WFC Rossiyanka

This article is about the Russian women's football club. For women living in Russia (a.k.a. Россиянка/Rossiyanka), see Citizenship of Russia.

WFC Rossiyanka was a Russian women's football club from Khimki.

WFC Rossiyanka

Full name	WFC Rossiyanka
Founded	2003; 22 years ago (2003)[1]
Dissolved	2017; 8 years ago (2017)
Ground	Rodina Stadium
Capacity	5 083
Chairman	Oleg Shlyapin
Manager	Georgy Shebarshin
League	Russian Championship
2016	Champions
Website	www.fc-ross.ru
Home colours Away colours

History

The team was founded in 1990 as Nadezhda Krasnoarmeysk, being initially a futsal club. Futsal was played until 1998, when the club left it to concentrate in association football. Nadezhda played for two years in the second tier, attaining 5th and 3rd spots, before being disbanded at the end of the 2000 season, with most players moving to newly founded Nadezhda Noginsk.^{[citation needed]}

In 2003 the team was back as Rossiyanka, attaining promotion to the Russian Championship in the first try. Rossiyanka won the 2005 and 2006 championships, preceded by a silver in its 2004 debut. From 2007 to 2009 the team was second to Zvezda Perm, before winning its third championship in 2010. Rossiyanka successfully defended the title in the following season, which ended in 2012 following a short-lived change in the calendar format.^{[citation needed]}

After four seasons with no titles, Rossiyanka won its fifth championship in 2016. The following year most of its squad moved to CSKA Moscow and Rossiyanka was merged into CSKA following the end of the 2017 season. The vacant in the championship was filled by Lokomotiv Moscow.^{[citation needed]}

Rossiyanka was a regular of the Champions League, where it has reached the quarter-finals in 2008 and 2012. As Russia ranks among the top 8 UEFA Leagues by coefficient,^[2] Rossiyanka entered the competition both as the Russian Championship's champion or vice-champion.^{[citation needed]}

Titles

Official

• 5 Russian Leagues: 2005, 2006, 2010, 2011–12, 2016
• 5 Russian Cups: 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010

Invitational

• 2 Albena Cups: 2005, 2006

Record in UEFA competitions

Main article: Russian women's football clubs in international football

Season	Competition	Stage	Result	Opponent
2006–07	UEFA Women's Cup	Qualifying Stage	5–2	Alma KTZh
			7–0	Clujana
			6–1	Slovan Duslo Šaľa
		Group Stage	4–5	Arsenal
			1–2	Brøndby
			4–2	Femina Budapest
2007–08	UEFA Women's Cup	Qualifying Stage	7–0	Napredak Kruševac
			18–0	Dinamo Tbilisi
			3–0	Arsenal Kharkiv
		Group Stage	3–1	Universitet Vitebsk
			2–1	Clujana
			2–2	Umeå
		Quarter-finals	0–0, 1–2	Frankfurt
2009–10	Champions League	Qualifying Stage	11–0	St. Francis
			1–0	Apollon Limassol
			7–0	Maccabi Holon
		Round of 32	3–1, 2–1	Rayo Vallecano
		Round of 16	0–1, 1–1	Umeå
2010–11	Champions League	Qualifying Stage	5–0	Osijek
			9–0	St. Francis
			4–1	1º Dezembro
		Round of 32	3–1, 4–0	Lehenda Chernihiv
		Round of 16	1–6, 0–5	Lyon
2011–12	Champions League	Round of 32	2–0, 1–0	Twente
		Round of 16	4–0, 3–3	Energiya Voronezh
		Quarter-finals	0–2, 0–3	Turbine Potsdam
2012–13	Champions League	Round of 32	4–1, 1–2	Den Haag
		Round of 16	1–0, 2–2	Sparta Praha
		Quarter-finals	1–2, 0–2	Wolfsburg
2013–14	Champions League	Round of 32	4–2, 1–1	Spartak Subotica
		Round of 16	1–0, 0–2	Torres
2016–17	Champions League	Round of 32	0–0, 2–1	SFK 2000
		Round of 16	0–4, 0–4	Bayern Munich

Current squad

As of 6 October 2016^[3] 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 Elvira Todua 3 DF  RUS Anna Kozhnikova 7 DF  RUS Ekaterina Dmitrenko 8 MF  UKR Olha Boychenko 9 MF  RUS Anna Cholovyaga 10 MF  RUS Elena Terekhova 11 FW  RUS Ekaterina Sochneva 14 FW  CIV Josée Nahi 17 MF  RUS Kseniya Kovalenko 21 GK  RUS Yulia Grichenko

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 DF  RUS Natalia Pertseva 23 MF  RUS Elena Morozova 29 GK  RUS Anastasiya Ananyeva 57 FW  CMR Gabrielle Onguéné 70 DF  RUS Elvira Ziyastinova 80 DF  RUS Karina Blynskaya 87 MF  RUS Olesya Mashina 88 FW  CIV Ines Nrehy 89 MF  ARM Kristine Aleksanyan

Former international players

For details of current and former players, see Category:WFC Rossiyanka players.

• Yael Averbuch
• Georgiana Birțoiu
• Tetyana Chorna
• Park Eun-sun
• Nadezhda Kharchenko
• Fabiana da Silva
• Cristiane de Souza
• Ester dos Santos
• Sofia Jacobsson
• Christina Julien
• Nompumelelo Nyandeni
• Aline Pellegrino
• Olga Petrova
• Natalia Russkikh
• Elena Schegaleva
• Natalia Shlyapina
• Tatyana Skotnikova
• Oksana Yakovyshyn
• Iryna Zvarych

See also

WFC CSKA