FC Volgar Astrakhan

Volgar FC (Футбольный Клуб "Волгарь") is an association football club based in Astrakhan, Russia. They will play in the Russian Second League in the 2024–25 season.

History
The club has been known under following names:
 * Pishchevik (food industry worker) (1925−1958)
 * Trud (labour) (1958–59)
 * Volgar (1960–94) (2012–)
 * 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.

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.

On 20 May 2024, Volgar was relegated to the Russian Second League.

Current squad
As of 17 July 2024, according to the Russian Second League website.

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


 * Russia/USSR
 * Rinat Dasayev
 * 🇷🇺 Dmitry Kuznetsov
 * Vasili Zhupikov
 * 🇷🇺 Viktor Bulatov
 * 🇷🇺 Ruslan Kambolov
 * 🇷🇺 Vladimir Lebed
 * 🇷🇺 Ramiz Mamedov
 * 🇷🇺 Yevgeny Morozov
 * 🇷🇺 Gennadiy Nizhegorodov
 * 🇷🇺 Aleksei Sutormin
 * 🇷🇺 Sergei Terekhov
 * 🇷🇺 Vladislav Ternavsky
 * 🇷🇺 Anton Zabolotny
 * Former USSR countries
 * 🇦🇲 Garnik Avalyan
 * 🇦🇲 Stanislav Buchnev


 * 🇦🇲 Manuk Kakosyan
 * 🇦🇲 Tigran Petrosyan
 * 🇦🇲 David Yurchenko
 * 🇦🇿 Gurban Gurbanov
 * 🇧🇾 Barys Haravoy
 * 🇧🇾 Vasily Khomutovsky
 * 🇰🇿 Vitaliy Abramov
 * 🇰🇿 Konstantin Ledovskikh
 * 🇰🇿 Almir Mukhutdinov
 * 🇰🇿 Roman Uzdenov
 * 🇱🇻 Aleksandrs Isakovs
 * 🇱🇻 Valērijs Ivanovs
 * 🇱🇻 Ivans Lukjanovs
 * 🇱🇻 Igors Sļesarčuks
 * Artūras Fomenka
 * Tadas Gražiūnas
 * Nerijus Radžius


 * 🇲🇩 Ilie Cebanu
 * 🇲🇩 Alexandr Covalenco
 * 🇲🇩 Stanislav Namașco
 * 🇹🇯 Farkhod Vosiyev
 * 🇺🇦 Oleksandr Svystunov
 * 🇺🇿 Sergey Andreyev
 * 🇺🇿 Gennadiy Sharipov

Danila Yashchuck


 * Europe
 * 🇧🇦 Dželaludin Muharemović
 * 🇨🇿 Luboš Kalouda
 * 🇸🇰 Marek Hollý
 * 🇸🇮 Andrej Pečnik