FC KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny

KAMAZ
	Club crest
Full name	Football Club; KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny
Nickname(s)	Gruzoviki (Грузовики, The Trucks), Avtozovodci (Автозаводцы, The Car Workers)
Founded	1981; 43 years ago
Ground	KAMAZ stadium
Capacity	6,504
Chairman	Nail Akhmedshin
Manager	Vladimir Klontsak
League	Russian Football National League
2014–15	PFL, Zone Ural-Povolzhye, 1st (promoted)
Home colours	Away colours

KAMAZ (Russian: Футбольный клуб КАМАЗ Набережные Челны) is a Russian football club based in Naberezhnye Chelny, Tatarstan. The club is currently in the second-tier Russian Football National League.

Colours are (Home) all white. (Away) Light blue shirts, white shorts.

History

The club was founded on 11 November 1981 at the KAMAZ plant under the name Trud-PRZ. The team played in local tournaments until 1988, when they entered Soviet Second League.

KAMAZ stayed in this league until 1992, when following the collapse of the Soviet Union they were entitled to play in the Russian First League. They won the Centre Zone tournament and were promoted into the Top League.

The best result achieved by KAMAZ in the Top League was a 6th position in 1994. It allowed the club to participate in the Intertoto Cup, where KAMAZ reached the semifinals, defeating München 1860 in the group stage.

KAMAZ stayed in the top flight from 1993 to 1997, when the financial troubles of their owner, KAMAZ plant, forced them into the First Division and into the Second Division a year later. The team played in the Ural Zone of the Second Division from 1999 to 2003, where they earned promotion.

KAMAZ became one of the leaders of the First Division recently, finishing 4th in 2004, 2006, 2007, and 2010 and 3rd in 2005 and 2008.

The club has been known as Trud-PRZ (1981–1987), Torpedo (1988–1989), and KAMAZ-Chally (1995–2000).

KAMAZ in Europe

UEFA Intertoto Cup 1996

Group 8

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1. FC KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny	10	4	3	1	0	8	3	+5
2. TSV 1860 München	6	4	2	0	2	8	3	+5
3. Kaucuk Opava	6	4	2	0	2	5	4	+1
4. PFC Spartak Varna	5	4	1	2	1	5	5	0
5. ŁKS Łódź	1	4	0	1	3	1	12	−11


22 June 1996
FC KAMAZ	3–0	ŁKS Łódź
29 June 1996
Kaucuk Opava	1–2	FC KAMAZ
13 July 1996
FC KAMAZ	2–2	PFC Spartak Varna
20 July 1996
TSV 1860 München	0–1	FC KAMAZ

Semi-finals (27–28 & 31 July)

FC KAMAZ 2–0, 0–4 En Avant Guingamp

League History

Soviet Union

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W.	D.	L.	GS	GA	Pts.	Cup	Europe	Top Scorer (league)	Head Coach
1988	3rd, Group 2	14	32	8	12	12	32	36	28	—	—	Gibadullin – 7 Dm. Smirnov – 7	Chetverik
1989	3rd, Group 2	7	42	20	8	14	59	50	48	—	—	Zakiyev – 11	Chetverik
1990	4th, Group 7	1	32	21	5	6	67	26	47	—	—	Baryshev – 17	Chetverik
1991	3rd, "Centre"	10	42	19	3	20	60	55	41	—	—	Y. Kuznetsov – 28	Chetverik
1992	—									R128	—	—	Chetverik

Russia

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W.	D.	L.	GS	GA	Pts.	Cup	Europe		Top Scorer (league)	Head Coach
1992	2nd, "Centre"	1	34	26	3	5	78	19	55	—	—		Panchenko – 26	Chetverik
1993	PL (1st)	10	34	12	6	16	45	53	30	R32	—		Panchenko – 21	Chetverik
1994		6	30	11	9	10	38	38	31	QF	—		Tropanets – 7 Panchenko – 7	Chetverik
1995		9	30	10	8	12	34	30	38	R16	—		Durnev – 9	Chetverik
1996		14	34	10	6	18	43	57	36	QF	UIC	SF	Babenko – 9	Chetverik Butaliy
1997		18	34	8	3	23	38	75	21⁽⁻⁶⁾	R32	—		Shukanov – 7	Zelkevičius
1998	2nd	22	42	7	5	30	32	82	26	R16	—		Vekovishchev – 9	Butaliy
1999	3rd, "Ural"	10	30	11	7	12	41	46	40	R256	—		Tsarayev – 11	Chetverik
2000		3	30	20	4	6	80	23	64	R1024	—		Strizhov – 20	Shubin
2001		3	30	21	1	8	81	26	64	R512	—		Yermilov – 26	Shubin Butaliy
2002		6	28	15	6	7	41	24	51	R64	—		Yermilov – 15	Butaliy Gazzaev
2003	3rd, "Ural-P."	1	38	30	4	4	85	20	94	R128	—		Yermilov – 23	Gazzaev
2004	2nd	4	42	19	12	11	52	49	69	R32	—		Kalimullin – 9	Gazzaev
2005		3	42	26	6	10	80	32	84	R32	—		Monaryov – 18	Gazzaev
2006		4	42	22	11	9	54	26	77	R64	—		Belozyorov – 8	Gazzaev
2007		4	42	23	8	11	67	34	77	R64	—		Zeba – 12	Gazzaev
2008		3	42	23	10	9	68	41	79	R16	—		Gogniyev – 17	Gazzaev
2009		5	38	18	10	10	50	31	64	R32	—		Gogniyev – 17	Gazzaev Panov
2010		4	38	19	9	10	55	43	66	R16	—		Gogniyev – 13 Serdyukov – 13	Yevdokimov
2011–12		9	48	19	10	19	53	46	67	R32	—		Koronov – 12	Yevdokimov Klontsak
2012–13	3rd, "Ural-P."	10	28	8	6	14	23	29	30	R128	—		Lukyanov – 4	Klontsak

Current squad

As of 31 August 2015, according to the FNL website.

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	Maksim Pavlov
3	DF	Kirill Suslov
4	DF	Vladimir Klontsak
5	DF	Yevgeni Shlyakov
6	MF	Roman Akbashev
7	MF	Guja Rukhaia
8	DF	Semyon Fedotov
9	FW	Maksim Barsov
10	FW	Pavel Safronov
11	MF	Artur Gazdanov
13	GK	Valeri Ionin
14	MF	Mikhail Pimenov
16	GK	Aleksandr Agapov
17	DF	Sergei Volosyan

No.	Position	Player
19	FW	Arsen Goshokov
22	DF	Andriy Sakhnevych
23	MF	Anton Kilin
27	DF	Stanislav Lebamba
30	MF	Denis Arlashin
36	DF	Dmitri Grachyov
42	MF	Yuri Kirillov
55	DF	Layonel Adams
77	GK	Artyom Moskvin
88	DF	Irek Ganiyev
90	MF	Oleg Polyakov
94	MF	David Khubayev
99	FW	Sergei Davydov

Reserve squad

KAMAZ's reserve squad played professionally as FC KAMAZ-d Naberezhnye Chelny (Russian Second League in 1993, Russian Third League in 1994) and as FC KAMAZ-Chally-d Naberezhnye Chelny (Russian Third League in 1995–1997).