FC Khimki

FC Khimki (Russian: ФК "Химки") was a Russian former professional football club based in Khimki.

The team was formed in 1996 by merging two amateur clubs from Khimki, Rodina, and Novator. Khimki entered the amateur league and played their first official match on 17 May 1997. Of more than 150 amateur teams in the competition, only the champions would be promoted to the Third League. Khimki won the tournament, overcoming Energiya Ulyanovsk in the final match in a penalty shootout.

On 30 January 1997, Khimki became a professional football club. In the Third League regional tournament, Khimki finished second and were promoted to the Second League.

Khimki were promoted to the First Division after the 2000 season. They finished first in the Centre zone of the Second Division, but lost the promotion play-off to Severstal Cherepovets on away goals. After Severstal refused to play in the First Division, their place was given to Khimki.

In 2005, Khimki had a very good run in the Russian Cup, reaching the final. They lost the final match 0–1 to CSKA. In the 2019–20 Russian Cup, they reached the final once again.

On 15 May 2020, FNL season was abandoned due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia. As the club was in the 2nd position in the standings, they were promoted to the Russian Premier League for the 2020–21 season, returning to the top level after an 11-year break.^[2]

On 22 May 2023, Khimki were relegated from the Russian Premier League after three seasons.^[3]

On 20 May 2024, Khimki secured return to the top tier after one season down.^[4]

Khimki finished the 2024–25 Russian Premier League season in 12th place, outside of the relegation zone. However, on 24 May 2025 Russian Football Union announced that the club was not issued the 2025–26 RPL license due to accumulated debts, sealing their administrative relegation.^[5] Their replacement in the Premier League was FC Pari Nizhny Novgorod.^[6] Khimki were officially dissolved on 18 June 2025.^[7]

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Cup	Europe		Top Scorer (League)	Head Coach
1997	4th, Zone 3	2	40	26	6	8	80	38	84	-	—		Kravchuk – 17	Shtapov
1998	3rd, "West"	10	40	15	8	17	63	60	53	-	—		Georgievsky – 11	Dementyev Bychkov Sabitov
1999	3rd, "Centre"	6	36	17	11	8	51	35	62	R256	—		Khamzin – 11	Sabitov Kots
2000		1	38	28	4	6	68	22	88	R64	—		Genich – 18	Piskaryov Papaev
2001	2nd	12	34	13	4	17	42	54	43	R32	—		Shcheglov – 5 Voronkov – 5 Kovardayev – 5	Petrushin Sabitov
2002		7	34	14	10	10	38	27	52	R32	—		Kovardayev – 6	Sabitov Derkach
2003		12	42	16	9	17	36	46	57	QF	—		Kiselyov – 15	Derkach Galyamin
2004		5	42	17	10	15	39	33	61	R32	—		Pogrebnyak – 6	Shevchuk Yakovenko
2005		4	42	23	13	6	75	36	82	RU	—		Tikhonov – 15	Yakovenko
2006		1	42	30	9	3	83	30	99	R64	—		Tikhonov – 22	Kazachyonok
2007	1st	9	30	9	10	11	32	33	37	R32	—		Shirokov – 7	Muslin
2008		14	30	6	9	15	34	54	27	R16	—		Nizamutdinov – 9	Yuran
2009		16	30	2	4	24	20	64	10	R32	—		Antipenko – 6	Sarsaniya Chugainov
2010	2nd	13	38	11	17	10	39	38	50	R32	—		Yusupov – 7 Dudchenko – 7	Tarkhanov Bushmanov
2011–12		13	48	16	11	21	54	74	59	R32	—		Mamtov – 10	Grigoryan Dolmatov Tarkhanov
2012–13		16	32	6	10	16	23	40	28	R16	—		Komkov – 3 Khatazhyonkov – 3	Tarkhanov Tetradze Petrakov
2013–14	3rd, "West"	3	32	16	10	6	67	37	58	R64	—		Antonnikov – 9 Zemchenkov – 9	Tarkhanov Mukhanov Gridin
2014–15		4	30	15	9	6	42	27	54	R256	—		Lipatkin – 6	Maminov
2015–16		1	24	19	5	0	49	12	62	R16	—		Markosov – 11	Khafizov
2016–17	2nd	11	38	11	16	11	40	47	49	R32	—		Kazaev – 8	Irkhin
2017–18		13	38	12	7	19	33	49	43	R64	—		Kuzmichev – 7	Irkhin
2018–19		9	38	14	11	13	47	49	53	R32	—		Kukharchuk – 10	Shalimov
2019–20		2	27	16	6	5	50	19	54	RU	—		Aliyev – 8	Yuran
2020–21	1st	8	30	13	6	11	35	39	45	R16	—		Mirzov – 6	Yuran
2021–22	1st	13	30	7	11	12	34	47	32	GS	—		Glushakov – 10	Cherevchenko

Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Khimki.

As of 3 August 2010

1. Miodrag Jovanović: 224
2. Roman Berezovsky: 175
3. Nikolai Barkalov: 164
4. Sergei Kravchuk: 145
5. Aleksandr Shulenin: 140
6. Andrey Tikhonov: 124
7. Aleksandr Makarov: 119
8. Aleksandr Shvetsov: 116
9. Igor Nekrasov: 115
10. Sergei Shcheglov: 112

1. Sergei Kravchuk: 46
2. Andrey Tikhonov: 43
3. Yuri Georgiyevsky: 30
4. Konstantin Genich: 29
5. Nikolai Kovardayev: 27
6. Vadim Shatalin: 23
7. Aleksandr Antipenko: 20
8. Denis Kiselyov: 18
9. Anton Arkhipov: 16

• Vladimir Shtapov (1996–97)
• Igor Bychkov (1997, interim)
• Ravil Sabitov (1997–99), (2001–02)
• Alexandr Piskarev (2000)
• Viktor Papayev (2000)
• Aleksei Petrushin (2001)
• Sergey Derkach (2002–03)
• Dmitry Galyamin (2003)
• Vasily Kulkov (2004)
• Vladimir Shevchuk (2004)
• Pavel Yakovenko (2004–05)
• Vladimir Kazachyonok (2006–07)
• Slavoljub Muslin (2007–08)
• Sergei Yuran (2008)
• Konstantin Sarsania (2009)
• Igor Chugainov (2009)
• Alexander Tarkhanov (2009–10)
• Oleg Dolmatov (2011–12)
• Alexander Tarkhanov (2012)
• Valeriy Petrakov (2012–13)
• Alexander Tarkhanov (2013)
• Vladimir Mukhanov (2013–14)
• Vladimir Maminov (2014–15)
• Vadim Khafizov (2015–16)
• Aleksandr Irkhin (2016–18)
• Igor Shalimov (2018–19)
• Andrei Talalayev (2019–20)
• Sergei Yuran (2020)
• Dmitri Gunko (2020)
• Igor Cherevchenko (2020–Now)

• Russian National Football League
  • Winners: 2006
• Russian Professional Football League
  • Winners: 2000 (Centre), 2015–16 (West)

• Official website (in Russian)
• History at KLISF
• The official fan club (in Russian)