FC Khimki

FC Khimki (Russian: ФК "Химки") is a Russian professional football club based in Khimki. It returned to the Russian Premier League for the 2024–25 season.

The team was formed in 1996 by merging two amateur clubs from Khimki, Rodina, and Novator. Khimki entered the amateur league and played their first official match on 17 May 1997. Of more than 150 amateur teams in the competition, only the champions would be promoted to the Third League. Khimki won the tournament, overcoming Energiya Ulyanovsk in the final match in a penalty shootout.^{[citation needed ]}

On 30 January 1997, Khimki became a professional football club. In the Third League regional tournament, Khimki finished second and were promoted to the Second League.^{[citation needed ]}

Khimki were promoted to the First Division after the 2000 season. They finished first in the Centre zone of the Second Division, but lost the promotion play-off to Severstal Cherepovets on away goals. After Severstal refused to play in the First Division, their place was given to Khimki.^{[citation needed ]}

In 2005, Khimki had a very good run in the Russian Cup, reaching the final. They lost the final match 0–1 to CSKA.^{[citation needed ]} In the 2019–20 Russian Cup, they reached the final once again.^{[citation needed ]}

On 15 May 2020, FNL season was abandoned due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia. As the club was in the 2nd position in the standings, they were promoted to the Russian Premier League for the 2020–21 season, returning to the top level after an 11-year break.^[3]

On 22 May 2023, Khimki were relegated from the Russian Premier League after three seasons.^[4]

On 20 May 2024, Khimki secured return to the top tier after one season down.^[5]

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Cup	Europe		Top Scorer (League)	Head Coach
1997	4th, Zone 3	2	40	26	6	8	80	38	84	-	—		Russia Kravchuk – 17	Russia Shtapov
1998	3rd, "West"	10	40	15	8	17	63	60	53	-	—		Russia Georgievsky – 11	Russia Dementyev Russia Bychkov Russia Sabitov
1999	3rd, "Centre"	6	36	17	11	8	51	35	62	R256	—		Russia Khamzin – 11	Russia Sabitov Russia Kots
2000		1	38	28	4	6	68	22	88	R64	—		Russia Genich – 18	Russia Piskaryov Russia Papaev
2001	2nd	12	34	13	4	17	42	54	43	R32	—		Ukraine Shcheglov – 5 Russia Voronkov – 5 Russia Kovardayev – 5	Russia Petrushin Russia Sabitov
2002		7	34	14	10	10	38	27	52	R32	—		Russia Kovardayev – 6	Russia Sabitov Russia Derkach
2003		12	42	16	9	17	36	46	57	QF	—		Russia Kiselyov – 15	Russia Derkach Russia Galyamin
2004		5	42	17	10	15	39	33	61	R32	—		Russia Pogrebnyak – 6	Ukraine Shevchuk Ukraine Yakovenko
2005		4	42	23	13	6	75	36	82	RU	—		Russia Tikhonov – 15	Ukraine Yakovenko
2006		1	42	30	9	3	83	30	99	R64	—		Russia Tikhonov – 22	Russia Kazachyonok
2007	1st	9	30	9	10	11	32	33	37	R32	—		Russia Shirokov – 7	Serbia Muslin
2008		14	30	6	9	15	34	54	27	R16	—		Russia Nizamutdinov – 9	Russia Yuran
2009		16	30	2	4	24	20	64	10	R32	—		Russia Antipenko – 6	Russia Sarsaniya Russia Chugainov
2010	2nd	13	38	11	17	10	39	38	50	R32	—		Russia Yusupov – 7 Ukraine Dudchenko – 7	Russia Tarkhanov Russia Bushmanov
2011–12		13	48	16	11	21	54	74	59	R32	—		Russia Mamtov – 10	Russia Grigoryan Russia Dolmatov Russia Tarkhanov
2012–13		16	32	6	10	16	23	40	28	R16	—		Russia Komkov – 3 Russia Khatazhyonkov – 3	Russia Tarkhanov Russia Tetradze Russia Petrakov
2013–14	3rd, "West"	3	32	16	10	6	67	37	58	R64	—		Russia Antonnikov – 9 Russia Zemchenkov – 9	Russia Tarkhanov Russia Mukhanov Russia Gridin
2014–15		4	30	15	9	6	42	27	54	R256	—		Russia Lipatkin – 6	Russia Uzbekistan Maminov
2015–16		1	24	19	5	0	49	12	62	R16	—		Russia Armenia Markosov – 11	Russia Khafizov
2016–17	2nd	11	38	11	16	11	40	47	49	R32	—		Russia Kazaev – 8	Russia Irkhin
2017–18		13	38	12	7	19	33	49	43	R64	—		Russia Kuzmichev – 7	Russia Irkhin
2018–19		9	38	14	11	13	47	49	53	R32	—		Russia Kukharchuk – 10	Russia Shalimov
2019–20		2	27	16	6	5	50	19	54	RU	—		Russia Azerbaijan Aliyev – 8	Russia Yuran
2020–21	1st	8	30	13	6	11	35	39	45	R16	—		Russia Mirzov – 6	Russia Yuran
2021–22	1st	13	30	7	11	12	34	47	32	GS	—		Russia Glushakov – 10	Tajikistan Cherevchenko

As of 1 February 2025, according to the official Premier League website.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

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

As of 3 August 2010^[update]

1. Serbia Miodrag Jovanović: 224
2. Armenia Roman Berezovsky: 175
3. Russia Nikolai Barkalov: 164
4. Russia Sergei Kravchuk: 145
5. Russia Aleksandr Shulenin: 140
6. Russia Andrey Tikhonov: 124
7. Russia Aleksandr Makarov: 119
8. Russia Aleksandr Shvetsov: 116
9. Russia Igor Nekrasov: 115
10. Ukraine Russia Sergei Shcheglov: 112

1. Sergei Kravchuk: 46
2. Andrey Tikhonov: 43
3. Yuri Georgiyevsky: 30
4. Konstantin Genich: 29
5. Nikolai Kovardayev: 27
6. Vadim Shatalin: 23
7. Aleksandr Antipenko: 20
8. Denis Kiselyov: 18
9. Anton Arkhipov: 16

• Vladimir Shtapov (1996–97)
• Igor Bychkov (1997, interim)
• Ravil Sabitov (1997–99), (2001–02)
• Alexandr Piskarev (2000)
• Viktor Papayev (2000)
• Aleksei Petrushin (2001)
• Sergey Derkach (2002–03)
• Dmitry Galyamin (2003)
• Vasily Kulkov (2004)
• Vladimir Shevchuk (2004)
• Pavel Yakovenko (2004–05)
• Vladimir Kazachyonok (2006–07)
• Slavoljub Muslin (2007–08)
• Sergei Yuran (2008)
• Konstantin Sarsania (2009)
• Igor Chugainov (2009)
• Alexander Tarkhanov (2009–10)
• Oleg Dolmatov (2011–12)
• Alexander Tarkhanov (2012)
• Valeriy Petrakov (2012–13)
• Alexander Tarkhanov (2013)
• Vladimir Mukhanov (2013–14)
• Vladimir Maminov (2014–15)
• Vadim Khafizov (2015–16)
• Aleksandr Irkhin (2016–18)
• Igor Shalimov (2018–19)
• Andrei Talalayev (2019–20)
• Sergei Yuran (2020)
• Dmitri Gunko (2020)
• Igor Cherevchenko (2020–Now)

• Russian National Football League
  • Winners: 2006
• Russian Professional Football League
  • Winners: 2000 (Centre), 2015–16 (West)

• Official website (in Russian)
• History at KLISF
• The official fan club (in Russian)

• FC Khimki
• Association football clubs established in 1997
• Football clubs in Russia
• Football in Moscow Oblast
• 1997 establishments in Russia
• Sport in Khimki

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