FC Smena Komsomolsk-na-Amure
Russian football club
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FC Smena Komsomolsk-na-Amure (Russian: ФК «Смена» Комсомольск-на-Амуре) is a Russian football club from Komsomolsk-on-Amur, founded in 1935. It played in the Russian Professional Football League. It played professionally in 1946, 1957–1970, 1978–1994 and from 2002 to 2018. It reached the second-highest level (Soviet First League and Russian First Division) in 1957–1962 and 1992.
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| Full name | Football Club Smena Komsomolsk-na-Amure | ||
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| Founded | 1935 | ||
| Ground | Vanguard Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 16,000 | ||
| Chairman | Sergei Ogarkov | ||
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They won their Russian Professional Football League zone East in the 2015–16 season, but did not participate in the second-tier 2016–17 Russian Football National League as they don't have necessary financing.[1] Their main source of income is Khabarovsk Krai which already finances another FNL team FC SKA-Energiya Khabarovsk and doesn't have necessary expenses budgeted for a second FNL team. Before the 2018–19 season, the league proposed splitting the East zone of the PFL into two new zones - Siberia and Far East. However, the largest number of teams was not sustainable for the full season. Smena was forced to drop out to the amateur levels.[2]
Team name history
- 1935–1945: Stroitel
- 1946–1956: Dynamo
- 1957–1959: Lokomotiv
- 1960–1977: Avangard
- 1978–1999: Amur
- 1999–2001: KnAAPO-Smena
- 2002–present: Smena
