| Clubname: | Ural Yekaterinburg |
| Upright: | 0.72 |
| Fullname: | Football Club Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast or FC Ural Yekaterinburg |
| Nickname: | Bumblebees, Orange and Black, Uraltsy (Ural men) |
| Capacity: | 35,061 |
| Chairman: | Grigori Ivanov |
| Manager: | Yevgeni Averyanov |
| Position: | Russian Premier League, 13th of 16 (relegated through play-offs) |
| Current: | 2024–25 FC Ural Yekaterinburg season |
| Website: | http://fc-ural.ru |
FC Ural Yekaterinburg (Russian: ФК Урал) is a Russian professional association football club based in Yekaterinburg. They will play in the Russian First League in the 2024–25 season.[1]
The club was founded in 1930 and was known as Avangard (1930–1948, 1953–1957), Zenit (1944–1946), Mashinostroitel (1958–1959), and Uralmash (1949–1952, 1960–2002). The club is currently named after the Russian region of Ural, where Yekaterinburg is the capital.
The club participated in the Soviet championships beginning in 1945. They mostly played in the higher leagues, with the exception of the 1969 season spent in the lowest league. They were the easternmost Russian SFSR club to compete in the third Soviet division (the easternmost Soviet club overall was FC Kairat from Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR).
Uralmash reached the quarterfinals of the Soviet Cup in 1965/66, 1967/68, and 1990/91.
After the dissolution of the USSR, Uralmash were entitled to enter the Russian Top Division and played there for five seasons, from 1992 to 1996. Their best result was eighth position in 1993 and 1995. Despite reaching the semifinal of the Intertoto Cup in 1996, Uralmash finished 16th out of 18 in the league and were relegated. In 1997 another relegation followed, now to the Second Division. From 1998 to 2002 Uralmash played in the Second Division. After winning promotion, the club was renamed Ural. In 2003, the team were relegated from the Russian First Division, but were promoted again after the 2004 season. The team's best finish in the First Division was third in 2006.
In the 2023–24 season, Ural finished 13th, qualifying for the relegation play-offs.[2] They lost 2–3 to Akron Tolyatti on aggregate and were relegated to the Russian First League after 11 seasons at the top tier.[3]
Ivan JovanovskiHad international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Ural/Uralmash.
Andrey Chukhley Alyaksandr Hrapkowski Alyaksandr Martynovich Nikolay Zolotov Aleh Shkabara Yuri Zhevnov
Vitaliy Abramov Sergei Anashkin Renat Dubinskiy Vitaliy Kafanov Konstantin Ledovskikh Aleksandr Sklyarov Georgy Zhukov
Vitaliy Levchenko Igor Vityutnev Anatoli Volovodenko Shamsiddin Shanbiev Dmitriy Ogai (2011) Viktor Goncharenko (2015) Vadim Skripchenko (2015–2016)
