FC Arsenal Tula

FC Arsenal-Tula (Russian: ФК «Арсенал» Тула) is a Russian football team from Tula. It played professionally in 1946, 1949 and 1959 to 2006. It played on the second-highest level (Soviet First League and Russian First Division) in 1949, 1959-1962, 1967-1969, 1998-2001 and 2004, where its best result was 5th place in 1969 and 1998. Until 2012 it played in the Amateur Football League. On the 18th of July 2012 Arsenal's participation in the Russian Second Division for the season 2012/2013 was officially confirmed.

Team name history [edit]

• 1946-1958: FC Zenit Tula
• 1959-1961: FC Trud Tula
• 1962-1963: FC Shakhtyor Tula
• 1964-1974: FC Metallurg Tula
• 1975-1979: FC Mashinostroitel Tula
• 1980-1983: FC TOZ Tula
• 1984-2006: FC Arsenal Tula
• 2007: FC Oruzheynik Tula (formed based on the squad and staff of FC Arsenal Tula, but was not a legal successor to Arsenal)
• 2008-2012: FC Arsenal-Tula (formed based on the squad and staff of FC Oruzheynik Tula, but was not a legal successor to Oruzheynik)
• 2012-: FC Arsenal Tula

Current squad [edit]

As of February 27, 2013, according to the RFS website.

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player GK Aleksandr Filimonov GK Maksim Klikin GK Aleksandr Leykin DF Alexey Avdeyev DF Andrei Khodykin DF Ivan Lozenkov DF Aleksandr Manyukov DF Aleksandr Denisov DF Sergei Sukharev DF Ivan Yershov MF Ilya Chizhikov MF Vitali Orlov MF Aleksandr Kotenko

No. Position Player MF Aleksandr Kryuchkov MF Anton Kryuchkov MF Aleksandr Laktionov MF Maksim Lepskiy MF Andrei Lyakh MF Pavel Sergeyev MF Dmitri Shilov MF Dmitry Smirnov FW Pavel Belaynin FW Aleksandr Kutyin FW Sergey Maslov FW Rinat Timokhin FW Yevgeny Savin

External links [edit]

• (Russian) Team history at KLISF

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