SKA-Khabarovsk

Full name	Футбольный клуб СКА-Хабаровск (Football Club SKA-Khabarovsk)
Founded	1946 (1946)
Ground	Lenin Stadium, Khabarovsk, Russia
Capacity	14,800
Owner	Khabarovsk Krai RusHydro (through subsidiary) Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Production Association
Chairman	Mikhail Gusev[1]
Manager	Roman Sharonov
League	Russian First League
2022–23	10th of 18
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Football Club SKA-Khabarovsk (Russian: Футбольный клуб СКА-Хабаровск) is a Russian professional association football club based in Khabarovsk which plays in the second-tier Russian First League. They played in the Russian Premier League for the first time ever in the 2017–18 season. At more than 6,000 kilometres (3,700 mi) east of Moscow, SKA Khabarovsk are the most Easterly team to have taken part in a UEFA domestic top division.

History

The club has been known under different names:

• DKA (−1953)
• ODO (1954)
• DO (1955–56)
• OSK (1957)
• SKVO (1957–59)
• SKA (1960–99)
• SKA-Energia (1999–2016)
• SKA-Khabarovsk (2016–)^[2]

The club has participated in the Soviet championships since 1957. SKA were the quarter-finalists of the Soviet Cup in 1963. They had never played in the Soviet Top League or Russian Premier League, until 2017.

SKA's best result in the Soviet First League was the 6th position in 1980, and their best result in the Russian First Division was 4th position in 2012–13. This entitled them to a promotion/relegation play-off against FC Rostov, 13th place in the RPL, but they lost 3–0 on aggregate and missed their chance to compete in the top flight.

At the end of the 2016–17 season, SKA equalled their record best finish, at the same time qualifying for a promotion play-off against FC Orenburg. On 28 May 2017, SKA were promoted to the Russian Premier League for the first time in their history, after beating FC Orenburg in the promotion play-off. They won 5–3 in a penalty shoot-out, after 0–0 draws in both the home and away legs.

SKA started their first Premier League season with 4 losses. After improving results in the next stretch of games, the losses starting mounting up again. Aleksei Poddubskiy was replaced as manager by Rinat Bilyaletdinov during the winter break, Bilyaletdinov only lasted four games before being replaced by Sergei Perednya. On 22 April 2018, SKA lost 1–0 to Dynamo Moscow at home (which was their 13th loss in a stretch of 15 winless games) and lost the mathematical chance to avoid relegation back to the second-tier Russian Football National League.

In the 2021–22 season, SKA-Khabarovsk qualified for the Premier League promotion playoffs in which they lost 1–3 on aggregate to FC Khimki therefore remaining in the FNL for at least another season.^[3]

Domestic history

Season	League									Russian Cup	Top goalscorer		Manager
	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P		Name	League
2008	2nd	8th	42	17	10	15	63	60	61	Round of 32	Aleksandr Yarkin	21
2009	2nd	11th	38	12	11	15	43	42	47	Fifth round	Vasili Karmazinenko	9
2010	2nd	11th	38	15	8	15	37	39	53	Round of 16	Vasili Karmazinenko	10
2011–12	2nd	11th	48	16	14	18	57	66	62	Fifth round Fifth round	Yevgeni Lutsenko	13	Igor Protasov Aleksandr Grigoryan
2012–13	2nd	4th	32	13	13	6	36	26	52	Round of 16	Yevgeni Lutsenko	8	Aleksandr Grigoryan Giorgi Daraselia
2013–14	2nd	7th	36	15	11	10	43	34	56	Round of 16	Nathan Júnior	9	Valdas Ivanauskas
2014–15	2nd	14th	38	13	10	15	36	35	49	Fourth Round	Nathan Júnior	6	Valdas Ivanauskas Aleksandr Grigoryan
2015–16	2nd	14th	38	13	10	15	36	35	49	Round of 16	Konstantin Bazelyuk	10	Aleksandr Grigoryan
2016–17	2nd	4th	38	15	14	9	45	33	59	Round of 16	Ruslan Koryan	12	Aleksandr Grigoryan Aleksei Poddubskiy
2017–18	1st	16th	30	2	7	21	16	55	13	Quarterfinal	Miroslav Marković	4	Aleksei Poddubskiy Rinat Bilyaletdinov Sergei Perednya
2018–19	2nd	7th	38	15	13	10	46	41	58	Round of 32	Maksim Kazankov	7	Sergei Perednya Vadim Evseev Aleksei Poddubskiy
2019–20	2nd	6th	27	12	7	8	42	30	43	Round of 32	Adlan Katsayev	9	Aleksei Poddubskiy
2020–21	2nd	11th	42	17	9	16	52	47	60	Round of 16	Konstantin Bazelyuk	12	Aleksei Poddubskiy Sergei Yuran
2021–22	2nd	4th	38	19	8	11	48	38	65	Qualifying Round 3	David Karayev	14	Sergei Yuran Aleksei Poddubskiy

Current squad

As of 15 January 2024, according to the official First 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 4 DF  RUS Oleg Kozhemyakin 5 DF  RUS Magomed Musalov 6 DF  RUS Andrius Rukas 7 MF  ARM Artyom Simonyan 9 FW  RUS Said Aliyev 10 MF  RUS Vladislav Nikiforov 11 FW  RUS Albek Gongapshev 13 DF  RUS Rustam Sosranov 14 MF  RUS Yuri Bavin 17 DF  RUS Nikolai Pokidyshev 18 MF  RUS Nikita Miroshnichenko 19 FW  RUS Maksim Kutovoy 21 MF  RUS Kirill Nikitin 23 FW  RUS Stepan Burdakov 29 FW  CIV Yao Jean Charles 31 MF  RUS Andrey Nikitin (on loan from Lokomotiv Moscow) 33 MF  RUS Timofey Shipunov (on loan from Sochi) 44 DF  RUS Daniil Kornyushin 47 MF  RUS Zakhar Kravtsov

No. Pos. Nation Player 50 GK  RUS Vladimir Sugrobov 55 DF  RUS Artyom Bykov 57 FW  RUS Dmitry Begun 63 MF  RUS Maksim Zaykov 70 MF  RUS Andrei Savinov (on loan from CSKA Moscow) 71 MF  RUS Yegor Abramov 74 DF  RUS Yegor Pigayev 75 GK  RUS Vladimir Tsapurin 78 GK  RUS Islam Imamov 87 MF  RUS Artur Kopylov 88 FW  CRO Marko Čavara (on loan from Rubin Kazan) 90 FW  RUS Kirill Klimov 91 MF  RUS Dzambolat Tsallagov 92 MF  RUS Vyacheslav Podberyozkin 93 FW  RUS German Parfyonov 94 GK  RUS Vitaly Svyachenovsky 95 MF  RUS Ilya Petrov 96 DF  RUS Tomas Rukas

Notable players

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

Coaching staff

Position	Name
Manager	Roman Sharonov
Senior Manager	Alexey Andreevich
Assistant Manager	Yuri Shpiryuk
Goalkeeping Coach	Maxim Ivanovich
Fitness Coach	Oleg Anatolievich Dmitri Gureev
Analyst	Yurievich Vyacheslav
Rehabilitologist	Ruslan Gennadievich
Team Leader	Sergey Vladimirovich
Administrator	Denis Rafailovich
Junior Administrator	Ilshat Marsovich
Doctor	Anatoly Georgievich
Masseur	Marat Ulfatovich Danil Yurievich Marat Ishmurzin
Rehabilitation Specialist	Danil Yurievich

References

External links

• Official club website (in Russian)