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Full name | Football Club Sibir Novosibirsk | ||
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Founded | 10 June 2019 | ||
Ground | Spartak Stadium, Novosibirsk | ||
Capacity | 12,500 | ||
Owner | Novosibirsk Oblast | ||
Chairman | Aleksey Tolokonsky | ||
Manager | Aleksei Medvedev | ||
League |
Russian Second League, Division A, Gold Group | ||
2023–24 | 3rd | ||
Website | Club website | ||
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FC Sibir Novosibirsk ( Russian: ФК «Сибирь» (Новосибирск)) is a Russian professional association football club based in Novosibirsk, playing at the Spartak Stadium. The club was established by the initiative of the Government of Novosibirsk Oblast in 2019.
The club was founded in 2019 as FC Novosibirsk to replace FC Sibir Novosibirsk, after Sibir was relegated from the Russian National Football league to the third-tier Russian Professional Football League, at the end of 2018–19 season.
In the 2023–24 season, Novosibirsk qualified for the Second League promotion play-offs, but lost to FC Rotor Volgograd and remained in the Second League. [1]
On 27 June 2024, FC Novosibirsk announced that the club is renamed to FC Sibir Novosibirsk. [2]
Novosibirsk's home ground is now the 12,500-capacity Spartak Stadium in Novosibirsk. It is a multi-purpose stadium which currently used mostly for football matches. It is the most easterly venue to have hosted a match in UEFA club competition. [3]
As of 2 July 2024, according to the Second League 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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