FC Yakutiya Yakutsk
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| Full name | Football Club Yakutiya Yakutsk |
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| Founded | 1991 |
| Dissolved | 2016 |
| Ground | Tuymaada Stadium |
| Capacity | 12,500 |
| 2015–16 | PFL, Zone East, 8th |
FC Yakutiya Yakutsk (Russian: ФК «Якутия» Якутск) was a Russian football team from Yakutsk. It played professionally from 1991 to 1995 and then beginning again from the 2011–12 season, including two seasons (1992–1993) on the second highest level, Russian First Division. It did not apply for the professional license for the 2016–17 season due to lack of financing.
Although football is thought to have been played in Yakutia since before the Russian Revolution, there was no formal team representing the republic in russian football until 1991 when the club, then known as Dynamo Yakutsk finished in 10th place in the fourth-tier Soviet Second League B.
Despite their mid table finish, the political changes in Russia at the time led to significant upheavals in the way in which football was organised in the country. The following season, Dynamo found themselves playing in the second tier competing in the First League East again finishing in mid table, though with Vladimir Misyuchenko finishing as second highest scorer in the division with thirteen goals.
In 1993 they improved their final placing by one position, but, since the Russian Football Union decided that from the following season the second tier would consist of only one division and that Eastern teams would make up only five of the members, Dynamo returned to the third tier Second League – Far East Zone for the 1995 season, missing out on remaining in the first division by just two points.
Despite this setback, Dynamo produced their best ever league performance that season, finishing in first place. During this season the team was coached by Igor Kriushenko and aided by influential player Georgy Garmashov. In addition, both Aleksandr Kharasakhal and Igor Khimushkin scored eleven goals for the team.
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