FC Salyut-Energia Belgorod

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Salyut-Energia

Full name

Football Club
Salyut-Energia Belgorod

Founded

1960

Ground

Salyut Stadium, Belgorod
(Capacity 12,000)

Chairman

Vasily Potryasayev

Manager

Sergey Savchenkov

League

Russian First Division

2007

9th





Home colours





Away colours

FC Salyut-Energia Belgorod are a Russian football club based in Belgorod. They play in the Russian First Division.

[edit] History

The club was founded in 1960 and has been known as:

Tsementnik (Cement Worker) in 1960–1963
Spartak in 1964–1969
Salyut (Salute) in 1970–1991 and 1993–1995
Energomash (Power Machine Building) in 1991–1992
Salyut-YUKOS in 1996–1999
Salyut-Energia since 2000

Tsementnik played in the Class B in 1960 and 1961. After the team became the part of Spartak sports society, they re-entered the competition in 1964. In 1968 Spartak finished third in the finals of Class B and were promoted to the Class A, Group 2. After the reorganization of the leagues in 1971 Salyut played in the Soviet Second League until 1989. In 1990 and 1991 the team played in the Soviet Second League B.

In 1992 Energomash entered the newly formed Russian First League and were relegated. In 1993 the team finished first in Zone 2 of the Russian Second League but were not promoted. In 1995 Salyut were relegated from the Second League, but returned immediately after topping their zone in the Third League. Salyut-YUKOS were relegated again after another three years in the Second Division (1997–1999), this time to the amateur league (KFK). In 2000 they won the promotion back to the professional football. In 2001–2005 Salyut-Energia were among the leaders of the Second Division, finishing no lower than fifth in their zone. In 2005 the team finished first and were promoted to the First Division.