of Russian "гуманоид" – "humanoid").

Notable players

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

USSR/Russia
Former USSR countries
Europe
Central America
South America
Africa

Club records

Most games for the club

Country Player Number of Games
186
147
114
114
112
110
103
97
96
96

Most goals for the club

Country Player Number of Games
32
31
30
20
18
15
13
13
11
10

Notes and References

  1. Web site: FC Saturn Ramenskoye. http://www.saturn-fc.ru/news/26861/. ru:«Сатурн» берет паузу на год. 19 June 2015. Russian.
  2. Web site: Leon Saturn Ramenskoye. ФК "Сатурн" стал ФК "Леон Сатурн". FC Saturn became FC Leon Saturn. 21 July 2023. ru.