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Rubin Kazan
Full name	Municipal Institution Football Club Rubin Kazan
Nickname(s)	Rubinovye (Ruby), Tatary (Tatars), Volzhane (People from Volga)
Founded	1958
Ground	Tsentralnyi Stadion, Kazan; (Capacity: 30 000)
Chairman	Alexandr Gusev
Manager	Gurban Berdiýew
League	Russian Premier League
2009	Russian Premier League, 1st
Home colours	Away colours

FC Rubin Kazan (Russian: Футбольный клуб Рубин Казань, Futbolniy klub Rubin Kazan; Tatar: Рубин Казан футбол клубы) is a Russian football club based in the city of Kazan (Tatarstan republic). Rubin won the Russian Premier League championship for 2009, its second straight league title.

[edit] History

Rubin was previously called "Iskra" from 1958 to 1964, and then "Rubin-TAN" from 1992 to 1993.

Having never played in the Soviet Top League, Rubin were promoted to the Russian Premier League in 2003, finishing third in their debut season to qualify for the UEFA Cup. Their 2004 campaign was less successful as they came 10th, but 2005 saw them finish 4th, again qualifying for the UEFA Cup.

In 2008, Rubin won the league championship to qualify for the 2009–10 UEFA Champions League Group stage, making them the easternmost team to play in the competition. Their championship season began with a league record seven consecutive wins, including victories against defending champions Zenit Saint Petersburg. Rubin clinched its first championship in club history^[2] and became only the third club from outside of Moscow to win the Russian Premier League (after Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz and Zenit St Petersburg).

On 20 October 2009, Rubin recorded a shocking win over Barcelona in the UEFA Champions League at Camp Nou^[3]. This was followed up by a 0–0 draw at home two weeks later^[4]. On 21 November 2009, Rubin secured a draw (0–0) against Zenit St Petersburg to win the Russian Premier League championship for the second season in a row.^[5]

[edit] Transfer fraud incident

In September 2009, Rubin were the unknowing participants in a bizarre transfer saga, involving four Levski Sofia players (Zhivko Milanov, Youssef Rabeh, Darko Tasevski and Ze Soares). The Bulgarian champions allegedly received a fax, supposedly from the Kazan team, offering to buy the footballers. The quoted sum was €7000. On 20 September 2009, the four players, accompanied by a Levski representative, travelled to Moscow to undergo a medical examination, but the deal allegedly fell through, as the phony Rubin representative offered lower salaries than those that were originally agreed upon. Official Rubin representatives denied any knowledge of the whole affair, maintaining that they did not even know about the players in question. Thus, it turned out that Levski had fallen victims to fraudsters. It is speculated that the incident was masterminded to defraud bookmakers by placing large bets against Levski in their game against CSKA Sofia.^[6]^[7]^[8]

[edit] Current squad

As of 11 December 2009.^[9]

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Sergei Kozko
3	DF	Cristian Ansaldi
4	DF	César Navas
5	MF	Pyotr Bystrov
6	MF	MacBeth Sibaya
7	MF	Sergei Semak (captain)
9	DF	Lasha Salukvadze
11	FW	Aleksandr Bukharov
15	MF	Aleksandr Ryazantsev
16	MF	Christian Noboa
19	DF	Vitali Kaleshin (on loan from FC Moscow)
23	MF	Yevgeni Balyaikin
24	DF	Aleksei Popov

No.	Position	Player
27	DF	Dato Kvirkvelia
29	GK	Nukri Revishvili
32	MF	Andrei Gorbanets
42	MF	Rafał Murawski
43	MF	Aleksei Kotlyarov
61	MF	Gökdeniz Karadeniz
67	FW	Davron Mirzayev
76	DF	Roman Sharonov
77	GK	Sergei Ryzhikov
88	MF	Alan Kasaev
97	FW	Igor Portnyagin
	DF	Anri Khagush
	FW	Aleksandr Yarkin
	DF	Mikhail Mischenko

For recent transfers, see List of Russian football transfers summer 2009 and List of Russian football transfers winter 2009–10.

[edit] Unregistered

No.		Position	Player
		DF	Gabriel
		MF	Fábio Felício

[edit] Out on loan

No.		Position	Player
		DF	Sergei Nesterenko (on loan to FC SKA-Energiya Khabarovsk until December 2009)
		DF	Aleksandr Kulikov (on loan to FC Salyut-Energia Belgorod until December 2009)
		MF	Pyotr Gitselov (on loan to FC Rostov until December 2009)
		FW	Roman Adamov (on loan to FC Krylia Sovetov Samara until December 2009)

[edit] Youth squad

As of August 31, 2009, as registered with the Premier League. The players are eligible to play for the main squad.

No.	Position	Player
12	MF	Valerio Brandi
30	GK	Evgeni Cheremisin
41	MF	Ilsur Samigullin
44	DF	Igor Klimov
49	MF	Vagiz Galiulin
50	MF	Parvizchon Umarboev
52	FW	Ayubkhon Gapparov
53	DF	Serdar Iolomanov
54	DF	Almaz Askarov
56	FW	Ruslan Nagayev

No.	Position	Player
64	GK	Dmitri Kortnev
65	DF	Maksim Zhestokov
68	FW	Ilya Kukharchuk
80	DF	Dmitri Tarabrikov
81	FW	Ildar Bikchantayev
83	MF	Vladimir Chernov
90	MF	Artyom Kulesha
92	FW	Vahyt Orazsakhedov
95	MF	Alisher Jalilov

[edit] Honors

Russian Premier League: 2

2008, 2009

La Manga Cup: 2

2005, 2006

[edit] League and Cup history

Soviet Union

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Notes
1966	2nd (Group 1)	5	32	15	9	8	32	23	39
1967	2nd (Group 1)	4	38	16	12	10	36	26	44
1968	2nd (Group 3)	5	40	19	9	12	52	31	47
1969	2nd (Group 2)	2	34	17	12	5	40	21	46
1970	2nd	8	42	18	10	14	36	42	46
1971	2nd	22	42	9	13	20	31	57	31	Relegated
1972	3rd
1973	3rd (Group 5)	2	32	21	5	6	58	26	47
1974	3rd									Promoted
1975	2nd	11	38	12	13	13	37	51	37
1976	2nd	17	38	6	18	14	39	55	30
1977	2nd	20	38	6	10	22	40	76	22	Relegated
1978	3rd
1979	3rd
1980	3rd
1981	3rd
1982	3rd
1983	3rd
1984	3rd
1985	3rd
1986	3rd
1987	3rd
1988	3rd (Zone 2)	7	32	13	5	14	30	28	31
1989	3rd (Zone 2)	12	42	18	4	20	42	41	40	Relegated
1990	4th (Zone 7)	3	32	18	10	4	48	15	46
1991	4th (Zone 7)	1	42	30	8	4	79	20	68

Russia

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Europe		Notes
1992	2nd (Central zone)	5	34	15	9	10	43	30	39
1993	2nd (Central zone)	8	38	19	6	13	48	46	44	Round of 256			Relegated
1994	3rd (Central zone)	15	32	6	4	22	15	65	16	Round of 256
1995	3rd (Central zone)	17	40	12	6	22	32	56	42	Round of 256
1996	3rd (Central zone)	6	42	24	7	11	66	34	79	Round of 512
1997	3rd (Central zone)	1	40	32	6	2	88	22	102	Round of 64			Promoted
1998	2nd	7	42	19	6	17	56	50	63	Quarter-final
1999	2nd	7	42	18	12	12	56	49	66	Round of 64
2000	2nd	3	38	24	6	8	61	28	78	Round of 64
2001	2nd	8	34	13	7	14	44	44	46	Round of 64
2002	2nd	1	34	22	6	6	51	14	72	Round of 16			Promoted
2003	1st	3rd	30	15	8	7	44	29	53	Round of 16
2004	1st	10	30	7	12	11	32	31	33	Round of 16	UC	2nd qual. round
2005	1st	4	30	14	9	7	45	31	51	Round of 32
2006	1st	5	30	13	7	10	43	37	46	Round of 16	UC	1st round
2007	1st	10	30	10	5	15	31	39	35	Round of 16	IC	3rd round
2008	1st	Champion	30	18	6	6	44	26	60	Round of 16
2009	1st	Champion	30	19	6	5	62	21	63	Final	UC

[edit] European cups history

As of December 9th, 2009.

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2004–05	UEFA Cup	2nd Qualifying Round	SK Rapid Wien	0–3	2–0	2–3
2006–07	UEFA Cup	2nd Qualifying Round	BATE	3–0	2–0	5–0
		1st Round	Parma F.C.	0–1	0–1	0–2
2007	UEFA Intertoto Cup	2nd Round	Zalaegerszegi TE	3–0	2–0	5–0
		3rd Round	SK Rapid Wien	0–0	1–3	1–3
2009–10	UEFA Champions League	Group Stage	FC Dynamo Kyiv	0–0	1–3
			FC Internazionale Milano	1–1	0-2
			FC Barcelona	0–0	2–1
2009–10	UEFA Europa League	Round of 32