FC Ural Yekaterinburg

The club was founded in 1930 and was known as Avangard (1930–1948, 1953–1957), Zenit (1944–1946), Mashinostroitel (1958–1959), and Uralmash (1949–1952, 1960–2002).^{[citation needed]} The club is currently named after the Russian region of Ural, where Yekaterinburg is the capital.

The club participated in the Soviet championships beginning in 1945. They mostly played in the higher leagues, with the exception of the 1969 season spent in the lowest league. They were the easternmost Russian SFSR club to compete in the third Soviet division (the easternmost Soviet club overall was FC Kairat from Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR).^{[citation needed]}

Uralmash reached the quarterfinals of the Soviet Cup in 1965/66, 1967/68, and 1990/91.^{[citation needed]}

After the dissolution of the USSR, Uralmash were entitled to enter the Russian Top Division and played there for five seasons, from 1992 to 1996. Their best result was eighth position in 1993 and 1995. Despite reaching the semifinal of the Intertoto Cup in 1996, Uralmash finished 16th out of 18 in the league and were relegated. In 1997 another relegation followed, now to the Second Division. From 1998 to 2002 Uralmash played in the Second Division. After winning promotion, the club was renamed Ural. In 2003, the team were relegated from the Russian First Division, but were promoted again after the 2004 season. The team's best finish in the First Division was third in 2006.^{[citation needed]}

In the 2023–24 season, Ural finished 13th, qualifying for the relegation play-offs.^[2] They lost 2–3 to Akron Tolyatti on aggregate and were relegated to the Russian First League after 11 seasons at the top tier.^[3]

As of 14 June 2024^[4]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF  BIH Silvije Begić 3 MF  BLR Valery Bocherov 4 DF  CGO Emmerson 5 MF  RUS Andrei Yegorychev 8 MF  CRO Danijel Miškić 9 FW  BRA Guilherme Schettine 10 FW  ROU Eric Bicfalvi 11 FW  RUS Aleksei Ionov 15 DF  UKR Denys Kulakov 16 DF  BRA Ítalo 17 DF  BLR Vladislav Malkevich 20 FW  NED Rai Vloet 21 MF  RUS Igor Dmitriyev 22 DF  RUS Mingiyan Beveyev

No. Pos. Nation Player 24 DF  BLR Yegor Filipenko 25 DF  POR Kiki 40 DF  RUS Dmitry Burkin 42 DF  RUS Yegor Mosin 46 DF  RUS Artyom Mamin 55 MF  RUS Timur Ayupov 71 GK  RUS Aleksei Mamin 75 MF  RUS Fanil Sungatulin 77 GK  BLR Denis Shcherbitsky 79 FW  RUS Aleksei Kashtanov 80 MF  BLR Artyom Kontsevoy 97 FW  RUS Ilya Ishkov — GK  RUS Dmitri Arapov

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  RUS Aleksey Gerasimov — DF  RUS Leo Goglichidze — MF  RUS Ramazan Gadzhimuradov

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  RUS Daniil Arsentyev — MF  RUS Yuri Zheleznov

• 23 – Pyotr Khrustovsky, forward (2003) – posthumous honor

• Head coach – Yuri Matveyev
• Assistant coach – Vladimir Kalashnikov, Andrei Danilov, Ivan Jovanovski
• Goalkeeping coach – Andrei Shpilyov

Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Ural/Uralmash.

^{[citation needed]}

• Pavel Gusev (2003–04)
• Aleksandr Pobegalov (2005–09)
• Vladimir Fedotov (2009–10)
• Boris Stukalov (2010)
• Dmitriy Ogai (2011)
• Yuri Matveyev (2011)
• Aleksandr Pobegalov (2012)
• Sergei Bulatov (2012)
• Pavel Gusev (2012–13)
• Oleg Vasilenko (2013)
• Aleksandr Tarkhanov (2013–15)
• Viktor Goncharenko (2015)
• Vadim Skripchenko (2015–2016)

• Soviet Second League / Russian Football National League
  • Champions (2): 1990, 2012–13
• Russian Second Division
  • Champions (2): 2002, 2004
• Russian Cup
  • Runners-up (2): 2016–17, 2018–19

• ANFA Cup
  • Champions (1): 1989^[5]

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