FC Lokomotiv Moscow
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| Full name | Футбо́льный клуб "Локомоти́в" Москва́ (Football Club Lokomotiv Moscow) |
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Krasno-zelyonyye (Red-Greens) Zheleznodorozhniki (Railroaders) Parovozy (Steam Locomotives) |
| Founded | 23 July 1923 |
| Ground | Lokomotiv Stadium, Moscow |
| Capacity | 28,800 |
| Owner | Russian Railways |
| Chairman | Ilya Gerkus |
| Head Coach | Yuri Semin |
| League | Russian Premier League |
| 2015–16 | 6th |
| Website | Club home page |
FC Lokomotiv Moscow (FC Lokomotiv Moskva, Russian: Футбо́льный клуб "Локомоти́в" Москва́, [fʊdˈbolʲnɨj klup ləkəmɐˈtʲif mɐˈskva], English: Locomotive) is a Russian football club based in Moscow.
Lokomotiv won the Russian Premier League in 2002 and 2004, the USSR Cup in 1936 and 1957, and the Russian Cup in 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2007 and 2015. The club was the league runner-up in 1959, 1995, 1999, 2000 and 2001, and finished third in 1994, 1998, 2005, 2006 and 2014. Lokomotiv was the Russian Super Cup holder in 2003 and 2005.
Lokomotiv was originally founded as Kazanka (Moskovskaya-Kazanskaya Zh.D) in 1923. In 1924, the club united the strongest football players of several roads of the Moscow railway junction as KOR ("Club of the October Revolution"). In 1931, the club was again renamed to Kazanka (Moskovskaya-Kazanskaya Zh.D) and in 1936, it was eventually renamed to as it is known today, Lokomotiv. During the Communist rule, Lokomotiv Moscow club was a part of the Lokomotiv Voluntary Sports Society and was owned by the Soviet Ministry of Transportation through the Russian Railways.
When the Lokomotiv Voluntary Sports Society was created in 1936, its football team featured the best players of Kazanka, and a number of strong Soviet footballers of that time such as Valentin Granatkin, Nikolay llyin, Alexey Sokolov, Pyotr Terenkov, Mikhail Zhukov, llya Gvozdkov and Ivan Andreev. Lokomotiv debuted in the first-ever Soviet football club championship with a game against Dynamo Leningrad on 22 May 1936. In the first two seasonal championships (spring and autumn), Lokomotiv finished fifth and fourth respectively. The first Lokomotiv success arrived shortly as in 1936, the railwaymen rose up to the occasion to beat Dynamo Tbilisi 2–0 in the Soviet Cup Final, thus winning the first Soviet Cup.
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