FC Yenisey Krasnoyarsk

For the team with this name in other sports, see Yenisey Krasnoyarsk.

FK Yenisey Krasnoyarsk (ФК Енисей Красноярск) is a Russian football club based in Krasnoyarsk, in Krasnoyarsk Krai. The club plays in the Russian First League.

Yenisey

Full name	Futbolny Klub Yenisey Krasnoyarsk
Nickname(s)	Lvy (The Lions) Krasno-sinie (The red-blues)
Founded	1937; 88 years ago (1937)
Ground	Central Stadium, Krasnoyarsk
Capacity	15,000
Chairman	Dmitry Fedoseyev
Manager	Andrey Tikhonov
League	Russian First League
2024–25	8th of 18
Home colours Away colours

History

The club was founded in 1937 as Lokomotiv Krasnoyarsk and spent one season in Class D of the Soviet league. In 1957 the club was re-formed and entered the Far East zone of Class B. In 1968 Lokomotiv was renamed Rassvet and, in 1970, Avtomobilist. In 1991 it became Metallurg, a title it held until February 2010 when it was renamed Metallurg-Yenisey (formally, Metallurg was excluded from the league and a new independent club Metallurg-Yenisey was admitted into the league).^[1] In 2011, the club was renamed to Yenisey.^[2] The club is named after the Yenisei river, on which Krasnoyarsk is located.

Yenisey (or their predecessors) never played in the Soviet Top League or Russian Premier League until 2018. Their best result in Soviet League was a 2nd position in Group 7 of Class B in 1959, while their best result in Russian history is the 3rd position in Russian National Football League in 2016–17 and 2017–18. Since the end of the Soviet Union, the club has suffered relegation to the Second Division on five occasions, most recently in 2006. In the 2015–16 season, Yenisey took 16th spot in the FNL and should have been relegated, but one of the third-tier Russian Professional Football League zone winners, FC Smena Komsomolsk-na-Amure, refused to be promoted due to lack of financing, and Yenisey stayed in the FNL.^[3] At the end of the 2016–17 season, Yenisey reached the Russian Premier League promotion play-offs, but lost to FC Arsenal Tula on away goals rule (2–1 at home, 0–1 away) and stayed in the FNL. Despite spending a portion of the next 2017–18 season in the top-two direct-promotion spot, by the end of the season Yenisey dropped into 3rd position and qualified for promotion play-offs again.^[4] They defeated FC Anzhi Makhachkala 6–4 on aggregate in the promotion play-offs and were promoted to the Russian Premier League for the 2018–19 season for the first time in the team's history.

Stanislav Antipin joined FC Yenisey in 2022

They were relegated back to the second tier after one year in the Premier League.

Yenisey ended the 2022–23 season in 4th place in the First League and qualified for the promotion play-offs.^[5] Yenisey lost 0–3 on aggregate in the playoffs to Fakel Voronezh and remained in the First League.^[6]

Domestic history

Season	League									Russian Cup	Top goalscorer		Manager
	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P		Name	League
2007	3rd	6th	30	13	7	20	45	40	46	Round of 32	Aleksei Bazanov	9
2008	3rd	6th	27	9	7	11	38	34	34	Round of 16	Stanislav Goncharov	13
2009	3rd	3rd	27	15	5	7	51	27	50	Fourth round	Stanislav Goncharov	10
2010	2nd	11th	38	15	8	15	37	39	53	Fourth round	Aleksei Bazanov	14
2011–12	2nd	10th	48	17	15	16	53	53	66	Second round Round of 32	Aleksei Bazanov	13
2012–13	2nd	10th	32	9	12	11	30	31	39	Quarter-finals	Sergei Pyatikopov Aleksei Bazanov	7
2013–14	2nd	13th	36	12	9	15	40	47	45	Fourth round	Juan Lescano	7
2014–15	2nd	8th	34	11	9	14	39	42	42	Round of 32	Ilya Gultyayev	5
2015–16	2nd	16th	38	12	8	18	36	49	44	Round of 32	Juan Lescano	7
2016–17	2nd	3rd	38	19	6	13	54	42	63	Round of 16	Sergey Samodin	10
2017–18	2nd	3rd	38	25	6	7	68	32	81	Round of 16	Andrei Kozlov	15	Dmitri Alenichev
2018–19	1st	16th	30	4	8	18	24	55	20	Round of 16	Mikhail Kostyukov	4	Dmitri Alenichev
2019–20	2nd	14th	27	7	7	13	23	40	28	Round of 32	Andrei Kozlov	15	Alexander Alekseev Yuri Gazzaev
2020–21	2nd	10th	42	19	6	17	52	54	63	Round of 32	Juan Lescano	9	Aleksandr Tarkhanov Aleksandr Alfyorov
2021–22	2nd	5th	38	19	6	13	58	55	63	Semifinal
2022–23	2nd	4th	34	13	15	6	43	35	54	Qualifying Round 5	Nikita Glushkov	9
2023–24	2nd	6th	34	15	6	13	55	40	51	Qualifying Round 5	Aleksandr Lomakin	13
2024–25	2nd	8th	34	14	7	13	36	39	49	Qualifying Round 4	Aleksandr Lomakin	8

Current squad

As of 26 July 2025, according to the Official First 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.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  RUS Stanislav Antipin 3 DF  RUS Yan Tses 5 DF  CGO Emmerson 7 MF  RUS Andrea Chukanov 8 MF  RUS Aleksandr Kanaplin 9 FW  SRB Luka Ratković 17 MF  RUS Ivan Zazvonkin 18 MF  RUS Aleksandr Nadolsky 19 MF  RUS Vyacheslav Krotov 20 MF  BFA Adolphe Belem 21 MF  RUS Yegor Ivanov 24 MF  RUS Artyom Pogosov 33 DF  RUS Aleksandr Maslovsky

No. Pos. Nation Player 43 DF  RUS Artur Gilyazetdinov 44 DF  RUS Mikhail Tikhonov 49 MF  CMR Olivier Kenfack 50 GK  RUS Yegor Shamov 54 MF  RUS Yevgeny Gololobov 55 DF  RUS Nikita Bogatyryov 59 DF  RUS Andrey Ostrovsky 75 FW  RUS Andrey Okladnikov 77 MF  RUS Rostislav Ogiyenko 79 GK  RUS Ruslan Yunusov 87 MF  RUS Andrey Mazurin 92 MF  RUS Aleksandr Gubanov 96 DF  LTU Tomas Rukas

Out on loan

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 — MF  RUS Vladislav Kravtsov (at Sibir Novosibirsk until 30 June 2026)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  RUS Artyom Nadolsky (at Avangard Kursk until 30 June 2026)

Reserve team

Further information: FC Yenisey-2 Krasnoyarsk

Notable players

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

Russia/USSR Nikita Chernov Lyubomir Kantonistov Oleg Romantsev Roman Sharonov Aleksandr Sobolev Aleksandr Tarkhanov Vladimir Tatarchuk Ivan Varlamov

Former USSR countries Barsegh Kirakosyan Artur Sarkisov David Yurchenko Aleksey Isayev Vladimir Putrash Gennady Tumilovich Valeri Korobkin Almir Mukhutdinov Valery Kichin Edgars Gauračs

Konstantīns Igošins Oļegs Laizāns Valentīns Lobaņovs Serghei Alexeev Victor Bulat Valeriu Ciupercă Wladimir Baýramow Dmytro Tyapushkin Ihor Zhabchenko

Europe Enis Gavazaj Petar Zanev Africa Fegor Ogude

Coaching staff

Position	Name
Manager	Artyom Gorlov
Assistant manager	Konstantin Zaitsev
First-team coach	Plenkin Denis Vladimirovich
Goalkeeping coach	Eduard Steinbrecher
Fitness coach	Suleimanov Artur Arturovich
Analyst	Sergey Klushantsev
Doctor	Vladimir Fomin
Rehabilitation Specialist	Michael Romanov
Masseur	Vadim Zhdanov
Masseur	Shevtsov Denis Igorevich
Team Administrator	Suleimanov Artur Arturovich
Team Administrator	Yudt Dmitry Evgenievich
Team Leader	Butan Evgenii