FC Akhmat Grozny

For other uses, see Terek (disambiguation).

Republican Football Club Akhmat (Chechen: футболан клуб Ахмат Соьлжа-ГӀала; Russian: Республиканский футбольный клуб Ахмат Грозный), commonly known as Akhmat Grozny, and formerly as Terek Grozny from 1958 to 2017, is a Russian professional football club based in Grozny that plays in the Russian Premier League.

Akhmat Grozny

Full name	Республиканский футбольный клуб «Ахмат» Republican Football Club Akhmat
Founded	1946; 79 years ago (1946)
Ground	Akhmat Arena
Capacity	30,597
President	Yakub Zakriyev
Head coach	Aleksandr Storozhuk
League	Russian Premier League
2024–25	Russian Premier League, 14th of 16
Website	fc-akhmat.ru
Home colours Away colours
Current season

History

The club was founded in 1946, as Dynamo; it changed its name in 1948 to Neftyanik and in 1958 to Terek. On 7 June 2017, the team was renamed Akhmat, after Akhmad Kadyrov, former President of the Chechen Republic.^[1][2]

In the 1990s the club was disbanded for some time due to the war in Chechnya.^[3] From the 1990s to 2007 the club played its home games in the neighbouring resort city of Pyatigorsk, Stavropol Krai.

They won the Russian Cup by beating Krylya Sovetov Samara in the final and the Russian First Division in 2004.^[4] In 2004 they advanced through the UEFA Cup qualification by beating the Polish team Lech Poznań 1–0 in both legs but lost to Swiss outfit FC Basel in the first round. They played in the Russian Premier League in 2005 but were relegated after finishing last. Terek finished second in the First Division in 2007 and were promoted back into the Premier League.^{[citation needed]}

Before the start of the 2008 Premier League season, the Russian Football Union granted Terek the right to host Premier League matches in Grozny.^{[citation needed]} On 3 July 2008, Terek signed three Romanian players at once: Andrei Margaritescu (Dinamo București), Florentin Petre (CSKA Sofia) and Daniel Pancu (Rapid București).^[5] Terek finished 12th in the 2010 Russian Premier League season.^[6]

A new stadium has been built for the club.^{[citation needed]}

Cameroonian FC Lotus-Terek Yaoundé, founded by Terek player Guy Stephane Essame and coached by Thomas Libiih, is a farm team of the Russian club.^[7]

In January 2011 the club signed former Dutch international Ruud Gullit to an 18-month contract to manage the club.^[8] On 14 June 2011 Gullit was sacked for poor results.^[9]

On 30 October 2017, manager Oleg Kononov resigned,^{[10][better source needed]} with Mikhail Galaktionov taking over in a caretaker capacity, before being announced as Akhmat's permanent manager on 14 December 2017.^[11]

On 30 September 2019, after a 2–0 away defeat to Sochi, Rashid Rakhimov resigned as manager,^[12] with Igor Shalimov being appointed as Rakhimov's replacement the same day.^[13] On 26 July 2020, Igor Shalimov's contract as manager expired and he left Akhmat Grozny, to be replaced by Andrei Talalayev.^[14]

On 11 September 2022, Andrei Talalayev was relieved of his duties as Head Coach, with Yury Nagaytsev taking over in a caretaker capacity.^[15] On 22 September 2022, Sergei Tashuyev was announced as Akhmat Grozny's new permanent Head Coach.^[16]

In the 2024–25 season, Akhmat finished 14th and qualified for the relegation play-offs.^[17] Akhmat defeated Ural Yekaterinburg in the play-offs and remained in the Premier League.^[18]

League

USSR

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Cup	Europe		Top scorer (league)	Head coach
1990	2nd, "Center"	13	42	17	7	18	51	52	41	—	—		Masudov – 13	Dyachenko
1991		5	42	19	11	12	55	40	49	—	—		Gilagaev – 11	Tarkhanov

Russia

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Cup	Europe		Top scorer (league)	Head coach
1992	2nd, "West"	5	34	18	5	11	63	43	41	—	—		Kamnev – 16	K. Alkhanov
1993		11	42	20	4	18	76	63	44	R16	—			K. Alkhanov
1994	3rd, "South"	21	40	7	5	28	22	83	19	R32	—		Neduev – 8	Mikheev
1995	—									R512	—
1995–2001: disbanded due to war
2001	3rd, "South"	5	38	22	7	9	57	29	73	—	—		Mazaev – 12	Diniyev Dzaitiev
2002		1	40	36	1	3	98	20	109	R128	—		Mazaev – 26	Platonov Mikheev Koreshkov
2003	2nd	4	42	25	10	7	56	21	85	R256	—		Bayramov – 8 Zernov – 8	Talgayev
2004		1	42	32	4	6	70	22	100	W	—		Fedkov – 38	Talgayev
2005	1st	16	30	5	5	20	20	50	14 (−6)	R32	UC	1R	Adamov – 7	Talgayev Tarkhanov
2006	2nd	8	42	18	8	16	48	47	62	R16	—		4 players – 5	Tarkhanov V. Shevchenko Talgayev
2007		2	42	28	6	8	69	27	90	R32	—		Zubko – 8	Talgayev
2008	1st	10	30	9	8	13	28	42	35	R16	—		Kuzmichyov – 5	Nazarenko Grozny
2009		12	30	9	6	15	33	48	33	R16	—		Lakhiyalov – 11	Grozny Diniyev
2010		12	30	8	9	13	28	34	33	R16	—		Asildarov – 9	Baidachny
2011–12		11	44	14	10	20	45	62	52	QF	—		Maurício – 9	Gullit Baytiyev Cherchesov
2012–13		8	30	14	6	10	38	40	48	QF	—		Aílton – 7	Cherchesov
2013–14		12	30	8	9	13	27	33	33	QF	—		Aílton – 8	Krasnozhan Talgayev Cherchesov
2014–15		9	30	10	7	13	30	30	37	R32	—		Aílton – 5	Rakhimov
2015–16		7	30	11	11	8	35	30	44	QF	—		Rybus – 8	Rakhimov
2016–17		5	30	14	6	10	38	35	48	R16	—		Balaj – 9	Rakhimov
2017–18		9	30	10	9	11	30	34	39	R32	—		Mitrishev – 5	Kononov Galaktionov Lediakhov
2018–19		8	30	11	9	10	29	30	42	R16	—		Ivanov – 5 Mbengue – 5	Lediakhov İdiqov Rakhimov
2019–20		13	30	7	10	13	27	46	31	QF	—		Roshi – 7	Rakhimov Shalimov
2020–21		11	30	11	7	12	36	38	40	SF	—		Ilyin – 9	Talalayev
2021–22		7	30	13	3	14	36	38	42	GS	—		Utkin – 9	Talalayev
2022–23		5	30	15	5	10	51	39	50	Regions path QF Stage 2	—		Konaté – 11	Talalayev Nagaytsev (Caretaker) Tashuyev
2023–24		10	30	10	5	15	33	45	35	Regions path QF Stage 2	—		Konaté – 11	Tashuyev Baytiyev (Caretaker) Romaschenko Adiyev

European

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2004–05	UEFA Cup	Second qualifying round	Lech Poznań	1–0	1–0	2–0
		First round	Basel	1–1	0–2	1–3

Stadium

The Akhmat-Arena

Main articles: Sultan Bilimkhanov Stadium and Akhmat-Arena

Between the 1990s and the 2007 Season, Akhmat Grozny played their home games at the Central Stadium in the neighbouring resort city of Pyatigorsk in Stavropol Krai. At the start of the 2008 season they moved to the Sultan Bilimkhanov Stadium, playing their home games there until the opening of Akhmat-Arena on 20 May 2011, when they beat Anzhi Makhachkala 1–0 in the Russian Premier League.

Players

Current squad

As of 25 July 2025.^[19]

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 Vadim Ulyanov 4 DF  RUS Turpal-Ali Ibishev 5 DF  BIH Miloš Šatara 7 MF  RUS Lechi Sadulayev 8 DF  SRB Miroslav Bogosavac 9 FW  ARG Braian Mansilla 11 MF  BRA Ismael Silva 13 FW  BFA Mohamed Konaté 14 MF  MAR Amine Talal 17 MF  ANG Egas Cacintura 20 FW  KAZ Maksim Samorodov 22 DF  IRN Mohammadmehdi Zare

No. Pos. Nation Player 40 DF  RUS Rizvan Utsiyev (captain) 42 MF  ANG Manuel Keliano 55 DF  BIH Darko Todorović 70 MF  RUS Abakar Gadzhiyev 71 MF  RUS Magomed Yakuyev 72 GK  RUS Yakhya Magomedov 75 DF  TUN Nader Ghandri 77 FW  RUS Georgi Melkadze 81 DF  RUS Maksim Sidorov 88 GK  RUS Giorgi Sheliya 90 DF  SEN Ousmane Ndong

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  BRA Lucas Lovat (at Goiás until 31 December 2025)

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  BRA Felippe Cardoso (at Henan until 31 December 2025)

Terek-2 Grozny

In 2013, a professional farm club called FC Terek-2 Grozny was created. It played in the third-tier Russian Professional Football League until they were dissolved after the 2015–16 season.

Honours

• Russian Cup
  • Champions (1): 2003–04
• Russian Super Cup
  • Runners-up (1): 2005

Club officials

Management

Manager	Sergei Tashuyev
Assistant manager	Yevgeni Knyazhev
Assistant manager	Sergio Giovani
Goalkeeping coach	Ramzan Tsutsulayev
Doctor	Magomedtagir Sugaipov
Team director	Ruslan Serbiyev

Source: Russian Premier League club profile

Managerial history

• Fyodorov 1968
• Smirnov 1969
• Zagretsky 1969
• Morozov 1971
• Belousov 1972 to 73
• Dudayev 1976 to 77
• Frolov 1979
• Kirichenko 1979
• Yeskov 1981
• Mikheyev 1982
• L. Shevchenko 1984 to 85
• Dyachenko 1989 to 90
• Adiyev 1990
• Tarkhanov 1991
• Alkhanov 1992 to 93
• Mikheyev 1994
• Diniyev 2001
• Dzaitiyev^c 2001
• Platonov 2002
• Mikheyev^c 2002
• Koreshkov 2002
• Talgayev 2003 to 05
• Tarkhanov^c 2005 to 06
• Gaisumov^c 2006
• V. Shevchenko 2006
• Talgayev 2006 to 07
• Nazarenko 2008

As of match played 30 March 2025

Name	Nat.	From	To	P	W	D	L	GS	GA	%W	Honours	Notes
Vyacheslav Hroznyi	Ukraine	1 June 2008	20 October 2009	45	14	14	17	50	64	031.11
Shahin Diniyev (c)	Azerbaijan	20 October 2009	December 2009	5	0	0	5	2	10	000.00		Caretaker
Anatoly Baidachny	Russia	January 2010	December 2011	31	8	9	14	28	38	025.81
Víctor Muñoz	Spain	December 2010	January 2011	0	0	0	0	0	0	!—
Ruud Gullit	Netherlands	18 January 2011	14 June 2011	13	3	3	7	9	17	023.08
Isa Baytiyev (c)	Russia	15 June 2011	27 September 2011	14	5	3	6	18	23	035.71		Caretaker
Stanislav Cherchesov	Russia	27 September 2011	26 May 2013	53	24	10	19	67	66	045.28
Yuri Krasnozhan	Russia	26 May 2013	28 October 2017	14	1	6	7	7	14	007.14
Vait Talgayev (c)	Kazakhstan	29 October 2013	7 November 2013	1	0	0	1	0	1	000.00		Caretaker
Rashid Rakhimov	Tajikistan	7 November 2013	22 May 2017	113	45	29	39	133	122	039.82
Oleg Kononov	Belarus	22 May 2017	30 October 2017	16	5	3	8	16	24	031.25
Mikhail Galaktionov (c)	Russia	30 October 2017	14 December 2017	5	2	2	1	6	5	040.00		Caretaker
Mikhail Galaktionov	Russia	14 December 2017	7 April 2018	4	0	1	3	2	7	000.00
Igor Lediakhov	Russia	7 April 2018	2 September 2018	12	5	4	3	12	9	041.67
Ruslan İdiqov (c)	Azerbaijan	2 September 2018	5 September 2018	0	0	0	0	0	0	!—		Caretaker
Rashid Rakhimov	Tajikistan	5 September 2018	30 September 2019[12]	38	11	13	14	34	46	028.95
Igor Shalimov	Russia	30 September 2019[13]	26 July 2020[14]	19	5	7	7	20	29	026.32
Andrei Talalayev	Russia	26 July 2020[14]	11 September 2022[15]	75	31	14	30	97	94	041.33
Yury Nagaytsev (c)	Latvia	11 September 2022[15]	22 September 2022[16]	2	1	0	1	3	3	050.00		Caretaker
Sergei Tashuyev	Russia	22 September 2022[16]	15 August 2023[20]	32	15	3	14	50	48	046.88
Miroslav Romaschenko	Belarus	18 August 2023[21]	4 April 2024[22]	23	7	6	10	27	29	030.43
Magomed Adiyev	Russia	5 April 2024[23]	1 September 2024[24]	19	6	5	8	21	32	031.58
Sergei Tashuyev	Russia	3 September 2024[25]		21	6	5	10	24	33	028.57

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose names are listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Akhmat or Terek.

Russia

• Arsen Adamov
• Roman Adamov
• Maksim Bokov
• Viktor Bulatov
• Soslan Dzhanayev
• Andrei Fedkov
• Denis Glushakov
• Turpal-Ali Ibishev
• Oleg Ivanov
• Yevgeni Kharin
• Oleg Kornaukhov
• Aleksei Kosolapov
• Fyodor Kudryashov
• Daler Kuzyayev
• Ruslan Nigmatullin
• Gennadiy Nizhegorodov
• Magomed Ozdoyev
• Lechi Sadulayev
• Andrei Semyonov
• Roman Sharonov
• Aleksandr Shirko
• Aleksandr Shmarko
• Anton Shvets
• Oleg Teryokhin
• Daniil Utkin
• Yevgeni Varlamov
• Denis Yevsikov
• Denis Zubko

Europe

• Bekim Balaj
• Odise Roshi
• Andrey Movsisyan
• Albert Sarkisyan
• Tarlan Ahmadov
• Shahin Diniyev
• Deni Gaisumov
• Ruslan İdiqov
• Dmitriy Kramarenko
• Ruslan Musayev
• Kazemır Qudiyev
• Vidadi Rzayev
• Narvik Sirkhayev
• Anton Amelchanka
• Syarhey Amelyanchuk
• Ilya Chernyak
• Uladzimir Karytska
• Andrei Kovalenko
• Artsyom Radzkow
• Jonathan Legear
• Darko Todorović
• Blagoy Georgiev
• Valentin Iliev
• Svetoslav Kovachev
• Zoran Nižić
• Martin Jiránek
• Juhani Ojala
• Ze'ev Haimovich
• Marat Bystrov
• Vakhid Masudov
• Maksim Samorodov
• Bernard Berisha
• Andrei Mațiura
• Ion Testemițanu
• Rade Petrović
• Marcin Komorowski
• Piotr Polczak
• Maciej Rybus
• Damian Szymański
• Gheorghe Grozav
• Gabriel Iancu
• Andrei Mărgăritescu
• Daniel Pancu
• Florentin Petre
• Gabriel Torje
• Ognjen Koroman
• Nikola Malbaša
• Miroslav Bogosavac
• Marko Šćepović
• Norbert Gyömbér
• Radoslav Zabavník
• Igor Lazič
• Jalen Pokorn
• Tamer Tuna
• Andriy Dykan
• Maksym Levytskyi
• Volodymyr Savchenko

Africa

• Mohamed Konaté
• Herve Xavier Zengue
• Mvondo Atangana
• Guy Stephane Essame
• Jerry-Christian Tchuissé
• Adolphe Teikeu
• Ezechiel N'Douassel
• Jeremy Bokila
• Laryea Kingston
• Ismaïl Aissati
• Nader Ghandri
• Musawengosi Mguni

Asia

• Luke Wilkshire
• Milad Mohammadi
• Wladimir Baýramow
• Dmitri Khomukha
• Wýaçeslaw Krendelew

South and Central America

• Juan Carlos Arce
• Ewerthon
• Wilker Ángel
• Andrés Ponce