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KAMAZ
Full name	Football Club; KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny
Nickname(s)	Gruzoviki (Грузовики, Trucks), Avtozovodci (Автозаводцы, Car workers)
Founded	1981
Ground	KAMAZ stadium; (Capacity: 10,000)
Chairman	Yuri Avdeev
Manager	Vitali Panov (caretaker)
League	Russian First Division
2009	5th
Home colours	Away colours

KAMAZ (Russian: Футбольный клуб КАМАЗ Набережные Челны) is a Russian football club based in Naberezhnye Chelny, Tatarstan. The club is currently in the Russian First Division.

Colours are (Home) all white. (Away) Light blue shirts, white shorts.

[edit] History

The club was founded on 11 November 1981 at the KAMAZ plant under the name Trud-PRZ. The team played in local tournaments until 1988, when they entered Sovied Second League.

KAMAZ stayed in this league until 1992, when following the collapse of the Soviet Union they were entitled to play in the Russian First League. They won the Centre Zone tournament and were promoted into the Top League.

The best result achieved by KAMAZ in the Top League was a 6th position in 1994. It allowed the club to participate in the Intertoto Cup, where KAMAZ reached the semifinals, defeating München 1860 in the group stage.

KAMAZ stayed in the top flight from 1993 to 1997, when the financial troubles of their owner, KAMAZ plant, forced them into the First Division and into the Second Division a year later. The team played in the Ural Zone of the Second Division from 1999 to 2003, where they earned promotion.

KAMAZ became one of the leaders of the First Division recently, finishing 4th in 2004, 2006 and 2007 and 3rd in 2005 and 2008.

The club has been known as Trud-PRZ (1981-1987), Torpedo (1988-1989), and KAMAZ-Chally (1995-2000).

[edit] KAMAZ in Europe

UEFA Intertoto Cup 1996

[edit] Group 8

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1. FC KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny	10	4	3	1	0	8	3	+5
2. TSV 1860 München	6	4	2	0	2	8	3	+5
3. Kaucuk Opava	6	4	2	0	2	5	4	+1
4. PFC Spartak Varna	5	4	1	2	1	5	5	0
5. ŁKS Łódź	1	4	0	1	3	1	12	-11


June 22, 1996
FC KAMAZ	3-0	ŁKS Łódź
June 29, 1996
Kaucuk Opava	1-2	FC KAMAZ
July 13, 1996
FC KAMAZ	2-2	PFC Spartak Varna
July 20, 1996
TSV 1860 München	0-1	FC KAMAZ

Semi-finals (July 27th-28th & 31st)

FC KAMAZ 2-0, 0-4 En Avant Guingamp

[edit] League results

[edit] First-team squad

As of October 12, 2009, according to the official PFL website.

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Dmitri Abakumov
2	MF	Konstantin Demenko
3	DF	Vladimir Rykov
4	DF	Anton Gudukin
5	MF	Ivan Todorovic
6	DF	Aleksandr Kukanos
7	MF	Aleksandr Krendelev
8	FW	Vladimir Romanenko
9	FW	Spartak Gogniyev
10	MF	Zajko Zeba
11	FW	Essau Kanyenda
13	DF	Dmitri Kudinov
14	MF	Mikhail Pimenov
16	GK	Dmitri Yashin
17	FW	Semyon Nastusenko

No.	Position	Player
20	MF	Andrei Perov
22	FW	Anton Kobyalko
23	MF	Denis Skorokhodov
24	MF	Roman Slavnov
25	MF	Aleksei Kozlov
29	MF	Mikhail Komkov
30	DF	Andrei Lozhkin
33	FW	Aleksandr Alkhazov
33	MF	Marat Garayev
34	MF	Gela Dzagoyev
35	GK	Soslanbek Arshiyev
36	DF	Pavel Ivashentsev
	MF	Ruslan Gazzaev
	DF	Arsen Kaytov

[edit] Out on loan

No.		Position	Player
		MF	Alan Alborov (on loan to Irtysh until December 2009)
		MF	Aleksei Bazanov (on loan to Metallurg Krasnoyarsk until December 2009)
		DF	Yevgeni Kachan (on loan to Metallurg Lipetsk until December 2009)
		DF	Rustem Khaliullin (on loan to Gornyak until December 2009)
		DF	Igor Koronov (on loan to Gornyak until December 2009)

No.		Position	Player
		MF	Stanislav Lebamba (on loan to Mordovia until December 2009)
		FW	Karen Oganyan (on loan to Volgar-Gazprom until December 2009)
		DF	Mikhail Rytov (on loan to FC Nizhny Novgorod until December 2009)
		DF	Mikhail Tynyany (on loan to Spartak Tambov until December 2009)
		DF	Maksim Volkov (on loan to Dynamo Bryansk until December 2009)

[edit] 2009 transfers

[edit] In

No.		Position	Player
		GK	Dmitri Abakumov (in from PFC CSKA Moscow reserves)
		FW	Aleksandr Alkhazov (in from FC Zvezda Irkutsk)
		MF	Gela Dzagoyev
		MF	Ruslan Gazzaev
		MF	Marat Garayev
		DF	Pavel Ivashentsev (in from FC SKA Rostov-on-Don)
		DF	Arsen Kaytov (in from FC Avtodor Vladikavkaz)

No.		Position	Player
		MF	Aleksandr Krendelev (in from FC Sheksna Cherepovets)
		DF	Dmitri Kudinov (in from FC Salyut-Energia Belgorod)
		DF	Aleksandr Kukanos (in from FC Alania Vladikavkaz)
		FW	Semyon Nastusenko (in from FC Dynamo Vologda)
		DF	Vladimir Rykov (in from FC Saturn-2 Moscow Oblast)
		MF	Roman Slavnov (in from FC Salyut-Energia Belgorod)

[edit] Out

No.	Position	Player
	MF	Roman Akbashev
	MF	Alan Alborov (to FC Irtysh Omsk)
	DF	Dmitri Grachyov (to FC Saturn Moscow Oblast)
34	FW	Nikola Grubješić
	MF	Vladislav Ignatyev (to FC Krylia Sovetov Samara)
	DF	Yevgeni Kachan (to FC Fakel-Voronezh Voronezh)
	MF	Vladimir Nagibin

No.		Position	Player
		FW	Branimir Petrović (to FC Rostov)
		DF	Mikhail Rytov (to FC Nizhny Novgorod)
		DF	Yevgeni Shpedt (to FC Nizhny Novgorod)
		DF	Andrei Sidyayev (to FC Baltika Kaliningrad)
		DF	Andrei Utitskikh (to FC MVD Rossii Moscow)
		GK	Platon Zakharchuk (retired)

[edit] Reserve squad

KAMAZ's reserve squad played professionally as FC KAMAZ-d Naberezhnye Chelny (Russian Second League in 1993, Russian Third League in 1994) and as FC KAMAZ-Chally-d Naberezhnye Chelny (Russian Third League in 1995-1997).