{{short description|Russian football club}} {{Infobox football club | clubname = Volgar FC | image = Volgar_FC_logo_2019.png | upright = 0.75 | fullname = Volgar Football Club | nickname = | founded = {{Start date and age|1960}} | ground = Central Stadium,<br>Astrakhan | capacity = 21,500 | website = {{URL|https://www.volgar-fc.ru/}} | owner = Astrakhan Oblast | chrtitle = CEO | chairman = Andrey Nikitin<ref>{{cite web|url=https://a24.press/news/sport/2019-10-29/u-astrahanskogo-volgarya-novyy-rukovoditel-25731|title=У астраханского "Волгаря" новый руководитель|language=ru|publisher= |date=2019-10-29|access-date=2022-12-01}}</ref> | manager = Igor Kolyvanov | league = Russian Second League<br>Division A<br>Gold Group | season = 2025–26 | position = First stage: 2nd | pattern_la1 = _adidasregista20wrb | pattern_b1 = _adidasregista20wrb | pattern_ra1 = _adidasregista20wrb | pattern_sh1 = _cruzeiro20h | pattern_so1 = _color_3_stripes_blue | leftarm1 = FFFFFF | body1 = FFFFFF | rightarm1 = FFFFFF | shorts1 = FFFFFF | socks1 = FFFFFF | pattern_la2 = _adidascondivo20nw | pattern_b2 = _adidascondivo20nw | pattern_ra2 = _adidascondivo20nw | pattern_sh2 = _adidascondivo20nw | pattern_so2 = _color_3_stripes_white | leftarm2 = 000060 | body2 = 000060 | rightarm2 = 000060 | shorts2 = 000060 | socks2 = 000060 }} '''Volgar FC''' ({{langx|ru|Футбольный Клуб "Волгарь"}}) is an association football club based in Astrakhan, Russia. They play in the Russian Second League Division A (third tier).
==History== The club has been known under following names: *''Pishchevik'' (food industry worker) (1925−1958) *''Trud'' (labour) (1958–59) *''Volgar'' (1960–94) (2012–)<ref>[http://volgar-fc.ru/news/allnews/3/439.html Sergey Sergeyev: Return the name of "Volgar"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120502144347/http://www.volgar-fc.ru/news/allnews/3/439.html |date=2012-05-02 }}</ref> *''Volgar-Gazprom'' (1995–2007), (2010–2012) *''Volgar-Gazprom-2'' (2007–10)
Pishchevik played in the Second Group of the Soviet League. Trud (and later Volgar) played in the Class B (1958, 1960–1967), in Class A, Group 2 (1968–1969), in Class A, Group 1 (1970), Soviet First League (1971), Soviet Second League (1972–1990), Soviet Second League B (1991). In 1992 Volgar entered the Russian Second League, played in the Third League in 1994 (finished top and were promoted), returned to the Second League in 1995 and stayed until 1998. In 1998 Volgar-Gazprom were promoted and in 1999 they started playing in the Russian First Division. With the exception of the relegation for the 2004 season, Volgar-Gazprom had been in the First Division until 2006. The club was denied the professional licence and thus relegated to amateur level in 2007. Another club was organized called '''FC Volgar-Gazprom-2'''. The new club advanced to the Russian First Division for the 2009 season.
After the 2017–18 season, the club experienced financial difficulties and decided to be voluntarily relegated to the third-tier PFL.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Russian National Football League|url=http://1fnl.ru/news/7453|script-title=ru:«Волгарь» не будет играть в ФНЛ, его может заменить «Ротор-Волгоград»|date=28 May 2018|language=Russian}}</ref>
On 15 May 2020, the 2019–20 PFL season was abandoned due to COVID-19 pandemic in Russia. As Volgar was leading in their PFL zone at the time, they were promoted to the second-tier FNL for the 2020–21 season.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=FC Volgar Astrakhan|url=https://volgar-fc.ru/news/club/6151|title="Волгарь" официально в ФНЛ|date=19 June 2020|language=Russian|access-date=21 July 2020|archive-date=7 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807025945/http://volgar-fc.ru/news/club/6151/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
On 20 May 2024, Volgar was relegated to the Russian Second League.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Russian First League|url=https://1fnl.ru/news/13142/|title="ДИНАМО" И "ХИМКИ" ДОСРОЧНО ВЫШЛИ В РПЛ. "ВОЛГАРЬ" ВЫЛЕТАЕТ ВО ВТОРУЮ ЛИГУ А|date=20 May 2024|language=ru}}</ref> In the 2024–25 season, Volgar qualified to the promotion play-offs which they lost in a penalty shoot-out to FC Chelyabinsk.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Sports.ru|url=https://www.sports.ru/football/1116797407-leon-vtoraya-liga-a-chelyabinsk-sygraet-s-volgarem-v-otvetnom-perexodn.html|title="Челябинск" вышел в Первую лигу, обыграв "Волгарь" в серии пенальти после переходных матчей|date=28 June 2025|language=ru}}</ref>
==Current squad== ''As of 22 March 2026, according to the [https://fnl.pro/team/volgar?tab=roster Russian Second League website].''
{{Fs start}} {{fs player|no= 1|pos=GK|nat=RUS|name=Vladislav Yampolsky}} {{Fs player|no= 2|pos=DF|nat=RUS|name=German Utkin|other={{small|on loan from CSKA Moscow}}}} {{Fs player|no= 5|pos=MF|nat=RUS|name=Mikhail Strelnik}} {{Fs player|no= 7|pos=MF|nat=RUS|name=Aleksei Pavlishin}} {{Fs player|no= 9|pos=MF|nat=RUS|name=Vladislav Adayev}} {{Fs player|no=11|pos=FW|nat=RUS|name=Magomed Nasibov}} {{Fs player|no=13|pos=DF|nat=RUS|name=Dmitri Ivanov}} {{fs player|no=17|pos=FW|nat=RUS|name=Dmitri Lesnikov}} {{Fs player|no=19|pos=MF|nat=RUS|name=Kirill Kolesnichenko}} {{Fs player|no=20|pos=MF|nat=RUS|name=Danil Poluboyarinov}} {{Fs player|no=23|pos=DF|nat=RUS|name=Yury Petrovsky}} {{Fs player|no=24|pos=FW|nat=RUS|name=Vladislav Morozov}} {{Fs player|no=25|pos=DF|nat=RUS|name=Artyom Yuran}} {{fs mid}} {{Fs player|no=26|pos=DF|nat=RUS|name=Danil Pelikh}} {{Fs player|no=28|pos=DF|nat=RUS|name=Yegor Proshkin}} {{Fs player|no=34|pos=MF|nat=RUS|name=Oleg Dmitriyev}} {{fs player|no=35|pos=GK|nat=RUS|name=Svyatoslav Shtanov}} {{fs player|no=45|pos=GK|nat=RUS|name=Vsevolod Yermakov}} {{Fs player|no=47|pos=FW|nat=RUS|name=Ibragim Umarov}} {{Fs player|no=50|pos=MF|nat=RUS|name=Dmitry Koverov|other={{small|on loan from CSKA Moscow}}}} {{Fs player|no=57|pos=FW|nat=RUS|name=Vyacheslav Krotov}} {{Fs player|no=58|pos=DF|nat=RUS|name=Ilya Zuyev}} {{Fs player|no=67|pos=DF|nat=RUS|name=Kirill Volkov}} {{Fs player|no=90|pos=FW|nat=RUS|name=Daniil Pavlov}} {{Fs player|no=91|pos=FW|nat=RUS|name=Aleksandr Pomalyuk|other={{small|on loan from Spartak Moscow}}}} {{Fs end}}
===Out on loan=== {{Fs start}} {{Fs player|no=|pos=FW|nat=RUS|name=Danil Goryayev|other={{small|at Astrakhan until 31 December 2026}}}} {{Fs end}}
==Notable past players== Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in '''bold''' represented their countries while playing for Volgar. {{col-begin-small}} {{col-3}} ;Russia/USSR *{{flagicon|USSR}} Rinat Dasayev *{{flagicon|USSR}} {{flagicon|RUS}} Dmitry Kuznetsov *{{flagicon|USSR}} Vasili Zhupikov *{{flagicon|Russia}} Mingiyan Beveyev *{{flagicon|Russia}} Viktor Bulatov *{{flagicon|Russia}} Ruslan Kambolov *{{flagicon|Russia}} Vladimir Lebed *{{flagicon|Russia}} Ramiz Mamedov *{{flagicon|Russia}} Yevgeny Morozov *{{flagicon|Russia}} Gennadiy Nizhegorodov *{{flagicon|Russia}} Aleksei Sutormin *{{flagicon|Russia}} Sergei Terekhov *{{flagicon|Russia}} Vladislav Ternavsky *{{flagicon|Russia}} Dmitry Vorobyov *{{flagicon|Russia}} Anton Zabolotny ;Former USSR countries *{{flagicon|Armenia}} Garnik Avalyan {{col-3}} *{{flagicon|Armenia}} Stanislav Buchnev *{{flagicon|Armenia}} Manuk Kakosyan *{{flagicon|Armenia}} Tigran Petrosyan *{{flagicon|Armenia}} David Yurchenko *{{flagicon|AZE}} Gurban Gurbanov *{{flagicon|Belarus}} Barys Haravoy *{{flagicon|Belarus}} '''Vasily Khomutovsky''' *{{flagicon|KAZ}} Vitaliy Abramov *{{flagicon|KAZ}} Konstantin Ledovskikh *{{flagicon|KAZ}} Almir Mukhutdinov *{{flagicon|KAZ}} Roman Uzdenov *{{flagicon|Latvia}} '''Aleksandrs Isakovs''' *{{flagicon|Latvia}} '''Valērijs Ivanovs''' *{{flagicon|Latvia}} '''Ivans Lukjanovs''' *{{flagicon|Latvia}} Igors Sļesarčuks *{{flagicon|LIT}} '''Artūras Fomenka''' *{{flagicon|LIT}} Tadas Gražiūnas *{{flagicon|LIT}} Nerijus Radžius {{col-3}} *{{flagicon|Moldova}} Ilie Cebanu *{{flagicon|Moldova}} Alexandr Covalenco *{{flagicon|Moldova}} '''Stanislav Namașco''' *{{flagicon|Tajikistan}} '''Farkhod Vosiyev''' *{{flagicon|UKR}} Oleksandr Svystunov *{{flagicon|UZB}} Sergey Andreyev *{{flagicon|UZB}} Gennadiy Sharipov
Danila Yashchuck
;Europe *{{flagicon|Bosnia and Herzegovina}} Dželaludin Muharemović *{{flagicon|Czech Republic}} Luboš Kalouda *{{flagicon|SVK}} Marek Hollý *{{flagicon|SVN}} Andrej Pečnik {{col-end}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{official website|http://www.volgar-fc.ru/}} {{in lang|ru}}
{{Russian Second League}}
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