FC Rubin Kazan

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Rubin

Full name

Football Club Rubin Kazan

Nickname(s)

Founded

1958

Ground

Central Stadium, Kazan

Capacity

30,133

Chairman

Alexandr Gusev

Manager

Kurban Berdyyev

League

Russian Premier League

2006

RPL, 5th





Home colours





Away colours

FC Rubin Kazan (Russian: Футбольный клуб Рубин Казань), is a Russian football club, based in the Tatarstan city of Kazan.

Rubin never played in the Soviet Top League. They advanced to the Russian Premier League in 2003, and came third in the league in their debut year, qualifying for the UEFA Cup. Their 2004 campaign was less successful, they came 10th. In 2005 they were competing for UEFA Cup zone again, finished 4th.

The team was also previously called "Iskra" (1958-1964), "Rubin-TAN" (1992-1993).

[edit] Current squad

As of 7 March 2007, according to the Russian Premier League official website.

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Aleksandrs Koļinko
3	DF	Calisto
4	DF	Jean
5	DF	Andrei Fyodorov¹
6	MF	McBeth Sibaya
7	FW	Jailson
8	MF	Pyotr Gitselov³
9	DF	Lasha Salukvadze
10	FW	Damani Ralph
11	MF	Vitali Volkov
14	MF	Kang Sunkyu
15	MF	Aleksandr Ryazantsev
16	MF	Christian Noboa Tello
17	DF	Lenar Gilmullin
18	MF	Dzhambulad Bazayev
19	MF	Selim Ben Achour²

No.	Position	Player
20	MF	Fábio Felício
21	DF	Mikhail Sinyov
22	MF	Sergei Budylin
23	FW	Yevgeni Balyaikin
26	FW	Aleksandr Gatcan¹
27	FW	Veljko Paunović
28	DF	Sergei Nesterenko
29	GK	Nukri Revishvili
30	FW	Aleksandr Bukharov
31	DF	Fernando Gabriel
32	FW	Vladimir Bairamov¹
46	FW	Aleksandr Yarkin
77	MF	Ansar Ayupov
79	GK	Pavel Kharchik
98	MF	Dmitri Vasilyev

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

No.	Position	Player
12	MF	Marat Bikmoev
41	MF	Andrey Kireyev
42	MF	Mikhail Bagayev
44	DF	Igor Klimov
45	DF	Irek Ganiyev

No.	Position	Player
48	MF	Vadim Afonin¹
49	MF	Vagiz Galiulin
53	DF	Sergei Golyatkin
55	MF	Ruslan Arkhipov
60	DF	Aleksandr Kulikov

Notes:

Has dual citizenship (second citizenship is Russian).
Has dual citizenship (second citizenship is French).
Has dual citizenship (second citizenship is Swedish).

[edit] External link

Club's web site

UEFA Cup 2006-07

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Russian Premier League 2007 clubs
Amkar Perm \| CSKA Moscow \| Dynamo Moscow \| FC Khimki \| Krylya Sovetov Samara \| Kuban Krasnodar \| Lokomotiv Moscow \| Luch-Energia Vladivostok \| FC Moskva \| FC Rostov \| Rubin Kazan \| Saturn Moscow Oblast \| Spartak Moscow \| Spartak Nalchik \| Tom Tomsk \| Zenit Saint Petersburg