FC Volga Ulyanovsk

For the bandy team, see Volga Ulyanovsk Bandy Club.

Volga

Full name	ANO Football Club Volga
Founded	1947; 78 years ago (1947)
Ground	Trud
Capacity	15,000
Chairman	Mikhail Navolokin[1]
Manager	Mikhail Belov
League	Russian First League
2024–25	Russian Second League, Division A First Stage: Silver Group, 2nd Second Stage: Gold Group, 2nd (promoted)
Website	www.fcvu.ru
Home colours Away colours

FC Volga Ulyanovsk (Russian: ФК «Во́лга» Улья́новск) is a professional association football club based in Ulyanovsk, Russia. It will return to the second-tier Russian First League for the 2025–26 season.

Their reserve team FC Volga-d Ulyanovsk used to play professionally as FC Energiya Ulyanovsk.

History

In 2008, they were relegated to the Russian Second Division 2009 after they finished 17th in Russian First Division. In December 2008, Volga signed a partnership agreement with Floriana FC of Malta, the most successful club in Maltese football.^[2]

On 4 June 2022, the last day of the 2021–22 season, Volga secured the first place in their FNL2 group and promotion for the 2022–23 season to the second-tier FNL.^[3] Volga was relegated after one season in the second tier.^[4]

On 8 June 2025, Volga secured promotion to the Russian First League.^[5]

Club name and location history

• 1947–1957: FC Torpedo Ulyanovsk
• 1958: FC Dynamo Ulyanovsk
• 1959–1961: FC Spartak Ulyanovsk
• 1961–1985: FC Volga Ulyanovsk
• 1986–1991: FC Start Ulyanovsk
• 1992–1995: FC Tekstilshchik Isheyevka
• 1996–2005: FC Volga Ulyanovsk
• 2006: FC Volga-Energiya Ulyanovsk (the reserves team currently known as FC Volga-d Ulyanovsk played as FC Volga-Energiya Ulyanovsk in the Amateur Football League in 2007)
• 2007–present: FC Volga Ulyanovsk

Current squad

As of 11 September 2025, according to the official First League website.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  RUS Aleksei Kenyaykin 3 DF  RUS Oleg Krasilnichenko 4 DF  RUS Kamil Ibragimov 6 MF  RUS Ivan Kozlov 7 MF  UKR Artur Murza 8 MF  RUS Denis Rakhmanov (captain) 9 FW  RUS Dmitri Kamenshchikov 10 FW  RUS Giorgy Uridiya 14 FW  RUS Vladislav Yakovlev 15 DF  RUS Devid Kokoyev 17 MF  RUS Igor Gershun 19 FW  RUS Vladislav Rudenko 20 DF  RUS Konstantin Kovalyov

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 MF  RUS Dmitry Rakhmanov 27 MF  RUS Mikhail Umnikov (on loan from Krasnodar) 28 MF  RUS Danil Novikov 29 MF  RUS Ruslan Shagiakhmetov 30 DF  RUS Aydar Khabibullin 37 FW  RUS Yevgeni Voronin 77 DF  RUS Artyom Gutsa 82 DF  RUS Kirill Larionov (on loan from Krasnodar) 86 GK  RUS Vladimir Shaykhutdinov 87 FW  RUS Yevgeny Pshennikov 90 MF  RUS Kirill Folmer 91 DF  RUS Artyom Molodtsov 92 MF  RUS Ignat Kasyanov

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  RUS Denis Yeremeyev (at Dynamo Kirov until 31 December 2025)

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Volga.

Russia

• Tamerlan Musayev
• Dmitry Yefremov

Europe

• Alex
• Aram Hakobyan
• Andrey Klimovich
• Victor Berco
• Anatolie Doroș

Asia

• Rustam Khaidaraliyev

References

1. "В футбольной "Волге" замена: Наволокин вместо Кузьмина" (in Russian). ulpravda.ru. 2019-11-22. Retrieved 2022-12-12.
2. "Floriana in discussions to sign a Russian striker next month – the Malta Independent".
3. ""ВОЛГА", "ДИНАМО", "РОДИНА" И "ШИННИК" ВЫШЛИ В ОЛИМП-ФНЛ-1" (in Russian). Russian Football National League 2. 4 June 2022. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
4. ""Уфа" опустилась из РПЛ во Вторую лигу за два сезона. "Велес" тоже вылетел из Первой лиги" (in Russian). Sports.ru. 3 June 2023.
5. ""Волга" досрочно вышла в Первую лигу. Команда не играла там с сезона-2022/23" (in Russian). Sports.ru. 8 June 2025.

External links

• Official website (in Russian)