BSC Kristall

BSC Kristall (Russian: ПФК «Кристалл»), or simply Kristall, is a professional beach soccer team based in St. Petersburg, Russia. Kristall is the most successful Russian club at the Euro Winners Cup, having won four times in 2014, 2015, 2020 and 2021. Kristall are a seven-time Russian Nationals and a five-time Russian Beach Soccer Cup champions. Additionally, the team won the 2nd Russian Super Cup in 2018, defeating arch-rival BSC Lokomotiv.^{[citation needed]}

BSC Kristall

Full name	BSC Kristall
Ground	Nova Arena
Capacity	2,000[1]
Chairman	Oleg Barinov
Manager	Vadim Novgorodtsev
Coach	Angelo Schirinzi Alexander Elizarov Vladimir Gavrilov Alexey Ivanov Gennady Tumilovich
Website	http://bsc-kristall.ru/
Home colours Away colours

Medal record
Beach soccer
Representing  Russia
Euro Winners Cup
	2014 Catania
	2015 Catania
	2020 Nazaré
	2021 Nazaré
	2018 Nazaré
Nazaré Cup
	2018 Nazaré
Russian Championships
	2013 Moscow
	2015 Sochi
	2016 St. Petersburg
	2018 Moscow
	2019 Samara
	2021 Moscow
	2022 St. Petersburg
	2012 St. Petersburg
	2014 Volgograd
	2017 Saratov
Russian Cup
	2015 Sochi
	2017 Samara
	2018 Sochi
	2019 Sochi
	2020 Moscow
	2012 Moscow
	2016 Sochi
Russian Super Cup
	2018 Moscow
Inter Cup
	2017 St. Petersburg
	2018 St. Petersburg
	2019 St. Petersburg
	2020 St. Petersburg
Open Indoor Beach Soccer League
	2015 St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg Championships
	2018 St. Petersburg
	2019 St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg Indoor Championships
	2017 St. Petersburg
	2018 St. Petersburg
	2016 St. Petersburg

The club's Brazilian forward, Mauricinho, has described Kristall as the "Real Madrid of beach soccer".^[2]

History

Kristall was founded in 2006.^[3][4] Since 2011, Kristall plays in the national elite division. In 2011, Kristall won their first tournament, OBSL Grand-Prix Winter, and a year later they joined the holding company NOVA Group. They reached their zenit in 2015, after winning every tournament they participated, among them the Euro Winners Cup, the Russian Nationals and the inaugural Russian Cup. In 2021, they won a record 6th Russian Nationals and a record 4th Euro Winners Cup.^[5]

Squads

Current squad

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  RUS Ivan Ostrovsky 3 FW  RUS Aleksey Ilyinsky 4 FW  RUS Aleksey Makarov 5 FW  RUS Yury Krasheninnikov 6 FW  RUS Dmitry Shishin 7 FW  RUS Dmitry Kartashov 8 FW  BLR Igor Brishtel 9 FW  BRA Rodrigo Soares da Costa 10 FW  BRA Luiz Alberto Datinha Braga 14 FW  RUS Artur Paporotnyi 15 FW  RUS Kirill Romanov (captain)

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 FW  RUS Vladislav Zharikov 20 FW  RUS Mikhail Samusevich 21 GK  RUS Maxim Chuzhkov 23 FW  RUS Igor Remizov 27 FW  RUS Roman Gurdzhiyan 31 GK  RUS Daniel Tumilovich 33 FW  BRA Mauricinho Pereira Braz de Oliveira 71 FW  RUS Aleksandr Revenko 77 GK  RUS Aleksandr Besedin 88 FW  RUS Aleksey Krasnoshchekov 92 FW  RUS Dmitry Frolov 16 GK  RUS Artem Pechnikov

Head coach: Angelo Schirinzi

1st coach: Vladimir Gavrilov

2nd coach: Aleksey Ivanov

3rd coach: Gennadyi Tumilovich

Honours

International competitions

• Euro Winners Cup

• Winners (4): 2014, 2015, 2020, 2021

• Euro Winners Challenge

• Winners (1): 2018

• Open Indoor Beach Soccer League

• Winners (1): 2015

• Inter Cup

• Winners (2): 2017, 2018

National competitions

• Russian Beach Soccer League

• Winners (7): 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022

• Russian Cup

• Winners (3): 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

• Russian Super Cup

• Winners (1): 2018

Notable former players

• Elinton Andrade
• Jorginho
• Llorenç