FC Cherepovets

FC Cherepovets
Full nameFootball Club
Cherepovets
Founded1912 as Metallurg
GroundMetallurg Stadium
Capacity11,500
ChairmanVladimir Golev
ManagerDmitry Chernukhin
LeagueRussian Second League,
Division B,
Group 2
2011–12Russian Second Division,
West Zone, 8th

FC Cherepovets (Russian: Футбольный Клуб Череповец) is an association football club from Cherepovets, Russia. It completes in the Russian Second League Division B since 2025.[1]

Before 2025, Cherepovets club last competed professionally in the Russian Second Division, West Zone in the 2011–12 season as FC Sheksna, dropping to amateur levels after that. The club changed its name from SeverStal Cherepovets in 2004. In 2012 it was reorganized as FC Cherepovets.

Club names

  • Metallurg (1956–1970)
  • Stroitel (1979–1985)
  • Khimik (1989–1990)
  • Bulat (1991–1996)
  • Severstal (2000–2004)
  • Sheksna (2005–2012)
  • Aist (2012–2013)
  • Cherepovets – Aist (2013)
  • Cherepovets (2014 – )

Current squad

As of 3 April 2025, according to the Second League website.

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  RUS Andrey Pyrkin
2 DF  RUS Mikhail Karamyshev
4 DF  RUS Yaroslav Shkamarda
5 MF  RUS Nikita Pichugin
7 MF  RUS Miron Belyayev
8 MF  RUS Oleg Krinkin
9 FW  RUS Vladislav Makeyev
10 FW  RUS Anton Balashov
11 FW  RUS Kirill Kulkov
13 GK  RUS Mikhail Zykov
15 DF  RUS David Berezov
16 GK  RUS Maksim Dedelev
No. Pos. Nation Player
17 MF  RUS Sergey Kopylov
18 DF  RUS Vladimir Maklasov
20 FW  RUS Savely Kunavin
21 DF  RUS Dmitry Popov
24 FW  RUS Georgy Aleksandrov
27 DF  RUS Daniyal Gadzhiyev
33 DF  RUS Nikita Gloydman
53 FW  RUS Yegor Loshkov
57 MF  RUS Dmitry Serebryakov
77 FW  RUS Maksim Andreyev
96 DF  RUS Ruslan Maltsev

References

  1. ^ "Определены календари для групп 1, 2 и 3 LEON-Второй Лиги Б" (in Russian). Russian Second League. 5 March 2025.