FC Baltika Kaliningrad

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Baltika
BaltykaFCLogo2018.png
Full nameFootball Club
Baltika Kaliningrad
Nickname(s)Balda
Founded1954; 68 years ago (1954)
GroundKaliningrad Stadium
Capacity35,016
OwnerKaliningrad/Kaliningrad Oblast
ChairmanKirill Volzhenkin
ManagerSergei Ignashevich
LeagueFNL
2020–215th
WebsiteClub website

FC Baltika is an association football club based in Kaliningrad, Russia. Currently the club plays in the Russian Football National League, the second tier of the Russian football pyramid.

History[]

The club was founded on 22 December 1954 as Pishchevik Kaliningrad. In 1958 the club was renamed Baltika.

The team entered the Soviet League in 1957 and played in Class B (1957–1965), Class A, Group 2 (1966–1970), and Second League (1971–1991). The best result was achieved in 1984, when Baltika won the regional group tournament.

In 1992 Baltika entered the Russian Second Division and won the regional tournament and promotion to the First Division. After a fourth-place finish in 1993 and third position in 1994 Baltika won the division in 1995. In 1996 Baltika achieved the best result in club's history, finishing 7th in the Top Division, the Russian Premier League. Baltika were relegated in 1998, spending a total of three seasons in the top flight. In 1998 Baltika participated in the Intertoto Cup and reached the third round.

Since then, Baltika played in the First Division, except for the 2002 and 2005 seasons which they spent in the Second Division.

In 2018–19 Russian Football National League, they finished 16th (a relegation spot). However, PFL zone East winners FC Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk did not apply for the FNL license, keeping Baltika in the league.[1]

League results[]

Russian First DivisionRussian Second DivisionRussian First DivisionRussian Second DivisionRussian First DivisionRussian Premier LeagueRussian First DivisionRussian Second Division

Current squad[]

As of 19 January 2022, according to the official FNL 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 Russia RUS Yevgeni Latyshonok
4 MF Russia RUS Danil Klyonkin
6 MF Russia RUS Maksim Kuzmin
7 MF Russia RUS Sultan Dzhamilov
8 MF Russia RUS Artyom Popov
9 MF Russia RUS Artyom Makarchuk
10 MF Russia RUS Ilnur Alshin
16 MF Russia RUS Oleg Aleynik
18 MF Montenegro MNE Mladen Kašćelan
21 DF Serbia SRB Ivan Ostojić
23 GK Russia RUS David Volk
26 DF Russia RUS Artyom Meshchaninov
No. Pos. Nation Player
27 DF Russia RUS Ivan Maklakov
33 DF Belarus BLR Sergey Karpovich
38 MF Russia RUS Yan Kazayev
44 DF Russia RUS Maksim Tishkin
67 GK Russia RUS Maksim Borisko
70 MF Armenia ARM Ishkhan Geloyan
71 FW Russia RUS Dmitri Zakharov
88 MF Russia RUS Yuri Petrovskiy
89 MF Russia RUS Vladislav Lazarev
92 FW Russia RUS Daniil Shamkin (on loan from Zenit St. Petersburg)
— DF Russia RUS Konstantin Kovalyov (on loan from Rostov)
— FW Russia RUS Artyom Maksimenko (on loan from Ural Yekaterinburg)

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
— FW Russia RUS Tamerlan Musayev (at KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny)

Reserve team[]

Further information: FC Baltika-BFU Kaliningrad

Reserve team[]

Baltika's reserve team played professionally in the Russian Third League in 1994 as FC Baltika-d Kaliningrad and in the Russian Second Division in 2006 and 2007 as FC Baltika-2 Kaliningrad.

Notable players[]

These players had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Baltika.

External links[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Сахалин" выиграл первенство ПФЛ в зоне "Восток", но не сыграет в ФНЛ [Sakhalin won the PFL East zone, but will not play in the FNL] (in Russian). RIA Novosti. 28 May 2019.
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