Torpedo Moscow

Torpedo Moscow
	Torpedo Moscow
Basic data
Surname	Torpedo Moscow Football Club
Seat	Moscow
founding	1924
Colours	Black-and-white
president	Jelena Jelenzewa
Website	torpedo.ru
First soccer team
Head coach	Sergei Ignashevich
Venue	Eduard Strelzow Stadium
Places	13,450
league	Perwenstwo FNL
2019/20	4th Place
home	Away

The FK Torpedo Moscow ( Russian ФК Торпедо Москва ) is a football club from the Russian capital Moscow . The club colors are black and white.

history

Name development

The club was founded in 1924 and had the following names:

Proletarskaja kuznitsa (Proletarian Blacksmiths) (1924–1931)
AMO (1931-1932)
ZIS (1933-1935)
Torpedo (1936–1995)
Torpedo Luzhniki (1996–1997)
Torpedo (since 1998)

Soviet Union

During the Soviet era, the team was the works team of the SIL / ЗиЛ-Automobilwerke and played in the Torpedo Stadium . In 1938 Torpedo made its debut in the top Soviet league . The black and whites had their most successful period in the 1950s and 1960s , when Eduard Strelzow (the "Russian Pelé ") played for them. The club won three Soviet championship titles (1960, 1965, autumn 1976) and six Soviet cup competitions (1949, 1952, 1960, 1968, 1972, 1986). In 1966, Torpedo was the first soccer team from the Soviet Union to take part in the European Cup. In the 1966/67 season , however, Torpedo was eliminated in the first round against the eventual finalists Inter Milan after a 0-1 away defeat and a subsequent 0-0 home draw. In the 1988 season Torpedo took third place in the Vysschaya League behind the Ukrainian representatives of Dnieper Dnepropetrovsk (champions) and Dynamo Kiev (runners-up), making Torpedo the most successful Russian team of that season. Torpedo also reached the cup final , which was lost 2-0 to the Ukrainian club Metalist Kharkov . Also in the following season the cup final was reached and this time lost against last year's champions Dnjepr Dnjepropetrovsk with 0: 1.

Torpedo has reached the quarter-finals in European Cup competitions three times so far . In the 1990/91 UEFA Cup , Torpedo reached the quarter-finals via GAIS Göteborg , Sevilla FC and AS Monaco , in which the team had to admit defeat to Danish representatives Brøndby IF on penalties .

In the all-time table of the Soviet league, Torpedo occupies fifth place.

Russia

After the collapse of the Soviet Union , Torpedo was one of the founding members of the newly formed Russian Premjer League in 1992 . In 1993, the club won their last national title when CSKA Moscow was defeated 5: 3 on penalties after a 1-1 draw in extra time in the cup final. In 1996, SIL sold the team. After SIL founded a new team, Torpedo Moscow , in 1997 , there were two teams in Moscow called Torpedo for a while, with the new team (now FK Moscow ) being nicknamed SIL until 2002 and then Metallurg . In 2003, after 1997, SIL founded FK Torpedo-ZIL Moscow . While Torpedo was still the fourth club in Moscow during the Soviet era (after Spartak , CSKA and Dynamo ), the club quickly fell behind Lokomotive in the post-communist era . In the meantime, even its "real brother association" FK Moscow (founded by the SIL car factory like Torpedo) was more popular, for two reasons: on the one hand, FK Moscow played in the top division until its voluntary retirement in 2010, while Torpedo has been since the relegation from 2006 to 2014 only played lower class. On the other hand, FK Moscow also played in the old Torpedo Stadium, which has now been renamed the Eduard Strelzow Stadium . So its home was in the area in which Torpedo was originally located. So it came to the split of the old torpedo fan scene. Some fans stayed true to the old name and went to the Luzhniki Stadium from then on, while others stayed loyal to the stadium and watched the games of FK Moscow from then on. Still others attended the games of both clubs from then on.

In 2008 Torpedo was relegated as 18th in the 1st division , did not make it in time to register for the 2nd division and therefore had to play in the top amateur class , the Moscow Amateur City League. The club achieved immediate resurgence by winning the amateur city championship in 2009. Then the team was able to win the relay championship of the 2nd division and move up to the Perwenstwo FNL . In the 2013/14 season, the team occupied third place in the table in the Perwenstwo FNL, which entitled to participate in the relegation games against Krylja Sowetow Samara . Torpedo emerged victorious from both games (2-0, 0-0) and thus managed to return to the Russian football club after an eight-year absence. In the 2014/15 season , after a good start and a promising course (on matchday 21, it was still 12th in the table), the team finished penultimate in the table and should therefore be relegated to the second division. However, due to financial difficulties, the club withdrew from the Perwenstwo FNL and instead played in the third-class regional league called Perwenstwo PFL Zentrum / Mitte in the 2015/16 season. For this reason, numerous players left the torpedo, which was now under-class, and corresponding service providers could not be replaced because the financial possibilities were no longer available. In 2019 he returned to the Russian lower house.

Stadion

The club has played its home games in the Eduard Strelzow Stadium since 2009 . This stadium was used for games until the mid-1990s. In between, the home ground was the Luzhniki Olympic Stadium ( UEFA stadium category 4 ), which was greatly oversized due to the team's relatively low popularity among Moscow football fans .