FC Mordovia Saransk

FC Mordovia
Full name	Футбольный клуб Мордовия Саранск; (Football Club Mordovia Saransk)
Founded	1961
Ground	Start Stadium; (capacity: 11,581)
Chairman	Nikolay Levin
Manager	Dorinel Munteanu
League	Russian Premier League
2011–12	Football National League, 1st (promoted)
Home colours	Away colours

FC Mordovia Saransk (Russian: ФК Мордовия Саранск) is a Russian association football club from Saransk, Republic of Mordovia. In its current state it was formed in 2005, through the merger of Biokhimik-Mordovia and Lisma-Mordovia.

In 2010, the club won promotion to the Russian First Division. On the 8th of May 2012 Mordovia beat Shinnik Yaroslavl 2-0 at home. This result meant that with a round to spare the team won promotion to the Russian Premier League for the 2012–13 season for the first time in its history.

[edit] Team name history

Stroitel Saransk (1961)
Spartak Saransk (1962-71)
Elektrosvet Saransk (1972-79)
Svetotekhnika Saransk (1980-02)
Lisma-Mordovia Saransk (2003-04)
Mordovia Saransk (2005-) (merged with Biokhimik-Mordovia).

[edit] Current squad

As of September 6, 2012, according to the official RFPL website.

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Dmitri Abakumov
2	DF	Maksim Budnikov
3	DF	Aleksei Muldarov (captain)
4	MF	Yuri Kuleshov
7	MF	Anton Bober
8	FW	Kirill Panchenko
9	FW	Rustem Mukhametshin
10	MF	Evgeni Aldonin
11	MF	Maksim Rogov
13	FW	Mikhail Markin
14	DF	Igor Shitov (on loan from Dynamo Moscow)
17	FW	Dalibor Volaš

No.	Position	Player
18	DF	Pavlo Stepanets
19	DF	Yevgeni Osipov
20	MF	Tomislav Dujmović (on loan from Dynamo Moscow)
22	MF	Sergei Kuznetsov
23	FW	Ruslan Mukhametshin
24	MF	Andrei Pazin
26	MF	Maksim Zhestkov
27	MF	Aleksei Ivanov
31	GK	David Yurchenko
33	GK	Denis Shebanov
73	MF	Maksim Terentyev
93	MF	Denis Sobolev

[edit] Youth squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Position	Player
25	DF	Pavel Orlov
29	MF	Pavel Afanasyev
30	MF	Alexey Shebanov
41	MF	Nikita Kudryashov
44	DF	Ilya Zakharov
45	FW	Nikita Rokunov
46	DF	Aleksei Chubukin
48	FW	Andon Malanyin
49	MF	Timon Abbakumov
50	MF	Aleksandr Strokov

No.	Position	Player
51	MF	Igor Krutov
52	DF	Eduard Tatoyan
55	MF	Vladimir Barmin
57	DF	Radik Yusupov
64	MF	Vladimir Sandrkin
71	MF	Alen Askerov
78	MF	Yevgeni Tribushinin
88	FW	Ivan Filyaev
95	GK	Roman Kalyuzhny
99	MF	Anton Sobolev

[edit] Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Mordovia.