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FC Khimki
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FC Khimki (Russian: ФК "Химки") was a Russian former professional football club based in Khimki.
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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.[2]
On 22 May 2023, Khimki were relegated from the Russian Premier League after three seasons.[3]
On 20 May 2024, Khimki secured return to the top tier after one season down.[4]
Khimki finished the 2024–25 Russian Premier League season in 12th place, outside of the relegation zone. However, on 24 May 2025 Russian Football Union announced that the club was not issued the 2025–26 RPL license due to accumulated debts, sealing their administrative relegation.[5] Their replacement in the Premier League was FC Pari Nizhny Novgorod.[6] Khimki were officially dissolved on 18 June 2025.[7]
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Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Khimki.
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Club records
As of 3 August 2010[update]
Most league appearances for Khimki
Miodrag Jovanović: 224
Roman Berezovsky: 175
Nikolai Barkalov: 164
Sergei Kravchuk: 145
Aleksandr Shulenin: 140
Andrey Tikhonov: 124
Aleksandr Makarov: 119
Aleksandr Shvetsov: 116
Igor Nekrasov: 115
Sergei Shcheglov: 112
Most league goals for Khimki
- Sergei Kravchuk: 46
- Andrey Tikhonov: 43
- Yuri Georgiyevsky: 30
- Konstantin Genich: 29
- Nikolai Kovardayev: 27
- Vadim Shatalin: 23
- Aleksandr Antipenko: 20
- Denis Kiselyov: 18
- Anton Arkhipov: 16
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Coaching staff
Managers
- 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)
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