FC Tosno
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| Full name | Football Club Tosno |
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| Founded | 2013 |
| Ground | Electron Stadium, Veliky Novgorod |
| Capacity | 3,223 |
| Owner | FORTGROUP |
| Chairman | Viatcheslav Matyushenko |
| Manager | Dmytro Parfenov |
| League | Russian Football National League |
| 2015–16 | 7th |
| Website | fctosno |
FC Tosno (Russian: ФК Тосно) are a professional Russian football club based in Tosno, who currently play in the Russian National Football League.
FC Tosno was officially registered in 2008 by Leonid Khomenko, the then director of 'FC Era'. In 2009, Tosno FC and another amateur club, 'Ruan', were merged. The name 'Ruan' was carried by the club till late 2013.
The decision to found a professional club was taken in March 2013, with the support of the main sponsor of the club at the time, a holding company 'Fort Group', and the Regional Public Organization, 'FC Tosno'. Since 2013, FC Tosno represented the Leningrad Oblast in Russian competitions. In Tosno's first professional season, the club was declared to perform in the West Zone of the Russian Professional Football League. The home stadium of the club (Tosno Stadium) had to be altered to Stadion Kirovets due to a mismatch in criteria of the PFL minimal requirements. During the adaptation time, FC Tosno played their home matches at the Petrovskiy Stadium.
First official match for FC Tosno took place on 10 July 2013, where Tosno defeated FC Dynamo Vologda in 1/256 finals of the 2013–14 Russian Cup. The club had then had an 'unbeaten run' of 22 games (18 league games and 4 cup games), which ended on 27 October. On the next day, the contract with the FC Tosno's head coach, Viktor Demidov, had terminated. The rest of the games in the season were headed by the keepers' head coach, Kirill Gashichev.
After signing a contract with Ukrainian manager Oleh Leshchynskyi on 4 March 2014, FC Tosno have defeated FC Spartak Moscow in the 2013–14 Russian Cup Round of 16, with the only goal scored by Valentin Filatov on the 114th minute. It was the fourth time in Russian Cup's history, when a team from the Second Division had participated in the Russian Cup's Quarter-finals.
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