FC Kazanka Moscow (, ''FK Kazanka Moskva'') is a Russian

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

club based in

Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...

. Kazanka participated in the FNL 2 and acts as the farm club of

Lokomotiv Moscow FC Lokomotiv Moscow (, ) is a Russian professional association football, football club based in Moscow. Lokomotiv have won the Russian Premier League on three occasions; the Soviet Cup twice; and the Russian Cup (football), Russian Cup a record ...

. The club play on the amateur level, in the championship of Moscow in 2022.

History

Lokomotiv-d Moscow

In 1992, Lokomotiv-d Moscow was established to act as Lokomotiv's first farm club ever. In their first season, Lokomotiv-d participated in the 1992 Russian Second League, Zone 3 and, overall, greatly disappointed as they have only managed to beat the drop. In the following season, ''Lokomotiv-d's'' performances deteriorated and ended-up rock bottom of the league, thereby ensuring that the club's relegation was not only consequent to the reorganisation made by the Russian Football Authorities. ''Lokomotiv'd's'' performances in the Russian fourth tier did not improve as the club ended in the wrong part of the table in both

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and

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. In the following season

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, Lokomotiv-d rocked the bottom of the league once again but owing to the relegation of three other clubs, the club was not relegated. In the next and last edition of the Russian Third League, Lokomotiv-d were promoted to the

Russian Second Division The Russian Second League (), formerly the Russian Professional Football League, are both the third (Division A) and fourth level (Division B) of Russian professional Association football, football. History In 1998–2010, it was run by the :ru: ...

. The club's promotion was down to Lokomotiv's-d own merit as the club languished at the wrong end of the table once again but the second reorganisation made by the Russian Football Authorities ensured that Lokomotiv-d were promoted to the third tier.

Lokomotiv-2 Moscow

Following their promotion to the third tier, Lokomotiv-d were renamed to Lokomotiv-2 Moscow but the re-branding was not match with any improvements on the pitch as Lokomotiv-2 Moscow ended up at the lower echelons of the Russian Second Division in both

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and

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. In the following season, Lokomotiv-2's performances improved marginally but at the end of the season the club was disbanded.

Lokomotiv-2 Moscow (Re-founded)

On 13 February 2008, Lokomotiv-2 Moscow was re-founded with the aim of participating in the

Russian Amateur Football League Russian championship among amateur football clubs (III division) () is the fifth overall tier of the Russian football league system. Sometimes it is called Amateur Football League, after the organization that holds the competition (). The league ...

and gain promotion to the

. Lokomotiv-2's performances in the 2008 championship was overall a success as the club secured the bronze medals by beating Zenit Moscow on the final day in front of a sizeable crowd. Financial problems of clubs which participated in the

2008 Russian Second Division The 2008 Russian Second Division was the third strongest Division in Russian football. The Second Division is geographically divided into 5 zones. The winners of each zone are automatically promoted into the First Division. The bottom finishers o ...

resulted in Lokomotiv-2 being promoted to the said division. The first season was overall a success as the club ended in the upper parts of the table. Despite the positive performances which followed, the fact that the club did not remain connected to Lokomotiv notwithstanding it being Lokomotiv's farm club, took its toll on Lokomotiv-2 and following the conclusion of the 2013-2014 Russian Second Division championship, the club was disbanded.

Kazanka Moscow

On 24 May 2017, Lokomotiv's president Mr Ilya Herkus announced the foundation of ''Lokomotiv-Kazanka'' with the purpose of acting as Lokomotiv's farm club once again. Denis Klyuyev was appointed as the club's head coach and

Sapsan Arena Sapsan Arena () is a football stadium situated in Moscow, Russia. It hosts Kazanka Moscow, Lokomotiv Moscow's farm club, and Lokomotiv Moscow's youth team. It seats 6,000 people. History The stadium was built in 2009 and its initial capacit ...

was chosen as Lokomotiv-Kazanka's home stadium. On 5 July 2017, Lokomotiv-Kazanka was officially launched but in reversal of the original statement, ''Lokomotiv'' was dropped and the club was named Kazanka. On 17 June 2022, Lokomotiv announced that Kazanka will not enter the 2022–23 FNL2 season and will play on the amateur level, in the championship of Moscow.

Stadium

The club played its home games at the

, which is situated a few metres away from Lokomotiv's main stadium, the

RZD Arena RZD Arena () is a association football, football stadium in Moscow, Russia. Formerly known as ''Lokomotiv Stadium'', it is the home stadium of FC Lokomotiv Moscow, Lokomotiv Moscow and was the home ground of the Russia national football team, Rus ...

References

External links

Kazanka Moscow official website
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