FC Khimik-Arsenal (Russian: «Химик-Арсенал») is a Russian football team from Novomoskovsk. It played professionally from 1954 to 1979, from 1993 to 2007 and again from the 2017–18 season to 2020–21. They played on the second-highest level in the Soviet First League from 1954 to 1979, where their best result was 2nd place in Zone 1 in 1970. They were a farm-club for FC Arsenal Tula. For the 2021–22 season, Arsenal registered FC Arsenal-2 Tula for the third tier as their farm club.
| Full name | Football Club Khimik-Arsenal | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Founded | 1954 | ||
| Ground | Khimik Stadium, Novomoskovsk | ||
| Capacity | 5200 | ||
| Chairman | Dmitry Trifonov | ||
| Manager | Sergei Podpaly | ||
| League | Russian Professional Football League, Group 3 | ||
| 2019–20 | Zone Center, 5th | ||
| Website | Club website | ||
Team name history
- 1954–1955: FC Shakhtyor Stalinogorsk (Novomoskovsk was called Stalinogorsk at the time)
- 1956–1957: FC Shakhtyor Mosbass (Mosbass was a regional subdivision of Moscow Oblast that Stalinogorsk was a capital of at the time)
- 1958: FC Trud Stalinogorsk
- 1959–1960: FC Shakhtyor Stalinogorsk
- 1961–1992: FC Khimik Novomoskovsk
- 1993–2009: FC Don Novomoskovsk
- 2010–2019: FC Khimik Novomoskovsk
- 2019–p.d: FC Khimik-Arsenal
References
External links
- (in Russian) Official website