FC Chertanovo Moscow

FC Chertanovo Moscow

Full name	Football Club Chertanovo Moscow
Nickname(s)	Cherti (The Devils)
Founded	1993
Ground	Sports Village, Luzhniki Olympic Complex
Capacity	1,872
Owner	Chertanovo Education Center
Chairman	Nikolai Larin
Manager	Vacant
League	PFL
2020–21	FNL, 21st (relegated)
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

FC Chertanovo Moscow (Russian: «Чертаново» (Москва)) is a Russian professional football club based in Chertanovo, Moscow who play in the Russian Professional Football League, the third tier of Russian football. It is the senior team of the Chertanovo Football Academy.

History[]

They played professionally from 1993 to 1997 before dropping into the amateur leagues and then returning to the professional leagues, the Russian Professional Football League (3rd tier) in the 2014–15 season. The club won the West zone of the PFL in the 2017–18 season and was promoted to the second-tier Russian Football National League for the first time in their history ahead of the 2018–19 season.

In 2019–20, during their second season in the second division, the campaign was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic, with the final table showing them in third place, one spot and one point below the promotion zone with more than 10 matches left to play.

Before the 2020–21 season, Chertanovo's head coach Igor Osinkin and 8 leading players transferred to PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara. As a consequence, Chertanovo finished second from the bottom in the season and was relegated back to PFL. Meanwhile, Krylia Sovetov won the FNL season and were promoted back to Russian Premier League and also reached the final of the 2020–21 Russian Cup.

Team name history[]

• 1993: FC SUO Moscow
• 1994–present: FC Chertanovo Moscow

Current squad[]

As of 5 February 2022, according to the FNL 2 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 — GK  RUS Aleksandr Radionov — GK  RUS Vladimir Zadiraka — GK  RUS Nikolai Zhuzhnev — DF  RUS Vladimir Bartasevich — DF  RUS Kirill Dudkin — DF  RUS Kirill Furman — DF  RUS Yegor Kondakov — DF  RUS Danila Molodnyakov — DF  RUS Yury Morozov — DF  RUS Maksim Svetnikov — DF  RUS Danil Vaganov — DF  RUS Radiy Yamlikhanov — DF  RUS Andrei Zakharov — MF  RUS Anton Khomyakov

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  RUS Garrik Levin — MF  RUS Konstantin Lyakhov — MF  RUS Mikhail Lyamzin — MF  RUS Viktor Nafikov — MF  RUS Yegor Rudkovsky — MF  RUS Artyom Selyukov — MF  RUS Nikita Suleymanov — MF  RUS Artyom Tetyushin — MF  RUS Daniil Tyumentsev — MF  RUS Maksim Yakimenko — FW  RUS Aleksandr Melekhov — FW  RUS Maksim Savelyev — FW  RUS Zakhar Shmatov

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 — MF  RUS Aleksandr Nadolsky (at Yenisey Krasnoyarsk)

Reserve team[]

External links[]

• (in Russian) Official site
• (in Russian) Team history at Footballfacts
• FC Chertanovo in Soccerway

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