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FC Uralan Elista () is a football club based in Elista, Kalmykia, Russia.

History

FC Elista was founded in 2005 following the dissolution of its predecessor, FC Uralan Elista. The club entered South zone of the Amateur Football League and finished second. That result was not enough to warrant automatic promotion, but the extension of the South zone of the Russian Second Division allowed Elista to move one level up. In 2006 FC Elista withdrew from the competition after 18 rounds. The club was restarted in 2014, as FC Uralan Elista in the Russian Amateur Football League.

Colours are (Home) all blue. (Away) Either yellow shirts with blue arms, yellow shorts or all black.

FC Uralan Elista

Football Club Uralan Elista was founded in 1958 as a construction trust team. Uralan means "forward" in Kalmyk. The team have won Kalmyk championship and cup every year until 1965. In 1966, they were admitted to the B class of the Soviet league. The team played at the same level (call Soviet Second League since 1971) until 1991. Their best result was a second position in 1991.

Uralan played in the Russian First Division since 1992. They won the tournament in 1997 and were promoted to the Top Division. Their best result was seventh position in 1998. Uralan were relegated after finishing last in 2000, but won promotion back at the first time of asking. They spent another two seasons at top level before being relegated in 2003.

In the 2004 season, the club experienced financial problems. The players' wages were not paid for at least six months, this led to many of them leaving Uralan. The club was able to field only ten players for the league match on 7 July (including two goalkeepers, one of whom played as a striker) and only nine players on 24 July. However, Uralan managed to fulfill all fixtures.

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov was the honorary president of FC Uralan.

New club

Uralan was to be relegated to the Second Division, but refused to enter the competition on 22 March 2005. A new club, FC Elista, was formed in its place. 80 percent of Elista players were from reserve and youth teams of Uralan.

The club was restarted in 2014, as FC Uralan Elista in the Russian Amateur Football League, but folded in late 2015.

The club was reformed, again, in 2021, competing in the Russian third tier. https://riakalm.ru/index.php/news/interview/28959-futbolist-fk-uralan-aleksandr-bogdanov-futbol-kak-traditsiya-nashej-semi.

Reserve squad

Uralan's reserve squad played professionally as FC Uralan-d Elista in the Russian Third League in 1994–1996.

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose names are listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Uralan/FC Elista.

  1. Russia

  2. Mingiyan Beveyev

  3. Akhrik Tsveiba

  4. Daur Akhvlediani

  5. Maksim Bokov

  6. Igor Chugainov

  7. Aleksandr Filimonov

  8. Denis Kolodin

  9. Andrei Kondrashov

  10. Oleg Kuzmin

  11. Alexey Smertin

  12. Oleg Veretennikov

  13. Former USSR countries

  14. Samir Aliyev

  15. Garnik Avalyan

  16. Tigran Petrosyan

  17. Arthur Voskanyan

  18. Vital Bulyga

  19. Vyacheslav Geraschenko

  20. Vital Lanko

  21. Alyaksandar Lukhvich

  22. Aliaksandr Oreshnikov

  23. Vadim Skripchenko

  24. Yuri Shukanov

  25. Mark Švets

  26. Valeri Abramidze

  27. Giorgi Davitnidze

  28. Vasil Gigiadze

  29. Sevasti Todua

  30. Vitaliy Abramov

  31. Yuri Aksenov

  32. Dmitriy Lyapkin

  33. Valērijs Ivanovs

  34. Aleksandrs Jelisejevs

  35. Vidas Dancenka

  36. Saulius Mikalajūnas

  37. Vasile Coşelev

  38. Vitalie Maevici

  39. Radu Rebeja

  40. Arsen Avakov

  41. Andriy Annenkov

  42. Oleksiy Antyukhyn

  43. Yuriy Hrytsyna

  44. Oleksandr Kyryukhin

  45. Pavlo Shkapenko

  46. Artem Yashkin

  47. Sergei Kormiltsev

  48. Sergey Lushan

  49. Aleksandr Sayun

  50. South America

  51. Víctor López

  52. Fernando Martínez

References