FC Tyumen

Tyumen
Full name	Football Club Tyumen
Founded	1961; 63 years ago
Ground	Geolog Stadium, Tyumen
Capacity	13,057
Owner	Tyumen Oblast
Chairman	Aleksandr Popov
Manager	Igor Menshchikov
League	Russian First League
2022–23	Russian Second League,; Group 4,; 1st (promoted)
Website	Club website
Home colours	Away colours

FC Tyumen (Russian: Футбольный клуб «Тюмень») is a Russian football club based in Tyumen. The former member of the Russian Premier League will be promoted to the Russian First League for the 2023–24 season.^[1]

The club was previously known as Geolog (in 1961–1963 and 1983–1991, meaning Geologist), Priboy (in 1964–1965, meaning Surf), Neftyanik (in 1966–1977, meaning Oiler), Stroitel (meaning Builder), Fakel (in 1980–1982, meaning Torch), Dinamo-Gazovik (in 1992–1996), SDYSOR-Sibnefteprovod (in 2003).^{[citation needed]}

History

The club was founded in 1961 and played in the Soviet Class B (1961–1970), Second League (1971–1986), and

PFL at the end of the 2018–19 season. It was promoted back to Russian First League after the 2022–23 season.^[1]

Current squad

As of 21 February 2024, according to the official First League website.

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	RUS	Andrey Savin
6	DF	RUS	Nikita Pechyonkin
7	MF	RUS	Pavel Shadrin
9	MF	RUS	Ivan Markelov
10	FW	RUS	Yevgeni Tatarinov (on loan from Ural Yekaterinburg)
11	FW	RUS	Ilya Porokhov
13	DF	RUS	Mikhail Petrov
15	MF	RUS	Nikita Shulgin
16	GK	RUS	Vyacheslav Ergardt
17	MF	RUS	Vitali Shitov (on loan from Spartak Moscow)
19	DF	RUS	Ruslan Baytukov
24	MF	RUS	Aleksandr Korotayev
27	DF	RUS	Kirill Myrzakov


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
34	MF	RUS	Nikita Balakhontsev
44	GK	RUS	Yegor Lyubakov
45	DF	BLR	Ilya Moskalenchik (on loan from Zenit St. Petersburg)
51	DF	RUS	Anton Sinyak
57	MF	RUS	Yevgeni Bolotov (on loan from Orenburg)
71	DF	RUS	Islamzhan Nasyrov (on loan from Rodina Moscow)
69	MF	TJK	Ruslan Khayloev
70	MF	RUS	Andrey Maryanov
72	DF	RUS	Aleksandr Bem
77	MF	RUS	Igor Druzhinin
81	FW	RUS	Kirill Nikishin
88	MF	RUS	Denis Samoylov (on loan from Yenisey Krasnoyarsk)
97	MF	RUS	Nikita Kasatkin

Out on loan

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	FW	RUS	Karim Aukhadeyev (at Druzhba Maykop until 30 June 2024)

Reserve squad

Tyumen's reserve squad played professionally as FC Dynamo-Gazovik-d Tyumen in the

Russian Third League

in 1995–1996.

Tyumen Ultras

Tyumen fanaticism consists of 3 waves. The first wave came in the 1980s, the second wave in the early 1990s and the third wave the ultras began in 1998 and to this day.^[4]