FC Armavir (russian: Футбольный клуб "Армавир"), formerly FC Torpedo Armavir, is a Russian
association football club from
Armavir, founded in 1959.
History
Torpedo Armavir was active (mostly in the third-highest level leagues of USSR and Russia) from 1959 to 1969 and from 1990 to 1998, after which it folded. In 2009, the club was re-created and played in the
Russian Professional Football League
The Russian Second League (russian: Первенство России II дивизиона ФНЛ), formerly Russian Professional Football League is the third level of Russian professional football.
History
In 1998–2010, it was run by the Pr ...
(PFL). It won the third-tier
2014–15 Russian Professional Football League
The 2014–15 Professional Football League was the third highest division in Russian football. The Professional Football League is geographically divided into 5 zones.
The winners of each zone are automatically promoted into the National Football ...
Zone South and was promoted to the second-tier
Russian Football National League (FNL), for the
2015–16 Russian Football National League
The 2015–16 Russian National Football League was the 24th season of Russia's second-tier football league since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The season began on 11 July 2015 and is due to end on 21 May 2016.
Teams
Stadiums, personnel a ...
season.
Before starting its 2015–16 FNL season, there were plans for Torpedo to be taken over by the
Russian Premier League club
FC Kuban Krasnodar and converted to a farm-club as
FC Kuban-2 Krasnodar. However, on 9 July 2015, Torpedo was licensed for FNL and Kuban-2 was registered for PFL independently. After one season at the second tier, Torpedo was relegated back to PFL at the end of the 2015–16 season.
On 9 June 2016, the club was renamed from FC Torpedo Armavir to FC Armavir.
Armavir returned to the second-tier for the
2018–19 Russian Football National League
The 2018–19 Russian National Football League was the 27th season of Russia's second-tier football league since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The season began on 17 July 2018 and ended on 25 May 2019.
Team changes
To FNL
Promoted fro ...
. On 15 April 2020, shortly after the
COVID-19 pandemic shortened
2019–20 Russian Football National League
The 2019–20 Russian Football National League was the 28th season of Russia's second-tier football league since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The season began on 7 July 2019 and ended on 15 May 2020 (last games were played on 15 March).
S ...
season, Aramvir went bankrupt and folded. Club president Valentin Klimko stated that the club hopes to participate in the third-tier PFL in the 2020–21 season. On 29 June 2020, the club announced that they failed licensing for the PFL as well for the 2020–21 season and are hoping to find necessary financing to enter local
Krasnodar Krai amateur competition for the season.
External links
Official site
References
Association football clubs established in 1959
Football clubs in Russia
Sport in Krasnodar Krai
1959 establishments in Russia
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