FC SKA-Khabarovsk

Football Club SKA-Khabarovsk (Футбольный клуб СКА-Хабаровск) is a Russian professional association football club based in Khabarovsk which plays in the second-tier Russian First League. They played in the Russian Premier League for the first time ever in the 2017–18 season. At more than 6000 km east of Moscow, SKA Khabarovsk are the most Easterly team to have taken part in a UEFA domestic top division.

History
The club has been known under different names:


 * DKA (−1953)
 * ODO (1954)
 * DO (1955–56)
 * OSK (1957)
 * SKVO (1957–59)
 * SKA (1960–99)
 * SKA-Energia (1999–2016)
 * SKA-Khabarovsk (2016–)

The club has participated in the Soviet championships since 1957. SKA were the quarter-finalists of the Soviet Cup in 1963. They had never played in the Soviet Top League or Russian Premier League, until 2017.

SKA's best result in the Soviet First League was the 6th position in 1980, and their best result in the Russian First Division was 4th position in 2012–13. This entitled them to a promotion/relegation play-off against FC Rostov, 13th place in the RPL, but they lost 3–0 on aggregate and missed their chance to compete in the top flight.

At the end of the 2016–17 season, SKA equalled their record best finish, at the same time qualifying for a promotion play-off against FC Orenburg. On 28 May 2017, SKA were promoted to the Russian Premier League for the first time in their history, after beating FC Orenburg in the promotion play-off. They won 5–3 in a penalty shoot-out, after 0–0 draws in both the home and away legs.

SKA started their first Premier League season with 4 losses. After improving results in the next stretch of games, the losses starting mounting up again. Aleksei Poddubskiy was replaced as manager by Rinat Bilyaletdinov during the winter break, Bilyaletdinov only lasted four games before being replaced by Sergei Perednya. On 22 April 2018, SKA lost 1–0 to Dynamo Moscow at home (which was their 13th loss in a stretch of 15 winless games) and lost the mathematical chance to avoid relegation back to the second-tier Russian Football National League.

In the 2021–22 season, SKA-Khabarovsk qualified for the Premier League promotion playoffs in which they lost 1–3 on aggregate to FC Khimki therefore remaining in the FNL for at least another season.

Current squad
As of 13 July 2024, according to the official First League website.

Notable players
Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for SKA-Khabarovsk.


 * USSR and Russia
 * Vladimir Astapovsky
 * 🇷🇺 Viktor Bulatov
 * 🇷🇺 Viktor Fayzulin
 * 🇷🇺 Andrey Ivanov
 * Boris Kopeikin
 * 🇷🇺 Nikolay Olenikov
 * Sergey Olshansky
 * 🇷🇺 Andrei Semyonov
 * Aleksandr Tarkhanov
 * 🇷🇺 Akhrik Tsveiba
 * 🇷🇺 Aleksandr Yerokhin
 * Former USSR countries
 * 🇦🇲 Robert Arzumanyan
 * 🇦🇲 Ruslan Koryan
 * 🇦🇿 Gennadi Drozdov
 * 🇦🇿 Rizvan Umarov
 * 🇧🇾 Syarhey Kavalchuk


 * 🇧🇾 Andrey Paryvaew
 * Kakhaber Aladashvili
 * Gogita Gogua
 * Shota Grigalashvili
 * Gocha Khojava
 * Otar Martsvaladze
 * Giorgi Navalovski
 * Lasha Salukvadze
 * 🇰🇿 Vitaliy Artemov
 * 🇰🇿 Qayrat Aymanov
 * 🇰🇿 Aleksandr Gorbunov
 * 🇰🇿 Oleg Musin
 * 🇲🇩 Serghei Alexeev
 * 🇲🇩 Valeriu Andronic
 * 🇲🇩 Serghei Chirilov
 * 🇲🇩 Alexandr Covalenco
 * 🇲🇩 Iurie Priganiuc
 * 🇲🇩 Roman Radcenco
 * 🇲🇩 Serghei Secu


 * 🇲🇩 Adrian Sosnovschi
 * 🇹🇯 Igor Vityutnev
 * 🇹🇲 Wýaçeslaw Krendelew
 * 🇺🇦 Denys Dedechko
 * 🇺🇦 Andriy Dikan
 * 🇺🇦 Oleksandr Kyryukhin
 * 🇺🇿 Vladimir Radkevich


 * Europe
 * 🇪🇪 Mark Švets
 * 🇧🇬 Ventsislav Hristov
 * 🇱🇻 Aivars Drupass
 * 🇱🇻 Olegs Karavajevs
 * 🇱🇹 Darius Miceika
 * 🇱🇹 Tomas Mikuckis


 * Africa
 * 🇿🇦 MacDonald Mukansi