FC Ural Yekaterinburg

Ural Yekaterinburg
Full name	Football Club Ural; Sverdlovsk Oblast ; or FC Ural Yekaterinburg
Nickname(s)	Bumblebees, Orange and Black, Uraltsy (Ural men)
Founded	September 1, 1930; 94 years ago
Ground	Ekaterinburg Arena
Capacity	35,061
Owner	Sverdlovsk Oblast
Chairman	Grigori Ivanov
Manager	Oleg Shatov (caretaker)
League	Russian First League
2023–24	Russian Premier League, 13th of 16 (relegated through play-offs)
Website	http://fc-ural.ru
	Current season

FC Ural Yekaterinburg (Russian: ФК Урал) is a Russian professional association football club based in Yekaterinburg. They play in the Russian First League in the 2024–25 season.^[1]

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History

The club was founded in 1930 and was known as Avangard (1930–1948, 1953–1957), Zenit (1944–1946), Mashinostroitel (1958–1959), and Uralmash (1949–1952, 1960–2002).^{[citation needed]} The club is currently named after the Russian region of Ural, where Yekaterinburg is the capital.

The club participated in the Soviet championships beginning in 1945. They mostly played in the higher leagues, with the exception of the 1969 season spent in the lowest league. They were the easternmost Russian SFSR club to compete in the third Soviet division (the easternmost Soviet club overall was FC Kairat from Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR).^{[citation needed]}

Uralmash reached the quarterfinals of the Soviet Cup in 1965/66, 1967/68, and 1990/91.^{[citation needed]}

After the dissolution of the USSR, Uralmash were entitled to enter the Russian Top Division and played there for five seasons, from 1992 to 1996. Their best result was eighth position in 1993 and 1995. Despite reaching the semifinal of the Intertoto Cup in 1996, Uralmash finished 16th out of 18 in the league and were relegated. In 1997 another relegation followed, now to the Second Division. From 1998 to 2002 Uralmash played in the Second Division. After winning promotion, the club was renamed Ural. In 2003, the team were relegated from the Russian First Division, but were promoted again after the 2004 season. The team's best finish in the First Division was third in 2006.^{[citation needed]}

In the 2023–24 season, Ural finished 13th, qualifying for the relegation play-offs.^[2] They lost 2–3 to Akron Tolyatti on aggregate and were relegated to the Russian First League after 11 seasons at the top tier.^[3]

Domestic

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Season	League									Russian Cup	Top goalscorer		Manager
Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Russian Cup	Name	League	Manager
2008	2nd	4th	42	22	9	11	69	39	75	Fourth Round			Aleksandr Pobegalov
2009	2nd	8th	38	15	15	8	40	32	60	Round of 16	Vladimir Shishelov	16	Aleksandr Pobegalov Vladimir Fedotov
2010	2nd	7th	38	14	16	8	38	28	58	Fifth Round	Predrag Sikimić	7	Vladimir Fedotov Boris Stukalov
2011–12	2nd	6th	52	19	21	12	71	52	78	Round of 32	Branimir Petrović	8	Dmitry Ogai Yuri Matveyev
2012–13	2nd	1st	32	19	11	2	61	18	68	Round of 32	Spartak Gogniyev	17	Aleksandr Pobegalov Sergei Bulatov Pavel Gusev
2013–14	1st	11th	30	9	7	14	28	46	34	Fifth Round	Spartak Gogniyev	9	Pavel Gusev Oleg Vasilenko Aleksandr Tarkhanov
2014–15	1st	13th	30	9	3	18	31	44	30	Round of 32	Fyodor Smolov	8	Aleksandr Tarkhanov
2015–16	1st	8th	30	10	9	11	39	46	39	Round of 16	Spartak Gogniyev	8	Viktor Goncharenko Vadim Skripchenko
2016–17	1st	11th	30	8	6	16	24	44	30	Runners-Up	Vladimir Ilyin Roman Pavlyuchenko	4	Vadim Skripchenko Yuri Matveyev (caretaker) Aleksandr Tarkhanov
2017–18	1st	12th	30	8	13	9	31	32	37	Round of 32	Eric Bicfalvi	8	Aleksandr Tarkhanov
2018–19	1st	10th	30	10	8	12	33	45	38	Runners-Up	Eric Bicfalvi Andrei Panyukov	6	Dmytro Parfenov
2019–20	1st	11th	30	9	8	13	36	53	35	Semi-final	Eric Bicfalvi	8	Dmytro Parfenov
2020–21	1st	12th	30	7	13	10	26	36	34	Round of 16	Eric Bicfalvi	7	Yuri Matveyev
2021–22	1st	12th	30	8	9	13	27	35	33	Round of 32	Eric Bicfalvi	10	Yuri Matveyev Igor Shalimov

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Current squad

First team

As of 6 December 2024^[4]

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

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No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
2	DF	BIH	Silvije Begić
5	MF	RUS	Andrei Yegorychev
6	DF	RUS	Leo Goglichidze
7	FW	RUS	Ilya Porokhov (on loan from Khimki)
8	MF	CRO	Danijel Miškić
10	FW	ROU	Eric Bicfalvi
11	FW	RUS	Aleksei Ionov
14	MF	RUS	Yuri Zheleznov
15	MF	RUS	Ilya Ishkov
16	DF	BRA	Ítalo
17	FW	CRO	Martin Sekulić
18	MF	RUS	Nikita Morozov
22	DF	RUS	Mingiyan Beveyev
24	DF	BLR	Yegor Filipenko


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
27	MF	RUS	Ivan Chudin
40	DF	RUS	Dmitry Burkin
42	MF	RUS	Yegor Mosin
43	DF	RUS	Timofei Margasov
44	MF	BLR	Vladislav Malkevich
46	DF	RUS	Artyom Mamin
50	FW	RUS	Maksim Voronov
55	MF	RUS	Timur Ayupov
70	DF	RUS	Matvey Bardachev (on loan from Zenit St. Petersburg)
71	GK	RUS	Aleksei Mamin
75	MF	RUS	Fanil Sungatulin
77	GK	BLR	Denis Shcherbitsky
86	GK	RUS	Ivan Kuznetsov

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Out on loan

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

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No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	DF	RUS	Aleksey Gerasimov (at Uralets-TS Nizhny Tagil until 31 December 2024)
—	DF	RUS	Sergey Loskutov (at Volgar Astrakhan until 30 June 2025)


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	MF	BLR	Valery Bocherov (at Ufa until 30 June 2025)
—	FW	RUS	Aleksei Kashtanov (at Fakel Voronezh until 30 June 2025)

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Reserve team

Retired numbers

23 – Pyotr Khrustovsky, forward (2003) – posthumous honor

Coaching staff

Head coach – Yuri Matveyev
Assistant coach – Vladimir Kalashnikov, Andrei Danilov, Ivan Jovanovski
Goalkeeping coach – Andrei Shpilyov

Notable players

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