FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod

The team was founded in 1963 after a merger of two teams from Gorky – Torpedo and Raketa. The team played in the Soviet Top League, where its best result was 14th place in 1964. The team was disbanded in 1984. In 1998, a new club called FC Elektronika Nizhny Novgorod was founded. It played in Russian Second Division. In 2004 it was renamed to Volga.

FC Torpedo-Viktoriya Nizhny Novgorod was another squad to claim the legacy of FC Volga Gorky.

In the 2015–16 season, Volga registered a reserve team FC Volga-Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod that entered the third-tier PFL. After Volga itself was dissolved, Volga-Olimpiyets became independent was renamed to FC Olimpiyets. It eventually was promoted to the Russian Premier League under the name FC Nizhny Novgorod and is called, as of 2023, FC Pari Nizhny Novgorod.

League history

Russia

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Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Cup	Europe		Top Scorer (League)
1999	KFK(4th), "Povolzhye"	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-
2000		3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-
2001	3rd, "Ural-Povolzhye"	9	34	13	10	11	54	43	49	-	-		Kuznetsov – 12
2002		6	30	12	8	10	40	38	44	R256	-		Andrei Podolyanchik – 9
2003		14	38	11	5	22	41	62	38	R256	-		Andrei Podolyanchik – 14
2004		12	36	12	9	15	41	46	45	R512	-		Georgiev – 9
2005		6	36	15	12	9	44	30	57	R256	-		Udodov – 7
2006		7	24	10	8	6	31	23	38	R512	-		Loginov – 5
2007		4	26	15	5	6	52	30	50	R256	-		Kaynov – 11
2008		1	34	23	9	2	73	23	78	R512	-		Prokofyev – 17
2009	2nd	4	38	17	14	7	54	32	65	R16	-		Khazov – 10
2010		2	38	19	14	5	62	25	71	R64	-		Martsvaladze – 21
2011–12	1st	14	44	12	5	27	37	60	41	SF	-		Bibilov – 7
2012–13		12	30	7	8	15	28	46	29	R32	-		Sapogov – 9
2013–14		15	30	6	3	21	22	65	21	R32	-		Sarkisov, Bibilov – 3
2014–15	2nd	13	34	12	4	18	44	57	40	R64	-		Sarkisov – 12
2015–16		10	38	14	9	15	39	37	51	R32	-

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Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Volga.