FC Uralets-TS Nizhny Tagil

FC Uralets-TS Nizhny Tagil (Russian: ФК «Уралец-ТС» Нижний Тагил) is a Russian football team from Nizhny Tagil.

FC Uralets-TS Nizhny Tagil
Full nameFootball Club Uralets-TS Nizhny Tagil
Founded1946
ChairmanDamir Kalimullin
ManagerIgor Bakhtin
LeagueRussian Second League,
Division B,
Group 4
20248th

It played professionally from 1946 to 1949, from 1958 to 2006 and from 2023 on. The highest level it ever achieved was the second-highest (Soviet First League and Russian First Division), where it played in 1947–1949, 1958–1962 and 1992–1993. The team was called Dzerzhinets Nizhny Tagil (1946–1957) and Metallurg Nizhny Tagil (1958–1961). "TS" in "Uralets-TS" stands for the club's sponsor, Tagil Steel holding company (Russian: Тагильская Сталь) and was added to the club's name in 2021.

The club re-entered professional football in the 2023–24 season and was admitted to the newly organized fourth-tier Russian Second League Division B.[1]

On 12 October 2023, a car with four Uralets-TS players was involved in an accident, midfielder Yevgeny Sitnikov died, Kirill Kochetov was hospitalized in a coma, and Denis Fedorochev and Kirill Mylnikov were seriously injured.[2] Kirill Kochetov died without regaining consciousness on 1 November 2023.[3]

Current squad

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As of 4 September 2024, according to the Second League website.

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK   RUS Maksim Moskovets
2 DF   RUS Danil Khoroshkov
3 FW   RUS Maksim Smolnikov
4 DF   RUS Denis Drozhalkin
8 MF   RUS Viktor Chuvilov
10 MF   RUS Dmitry Yudin (on loan from Chelyabinsk)
11 DF   RUS Daniil Gerasimov
12 GK   RUS Aleksandr Shubin
19 FW   RUS Aleksandr Podbeltsev
23 DF   RUS Nikita Kuznetsov
24 DF   RUS Aleksandr Mosunov
26 FW   RUS Yury Rudakov (on loan from Chelyabinsk)
No. Pos. Nation Player
27 MF   RUS Arkady Simanov
28 MF   RUS Vladislav Abramov
35 GK   RUS Damir Nurgaliyev
40 DF   RUS Maksim Gorin
71 MF   RUS Linaz Kadermetov
77 MF   RUS Aleksandr Chemasov (on loan from Chelyabinsk)
79 FW   RUS Artyom Yusupov
93 DF   RUS Aleksey Gerasimov (on loan from Ural)
97 MF   RUS Yegor Makarov
98 FW   RUS Aleksandr Dmitryuk
99 DF   RUS Aleksey Fakhrutdinov

References

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  1. ^ "81 КЛУБ ПОЛУЧИЛ АТТЕСТАТ ФНЛ ДЛЯ УЧАСТИЯ В СОРЕВНОВАНИЯХ ВТОРОЙ ЛИГИ ДИВИЗИОНА "Б"" (in Russian). Russian Second League. 9 July 2023.
  2. ^ "СОБОЛЕЗНУЕМ..." [Condolences...] (in Russian). Rubin Kazan. 12 October 2023.
  3. ^ ""Ушел из жизни, не приходя в сознание": скончался пермский футболист Кирилл Кочетов, попавший в ДТП" (in Russian). 59.ru. 1 November 2023.
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