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| Full name | Football Club Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast or FC Ural Yekaterinburg |
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| Founded | 1930 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Uralmash Stadium known locally as Central, Yekaterinburg (Capacity 22,000) |
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| Chairman | Grigory Ivanov | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Aleksandr Pobegalov | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Russian First Division | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006 | 3rd | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FC Ural is a Russian football club. The club is based in Yekaterinburg but represents all Sverdlovsk Oblast. The club is in the Russian First Division.
History
The club was founded in 1930 and was known as Avangard (1930-1943, 1947-1948, 1953-1957), Zenit (1944-1946), Mashinostroitel (1958-1959), and Uralmash (1949-1952, 1960-2002).
The club participated in Soviet championships since 1945. They mostly played in the lower leagues, with the exception on 1969 season spent in the Top League.
Uralmash reached the quarterfinals of the Soviet Cup in 1965/66, 1967/68, and 1990/91.
After the dissolution of USSR Uralmash were entitled to enter the Russian Top Division and played there for five seasons, from 1992 to 1996. Their best result was eight 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 promoted again after the 2004 season.
Squad
As of 23 June 2006, according to the Professional Football League official website.
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Note: players in the First Division do not have fixed numbers.
External links
- Official website (Russian)
- Ural history at KLISF
