Amkar Perm

Full name

Futbolny Club Amkar Perm

place

Perm , Russia

Founded

1993

Dissolved

2018

Club colors

Stadion

Zvezda Stadium

Top league

Premjer League

successes

Cup finalist 2008
4th place in the Premjer League 2008

home

Away

The FK Amkar Perm ( Russian Футбо́льный клуб "Амка́р" Пермь ; Futbol'nyj klub Amkar Perm ' ) was a Russian football club founded in 1993 from Perm , the capital of the region of the same name . From 2003 to 2018 the club played in the Premjer League , the top Russian division.

history

FK Amkar Perm was founded by the workers of the Perm Fertilizer Plant in 1993 when the team first took part in the Perm City Cup. The name Amkar is derived from the two main products of the plant - ammonia ( Russian Аммиак / Ammijak) and urea ( карбамид / carbamide). In 1993 Amkar became champion of Perm Oblast and in 1995 rose to the semi-professional 2nd division (third highest division), relay center . In the 1996 season the team was third, 1997 runner-up. In 1998 Perm finally rose as the season master in the second class 1st division , where the team was able to establish itself immediately in the upper third near the promotion places. The semifinals of the Russian Cup were reached for the first time in 2001, and in 2003 - just ten years after it was founded as a company sports group - the club was promoted to the top Russian league, the Premjer League, as champions of the 1st division . Amkar was always able to place himself in midfield. In 2004, FK Amkar Perm reached the cup semi-finals a second time. The greatest success was reaching the cup final in 2008, where the team only lost to CSKA Moscow on penalties . The highest league placement was achieved with fourth place in the 2008 season.

Amkar had only four coaches until 2010: until 2006 Sergei Oborin , who led the team from the fourth division into midfield of the House of Lords, 2006/07 Raschid Rachimow and since the beginning of the 2008 season the Montenegrin Miodrag Božović . At the beginning of 2009 this was replaced by the Bulgarian specialist Dimitar Dimitrov-Hero . In the 2010 season Raschid Rachimow was again committed as head coach.

On December 21, 2010, Amkar Perm announced that the club would voluntarily withdraw from the Premjer League due to financial problems. The club was in debt with 167 million rubles . On January 25, 2011, however, it was announced that the financial difficulties had been overcome and participation in the Premjer League is secured.

In June 2018, the club was refused the license by the Premier League (RPFL) due to financial difficulties and then dissolved. As a successor club, the 1997 dissolved club FK Zvezda Perm was reactivated. It was founded in 1932 and was a professional club between 1945 and 1994. In 1994 Zvezda was replaced by Amkar, and Zvezda disbanded a little later.

Stadion

FK Amkar Perm played their home games in the 19,500-seat Zvezda Stadium , which was built in 1969. The playing surface has been equipped with artificial turf since 1995 . FK Amkar Perm shared its home ground with the Russian Supreme Division club Zvezda 2005 Perm .

European Cup balance sheet

Starting eleven in the club's first European home game on August 27, 2009 against Fulham

With the fourth place in the table from the 2008 season, the team qualified for the play-off round of the 2009/10 UEFA Europa League . The only appearance of the Perm team on the European stage ended unsuccessfully. Against the later finalists FC Fulham from England the away game was lost 3-1, the subsequent 1-0 home win could not prevent the early elimination.