PFC CSKA Moscow

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CSKA Moscow

Full name

Professional Football Club
Central Sports Club of Army
Moscow

Nickname(s)

Koni (Horses), red-blue, army-men, red-army-men

Founded

1911

Ground

Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow
(Capacity 84,745)

Chairman

Evgeny Giner

Manager

Valery Gazzaev

League

Russian Premier League

2007

RPL, 3rd





Home colours





Away colours

PFC CSKA Moskva (Russian: Профессиональный футбольный клуб ЦСКА Москва or Professional Football Club — Central Sports Club of Army (Moscow)) is the football section of the CSKA sports club of Moscow, Russia.

It won the Soviet championship seven times (1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1970, 1991), the Soviet Cup five times (1945, 1948, 1951, 1955, 1991), the Russian Cup in 2002, 2005, 2006 and 2008, won the Russian Premier League champions title in 2003, 2005 and 2006, finishing second in 1998, 2002 and 2004, and the Russian Super Cup in 2004, 2006 and 2007.

Recently, the club received a major financial infusion from a sponsorship deal with Sibneft, an oil company owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich. Abramovich will not take an ownership interest in the club as he is the current owner of English Premiership power Chelsea and UEFA rules allow only one club controlled by any one entity (person or corporation) to participate in European club competition in a given season.

In the season 2006 the club is sponsored by VTB.

CSKA Moscow won the 2005 UEFA Cup by beating Sporting CP 3–1 in the Final on Sporting's home field in Lisbon. It became the first Russian club to win a major European title, as well as the first one to complete a treble.

1 Nickname
2 Previous Club Names
3 Honours
4 Current squad
- 4.1 Reserves squad
5 Transfers 2007-2008
6 Noted former players
7 League and Cup History
8 References
9 External links

[edit] Nickname

Originally CSKA was nicknamed "Stables" (Russian: конюшня), presumably because their first training facilities were located in the building that previously was Prince Yusupov's stable.^[1] It was considered offensive, but later it was transformed into its consonant "Horses" (Russian: кони), and currently this nick used by players and fans as self-name, along with other variants such as "Army Men" (Russian: армейцы) and "Red-Blues" (Russian: красно-синие).

[edit] Previous Club Names

Previous CSKA logo

1911-1922 - Obshestvo Lyubiteley Lyzhnogo Sporta (OLLS) (Amateur Society of Skiing Sports)
1923 - Opytno-Pokazatel'naya Ploschadka Vseobucha (OPPV) (Experimental & Demonstrational Playground of Military Education Association)
1924-1927 - Opytno-Pokazatel'naya Ploschadka Voenveda (OPPV) (Experimental & Demonstrational Playground of Military Administration)
1928-1950 - Sportivnyi Klub Tsentral'nogo Doma Krasnoy Armii (CDKA) (Sports Club of Central House of the Red Army)
1951-1956 - Sportivnyi Klub Tsentral'nogo Doma Sovetskoy Armii (CDSA) (Sports Club of Central House of the Soviet Army)
1957-1959 - Tsentral'nyi Sportivnyi Klub Ministerstva Oborony (CSK MO) (Central Sports Club of the Ministry of Defense)
1960-Present — Tsentral'nyi Sportivnyi Klub Armii (CSKA) (Central Sports Club of Army)

[edit] Honours

Winners

UEFA Cup: 1

2005

Russian Premier League: 3

2003, 2005, 2006

Russian Cup: 4

2002, 2005, 2006, 2008

Russian Super Cup: 3 (record)

2004, 2006, 2007

USSR Championship: 7

1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1970, 1991

USSR Cup: 5

1945, 1948, 1951, 1955, 1991

First Channel Cup: 1

2007

Runners-Up

UEFA Super Cup: 1

2005

Russian Premier League: 3

1998, 2002, 2004

Russian Cup: 3

1993, 1994, 2000

Russian Super Cup: 1

2003

USSR Championship: 4

1938, 1945, 1949, 1990

USSR Cup: 3

1944, 1967, 1992

[edit] Current squad

As of 12 March 2008, according to the Russian Premier League official site.

No.	Position	Player
2	DF	Deividas Šemberas
4	DF	Sergei Ignashevich
5	MF	Ramón
6	DF	Aleksei Berezutskiy
7	MF	Daniel Carvalho
8	MF	Dudu Cearense
9	FW	Vágner Love
10	FW	Jô
11	MF	Pavel Mamayev
14	FW	Ricardo Jesus
15	DF	Chidi Odiah
17	MF	Miloš Krasić

No.	Position	Player
18	MF	Yuri Zhirkov
19	FW	Dawid Janczyk
20	MF	Luboš Kalouda
22	MF	Evgeni Aldonin
24	DF	Vasili Berezutskiy
25	MF	Elvir Rahimić
33	GK	Yevgeny Pomazan
35	GK	Igor Akinfeev (captain)
46	MF	Alan Dzagoev
50	DF	Anton Grigoryev
60	GK	Dmitri Abakumov
88	MF	Caner Erkin

[edit] Reserves squad

The following players are listed by club's website as reserve players. They are eligible to play for the first team.

No.	Position	Player
36	DF	Anton Vlasov
37	FW	Dmitri Ryzhov
38	DF	Sergei Perunov
40	DF	Nikolai Zaitsev
41	MF	Nikolai Zhirkov
42	DF	Georgi Shchennikov
43	MF	Amir Kashiev
44	MF	Dmitri Arslanov
45	FW	Aleksandr Kudryavtsev
49	DF	Dmitry Protopopov
51	GK	Aleksandr Chuchalov

No.	Position	Player
52	FW	Anton Zabolotny
53	DF	Alan Alborov
54	MF	Dmitri Manoshkin
55	MF	Iskandar Dzhalilov
56	MF	Maksim Karpov
58	MF	Viktor Vorobjov
59	FW	Sergey Shumilin
62	DF	Ruslan Perepelyukov
87	GK	Pavel Figon
90	DF	Viktor Klimeev
91	GK	Artur Nigmatullin

[edit] Transfers 2007-2008

In:

Nikolay Zajtsev - FC Kuban Krasnodar
Dmitri Protopopov - FK Ryazan
Sergey Grichenkov - FC Sodovik Sterlitamak was on loan
Aleksandr Salugin - FC Tekstilshchik-Telekom Ivanovo was on loan
Ricardo Jesus - PFC Spartak Nalchik
Dmitri Ryzhov - FC Krylya Sovetov-SOK
Anton Vlasov - FC Krylya Sovetov-SOK
Alan Dzagoev - FC Krylya Sovetov-SOK
Evgeny Pomazan - Kuban Krasnodar
Luboš Kalouda - 1. FC Brno
Anton Zabolotny - Youth
Artur Nigmatullin - Youth
Aleksandr Chuchalov - Youth
Georgi Stchennikov - Youth
Dmitri Arslanov - Youth

Out:

Oleg Malyukov - FC Sportakademklub Moscow on loan
Kirill Kochubei - PFC Spartak Nalchik
Sergey Pravosud - FC SKA-Energia Khabarovsk on loan
Igor Kuzmin - FC Saturn Moscow Oblast
Dmitry Tikhonov - FC Sportakademklub Moscow on loan
Andrei Utitskikh - FC KamAZ Naberezhnye Chelny
Vadim Gagloev - FC SKA-Energia Khabarovsk on loan
Nikita Andreyev - Levadia Tallinn
Veniamin Mandrykin - FC Tom Tomsk on loan
Vyacheslav Semashkin - FK Dmitrov
Sergey Gorelov - Torpedo Moscow on loan
Nikita Burmistrov - FC Luch-Energiya Vladivostok
Alexey Vasiliev - FC Nosta Novotroitsk
Sergey Grichenkov - Dinaburg FC
Vadim Gagloev - FC Alania Vladikavkaz on loan
Aleksei Blokha - released
Sergei Zhideyev - Kuban Krasnodar
Ivan Taranov - FC Krylia Sovetov Samara
Renat Miftakhov - released
Osmar Ferreyra - Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Valeriy Safonov - FK Istra
Aleksandr Salugin - FC Krylia Sovetov Samara
Rolan Gusev - Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Ivan Malyukov - released
Vladimir Tatarchuk - FC Krasnodar
Pavel Stepanets - released

[edit] Noted former players

Russia

[edit] League and Cup History

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Europe		Notes
1992	1st	5	26	13	7	6	46	29	33	Runner-Up	ECL	Group stage
1993	1st	9	34	12	6	16	43	45	42	Runner-Up
1994	1st	10	30	8	10	12	30	32	26	Round of 16	CWC	Qualifying
1995	1st	6	30	16	5	9	56	34	53	Quarterfinals
1996	1st	5	34	20	6	8	58	35	66	Round of 16	UC	Round of 64
1997	1st	12	34	11	9	14	31	42	42	Quarterfinals
1998	1st	2	30	17	5	8	50	22	56	Semifinals
1999	1st	3	30	15	10	5	56	29	55	Runner-Up	ECL	Qualifying
2000	1st	8	30	12	5	13	45	39	41	Round of 16	UC	1st Round
2001	1st	7	30	12	11	7	39	30	47	Winner
2002	1st	2	30	21	3	6	60	27	66	Round of 32	UC	2nd Round
2003	1st	1	30	17	8	5	56	32	59	Quarterfinals	ECL	Group Stage
2004	1st	2	30	17	9	4	53	22	60	Winner	UC	Winner	ECL — Group Stage
2005	1st	1	30	18	8	4	48	20	62	Winner	UC	Group Stage
2006	1st	1	30	17	7	6	47	28	58	Round of 16	UC	Round of 32	ECL — Group Stage
2007	1st	3	30	14	11	5	43	24	53	Winner	ECL	Group Stage