Jõhvi FC Phoenix

Jõhvi FC Phoenix is an Estonian football club based in Jõhvi that competes in Esiliiga B, the third-highest division in the Estonian football. Founded in 2011 as Jõhvi FC Lokomotiv, the club was named Jõhvi FC Phoenix in 2018. The club has competed in the Estonian top flight Premium Liiga once, in 2014.

Jõhvi FC Phoenix

Full name	Jõhvi Football Club Phoenix
Founded	15 August 2011; 13 years ago (2011-08-15)[1]
Ground	Heino Lipp Stadium
Capacity	794
Manager	Vladimir Aga
League	Esiliiga B
2024	Esiliiga B, 7th of 10
Website	https://fcphoenix.ee/
Home colours Away colours

History

Jõhvi Phoenix (then named Jõhvi Lokomotiv) during the 2014 Premium Liiga season

The club was founded as Jõhvi FC Lokomotiv in 2011 on the basis of former football club Jõhvi JK Orbiit.^[2] They finished the 2013 season as Esiliiga runners-up and were promoted to the Estonian top division for the 2014 season. They were relegated after a single season, being defeated in the relegation play-offs by Viljandi Tulevik. Due to financial problems, the club was initially relegated to the fourth level for 2015 and after two seasons on lower levels, their players joined Kohtla-Järve JK Järve in 2017.

In 2018, the club was renamed as Jõhvi FC Phoenix and at first continued operating only on youth level.^[3] Jõhvi rejoined the senior league system in 2020 and started competing in III liiga.

Crest and colours

After being founded as Jõhvi Lokomotiv in 2011, the club adopted the colours red and white. In February 2018, the club was rebranded as Jõhvi Phoenix and adopted the mythical creature phoenix as their symbol. Since then, the club has affiliated themselves with the colour orange.

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  2011–2017
• 
  2018–present

Jõhvi home colours 2012—2013

Jõhvi home colours 2014—2017

Jõhvi home colours 2018—2024

Jõhvi home colours 2025—present

Stadium

The club's traditional home ground is the 500-seat Jõhvi linnastaadion, which served as their first team's home ground from 2011 until 2023. After gaining promotion to Esiliiga B in 2024, it was announced that the club will host their home matches at the 794-capacity Heino Lipp Stadium.^[4]

Players

Current squad

As of 24 August 2016.^[5]

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 DF  EST Stanislav Andrejev (on loan from JK Sillamäe Kalev) 2 MF  EST Sergei Bazjukin 3 MF  RUS Maksim Bazyukin 4 DF  EST Oleg Bogdanov 5 FW  EST Aleksandr Hlobõtsin (on loan from Kohtla-Järve JK Järve) 6 MF  EST Maksiim Jerjomenko 7 DF  RUS Nikolay Khvalov 8 DF  EST Artur Korepanov 9 DF  EST Roman Lebedev (on loan from Kohtla-Järve JK Järve) 10 MF  EST Leonard Levdonen 11  EST Deniss Lukin 12 FW  EST Artur Makarov 13 GK  EST Maksim Mamutov

No. Pos. Nation Player 14 GK  EST Aleksei Olijevski 15 MF  EST Mark Orikov 16 MF  EST Sergei Paltsev 17 MF  EST Igor Poljakov 18 MF  EST Aleksei Prištšekov 19 FW  EST Maksim Ristimägi 20 DF  EST Dmitri Smirnov 21  RUS Roman Smolyar 22  EST Pavel Zakutailo 23 MF  EST Mihhail Tsarjov 24 MF  EST Deniss Vender 25 MF  EST Nikita Volkov

Seasons and statistics

Season	Division	Pos	Games	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Points	Top goalscorers	Estonian Cup
Jõhvi JK Orbiit
1999	IV Liiga East	1	20	13	3	4	44	22	+22	42	Ruslan Berov (14)
2000	III Liiga East	2	16	9	3	4	39	25	+14	30	Jevgeni Gužovski (9)
2001	III Liiga East	8	18	4	5	9	32	44	−8	17	4 players (5)
2002	III Liiga East	2	18	10	6	2	59	24	+25	36	Sergei Kuzmitšov (23)
2003	III Liiga East	5	18	8	4	6	46	36	+10	26	Aleksandr Kulatšenko (13)
2004	III Liiga East	4	18	10	1	7	62	30	+32	31	Vadim Lavrenko (10)
2005	III Liiga East	1	22	15	6	0	69	22	+47	51	Aleksandr Marašov (14)
2006	II Liiga East/North	6	28	11	5	12	47	44	+3	38	Andrei Kulatšenko (11)
2007	II Liiga East/North	5	26	12	6	8	45	26	+19	42	Igor Rogov (11)
2008	II Liiga East/North	4	26	14	6	6	68	28	+40	48	Aleksandr Marašov (16)	-
2009	II Liiga East/North	1	26	18	5	3	84	36	+48	59	Aleksandr Avdeev (23)	Fourth round
2010	Esiliiga	10	36	6	4	26	35	82	−47	22	Aleksandr Marašov (8)	Third round
2011	II Liiga East/North	5	26	11	8	7	48	37	+9	41	Jevgeni Gužovski (12)	First round
as Jõhvi FC Lokomotiv
2012	II liiga E/N	1	26	20	6	0	79	16	+63	66	Vassili Kulik (18)	Third round
2013	Esiliiga	2	36	20	9	7	80	39	+41	69	Andrei Jõgi (13)	First round
2014	Meistriliiga	9	36	4	6	26	35	115	−80	18	Aleksandr Nikulin (6)	Quarter-finals
2015	II liiga E/N	4	26	16	3	7	67	38	+29	51	Maksim Ristimägi, Georgi Arkania (12)	Quarter-finals
2016		2	26	15	7	4	67	33	+34	52	Artur Makarov (25)	–
as Jõhvi FC Phoenix
2020	III liiga E	7	18	7	1	10	39	46	–7	22	Deniss Komšin (9)	–
2021		2	20	17	1	2	65	20	+45	52	Artur Salmus, Nichita Gorea (12)	–
2022	II liiga E/N	9	26	9	1	16	36	58	–22	28	Nichita Gorea (16)	Second round
2023		2	26	18	4	4	97	22	+75	58	Jelissei Zahharov (34)	Quarter-finals