PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara () is a Russian professional

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club based in

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that plays in the

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. In 2004, they finished third in the

History

Krylia Sovetov was founded in Kuybyshev (now Samara) in 1942. On 21 April 1946 the team played its first match in the highest division in the USSR in

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, in which they lost 1–2 to

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. Krylia Sovetov participated in 48 seasons of the

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and 13 in the

, as well as 43

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s and 13 Russian Cups. On 6 July 2002, Krylia Sovetov first played in a European competition, in the second round of the

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. They won this game with

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) played in Metallurg Stadium, by a score of 3–0. The goals were scored by Andrei Karyaka,

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and Rogério Gaúcho. In 2005, the team played in

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and defeated BATE Borisov in the 2nd qualifying round (2–0, 2–0), but in the 1st round lost to

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(5–3, 1–3). In 2009, they were eliminated in the

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3rd qualifying round by St Patrick's Athletic.

2010 licensing controversy

Krylia Sovetov Samara, who were scheduled to pass licensing on 4 February 2010, asked

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to postpone their licensing until 15 February of the same year due to financial problems and debts to players. The club was reported to be close to liquidation due to shortage of financing. It later asked to postpone the licensing again to 19 February, but the RFU only postponed it until 17 February. On 17 February it was decided to postpone the licensing until 19 February after all. Krylia Sovetov finally received their license on 19 February after agreeing on new contracts with several companies to sponsor them, some of which might become partial owners of the club. As the first matchday arrived, Krylia Sovetov were still banned from registering new players because of debts outstanding on old contracts. They could only register 11 players over 21 years old and several more players from the youth team that were registered for them in 2009. The transfer deadline had to be extended from 11 March to 8 April to accommodate Krylia Sovetov in hope they will pay their outstanding debts shortly. With injuries on top of that and only 16 players available for both their main squad and the reserve team, their reserve team had to finish their first game with 9 players on the field as they only had a goalkeeper on the bench after two players were injured, and the main squad had to play against Zenit St. Petersburg with a heavily diluted roster, so even the loss with the score 0–1 was saluted by the Krylia's fans. The transfer ban was confirmed again on 16 March, and was to remain in place until Krylia paid back their debts to their former players

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and Jiří Jarošík. Krylia lost the second game with the diluted roster 0–3 to

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. The ban was finally lifted on 26 March.

League and cup history

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European history

Current squad

Out on loan

Reserve squad

Coaching staff

* Head coach – Igor Osinkin * Assistant coaches – Sergei Bulatov, Sergei Kornilenko, Mikhail Semernya * Goalkeeping coach – Viktor Gaus

Honours

Domestic tournaments

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/ Russian Cup **Runners-up (4):

1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito ...

1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patria ...

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

, 2020–21 *

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**Champions (7):

1945 1945 marked the end of World War II, the fall of Nazi Germany, and the Empire of Japan. It is also the year concentration camps were liberated and the only year in which atomic weapons have been used in combat. Events World War II will be ...

1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan after 57 years. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, E ...

1961 Events January * January 1 – Monetary reform in the Soviet Union, 1961, Monetary reform in the Soviet Union. * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and cons ...

1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 – Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...

1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd ...

, 2014–15, 2020–21

Other honours

* Progress Cup **Winners (1): 1976 (spring)

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Krylia Sovetov. Maksim Glushenkov ;USSR/Russia * Ravil Aryapov * Aleksandr Babanov *

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* Vladimir Kornilov * Yuri Korotkikh *

Konstantin Krizhevsky Konstantin Stanislavovich Krizhevsky (; 20 February 1926 – 18 November 2000) was a Soviet football defender. He was born in Odintsovo, Russia. He competed for the Soviet Union at the 1952 Olympics, and the 1958 FIFA World Cup.

* Evgeny Lovchev * Fyodor Novikov *

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Vladimir Sakharov Vladimir Nikolayevich Sakharov (; born 5 February 1948) is a retired Soviet football player. Honours * Soviet Top League winner: 1976 (autumn). International career Sakharov made his debut for USSR on October 12, 1975, in a UEFA Euro 1976 qua ...

* Viktor Voroshilov * Yuriy Yeliseyev * Vasili Zhupikov * Aleksandr Borodyuk *

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* Vasili Kulkov * Omari Tetradze * Roman Adamov * Aleksandr Anyukov * Aleksei Arifullin * Anton Bobyor * Viktor Bulatov * Taras Burlak * Yevgeni Bushmanov * Nikita Chernov * Andrei Chichkin * Vyacheslav Dayev * Maksim Demenko * Maksim Glushenkov * Yuri Gorshkov * Sergei Ignashevich * Vladislav Ignatyev * Oleg Ivanov * Maksim Kanunnikov * Andrei Karyaka * Yevgeni Kharlachyov * Denis Kolodin *

Dmitri Kombarov Dmitri Vladimirovich Kombarov ( rus, Дми́трий Влади́мирович Комба́ров, p=ˈdmʲitrʲɪj vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ kɐmˈbarəf; born 22 January 1987) is a Russian Association football, football coach and a former ...

* Aleksandr Kovalenko * Ilya Maksimov *

Ramiz Mamedov Ramiz Mamedov (; ; born 21 August 1972) is a retired Soviet and Russian football player of Azerbaijani descent, best known as a defender for Spartak Moscow in the 1990s. Club career Mamedov's career as player started in 1991 and finished in 2 ...

* Sergei Petrov * Sergei Pinyayev * Vladimir Pisarsky * Igor Portnyagin * Danil Prutsev * Vladislav Radimov * Sergey Ryzhikov * Aleksandr Samedov * Igor Semshov * Ivan Sergeyev * Roman Shishkin * Aleksandr Sobolev * Aleksandr Soldatenkov * Andrei Solomatin *

Andrey Tikhonov Andrey Tikhonov may refer to: * Andrey Tikhonov (footballer) (born 1970), Russian football manager and footbeller * Andrey Tikhonov (mathematician) (1906–1993), Soviet Russian mathematician and geophysicist * Andrey Tikhonov (runner) (born ...

* Roman Vorobyov * Dmitry Yefremov * Roman Yevgenyev * Roman Yezhov * Anton Zinkovsky ;Former USSR countries ;Armenia * Garnik Avalyan * Karen Dokhoyan * Karapet Mikaelyan * Arthur Mkrtchyan * Tigran Petrosyan * David Yurchenko ;Azerbaijan * Ramil Sheydayev ;Belarus * Vital Bulyha * Alyaksandr Chayka * Stanislaw Drahun * Aliaksandr Hleb * Andrey Hlebasolaw * Timofei Kalachev * Sergey Kornilenko * Denis Kovba * Dmitry Molosh * Aliaksandr Oreshnikov * Uladzimir Shuneyka * Aleksey Skvernyuk * Dmitry Verkhovtsov * Syarhey Vyeramko ;Georgia * Aleksandre Amisulashvili * Jano Ananidze * Gia Grigalava * Davit Gvaramadze * Gela Inalishvili * Giorgi Loria * Davit Mujiri *

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* Giorgi Revazishvili ;Lithuania * Nerijus Barasa * Andrius Jokšas *

* Robertas Ringys ;Moldova * Vasile Coşelev * Alexandru Epureanu * Alexandru Gațcan * Radu Gînsari * Stanislav Ivanov ;Tajikistan * Farkhod Vosiyev ;Ukraine * Andriy Husin * Dmytro Ivanisenya * Oleksandr Kyryukhin * Yuriy Sak * Serhiy Shmatovalenko ;Uzbekistan * Bakhtiyor Ashurmatov * Sergey Andreyev * Marat Bikmoev * Sergey Lushan * Aleksey Polyakov * Mirjalol Qosimov * Andrei Rezantsev ;Europe ;Belgium * Jeroen Simaeys ;Bosnia and Herzegovina *

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Danijel Majkić Danijel Majkić ( sr-Cyrl, Данијел Мајкић; born 16 December 1987) is a Bosnian retired professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Club career Majkić was born in Banja Luka, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia , ...

* Amar Rahmanović ;Bulgaria * Dimitar Makriev * Tenyo Minchev ;Croatia * Mateo Barać ;Czech Republic * Jiří Jarošík *

;Finland * Berat Sadik ;Macedonia *

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;Romania * Paul Anton * Cosmin Bărcăuan * Florin Şoavă ;Serbia and Montenegro *

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* Ognjen Koroman ;Slovakia *

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;Slovenia * Suad Filekovič * Nejc Pečnik * Miral Samardžić ;Spain * Catanha ;North and Central America ;Haiti * Reginal Goreux ;Trinidad and Tobago *

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;South America ;Brazil * Roni * Souza ;Chile *

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* Eduardo Lobos * Víctor Méndez * Raúl Muñoz ;Colombia * Juan Carlos Escobar * Carlos Quintero ;Costa Rica * Felicio Brown Forbes ;Paraguay * Luis Nery Caballero * Pablo Zeballos ;Africa ;Algeria *

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;Cameroon * Benoît Angbwa * Serge Branco ;Ghana * Baba Adamu * Laryea Kingston * Mohammed Rabiu ;Nigeria * Patrick Ovie *

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;South Africa * Matthew Booth ;Zambia *

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;Asia ;Iraq * Safaa Hadi ;North Korea * Choe Myong-Ho ;South Korea * Oh Beom-Seok

Club records

Most league games for Krylia Sovetov

Source: # Ravil Aryapov: 362 # Valeryan Panfilov: 359 # Aleksandr Kupriyanov: 328 # Gennadi Sakharov / Boris Valkov: 299 # Ravil Valiyev: 290 # Aleksandr Tsygankov: 279 # Viktor Karpov: 268 # Gennadi Platonov: 247 # Anatoli Blokhin: 242 # Yevgeny Mayorov: 233 # Boris Kazakov: 224 # Sergei Marushko / Ivan Shiryayev: 228 # Nikolai Martynov: 220 # Alfred Fyodorov: 219 # Denis Kovba: 215 # Anatoli Fetisov / Dinar Sharipov: 211 # Viktor Gaus: 209

Most league goals for Krylia Sovetov

# Ravil Aryapov: 105 # Boris Kazakov: 76 # Anatoli Kazakov: 72 # Aleksandr Kupriyanov: 59 # Vladimir Korolyov: 57 # Aleksandr Gulevsky / Ravil Valiyev: 51 # Andrei Karyaka: 49 # Viktor Razveev: 46 # Viktor Voroshilov: 44 # Vladimir Filippov / Sergei Krayev: 41 # Aleksandr Babanov / Valeryan Panfilov / Ivan Sergeyev: 40 # Rustyam Fakhrutdinov / Dmitri Sinyakov / Anatoli Zhukov: 33 # Viktor Karpov / Vadim Redkin: 32 # Garnik Avalyan / Viktor Filippov: 28

Manager history

* Viktor Novikov (1945–1946) * Aleksandr Abramov (1947–1952) * Pyotr Burmistrov (1953–1954) * Vyacheslav Solovyov (1954–1957) * Aleksandr Abramov (1958–1960) * Viktor Karpov (1961–1969) * Nikolay Glebov (1969) * Vsevolod Blinkov (1970–1971) * Gennady Sarychev (1972) * Viktor Kirsh (1973–1977) * Aleksandr Gulevsky (1978) * Viktor Kirsh (1979) * Alfred Fyodorov (1980) * Boris Streltsov (1981) * Gennady Sarychev (1981–1985) *

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(1986–1988) * Viktor Antikhovich (1989–1993) * Valery Bogdanov (1994) * Anatoly Kikin (1994) * Aleksandr Averyanov (1994–1998) * Aleksandr Tarkhanov (1 Jan 1999 – 31 Dec 2003) * Gadzhi Gadzhiyev (20 Nov 2003–2006) * Vladimir Kukhlevsky (2006) * Sergei Oborin (13 March 2007 – 31 Aug 2007) * Aleksandr Tarkhanov (31 Aug 2007 – 11 Nov 2007) * Leonid Slutsky (1 Jan 2008 – 26 Oct 2009) * Yuri Gazzaev (26 Oct 2009 – 25 July 2010) * Aleksandr Tarkhanov (27 July 2010 – 28 June 2011) * Andrey Kobelev (30 June 2011 – 15 Nov 2012) * A. Tsygankov ''(interim)'' (15 Nov 2012 – 29 Dec 2012) * Gadzhi Gadzhiyev (27 Jan 2013 – 7 Aug 2013) * A. Tsygankov ''(interim)'' (6 Aug 2013 – 28 Aug 2013) * Aleksandr Tsygankov (29 Aug 2013 – 4 May 2014) * V. Kukhlevsky ''(interim)'' (5 May 2014 – 7 June 2014) * Franky Vercauteren (8 June 2014 – 31 October 2016)

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Krylia Sovetov Samara Association football clubs established in 1942 Football clubs in Russia Sport in Samara, Russia 1942 establishments in Russia Soviet Top League clubs