Rotor Volgograd

Rotor Volgograd
	Rotor Volgograd
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Basic data
Surname	Sportive club «Rotor»
Seat	Volgograd
founding	1929
president	Andrei Reketschinsky
Website	rotor-vlg.com
First soccer team
Head coach	Aleksandr Chatskevich
Venue	Volgograd Arena , Volgograd
Places	45,568
league	Premjer League
2019/20	▲ 1st place, Perwenstwo FNL
home	Away

The new Volgograd Arena

The central stadium was the venue for Rotor until 2014

The SK rotor ( Russian Спортивный клуб "Ротор" , scientific. Transliteration Sportivnyj club "Rotor" ) in German-speaking countries known as Rotor Volgograd is a late 1920s as a tractor Stalingrad ( Трактор Сталинград founded) Russian football club in Volgograd , in the 1940s and 1990s belonged to the top clubs of the highest Soviet and Russian league and was twice Russian runner-up.

history

USSR

The club was founded in 1929 by members of the Stalingrad Tractor Works, but did not take part in the first competition until 1930, the city championship. In 1937 the team won Group G of the second highest Soviet league and rose to the upper class. After a 12th place in 1938, the team was fourth in 1939, in 1941 the club was in second place in the table when the attack on the Soviet Union began and the game was suspended. In the spring of 1943, the team played a friendly game against Spartak Moscow in the city devastated by the Battle of Stalingrad , but league operations were not resumed until 1945. Traktor finished seventh, but reached the semi-finals of the Soviet Cup for the first and only time. The club, renamed Torpedo Stalingrad ( Торпедо Сталинград ) in 1948 , remained in the midfield of the league for the remainder of the 1940s, but was unfortunately relegated to penultimate in 1950 with a goal in the last minute of the last game.

The following years were marked by unsuccessful sport and name changes; In 1956 the old name tractor was adopted again, in the 1960s the club name was adapted to the new name of the city, from 1972 the club was called Barrikady Volgograd ( Баррикады Волгоград ), in 1975 the club finally took on the current name Rotor. In the 1980s, there were also modest sporting successes: In 1980 Rotor was champion of its season of the third Soviet league stage, but failed in the promotion round, the club also won the championship of the Russian SFSR , which was only played among lower-class clubs. In the following year, he was promoted to the lower of the two USSR-wide leagues. After Rotor almost relegated in 1987, the club became runner-up in the second Soviet league in 1988 and returned to the Soviet House of Lords after 38 years , but was relegated again the year after next. In total, Rotor played eleven seasons in the top league and occupies 24th place in the all-time best list of the USSR .

Russia

With the championship of the last season of the second Soviet league in 1991 , Rotor qualified for the Russian highest league that was newly created after the collapse of the Soviet Union ; after a twelfth place in the first season , but in which the offensive trio Rotors Weretennikow - Niederhaus - Jessipow found that made the success of the following years possible. In 1993, Rotor was runner-up behind Spartak Moscow , who dominated in the 1990s, and in 1995, extremely unlucky, became vice-cup winner after losing 7: 8 on penalties in the final against Dynamo Moscow , Rotor only finished seventh in the Russian championship, Niederhaus and Werentennikov were the first and third on the scorers list with 39 more hits than eight of the sixteen top division clubs in 1995 also achieved their greatest international success, in the first round of the UEFA Cup 95/96 the team met Manchester United , the dominant team in the English league in the mid-1990s . After a 0-0 draw in Volgograd, Rotor fought a 2-2 in Manchester (goals by Weretennikow-Niederhaus) and reached the next round, where the team from Volgograd was eliminated after two defeats against the French representative Girondins Bordeaux . In 1996 , Rotor Volgograd was in the final of the UI Cup , after the team had prevailed against FC Basel , Shakhtar Donetsk and LASK , which the team lost to French representative EA Guingamp ; in the Russian championship the club won the bronze medal. In the 1997 season the team was runner-up again. After a fourth place in 1998, the club placed 1999-2003 always in the midfield for 10th place. During the 2004 season , however, Rotor Volgograd literally broke apart. The club could sometimes no longer pay players' salaries and ended the season in sixteenth and last, a license for the second division was not granted by the association and so the first team went bankrupt . With 13 seasons in Russia's top division so far, Rotor is eleventh in the premier league all-time table (as of the end of the 2018/19 season).

After the license withdrawal in 2004, the club played for a few years in the southern season of the 2nd division , the third and lowest semi-professional league. In the summer of 2009 the financial situation of the club became more and more difficult, so that salaries and electricity and water could no longer be paid. At the end of July 2009 the general assembly of the Russian association blocked the club until all debts were settled. In reaction to this, the club withdrew the teams from the current game operations, all other games of the season were rated (0: 3) for the opponent. In 2010 the team from Volgograd played in the second-class 1st division , but rose to the 2nd division and managed to get promoted again immediately.

In 2017 after winning the relay championship south in the third-class Perwenstwo PFL, the renewed promotion to the second division, which was now carried out under the name Perwenstwo FNL, was celebrated. In the 2017/18 season , the club would have been relegated from the second-class Perwenstwo FNL, but Rotor benefited from the withdrawal of other teams, which meant there were no relegated athletes.

successes

Russian runner-up: 1993 , 1997
Russian vice cup winner: 1995
Soviet Cup semi-finalist: 1945
Participation in the highest Soviet league: 11 years (1938–1950, 1989/90)
Participation in the highest Russian league: 13 years (1992-2004)

Stadion

The club played its home games until 2014 in the 32,120-seat central stadium , which opened in 1964. The old stadium was demolished and a new venue was built in the same place. In April 2018, the Volgograd Arena with 45,568 seats was opened. It was built for the 2018 World Cup .