Yenisey

Full name	Futbolny Klub Yenisey Krasnoyarsk
Founded	1937 (1937)
Ground	Central Stadium, Krasnoyarsk
Capacity	15,000
Manager	Andrey Tikhonov
League	Russian First League
2022–23	RFL, 4th of 18
Home colours Away colours

FK Yenisey Krasnoyarsk (ФК Енисей Красноярск) is a Russian football club based in Krasnoyarsk. The club plays in the Russian First League.

History

The club was founded in 1937 as Lokomotiv Krasnoyarsk and spent one season in Class D of the Soviet league. In 1957 the club was re-formed and entered the Far East zone of Class B. In 1968 Lokomotiv was renamed Rassvet and, in 1970, Avtomobilist. In 1991 it became Metallurg, a title it held until February 2010 when it was renamed Metallurg-Yenisey (formally, Metallurg was excluded from the league and a new independent club Metallurg-Yenisey was admitted into the league).^[1] In 2011, the club was renamed to Yenisey.^[2] The club is named after the Yenisei river, on which Krasnoyarsk is located.

Yenisey (or their predecessors) never played in the Soviet Top League or Russian Premier League until 2018. Their best result in Soviet League was a 2nd position in Group 7 of Class B in 1959, while their best result in Russian history is the 3rd position in Russian National Football League in 2016–17 and 2017–18. Since the end of the Soviet Union the club has suffered relegation to the Second Division on five occasions, most recently in 2006. In the 2015–16 season, Yenisey took 16th spot in the FNL and should have been relegated, but one of the third-tier Russian Professional Football League zone winners, FC Smena Komsomolsk-na-Amure, refused to be promoted due to lack of financing, and Yenisey stayed in the FNL.^[3] At the end of the 2016–17 season, Yenisey reached the Russian Premier League promotion play-offs, but lost to FC Arsenal Tula on away goals rule (2–1 at home, 0–1 away) and stayed in the FNL. Despite spending a portion of the next 2017–18 season in the top-two direct-promotion spot, by the end of the season Yenisey dropped into 3rd position and qualified for promotion play-offs again.^[4] They defeated FC Anzhi Makhachkala 6–4 on aggregate in the promotion play-offs and were promoted to the Russian Premier League for the 2018–19 season for the first time in team's history.

They were relegated back to the second tier after one year in the Premier League.

In the end of the 2022–23 season, Yenisey finished 4th in the First League and qualified for the promotion play-offs.^[5] Yenisey lost 0–3 on aggregate in the playoffs to Fakel Voronezh and remained in the First League.^[6]

Domestic history

Season	League									Russian Cup	Top goalscorer		Manager
	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P		Name	League
2007	3rd	6th	30	13	7	20	45	40	46	Round of 32	Aleksei Bazanov	9
2008	3rd	6th	27	9	7	11	38	34	34	Round of 16	Stanislav Goncharov	13
2009	3rd	3rd	27	15	5	7	51	27	50	Fourth round	Stanislav Goncharov	10
2010	2nd	11th	38	15	8	15	37	39	53	Fourth round	Aleksei Bazanov	14
2011–12	2nd	10th	48	17	15	16	53	53	66	Second round Round of 32	Aleksei Bazanov	13
2012–13	2nd	10th	32	9	12	11	30	31	39	Quarter-finals	Sergei Pyatikopov Aleksei Bazanov	7
2013–14	2nd	13th	36	12	9	15	40	47	45	Fourth round	Juan Lescano	7
2014–15	2nd	8th	34	11	9	14	39	42	42	Round of 32	Ilya Gultyayev	5
2015–16	2nd	16th	38	12	8	18	36	49	44	Round of 32	Juan Lescano	7
2016–17	2nd	3rd	38	19	6	13	54	42	63	Round of 16	Sergey Samodin	10
2017–18	2nd	3rd	38	25	6	7	68	32	81	Round of 16	Andrei Kozlov	15	Dmitri Alenichev
2018–19	1st	16th	30	4	8	18	24	55	20	Round of 16	Mikhail Kostyukov	4	Dmitri Alenichev
2019–20	2nd	14th	27	7	7	13	23	40	28	Round of 32	Andrei Kozlov	15	Alexander Alekseev Yuri Gazzaev
2020–21	2nd	10th	42	19	6	17	52	54	63	Round of 32	Juan Lescano	9	Aleksandr Tarkhanov Aleksandr Alfyorov

Current squad

As of 12 October 2023, according to the Official First League website. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  RUS Stanislav Antipin 2 DF  KGZ Valery Kichin 5 DF  RUS Vitali Stezhko 7 FW  RUS Irakli Logua 8 MF  RUS Aleksandr Lomakin 9 FW  RUS Maksim Savelyev 11 MF  RUS Nikita Glushkov 12 MF  RUS Nikita Razdorskikh 13 DF  RUS Nikolay Markov 17 MF  RUS Anton Orlov 21 MF  RUS Yegor Ivanov 22 MF  RUS Aleksandr Kanaplin 23 DF  RUS Matvey Uzhgin 24 DF  RUS Yaroslav Krashevsky (on loan from Spartak Moscow) 27 MF  RUS Anatoli Nemchenko

No. Pos. Nation Player 29 DF  RUS Vladimir Khozin 30 GK  RUS Dmitri Rebrov 33 DF  RUS Aleksandr Maslovsky 38 GK  RUS Yevgeni Staver 42 GK  RUS Daniil Yarusov 64 MF  RUS Oleg Lanin 66 MF  RUS Danila Polshikov 75 FW  RUS Andrey Okladnikov 77 MF  RUS Danil Kapustyansky (on loan from Orenburg) 80 DF  RUS Vyacheslav Bardybakhin 93 DF  RUS Aleksandr Reyz 95 FW  RUS Vladislav Lutashev 96 DF  ARG Germán Ferreyra 97 MF  RUS Daniil Oganichev 98 GK  RUS Konstantin Kotov

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  RUS Yegor Apushnikov (at Dynamo Vladivostok until 30 June 2024)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  RUS Denis Samoylov (at Tyumen until 30 June 2024)

Notable players

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

Coaching staff

References

External links

• Official website (in Russian)