FC Khimik-Arsenal

FC Khimik-Arsenal

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	http://www.fchimik.ru/
Home colours Away colours

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.

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