FC Cherepovets

FC Cherepovets (Russian: Футбольный Клуб Череповец) is an association football club from Cherepovets, Russia. It completes in the Russian Second League Division B since 2025.^[1]

FC Cherepovets

Full name	Football Club Cherepovets
Founded	1912 as Metallurg
Ground	Metallurg Stadium
Capacity	11,500
Chairman	Vladimir Golev
Manager	Dmitry Chernukhin
League	Russian Second League, Division B, Group 2
2011–12	Russian Second Division, West Zone, 8th
Home colours Away colours

Old Club logo

Before 2025, Cherepovets club last competed professionally in the Russian Second Division, West Zone in the 2011–12 season as FC Sheksna, dropping to amateur levels after that. The club changed its name from SeverStal Cherepovets in 2004. In 2012 it was reorganized as FC Cherepovets.

Club names

• Metallurg (1956–1970)
• Stroitel (1979–1985)
• Khimik (1989–1990)
• Bulat (1991–1996)
• Severstal (2000–2004)
• Sheksna (2005–2012)
• Aist (2012–2013)
• Cherepovets – Aist (2013)
• Cherepovets (2014 – )

Current squad

As of 3 April 2025, according to the Second 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 Andrey Pyrkin 2 DF  RUS Mikhail Karamyshev 4 DF  RUS Yaroslav Shkamarda 5 MF  RUS Nikita Pichugin 7 MF  RUS Miron Belyayev 8 MF  RUS Oleg Krinkin 9 FW  RUS Vladislav Makeyev 10 FW  RUS Anton Balashov 11 FW  RUS Kirill Kulkov 13 GK  RUS Mikhail Zykov 15 DF  RUS David Berezov 16 GK  RUS Maksim Dedelev

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 MF  RUS Sergey Kopylov 18 DF  RUS Vladimir Maklasov 20 FW  RUS Savely Kunavin 21 DF  RUS Dmitry Popov 24 FW  RUS Georgy Aleksandrov 27 DF  RUS Daniyal Gadzhiyev 33 DF  RUS Nikita Gloydman 53 FW  RUS Yegor Loshkov 57 MF  RUS Dmitry Serebryakov 77 FW  RUS Maksim Andreyev 96 DF  RUS Ruslan Maltsev