FC Avangard Kursk
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| Full name | Football Club Avangard Kursk |
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| Founded | 1946 |
| Ground |
Trudovye Rezervy Stadium, Kursk |
| Capacity | 11,329 |
| Owner | RubEx Group/Kursk/Kursk Oblast |
| Chairman | Nikolai Volokitin |
| Manager | Igor Belyayev |
| League | Russian Professional Football League, Zone Center |
| 2015–16 | 5th |
FC Avangard Kursk is an association football club based in Kursk, Russia, currently playing in the third tier of Russian football. The teams colors are: home all blue, and away all white.
The club has been known under the following names:
Spartak made an appearance in the Soviet league in 1946. Since 1957 Kursk was continuously represented in the league by Trudovye Rezervy, Trud, and Avangard. The club played in Class B and in the Second League. The best achievement was the second position in the zone in 1962 and 1964.
Avangard entered the Russian Second League in 1992 and was moved to the Third League in 1994, after the number of clubs in the Second League was significantly reduced. In 1995 they won promotion to the Second League, and in 2004 Avangard finished second in their Second Division zone, obtaining promotion to the First Division. Avangard played 3 seasons in First Division and relegated to Second Division in 2007 as 18th. Avangard returned to second level in 2009 as Center Group champion. But, Avangard finished in the last place and was relegated to third level in 2010.
As of 20 February 2017, according to the PFL website.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Avangard.
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