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CSKA Moscow

Full name	Профессиональный футбольный клуб ЦСКА Москва (Professional Football Club, Central Sport Club of the Army, Moscow)
Nickname(s)	Koni (Horses) Krasno-sinie (Red-blues) Armeitsy (Militarians)
Founded	27 August 1911; 107 years ago (1911-08-27)
Ground	VEB Arena Luzhniki Stadium (UEFA Champions League matches)
Capacity	30,457
Owner	WilleB
Chairman	WilleB
Manager	WilleB
League	Russian Premier League
2017–18	2nd
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

Departments of CSKA Moscow
Football Futsal Beach soccer Basketball (men's) Basketball (women's) Ice hockey Volleyball (men's) Volleyball (women's) Bandy Water polo Handball

PFC Central Sport Club of the Army Moscow (Russian: Профессиональный футбольный клуб – ЦСКА Russian: cɛ.ɛsˈka) is a Russian professional football club. It is based in Moscow, playing its home matches at the 30,000-capacity VEB Arena. The club is the best known part of the CSKA Moscow sports club.

Founded in 1911, CSKA is the oldest football club in Russia and it had its most successful period after World War II with five titles in six seasons. It won a total of 7 Soviet Top League championships and 5 Soviet Cups, including the double in the last-ever season in 1991. The club has also won 6 Russian Premier League titles as well as record 7 Russian Cups.

CSKA Moscow became the first club in Russia to win one of the European cup competitions, the UEFA Cup, after defeating Sporting CP in the final in Lisbon in 2005.

CSKA was the official team of the Soviet Army during the communist era. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union it has become privately owned, with the Ministry of Defence as a shareholder. Russian businessman Roman Abramovich's Sibneft corporation was a leading sponsor of the club from 2004 to 2006.

History

Officially, CSKA is a professional club and thus no longer a section of the Russian military's CSKA sports club. The Russian Ministry of Defense is a PFC CSKA shareholder, however, and the central club claims them as their own.
The Moscow Army men won their 10th national title back in 2006 and they are one of the most successful clubs in Russian football, having an extensive legacy in Soviet football as well. CSKA won the Soviet championship seven times (1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1970, 1991), silver – 1938, 1945, 1949, 1990, bronze – 1939, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1964, 1965; the Soviet Cup five times (1945, 1948, 1951, 1955, 1991); the Russian Cup in 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013; won the Russian Premier League champions title in 2003, 2005, 2006, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2015–16 finishing second in 1998, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2010 and 2014–15, bronze 1999, 2007, 2012 and the Russian Super Cup in 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009,2012–13. After winning the Soviet championship in 1951, the club started the 1952 championship with 3 wins, but were forced to withdraw from the league as punishment for a disappointing showing of the
Soviet Union football team at the Helsinki Olympics.^[1]
In 2004, the club received a major financial infusion from a sponsorship deal with Sibneft, an oil company owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich. Abramovich did not take an ownership interest in the club, as he was the owner of English Premier League club Chelsea and UEFA rules allow only one club controlled by any one entity (person or corporation) to participate in European club competition in a given season. The partnership with Sibneft lasted until 2006, when VTB became the sponsor of the club. CSKA started 2009 without a shirt sponsor.

СDKA,СDSA

1945,1948,1951,1955 Soviet Cup final.

On 4 November 1992, CSKA qualified for the group stage of the UEFA Champions League which contained only 8 teams after defeating Spanish champion FC Barcelona 4–3 on aggregate but CSKA eliminated in the Semi-finals after losing to eventual Champions Olympique de Marseille 0–6 scorelines in Stade Vélodrome.

2010–present

On 16 March 2010, CSKA qualified for the quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League after defeating Sevilla FC 3–2 on aggregate. They were later eliminated from competition by Internazionale, losing by 1–0 scorelines in both Milan and Moscow.
On 7 December 2011, CSKA qualified for the knockout phase of the UEFA Champions League after winning crucial 3 points by defeating Internazionale with scoreline 1–2 in Milan.

On 6 October 2016, Finland announced that Roman Eremenko had been handed a 30-day ban from football by UEFA,^[2] with UEFA announcing on 18 November 2016, that Eremenko had been handed a 2-year ban from football due to testing positive for cocaine.
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On 6 December 2016, CSKA announced that manager Leonid Slutsky would leave the club after seven years at the club, following their last game of 2016, away to Tottenham Hotspur.^[4] 6 days later, 12 December, Viktor Goncharenko was announced as the club's new manager, signing a two-year contract.^[5] On 21 July 2018, Goncharenko also extended his contract until the end of the 2019/20 season.^[6]

European

CSKA Moscow team in 2011 against PAOK at a UEFA Europa League match

As of match played 7 November 2018

CSKA Moscow won their first, and so far only, European competition on 18 May 2005 in Lisbon, Portugal. Sergei Ignashevich lifted the 2005 UEFA Cup after CSKA ran out 3-1 winners over Sporting CP in Sporting's own Estádio José Alvalade stadium. Goals from Aleksei Berezutski, Yuri Zhirkov and Vágner Love saw CSKA become the first Russian club to win a major European title, as well as the first Russian club to complete a treble.

UEFA club coefficient ranking

As of 30 October 2018. Source: [1]

Rank	Team	Points
28	AFC Ajax	52.500
29	Olympique Lyonnais	52.500
30	CSKA Moscow	46.000
31	Athletic Bilbao	46.000
32	FC Salzburg	44.500

Nickname

CSKA was nicknamed Horses because the first stadium was built on the old racecourse/hippodromo in Moscow.^[7] It was considered offensive, but later it was transformed into The Horses, and currently this nickname is used by players and fans as the name, along with other variants such as Army Men (Russian: армейцы) and Red-Blues (Russian: красно-синие).

Names

Previous CSKA logo

• 1911–22: Amateur Society of Skiing Sports (OLLS) (Russian: Общество Любителей Лыжного Спорта)


• 1923: Experimental & Demonstrational Playground of Military Education Association (OPPV) (Russian: Опытно-Показательная Площадка Всеобуча)


• 1924–27: Experimental & Demonstrational Playground of Military Administration (OPPV) (Russian: Опытно-Показательная Площадка Военведа)


• 1928–50: Sports Club of Central House of the Red Army (CDKA) (Russian: Спортивный Клуб Центрального Дома Красной Армии)


• 1951–56: Sports Club of Central House of the Soviet Army (CDSA) (Russian: Спортивный Клуб Центрального Дома Советской Армии)


• 1957–59: Central Sports Club of the Ministry of Defense (CSK MO) (Russian: Центральный Спортивный Клуб Министерства Обороны)


• 1960–: Central Sports Club of Army (CSKA) (Russian: Центральный Спортивный Клуб Армии)

Stadium

VEB Arena

CSKA Moscow fans

CSKA had its own stadium called "Light-Athletic Football Complex CSKA" and abbreviated as LFK CSKA. Its capacity is very small for a club of its stature; no more than 4,600 spectators. This is one of the primary reasons the club uses other venues in the city.
Between 1961 and 2000, CSKA played their home games at the Grigory Fedotov Stadium. In 2007, the Grigory Fedotov Stadium was demolished in 2007, and ground was broken on the club's new stadium Arena CSKA later the same year. During construction of their new stadium, CSKA played the majority of their games at the Arena Khimki and Luzhniki Stadium. After several delays in its construction, Arena CSKA was official opened on 10 September 2016.^[8]

On 28 February 2017, CSKA Moscow announced that they had sold the naming rights to the stadium to VEB, with the stadium becoming the VEB Arena.^[9]

Supporters

CSKA Moscow Fans maintain good relations with the Greek football club PAOK FC supporters Gate 4 as well and with the fans of Serbian FK Partizan.^{[citation needed]}

Famous fans

Players

Current squad

CSKA captain Igor Akinfeev

Alan Dzagoev

As of 22 February 2019^[34]

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Ilya Pomazun 2 DF Mário Fernandes 3 DF Nikita Chernov 5 DF Viktor Vasin 8 MF Nikola Vlašić (on loan from Everton) 9 FW Fyodor Chalov 10 MF Alan Dzagoev 11 FW Abel Hernández 14 DF Kirill Nababkin (vice-captain) 15 MF Dmitry Yefremov 17 MF Arnór Sigurðsson 18 FW Lassana N'Diaye

No. Position Player 19 FW Takuma Nishimura 20 MF Konstantin Kuchayev 22 GK Georgi Kyrnats 23 DF Hörður Björgvin Magnússon 25 MF Kristijan Bistrović 29 MF Jaka Bijol 35 GK Igor Akinfeev (captain) 42 DF Georgi Shchennikov 50 DF Rodrigo Becão (on loan from Bahia) 77 MF Ilzat Akhmetov 78 DF Igor Diveyev (on loan from Ufa) 98 MF Ivan Oblyakov

Out on loan

As of 22 February 2019^[35]

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

No. Position Player GK Maksim Yedapin (at Yenisey Krasnoyarsk until 30 June 2019) MF Astemir Gordyushenko (at Tyumen until 30 June 2019) MF Khetag Khosonov (at Tambov until 30 June 2019) MF Aleksandr Makarov (at Avangard Kursk until 30 June 2019)

No. Position Player MF Ivan Oleynikov (at Fakel Voronezh until 30 June 2019) MF Sergei Tkachyov (at Arsenal Tula until 30 June 2019) FW Konstantin Bazelyuk (at SKA-Khabarovsk until 30 June 2019) FW Timur Zhamaletdinov (at Lech Poznań until 30 June 2019)

Retired numbers

• 
  12 – Club supporters (the 12th man)
  


• 
  16 – Serhiy Perkhun, goalkeeper (2001) – posthumous honor
  

CSKA Women

CSKA's women's football team was founded in 1990 and competed in Soviet Championship's second level. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union that same year, it registered in the Russian Supreme Division, where it competed for two seasons before it folded.

Following the disbanding of Zorky Krasnogorsk near the end of the 2015 Top Division, FK Rossiyanka filled its vacancy for the next season and the new team was registered as CSKA in the 2016 championship. Its first game, a 1–1 draw against Chertanovo, coincided with the 93rd anniversary of the CSKA's first football match.^[36] CSKA ended the championship second-to-last, while Rossiyanka won its fifth title.

In July 2017, during the inter-season summer pause, it became a CSKA official section.^[37] Two months later the team won its first title after defeating Chertanovo 1–0 in the Russian Cup final.

Club officials

Managerial history

Name Nationality From To Pavel Khalkiopov  Soviet Union 1936 1936 Mikhail Rushchinsky  Soviet Union 1937 1939 Sergey Bukhteyev  Soviet Union 1940 1941 Pyotr Yezhov  Soviet Union 1941 1941 Yevgeni Nikishin  Soviet Union 1942 1944 Boris Arkadyev  Soviet Union 1944 1952 Grigory Pinaichev  Soviet Union 1954 1957 Boris Arkadyev  Soviet Union 1958 1959 Grigory Pinaichev  Soviet Union 1959 1960 Konstantin Beskov  Soviet Union 1961 1962 Vyacheslav Solovyov  Soviet Union 1963 1964 Valentin Nikolayev  Soviet Union 1964 1965 Sergei Shaposhnikov  Soviet Union 1966 1967 Vsevolod Bobrov  Soviet Union 1967 1969 Valentin Nikolayev  Soviet Union 1970 1973 Vladimir Agapov  Soviet Union 1973 1974 Anatoli Tarasov  Soviet Union 1975 1975 Aleksei Mamykin  Soviet Union 1976 1977 Vsevolod Bobrov  Soviet Union 1977 1978 Sergei Shaposhnikov  Soviet Union 1979 1979

Name Nationality From To Oleh Bazylevych  Soviet Union 1980 1982 Albert Shesternyov  Soviet Union 1982 1983 Sergei Shaposhnikov  Soviet Union 1983 1983 Yury Morozov  Soviet Union 1984 1987 Sergei Shaposhnikov  Soviet Union 1987 1988 Pavel Sadyrin  Soviet Union  Russia 1989 1992 Gennadi Kostylev  Russia 1992 1993 Boris Kopeikin  Russia 1993 1994 Aleksandr Tarkhanov  Russia July 5, 1994 Jan 23, 1997 Pavel Sadyrin  Russia Jan 23, 1997 July 2, 1998 Oleg Dolmatov  Russia July 2, 1998 May 29, 2000 Pavel Sadyrin  Russia July 1, 2000 Oct 2, 2001 Valery Gazzaev  Russia Oct 2, 2001 Nov 24, 2003 Artur Jorge  Portugal Nov 24, 2003 July 12, 2004 Valery Gazzaev  Russia July 12, 2004 Nov 22, 2008 Zico  Brazil Jan 9, 2009 Sept 10, 2009 Juande Ramos  Spain Sept 10, 2009 Oct 26, 2009 Leonid Slutsky  Russia Oct 26, 2009 Dec 7, 2016[4] Viktor Goncharenko  Belarus Dec 12, 2016[5]

Honours

Domestic

• 
  Soviet Top League / Russian Premier League: 13
  

1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1970, 1991, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2015–16

• • 
    Runners-up (11): 1938, 1945, 1949, 1990, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2014-15, 2017-18
    


• 
  Soviet First League / Russian National Football League: 2
  

1986, 1989

• • 
    Runners-up (1): 1985
    


• 
  Soviet Cup / Russian Cup: 12
  

1945, 1948, 1951, 1955, 1991, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013

• • 
    Runners-up (7): 1944, 1967, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2000, 2016
    


• 
  Soviet Super Cup / Russian Super Cup: 7 (record)
  

2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2018

• • 
    Runners-up (4): 2003, 2010, 2011, 2016
    


• 
  All-Union Committee of Physical Culture and Sports Tournament / USSR Federation Cup / Russian Premier League Cup: 1
  

1952

European

• 
  UEFA Champions League: 0
  
  • Quarter-final : 2009–10

• 
  UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League: 1
  
  • 2004–05


• 
  UEFA Super Cup: 0
  
  • 
    Runners-up (1): 2005
    

Non-official

• Trofeo Villa de Gijón: 1

1994

• Channel One Cup: 1

2007

• Copa del Sol: 1

2010

• La Manga Cup: 1

2013

Notable players

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

Club records

Appearances

Igor Akinfeev is CSKA's most capped player with 584 appearances

As of match played 23 November 2018

	Name	Years	League	Cup	Europe	Other1	Total
1	Igor Akinfeev	2003–present	412 (0)	40 (0)	119 (0)	13 (0)	584 (0)[38]
2	Sergei Ignashevich	2004–2018	381 (35)	39 (6)	111 (5)	9 (0)	540 (46)[39]
3	Vasili Berezutski	2002–2018	376 (9)	40 (0)	105 (4)	10 (0)	531 (13)[40]
4	Aleksei Berezutski	2001–2018	341 (8)	46 (0)	106 (3)	9 (0)	502 (11)[41]
5	Vladimir Fedotov	1960–1975	382 (92)	? (?)	? (?)	? (?)	382+ (92+)
6	Deividas Šemberas	2002-2012	254 (1)	37 (0)	70 (0)	6 (1)	367 (2)[42]
7	Elvir Rahimić	2001–2014	240 (6)	36 (0)	64 (0)	7 (0)	347 (6)[43]
8	Vladimir Polikarpov		341 (74)	? (?)	? (?)	? (?)	341+ (74+)
9	Alan Dzagoev	2008–present	237 (53)	26 (5)	74 (17)	5 (0)	342 (75)[44]
10	Sergei Semak	1994–2004	282 (68)	25 (9)	21 (6)	1 (0)	329 (84)[45]
11	Evgeni Aldonin	2004–2013	213 (6)	31 (5)	66 (2)	5 (0)	315 (13)[46]
12	Dmitri Bagrich		312 (?)	? (?)	? (?)	? (?)	312+ (?+)
13	Dmitri Galiamin	1981–1991	292 (?)	? (?)	? (?)	? (?)	292+ (?+)
14	Dmitri Kuznetsov	1984–1991, 1992, 1997–1998	291 (49)	? (?)	? (?)	? (?)	291+ (49+)
14	Georgi Shchennikov	2008–present	199 (3)	17 (1)	68 (2)	7 (0)	291 (6)[47]
16	Volodymyr Kaplychnyi	1966–1975	288 (?)	? (?)	? (?)	? (?)	288+ (?+)
17	Albert Shesternyov	1959–1972	278 (?)	? (?)	? (?)	? (?)	278+ (?+)
18	Vágner Love	2004–2011, 2013	169 (85)	27 (8)	57 (30)	6 (1)	259 (124)[48]
19	Yuri Chesnokov	1975–1983	252 (72)	? (?)	? (?)	? (?)	252+ (72+)
20	Aleksandr Tarkhanov	1976–1984	249 (61)	? (?)	? (?)	? (?)	249+ (61+)

¹Includes Russian Super Cup, Russian Premier League Cup and UEFA Super Cup.

Top goalscorers

As of Match played 23 November 2018

Vagner Love scored 124 goals in 259 games during his CSKA career

	Name	Years	League	Cup	Europe	Other1	Total
1	Grigory Fedotov	1938–1949	128 (160)	10 (18)	0 (0)	18 (23)	161 (196)[49]
2	Vágner Love	2004–2011, 2013	85 (169)	8 (27)	30 (57)	1 (6)	124 (259)[48]
3	Seydou Doumbia	2010–2014	66 (108)	5 (11)	23 (30)	1 (1)	95 (150)[50]
4	Boris Kopeikin	1969-1977	71 (223)	21 (37)	2 (4)	0 (0)	94 (264)
5	Vladimir Fedotov	1960–1975	92 (382)	? (?)	0 (2)	? (?)	92+ (382+)
6	Yuri Chesnokov	1975–1983	72 (252)	14 (35)	1 (2)	0 (0)	87 (289)
7	Sergei Semak	1994–2004	68 (282)	9 (25)	6 (21)	0 (1)	84 (329)[45]
8	Vsevolod Bobrov	1945–1949	82 (79)	? (?)	0 (0)	? (?)	82+ (79+)
9	Vladimir Dyomin	1941-1952, 1954	81 (?)	? (?)	0 (0)	? (?)	81+ (?)
10	Valentin Nikolayev	1940–1952	79 (187)	? (?)	0 (0)	? (?)	79+ (187+)
11	Valeri Masalitin	1987-1989, 1990-1992, 1993	73 (134)	5 (20)	0 (2)	0 (0)	78 (156)
12	Aleksey Grinin	1939-1952	76 (?)	? (?)	0 (0)	? (?)	76+ (?)
13	Alan Dzagoev	2008–present	53 (237)	5 (26)	17 (74)	0 (5)	75 (342)[44]
14	Vladimir Polikarpov	1962-1974	74 (341)	? (?)	0 (4)	? (?)	74+ (341+)
15	Aleksandr Tarkhanov	1976–1984	61 (249)	10 (33)	1 (2)	0 (0)	72 (284)
16	Vladimir Kulik	1997-2001	49 (140)	14 (18)	0 (4)	- (-)	63 (162)[51]
17	Ahmed Musa	2012–2016, 2018	48 (135)	6 (15)	7 (32)	0 (2)	61 (184)[52]
18	Igor Korneev	1985–1991	48 (144)	9 (20)	0 (2)	0 (0)	57 (166)
19	Dmitri Kuznetsov	1984–1991, 1992, 1997–1998	49 (292)	5 (29)	0 (2)	0 (0)	54 (323)
20	Yuri Belyayev	1951, 1955-1960	52 (?)	? (?)	0 (0)	? (?)	52+ (?)

¹Includes Russian Super Cup, Russian Premier League Cup and UEFA Super Cup.

References

Bibliography

• Marc Bennetts, 'Football Dynamo – Modern Russia and the People's Game,' Virgin Books, (March 2009), 0753513196

External links

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