Shemchushina Sochi

Full name

Futbolny Klub Shemchushina-Sochi

place

Sochi

Founded

1991

Dissolved

2011

Club colors

Stadion

Central Stadium

Top league

Top League / Top Division

successes

Participation in the top division from 1993 to 1999

home

Away

The FK Schemchuschina-Sochi ( Russian Футбольный клуб Жемчужина-Сочи ) was a Russian football club founded in 1991 from the spa town of Sochi on the Black Sea , which played in the highest Russian league from 1993 to 1999 .

history

Around the turn of the year 1990/91, the club was founded by the Sochi city administration - the then mayor became president of the new club - and a local hotel called Schemchuschina on the initiative of the coach of Siberian second division relegated Kuzbass Kemerovo , Arsen Naidenow , who was on winter vacation . The club was named after the hotel, whose name means pearl . Naidenow became the club's first coach and remained so until 1997.

In 1991 the club took part in the last season of the Soviet third division, season "East". Although he was not approved for the qualifying round for the new Russian league (but assigned to one of the seasons of the second Russian league), he was promoted in the first year. Shemchuschina played in the Premjer league for seven years, but never placed better than midfield and mostly had to fight relegation. The best placement was ninth from the 1994 season . After the 1999 season , the team was relegated 15th and penultimate.

Shemchushina is in 24th place in the Premjer League all-time table (as of the end of the 2018/19 season).

After relegation, the club lost almost all of its players, but could not buy sufficient replacement due to significant financial difficulties, so the team was relegated directly to the third division . For a short time the club was able to stabilize in the third division, but during the 2003 season the club was already largely insolvent and dissolved after the season.

The association was re-founded by Naidenow in 2007. Shemchushina was accepted into the Russian amateur class. It succeeded the immediate promotion to the 2nd division , where the team from the Black Sea coast spent two seasons. In 2009 the championship in the "South" group was won and the associated promotion to the 1st division was celebrated. In 2011, Shemchushina stopped gaming again.