FC Terek Grozny

FC Terek Grozny (Chechen: футболан клуб Терек Соьлжа-ГӀала; Russian: А.А. Кадыров Республиканский футбольный клуб Терек Грозный, tr. A.A. Kadyrov Respublikanskiy futbolʹnyy klub Terek Groznyy) is a Russian football club from Grozny in Chechnya, currently playing in the Russian Premier League.

History

Originally founded in 1946, as Dynamo, it changed its name in 1948 to Neftyanik and in 1958 to Terek. In the 1990s the club was disbanded for some time due to the war in Chechnya. From the 1990s to 2007 the club played its home games in the neighbouring resort city of Pyatigorsk, Stavropol Krai. Before the start of the 2008 Premier League season, the Russian Football Union granted Terek the right to host Premier League matches in Grozny.

They won the Russian Cup by beating Krylya Sovetov Samara in the final and the Russian First Division in 2004. In 2004 they advanced through the UEFA Cup qualification by beating the Polish team Lech Poznań 1–0 in both legs but lost to Swiss outfit FC Basel in the first round. They played in the Russian Premier League in 2005 but were relegated after finishing last. Terek finished second in the First Division in 2007 and were promoted back into the Premier League.

FC Terek-2 Grozny

FC Terek-2 Grozny (Russian: ФК «Терек-2» Грозный) is a Russian football team from Grozny, founded in 2013. Since 2013 it plays in the Russian Professional Football League (third level). It is a farm club for the Russian Premier League team FC Terek Grozny.

Current squad

As of 2 February 2016, according to the RFS website.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

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Grozny

Grozny (Russian: Грозный; IPA: [ˈgroznɨj]; Chechen: Грозный) is the capital city of the Chechen Republic, Russia. The city lies on the Sunzha River. According to the 2010 Census, it had a population of 271,573; up from 210,720 recorded in the 2002 Census, but still only about two-thirds of 399,688 recorded in the 1989 Census.

Names

In Russian, "Grozny" means "fearsome", "awesome", or "redoubtable", the same word as in Ivan Grozny or Ivan the Terrible. While the official name in Chechen is the same, informally the city is known as "Соьлжа-Гӏала", which literally means "the city (гӏала) on the Sunzha River (Соьлжа)".

In 1996, during the First Chechen War, the Chechen separatists renamed the city Dzokhar-Ghala (Chechen: Джовхар-Гӏала), or Dzhokhar/Djohar for short, after Dzhokhar Dudayev, the first President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. In December 2005, the Chechen parliament voted to rename the city "Akhmadkala" (after Akhmad Kadyrov)—a proposition which was rejected by his son Ramzan Kadyrov, the prime minister and later President of the republic.

Grozny (horse)

Grozny (1995–2000) was a gray racehorse who won the Enlace Derby Nacional in 1998. He died in 2000.

References

Grozny (disambiguation)

Grozny is the capital city of the Chechen Republic, Russia.

Grozny (masculine), Groznaya (feminine), or Groznoye (neuter) may also refer to: