Nikelshchik Explained

Team:	Nikelshchik
League:	Russian Bandy Supreme League
Division:	Group 2
Arena:	Nikelshchik Stadium
City:	Verkhny Ufaley, Russia

Nikelshchik (Russian: Никельщик) is a bandy club in Verkhny Ufaley, Russia. The club is playing in the Russian Bandy Supreme League, the second tier of Russian bandy.^[1] The home games are played at Stadium Nikelshchik in Verkhny Ufaley.^[2] The club colours are blue and white.^[3]

Their spectator numbers stand out. Whereas it's unusual in their division to reach 1 000, they usually have a couple of thousand, for example 2 750 against Dynamo Mayak^[4] or 3 500 against SKA-Sverdlovsk.^[5] Although located in Chelyabinsk Oblast, the club belongs to the bandy federation of Sverdlovsk Oblast.^[6]

The club was founded in 1935.

External links

• Club page at vk.com
• Team image

References

1. Web site: "Никельщик" Верхний Уфалей. rusbandy.ru. Russian. 20 July 2015.
2. Web site: Стадион "Никельщик", Верхний Уфалей. rusbandy.ru. Russian. 20 July 2015.
3. Web site: МБУ "СОЦ «Никельщик" . Russian . 20 July 2015.
4. Web site: Никельщик — Маяк - Первенство России среди команд Высшей лиги - 2014-2015 - Федерация хоккея с мячом России.
5. Web site: Никельщик — СКА-Свердловск - Первенство России среди команд Высшей лиги - 2014-2015 - Федерация хоккея с мячом России.
6. Web site: Стадион ХК «Никельщик» - Федерация хоккея с мячом Свердловской области . 2015-07-20 . 2015-07-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150721182241/http://www.lukservice.ru/stadion-kluba-nikelschik.html . dead .