FC Fakel Voronezh
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| Full name | Football club «Fakel» Voronezh |
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| Nickname(s) |
Факелоны (Fakelony) |
| Founded | 1947 |
| Ground | Tsentralny Profsoyuz Stadion, Voronezh |
| Capacity | 32,750 |
| Owner | Chemical Automatics Design Bureau |
| Chairman | Irina Petrova |
| Manager | Pavel Gusev |
| League | FNL |
| 2015–16 | 6th |
FC Fakel Voronezh (Russian: Футбольный клуб "Факел" Воронеж) is a Russian association football club based in Voronezh. Currently the club plays in the Russian Football National League. The name of the club means "Torch" (Russian: Факел).
They won the Zone Center of the PFL in the 2014–15 season, securing promotion to the Russian Football National League for 2015–16.
The club was founded in 1947 at a then classified airplane plant. For secrecy reasons, the team was not officially given a name and was referred to as the Voronezh city team. In 1959 the team became a part of Trud sports society and was renamed Trud Voronezh. In 1976 the team was renamed Fakel.
The team played in the Soviet League since 1954:
The best result of Trud/Fakel was a place in the Top Division in 1961 (finished 15th) and 1985 (finished 17th). Fakel reached the semifinal of the Soviet Cup in 1984.
In the Russian league, Fakel played in various divisions, only on one occasion staying in the same division for more than two consecutive seasons:
The best result achieved by Fakel in Premier League was a 13th position in 2000.
Fakel has also experienced several short-lived name changes: to Fakel-Profsoyuz in 1992, Voronezh in 2002 and Fakel-Voronezh in 2002–2003.
Fakel and FC Yelets were excluded from the Russian Second Division for attempts to bribe and threaten the referee on 18 July 2009. At the time of exclusion (21 August), Fakel were sixth with 31 points from 19 games, while Yelets were 16th with 9 points from 19 games.
A new club called FC Fakel Voronezh technically independent from the club that played in 2009 as FC Fakel-Voronezh Voronezh was founded in 2010 and played in the Russian Second Division (FSA Voronezh failed licensing for 2010 and the new Fakel was the only Voronezh professional team for 2010). It employed the manager and 6 players from the 2009 FC Fakel-Voronezh roster. The reserve team FC Fakel-d Voronezh played in the Amateur Football League in 2010.
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