FC Rodina Moscow

FC Rodina Moscow (Russian: ФК «Родина» Москва) is a Russian professional football team based in Moscow that plays in the second-tier Russian First League.

Rodina Moscow

Full name	Football Club Rodina Moscow
Nickname(s)	The Birds
Founded	2015; 10 years ago (2015)
Ground	Spartak Moscow Academy Stadium
Capacity	3,077
Coordinates	55°48′36″N 37°42′36″E
Owner	Sergey Lomakin
General director	Konstantin Arkhipov
Manager	Zoran Zeljković
League	Russian First League
2024–25	7th of 18
Website	fcrodina.com
Home colours Away colours

History

It was founded in 2019 as a senior squad of a pre-existing youth academy. For 2019–20 season, it received the license for the third-tier Russian Professional Football League.^[1]

The club finished 4th in the 2021 Korantina Homes Cup International football tournament in Pafos, Cyprus, having been runners up in 2019.^[2][3]

On 30 May 2022, Rodina secured promotion to Russian First League.^[4]

In their first season in the second tier, Rodina secured 5th place. As 3rd-placed Alania Vladikavkaz failed to obtain the 2023–24 Russian Premier League license, that qualified Rodina for the promotion play-offs.^[5][6] After losing the first leg of the play-off series at home to FC Pari Nizhny Novgorod with the score of 0–3, Rodina went up 2–0 in the away second leg by the 24th minute of the game. No more goals were scored in the game and Rodina lost 2–3 on aggregate.^[7]

Stadium

From 2019 to 2022 the club has hosted their home games in several stadiums in and around Moscow like Yantar, Oktyabr, Spartakovets, VTB Arena and Avangard in Domodedovo.

Current squad

As of 18 July 2025, according to the 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 Sergey Aydarov 3 DF  RUS Leo Goglichidze 4 DF  RUS Dmitri Tananeyev 5 MF  RUS Andrei Yegorychev 6 MF  RUS Ruslan Fishchenko 7 MF  SEN Pape Guèye 9 FW  RUS Artyom Maksimenko 17 DF  RUS Dmitry Shadrintsev 18 FW  RUS Magomedkhabib Abdusalamov 19 MF  RUS Denis Tikhonov 20 MF  BLR Artem Kontsevoy 21 DF  RUS Georgy Yudintsev 23 MF  RUS Kirill Ushatov 24 MF  RUS Artyom Biryukov 26 DF  RUS Artyom Meshchaninov 30 MF  RUS Maksim Danilin

No. Pos. Nation Player 38 MF  RUS Leon Musayev 49 DF  RUS Ilya Dyatlov 52 DF  RUS Ivan Kuzmichyov (on loan from Lokomotiv Moscow) 55 DF  SVN Mitja Križan 58 GK  RUS Danil Ladokha 71 GK  RUS Ilya Svinov 72 MF  RUS Astemir Gordyushenko 74 MF  RUS Denis Mushkarin 76 DF  RUS Nikolay Pridava 77 MF  ARM Arshak Koryan 79 MF  RUS Daniel Svintsov 80 DF  RUS Stanislav Bessmertny (on loan from Dynamo Moscow) 82 DF  RUS Aleksandr Alyokhin 88 DF  RUS Artyom Sokol 91 GK  RUS Daniil Barinov 99 FW  RUS Ivan Timoshenko

Other players under contract

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  SVN Maks Barišič

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  RUS Ruslan Maltsev

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 — DF  RUS Aleksandr Gapechkin (at Chelyabinsk until 30 June 2026)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  RUS Vladislav Samko (at Saturn Ramenskoye until 30 June 2025)

Reserve teams

Further information: FC Rodina-M Moscow and FC Rodina-2 Moscow

Honours

• Russian Football National League 2
  • Champions (1): 2021–22

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Krasnodar-2.

Europe

• Artem Kontsevoy

Africa

• Mamadou Kané

South America

• Yordy Reyna