FC Tom Tomsk

Tom Tomsk

Full name	OOO Football Club Tom'[1]
Nickname(s)	Sibiryaki (Siberians), Belo-Zelyonye (White-Greens)
Founded	March 9, 1957; 67 years ago (1957-03-09)
Dissolved	2022; 2 years ago (2022)
Ground	Trud Stadium, Tomsk
Capacity	10,028
Owner	Tomsk Oblast
2021–22	FNL, 14th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

FC Tom Tomsk (Russian: Футбольный клуб Томь Томск) was a Russian professional football club, based in the Siberian city of Tomsk. The team played in Trud Stadium (Tomsk) before dissolving in 2022.

History

The team was previously named Burevestnik (1957), Tomich (1958, 1961–1963), Sibelektromotor (1959–1960), Torpedo (1964–1967, 1974–1978), Tomles (1968–1973) and Manometr (1979–1987). The club is currently named after the river of Tom, where Tomsk is located.

In the 1990s the team acquired a number of players that would help them begin their ascent out of the Russian Second Division. Viktor Sebelev, Valery Konovalov and Ruslan Akhidzhak were key players of the early part of the decade with Sergei Ageyev, Vyacheslav Vishnevskiy and Dmitry Kudinov strengthening the team as they made a run on the division championship. In 1996, the team finished 2nd in the division, just falling short of promotion to the Russian First Division. In 1997, Tomsk finally achieved a significant goal when they advanced to the First Division with a strong season.

Following promotion, the team acquired a number of new players including Sergei Zhukov, Andrei Talalaev and Mikhail Murashov to help keep the team in the First Division. However, Tomsk suffered a blow when their newly privatised sponsor, Eastern Oil Company (VNK) pulled out and left the team with no sponsor. At this point, advancement was a pipe dream with survival in the tougher division becoming a priority. It was at this point that the team also had to upgrade their stadium to new standards of the league.

The team played middling football for several years until the arrival of a new sponsor brought in much-needed funds and allowed the team to acquire new players and begin to compete. Third-place finishes in 2002 and 2003 left the team just short of promotion. However, the 2004 season brought new joy and Tomsk finished second in the division, earning promotion to the Russian Premier League for the 2005 season. The 2005 season saw Tomsk survive their first year in top-flight football with a 10th-place finish. In 2006, the team improved its position slightly with an 8th-place finish but in 2007, the club slipped to an 11th-place finish.

The former jersey sponsor Tomskneft, a local subsidiary of Yukos, has recently been sold to new investors. Today, the team is sponsored by the regional authorities.

The club's directors disclosed that the club needed to raise funds or it would go out of business due to debts of 200 million roubles in June 2009.^[2]

At the end of the 2018–19 season, they qualified for the Premier League promotion play-offs, but lost to FC Ufa with an aggregate score of 1–2.

In the 2020–21 Russian Football National League, Tom finished in the relegation zone, but remained in the league because two other clubs were disqualified for separate reasons.

Tom failed to receive the license for the 2022–23 FNL season and announced they will apply for the third-tier Russian Football National League 2 license.^[3] The FNL2 license was subsequently denied as well due to lack of financial guarantees.^[4]

League and cup history

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W.	D.	L.	GS	GA	Pts.	Cup	Europe		Top Scorer (league)	Head Coach
1992	2nd, "East"	7	30	11	10	9	29	24	32	—	—		Razzamazov – 8	Pomeshchikov
1993		12	30	9	7	14	41	40	25	R1024	—		Razzamazov – 14	Pomeshchikov
1994	3rd, "East"	2	22	12	6	4	47	15	30	R256	—		Akhidzhak – 18	Pomeshchikov
1995		8	34	15	8	11	54	25	53	R512	—		Akhidzhak – 13	Pomeshchikov
1996		2	30	19	6	5	48	24	63	R256	—		Akhidzhak – 9 Sebelev – 9	Yurin
1997		1	34	26	5	3	82	20	83	R32	—		Kudinov – 13	Yurin
1998	2nd	14	42	15	11	16	54	45	56	R16	—		Zhukov – 11	Yurin
1999		12	42	17	7	18	48	54	58	R16	—		Sebelev – 11	Yurin Puzanov
2000		10	38	14	10	14	36	28	52	R32	—		Ageyev – 5	Puzanov
2001		7	34	12	11	11	31	28	47	R32	—		Perednya – 10	Puzanov Petrakov
2002		3	34	17	10	7	51	23	61	R32	—		Studzinsky – 8	Petrakov
2003		3	42	25	10	7	55	23	85	R16	—		Studzinsky – 9	Petrakov
2004		2	42	27	5	10	70	38	86	R16	—		Kiselyov – 17	Galyamin Gostenin
2005	1st	10	30	9	10	11	28	33	37	R32	—		Medvedev – 5	Stukalov Byshovets
2006		8	30	11	8	11	35	33	41	R32	—		Pogrebnyak – 13	Petrakov
2007		11	30	8	11	11	37	35	35	R16	—		Maznov – 9	Petrakov
2008		13	30	7	8	15	23	35	29	SF	—		Strelkov – 3 Skoblyakov – 3 Jokić – 3	Petrakov Romaschenko Nepomnyashchy
2009		9	30	11	8	11	31	39	41	QF	—		Kornilenko – 6	Nepomnyashchy
2010		8	30	10	7	13	35	43	37	R32	—		Kornilenko – 11	Nepomnyashchy
2011–12		15	44	8	13	23	30	70	37	R16	—		Golyshev – 8	Nepomnyashchy Perednya
2012–13	2nd	2	32	19	8	5	57	34	65	R16	—		Dimidko – 10	Perednya
2013–14	1st	13	30	8	7	15	23	39	31	QF	—		Panchenko – 7	Davydov Baskakov
2014–15	2nd	4	34	19	10	6	57	34	64	R64	—		Bazhenov – 9	Baskakov Nepomnyashchy
2015–16		3	38	22	8	8	58	35	74	R64	—		Pogrebnyak – 12	Nepomnyashchy Petrakov
2016–17	1st	16	30	3	5	22	17	64	14	R32	—		Pugin – 4	Petrakov
2017–18	2nd	15	38	10	11	17	36	56	41	R16	—		Puljić – 7	Petrakov Baskakov
2018–19		3	38	17	13	8	40	25	64	R64	—		Kukharchuk – 8	Baskakov
2019–20		9	27	10	9	8	32	26	39	R32	—		Kazankov – 8	Baskakov
2020–21		18	42	10	11	21	32	50	41	R128	—		Krivtsov – 4 Simonyan – 4 Ennin – 4	Baskakov Kerzhakov
2021–22		14	38	13	9	16	51	60	48	R128	—		Stavpets – 17	Zhukov

Club records

Largest Margin of Victory — Dynamo Yakutsk – 9–1 (1995), FC Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk – 8–0 (1993), PFC Spartak Nalchik 8–0 (1998)

Largest Margin of Defeat – FC Dynamo Barnaul 0–7 (1962)

All time Leading Scorer – Viktor Sebelev – 83 goals in 287 matches (1989–2004)

Most goals in a season – Ruslan Akhidzhak – 18 goals in 21 matches (1994), Denis Kiselyov – 18 goals in 37 matches (2004)

Reserve squad

A farm club FC Tom-2 Tomsk began competing professionally in the third-tier Russian Professional Football League in the 2014–15 season. The team was dissolved after the 2015–16 season.

Notable players

These players have had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Tom.

References

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