Futbolgrad - Football and politics in the post-Soviet space

Featured

Shakhtar Donetsk vs Maccabi Tel Aviv – Europa League – Preview

Mark Temnycky –Shakhtar Donetsk vs Maccabi Tel Aviv – Thursday, 25 February 2021 – 17:55 GMT/18:55 CEST – Olimpiyskiy Stadium, Kyiv, UkraineT ...

Futbolgrad 0 February 24, 2021

Gazeta

Dynamo Kyiv vs Ferencváros – Champions League – Preview

Russia 2018

VIEW ALL

Futbolgrad 0 April 10, 2019

Mordovia Saransk and the end of the World Cup boom?

Futbolgrad 0 September 10, 2018

Youth Development in Russia – The post-Soviet impact

Futbolgrad 0 September 8, 2018

Russia 2018: The winners and losers following the rankings

Futbolgrad 1 July 23, 2018

The World Cup Futbolgrad Players of the Tournament

Futbolgrad 2 July 19, 2018

Mordovia Saransk – 26,000 see first post-World Cup game

Futbolgrad 0 July 17, 2018

World Cup Diary – Final Conclusion from Russia

5000onon

Balkans

VIEW ALL

Tips When Watching Balkans International Cup

UEFA Postpones June International Matches, Club Competitions

Dates Flexed: Euro 2020, Domestic Competitions and Future International Fixtures

Nemanja Matic and Ole-Gunnar Solskjaer – a see-saw relationship

Eliteserien – 5 Kosovan footballers playing in Norway

Futbolgrad Podcast – Episode 126 – Russian Clubs in China and Japan?

25000onon

Gazeta

VIEW ALL

Features

Shakhtar Donetsk vs Maccabi Tel Aviv – Europa League – Preview

Mark Temnycky –Shakhtar Donetsk vs Maccabi Tel Aviv – Thursday, 25 February 2021 – 17:55 GMT/18:55 CEST – Olimpiyskiy Stadium, Kyiv, UkraineT ...

Futbolgrad 0 February 24, 2021

Features

Club Brugge vs Dynamo Kyiv – Europe League – Preview

Mark Temnycky – Club Brugge vs Dynamo Kyiv – Thursday, 25 February 2021 – 20:00 GMT/21:00 CEST – Jan Breydel Stadium, Bruges, Belgium The second leg o ...

Futbolgrad 0 February 24, 2021

Features

Dynamo Kyiv vs Club Brugge – Europe League – Preview

Mark Temnycky –Dynamo Kyiv vs Club Brugge – Thursday, 18 February 2021 – 17:55 GMT/18:55 CEST – Olimpiyskiy Stadium, Kyiv, UkraineThe 2020/21 ...

Futbolgrad 0 February 16, 2021

Features

Maccabi Tel Aviv vs Shakhtar Donetsk – Europa League – Preview

Mark Temnycky –Maccabi Tel Aviv vs Shakhtar Donetsk – Thursday, 18 February 2021 – 20:00 GMT/21:00 CEST – Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv, Israel...

Futbolgrad 0 February 16, 2021

Features

Dynamo Kyiv vs Ferencváros – Champions League – Preview

Mark Temnycky –Dynamo Kyiv vs Ferencváros – Tuesday, 8 December 2020 – 20:00 GMT/21:00 CEST – Olimpiyskiy Stadium, Kyiv, UkraineHaving been el ...

Futbolgrad 0 December 8, 2020

Features

Shakhtar Donetsk vs Real Madrid – Champions League – Preview

Mark Temnycky –Shakhtar Donetsk vs Real Madrid – Tuesday, 1 December 2020 – 17:55 GMT/18:55 CEST – Olimpiyskiy Stadium, Kyiv, UkraineShakhtar ...

Futbolgrad 0 November 30, 2020

Ukraine

VIEW ALL

Features

Shakhtar Donetsk vs Maccabi Tel Aviv – Europa League – Preview

Mark Temnycky –Shakhtar Donetsk vs Maccabi Tel Aviv – Thursday, 25 February 2021 – 17:55 GMT/18:55 CEST – Olimpiyskiy Stadium, Kyiv, UkraineT ...

Futbolgrad 0 February 24, 2021

Features

Club Brugge vs Dynamo Kyiv – Europe League – Preview

Features

Dynamo Kyiv vs Club Brugge – Europe League – Preview

Features

Maccabi Tel Aviv vs Shakhtar Donetsk – Europa League – Preview

Random Article

Shakhtar Donetsk vs Maccabi Tel Aviv – Europa League – Preview

Club Brugge vs Dynamo Kyiv – Europe League – Preview

Dynamo Kyiv vs Club Brugge – Europe League – Preview

Maccabi Tel Aviv vs Shakhtar Donetsk – Europa League – Preview

Manor Solomon: €15m winger key for Shakhtar but will he stay?

Are Russian Footballers Unnoticed by The Premier League

25000onon

Central Asia

VIEW ALL

Futbolgrad 0 April 16, 2020

Futbolgrad Podcast – Episode 131 – The Biggest and Bestest Belarusian Vysheyshaya Liga Special

Futbolgrad 0 November 13, 2019

Eldor Shomurodov: Rostov’s Uzbek Target-Man Scouted

Futbolgrad 0 April 8, 2019

UEFA Euro 2020 – Will Kazakhstan make history?

Futbolgrad 0 March 22, 2019

Futbolgrad Podcast – Episode 101 – Nursultan or bust, Euro 2020 madness

Futbolgrad 0 March 15, 2019

Futbolgrad Podcast – Episode 100 – The Post-Soviet Football Quiz

Futbolgrad 0 January 15, 2019

Bunyodkor Tashkent – Uzbek’s Football Builders Remembered

5000onon

Facebook

North Caucasus

VIEW ALL

Features

Russian Football Hooliganism – the Caucasian Divide

Futbolgrad 1 December 2, 2013

By Yan Matusevich - Keeping politics out of football has been a FIFA slogan for years, a policy the organization strives to promote by showcasing th ...

Features

Alania Vladikavkaz – Russian Football’s Endangered Snow Leopards

Futbolgrad 0 November 28, 2013

By David McArdle - On Monday 18 November 2013, former Russian champions Alania Vladikavkaz announced that they were unable to finance the team’s for ...

Features

Anzhi – Kremlin PR in the North Caucasus

Futbolgrad 0 April 10, 2013

By David McArdle - Word association with the North Caucasus and with Dagestan in particular is changing. Instead of “insurgency”, “bombings”, “terro ...

Social Media

DIRK: OOPS....didn't see that coming. Good work Zbirna!!

5 months ago

Alex: Another thing, at the time when Stroitel as you call it (although officially it was known as Budivelnyk) existed and competed in competitions among KFK teams, those competitions were actually at the fourth (4) tier within the Soviet football pyramid in 1971-1989. In 1990 there was added an extra tier just below the Second League, known as the Lower Second League (or out of brevity Second League B). Then in 1990 competitions among KFK were moved down the pyramid to the fifth (5) tier. Now by that time the Chernobyl zone football team was disbanded and in couple of years the whole Soviet Union went crushing down. Now about the name of the team, Budivelnyk or Stroitel. Both names were in use as both languages carried an official status, yet Russian had dominance as the language of the Soviet central government and inter-republican communication.

6 months ago

Alex: Alex, looks like you know absolutely nothing about the Soviet football competition structure. Teams of Masters are not only the champions of KFK, but rather it is a status of all professional clubs in the Soviet Union. Officially in the Soviet Union there were no professional athletes, so they were inventing some other terms among which is the team of masters. All clubs in the Soviet competitions in Top, First and Second leagues all were teams of masters, amateur teams were known as fitness collectives (or collective of physical culture). Competitions among KFK teams were organized and administered exclusively by their respective union republic where they were located. All 15 union republics were conducting their own individual KFK competitions and their winner may or not has been picked for competitions among teams of masters. Establishment of team of masters as certification had to be approved by the Football Federation of the Soviet Union, unlike the KFK teams. Simply winning the competitions among KFK teams did not guarantee the winning team to be promoted to the Soviet Vtoraya Liga (Second League).

6 months ago

Random Article

Facebook

Social Media

Recent comments

Social

Subscribe Newsletter