FC Khimki
Russian football club
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FC Khimki (Russian: ФК "Химки") was a Russian professional football club based in Khimki, about 18 kilometres north west of central Moscow, the capital of Russia.
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| Full name | City District Khimki Municipality's Autonomous Institution "Football Club Khimki"[1] | |||
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| Nickname | Krasno-chyornye (The Red-Blacks) | |||
| Founded | January 30, 1997 | |||
| Dissolved | June 18, 2025 | |||
| Ground | Arena Khimki | |||
| Capacity | 18,636 | |||
| Owner | Khimki | |||
| 2024–25 | Russian Premier League, 12th of 16 (administratively relegated) | |||
| Website | fckhimki | |||
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History
The team was formed in 1996 by merging two amateur clubs from Khimki, Rodina, and Novator. Khimki entered the amateur league and played their first official match on 17 May 1997. Of more than 150 amateur teams in the competition, only the champions would be promoted to the Third League. Khimki won the tournament, overcoming Energiya Ulyanovsk in the final match in a penalty shootout.[citation needed]
On 30 January 1997, Khimki became a professional football club. In the Third League regional tournament, Khimki finished second and were promoted to the Second League.[citation needed]
Khimki were promoted to the First Division after the 2000 season. They finished first in the Centre zone of the Second Division, but lost the promotion play-off to Severstal Cherepovets on away goals. After Severstal refused to play in the First Division, their place was given to Khimki.[citation needed]
In 2005, Khimki had a very good run in the Russian Cup, reaching the final. They lost the final match 0–1 to CSKA.[citation needed] In the 2019–20 Russian Cup, they reached the final once again.[citation needed]
On 15 May 2020, FNL season was abandoned due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia. As the club was in the 2nd position in the standings, they were promoted to the Russian Premier League for the 2020–21 season, returning to the top level after an 11-year break.[2]
On 22 May 2023, Khimki were relegated from the Russian Premier League after three seasons.[3]
On 20 May 2024, Khimki secured return to the top tier after one season down.[4]
Khimki finished the 2024–25 Russian Premier League season in 12th place, outside of the relegation zone. However, on 24 May 2025 Russian Football Union announced that the club was not issued the 2025–26 RPL license due to accumulated debts, sealing their administrative relegation.[5] Their replacement in the Premier League was FC Pari Nizhny Novgorod.[6] Khimki were officially dissolved on 18 June 2025.[7]
League history
Season Div. Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA P Cup Europe Top scorer
(League)Head Coach 1997 4th, Zone 3 2 40 26 6 8 80 38 84 - — 
Kravchuk – 17 Shtapov1998 3rd, "West" 10 40 15 8 17 63 60 53 - — Georgievsky – 11 Dementyev Bychkov Sabitov1999 3rd, "Centre" 6 36 17 11 8 51 35 62 R256 — Khamzin – 11 Sabitov Kots2000 1 38 28 4 6 68 22 88 R64 — Genich – 18 Piskaryov Papaev2001 2nd 12 34 13 4 17 42 54 43 R32 — 
Shcheglov – 5 Voronkov – 5 Kovardayev – 5 Petrushin Sabitov2002 7 34 14 10 10 38 27 52 R32 — Kovardayev – 6 Sabitov Derkach2003 12 42 16 9 17 36 46 57 QF — Kiselyov – 15 Derkach Galyamin2004 5 42 17 10 15 39 33 61 R32 — Pogrebnyak – 6 Shevchuk Yakovenko2005 4 42 23 13 6 75 36 82 RU — Tikhonov – 15 Yakovenko2006 1 42 30 9 3 83 30 99 R64 — Tikhonov – 22 Kazachyonok2007 1st 9 30 9 10 11 32 33 37 R32 — Shirokov – 7
Muslin2008 14 30 6 9 15 34 54 27 R16 — Nizamutdinov – 9 Yuran2009 16 30 2 4 24 20 64 10 R32 — Antipenko – 6 Sarsaniya Chugainov2010 2nd 13 38 11 17 10 39 38 50 R32 — Yusupov – 7 Dudchenko – 7 Tarkhanov Bushmanov2011–12 13 48 16 11 21 54 74 59 R32 — Mamtov – 10 Grigoryan Dolmatov Tarkhanov2012–13 16 32 6 10 16 23 40 28 R16 — Komkov – 3 Khatazhyonkov – 3 Tarkhanov Tetradze Petrakov2013–14 3rd, "West" 3 32 16 10 6 67 37 58 R64 — Antonnikov – 9 Zemchenkov – 9 Tarkhanov Mukhanov Gridin2014–15 4 30 15 9 6 42 27 54 R256 — Lipatkin – 6 
Maminov2015–16 1 24 19 5 0 49 12 62 R16 — 
Markosov – 11 Khafizov2016–17 2nd 11 38 11 16 11 40 47 49 R32 — Kazaev – 8 Irkhin2017–18 13 38 12 7 19 33 49 43 R64 — Kuzmichev – 7 Irkhin2018–19 9 38 14 11 13 47 49 53 R32 — Kukharchuk – 10 Shalimov2019–20 2 27 16 6 5 50 19 54 RU — 
Aliyev – 8 Yuran2020–21 1st 8 30 13 6 11 35 39 45 R16 — Mirzov – 6 Yuran2021–22 13 30 7 11 12 34 47 32 GS — Glushakov – 10
Cherevchenko
Reserve team
Notable players
Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Khimki.
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Club records
As of 3 August 2010[update]
Most league appearances for Khimki
- Miodrag Jovanović: 224
- Roman Berezovsky: 175
- Nikolai Barkalov: 164
- Sergei Kravchuk: 145
- Aleksandr Shulenin: 140
- Andrey Tikhonov: 124
- Aleksandr Makarov: 119
- Aleksandr Shvetsov: 116
- Igor Nekrasov: 115
- Sergei Shcheglov: 112
Most league goals for Khimki
- Sergei Kravchuk: 46
- Andrey Tikhonov: 43
- Yuri Georgiyevsky: 30
- Konstantin Genich: 29
- Nikolai Kovardayev: 27
- Vadim Shatalin: 23
- Aleksandr Antipenko: 20
- Denis Kiselyov: 18
- Anton Arkhipov: 16
Coaching staff
| Position | Staff |
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| First-Team Manager |  Magomed Adiyev |
| First-Team Assistant Manager | Aleksandr Alkhazov |
| First-Team Coach | Filipp Sokolinskiy |
| Goalkeeper Coach | Aleksandr Guteyev |
| Fitness Coach |  Yerlan Ibraim |
| Doctor | Nikita Konovalov |
| Masseur | Aleksey Lyashchenko |
Managers
- Vladimir Shtapov (1996–97)
- Igor Bychkov (1997, interim)
- Ravil Sabitov (1997–99), (2001–02)
- Alexandr Piskarev (2000)
- Viktor Papayev (2000)
- Aleksei Petrushin (2001)
- Sergey Derkach (2002–03)
- Dmitry Galyamin (2003)
- Vasily Kulkov (2004)
- Vladimir Shevchuk (2004)
- Pavel Yakovenko (2004–05)
- Vladimir Kazachyonok (2006–07)
- Slavoljub Muslin (2007–08)
- Sergei Yuran (2008)
- Konstantin Sarsania (2009)
- Igor Chugainov (2009)
- Alexander Tarkhanov (2009–10)
- Oleg Dolmatov (2011–12)
- Alexander Tarkhanov (2012)
- Valeriy Petrakov (2012–13)
- Alexander Tarkhanov (2013)
- Vladimir Mukhanov (2013–14)
- Vladimir Maminov (2014–15)
- Vadim Khafizov (2015–16)
- Aleksandr Irkhin (2016–18)
- Igor Shalimov (2018–19)
- Andrei Talalayev (2019–20)
- Sergei Yuran (2020)
- Dmitri Gunko (2020)
- Igor Cherevchenko (2020–Now)