FC Oryol

FC Oryol
Full name	Football Club Oryol
Founded	1960
Ground	Central Stadium, Oryol
Capacity	15,292
Owner	Oryol Oblast
Chairman	Nikita Fursin
Manager	Yevgeni Polyakov
League	Russian Second League,; Division B,; Group 3
2016–17	PFL,; zone Center, dropped out
Home colours	Away colours

FC Oryol (Russian: ФК «Орёл») is a Russian football club based in the city of Oryol. From 2004 to 2006 FC Oryol played in the Russian First Division.

History

Football has been played in Oryol since 1911. In 1960 a team named Lokomotiv was formed in Oryol to play in the Class B of the Soviet championship. In 1963 it was renamed Spartak, in 1973 Stal (meaning "steel"), in 1975 the team was renamed Spartak again.

The team played in Class B until the restructuring of the leagues in 1971, when it entered the Soviet Second League. In 1990–1991 Spartak played in the Second League B.

In 1992 Spartak entered the Russian Second League. In 1993 the team was renamed Oryol. In 1994 Oryol moved to the Third League, and in 1996 they were promoted back after finishing third. In 2003 Oryol finished first in the Centre zone of the Second Division and were promoted to the First Division. The sixth position in 2004 was the best in the club's history. In 2006 Oryol were relegated from the First Division after finishing 20th. The club faced financial problems, thus abandoning their place in the Second Division, was re-created as Spartak Oryol and joined the Amateur Football League. After a year in the amateur league, FC Oryol returned to the Second Division and was once again renamed, entering 2008 season as FC Rusichi Oryol. Rusichi finished mid-table in their first three seasons in the Second Division, with Yevgeni Polyakov becoming the central zone's top scorer with 20 goals in 2010. In winter 2011 rumours circulated that the team would change its name to FC Oryol. Despite being in top five for the most part of 2011/12 season, Rusichi once again finished mid-table (8th place). In summer of 2012 the club announced the name change, finally becoming FC Oryol again.^[2] During the winter break of the 2016–17 season, the club experienced financial difficulties and did not finish out the season of the Russian Professional Football League.^[3]^[4]

On 16 February 2024, Oryol was licensed for the 2024 season of the Russian Second League.^[5] It was assigned to Group 3 of the Division B (fourth tier).^[6]

Oryol's top achievement in the Russian Cup is the 1/8 final in the 1996–97 competition.

Current squad

As of 15 August 2024, according to the Second 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
2	MF	RUS	Pyotr Myasishchev
3	DF	RUS	Sergey Polosin
4	DF	RUS	Yevgeny Mertsalov
6	DF	RUS	Sergey Luzin
7	MF	RUS	Ivan Shcherbakov
8	MF	RUS	Dmitry Merkulov
9	MF	RUS	Nikita Frasinyuk
10	MF	RUS	Georgy Borisov
11	FW	RUS	Yevgeni Ragulkin
12	DF	RUS	Sergey Khmelevskoy
13	MF	RUS	Nikita Krasov
16	GK	RUS	Mikhail Moiseyev
17	MF	RUS	Nikita Novikov
19	DF	RUS	Yegor Bocharov
20	FW	RUS	Artyom Luksha
21	FW	RUS	Maksim Dmitriyev


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
22	MF	RUS	Ivan Stavtsev
24	GK	RUS	Nikita Kotov
26	DF	RUS	Yevgeny Simakov
27	MF	RUS	Nikita Korolyov
28	MF	RUS	Sergei Peterson
46	MF	RUS	Maksim Tarasov
48	DF	RUS	Vadim Roldugin
55	DF	RUS	Dmitry Kopylov
57	FW	RUS	Maksim Stavtsev (on loan from Kaluga)
69	DF	RUS	Semyon Cherepanov (on loan from Torpedo Miass)
74	DF	RUS	Dmitry Mironenko
75	GK	RUS	Pavel Zemskov
85	FW	RUS	Timofey Klimov
88	MF	RUS	Arkhip Leonov
96	MF	RUS	Vladimir Panarin
99	MF	RUS	Danil Kuzmin