PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara


PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara is a Russian professional football club based in Samara that plays in the Russian Premier League. In 2004, they finished third in the Russian Premier League.

History

Krylia Sovetov was founded in Kuybyshev in 1942. On 21 April 1946 the team played its first match in the highest division in the USSR in Alma-Ata, in which they lost 1–2 to Zenit Leningrad. Krylia Sovetov participated in 48 seasons of the Soviet Top League and 13 in the Russian Premier League, as well as 43 USSR Cups and 13 Russian Cups.
On 6 July 2002, Krylia Sovetov first played in a European competition, in the second round of the UEFA Intertoto Cup. They won this game with Dinaburg played in Metallurg Stadium, by a score of 3–0. The goals were scored by Andrei Karyaka, Robertas Poškus and Rogério Gaúcho. In 2005, the team played in 2005–06 UEFA Cup and defeated BATE Borisov in the 2nd qualifying round, but in the 1st round lost to AZ Alkmaar. In 2009, they were eliminated in the Europa League 3rd qualifying round by St Patrick's Athletic.

2010 licensing controversy

Krylia Sovetov Samara, who were scheduled to pass licensing on 4 February 2010, asked Russian Football Union to postpone their licensing until 15 February of the same year due to financial problems and debts to players. The club was reported to be close to liquidation due to shortage of financing.
It later asked to postpone the licensing again to 19 February, but the RFU only postponed it until 17 February. On 17 February it was decided to postpone the licensing until 19 February after all. Krylia Sovetov finally received their license on 19 February after agreeing on new contracts with several companies to sponsor them, some of which might become partial owners of the club.
As the first matchday arrived, Krylia Sovetov were still banned from registering new players because of debts outstanding on old contracts. They could only register 11 players over 21 years old and several more players from the youth team that were registered for them in 2009. The transfer deadline had to be extended from 11 March to 8 April to accommodate Krylia Sovetov in hope they will pay their outstanding debts shortly. With injuries on top of that and only 16 players available for both their main squad and the reserve team, their reserve team had to finish their first game with 9 players on the field as they only had a goalkeeper on the bench after two players were injured, and the main squad had to play against Zenit St. Petersburg with a heavily diluted roster, so even the loss with the score 0–1 was saluted by the Krylia's fans. The transfer ban was confirmed again on 16 March, and was to remain in place until Krylia paid back their debts to their former players Jan Koller and Jiří Jarošík. Krylia lost the second game with the diluted roster 0–3 to Lokomotiv Moscow. The ban was finally lifted on 26 March.

League and cup history

[USSR]

[Russia]

European history

CompetitionPldWDLGFGA
UEFA Intertoto Cup430173
UEFA Cup4301106
UEFA Europa League210133
Total107032012

Current squad

Out on loan

Reserve squad

Coaching staff

Domestic tournaments

Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Krylia Sovetov.
;USSR/Russia
;Former USSR countries
;Armenia
;Azerbaijan
  • Ramil Sheydayev
;Belarus
  • Vital Bulyha
  • Alyaksandr Chayka
  • Stanislaw Drahun
  • Aliaksandr Hleb
  • Andrey Hlebasolaw
  • Timofei Kalachev
  • Yegor Karpitsky
  • Sergey Kornilenko
  • Denis Kovba
  • Dmitry Molosh
  • Aliaksandr Oreshnikov
  • Kiryl Pyachenin
  • Uladzimir Shuneyka
  • Aleksey Skvernyuk
  • Dmitry Verkhovtsov
  • Syarhey Vyeramko
;Georgia
  • Aleksandre Amisulashvili
  • Jano Ananidze
  • Gia Grigalava
  • Davit Gvaramadze
  • Gela Inalishvili
  • Giorgi Loria
  • Davit Mujiri
  • Zurab Popkhadze
  • Giorgi Revazishvili
;Lithuania
  • Nerijus Barasa
  • Andrius Jokšas
  • Robertas Poškus
  • Robertas Ringys
;Moldova
;Tajikistan
  • Farkhod Vosiyev
;Ukraine
;Uzbekistan
  • Bakhtiyor Ashurmatov
  • Sergey Andreyev
  • Marat Bikmoev
  • Sergey Lushan
  • Aleksey Polyakov
  • Mirjalol Qosimov
  • Andrei Rezantsev
;Europe
;Belgium
;Bosnia and Herzegovina
;Bulgaria
;Croatia
;Czech Republic
  • Jiří Jarošík
  • Jan Koller
;Finland
  • Berat Sadik
;Macedonia
  • Adis Jahović
;Romania
;Serbia and Montenegro
  • Nenad Đorđević
  • Vuk Rašović
  • Ognjen Koroman
;Slovakia
  • Ján Mucha
;Slovenia
;Spain
;North and Central America
;Haiti
  • Reginal Goreux
;Trinidad and Tobago
  • Sheldon Bateau
;South America
;Argentina
;Brazil
;Chile
;Colombia
;Costa Rica
;Paraguay
;Africa
;Algeria
  • Raïs M'Bolhi
;Cameroon
;Ghana
;Nigeria
  • Patrick Ovie
  • Duke Udi
;South Africa
  • Matthew Booth
;Zambia
  • Chaswe Nsofwa
;Asia
;Iraq
;North Korea
  • Choe Myong-Ho
;South Korea
  • '''Oh Beom-Seok'''

    Club records

Most league games for Krylia Sovetov

Source:
  1. Ravil Aryapov: 362
  2. Valeryan Panfilov: 359
  3. Aleksandr Kupriyanov: 328
  4. Gennadi Sakharov / Boris Valkov: 299
  5. Ravil Valiyev: 290
  6. Aleksandr Tsygankov: 279
  7. Viktor Karpov: 268
  8. Gennadi Platonov: 247
  9. Anatoli Blokhin: 242
  10. Yevgeny Mayorov: 233
  11. Boris Kazakov: 224
  12. Sergei Marushko / Ivan Shiryayev: 228
  13. Nikolai Martynov: 220
  14. Alfred Fyodorov: 219
  15. Denis Kovba: 215
  16. Anatoli Fetisov / Dinar Sharipov: 211
  17. Viktor Gaus: 209

    Most league goals for Krylia Sovetov

  18. Ravil Aryapov: 105
  19. Boris Kazakov: 76
  20. Anatoli Kazakov: 72
  21. Aleksandr Kupriyanov: 59
  22. Vladimir Korolyov: 57
  23. Aleksandr Gulevsky / Ravil Valiyev: 51
  24. Andrei Karyaka: 49
  25. Viktor Razveev: 46
  26. Viktor Voroshilov: 44
  27. Vladimir Filippov / Sergei Krayev: 41
  28. Aleksandr Babanov / Valeryan Panfilov / Ivan Sergeyev: 40
  29. Rustyam Fakhrutdinov / Dmitri Sinyakov / Anatoli Zhukov: 33
  30. Viktor Karpov / Vadim Redkin: 32
  31. Garnik Avalyan / Viktor Filippov: 28