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Instead of sport - financial principle
In Russia, in the midst of the 2018 World Cup, they buried the Premier League club - Perm "Amkar"
From the site of FC "Amkar"
Russian football lost today, June 18, the famous Ural club "Amkar". The team from Perm ceased to exist due to lack of funding. This news passed unnoticed against the backdrop of the World Cup gaining momentum. There are no messages about the liquidation of the club on the websites of the Russian Football Union (RFU) and the Russian Football Premier League (RFPL). But in circles around football, many expressed sincere regret about this, noting that while Russia is trying to impress the West with the World Cup, football is dying inside the country.
"Strong average"
By the standards of Russian giants, Amkar is a young team. The Perm club was founded in 1994 and played in the Russian Premier League (the highest club division) from 2004 to 2018. The best result of the Perm team was the fourth place in the 2007/08 season. At the same time, Amkar, under the leadership of Miodrag Bozovic, reached the final of the Russian Cup, where they lost to CSKA on penalties. "Amkar" has always been considered a "strong middle peasant" and could beat the leaders of the championship race.
But at the beginning of 2018, Amkar began to experience financial difficulties, the team's performance in the Premier League was called into question. Last season, the club took 13th place and was forced to play in transitional matches with the Tambov club for the right to remain in the Premier League.
Permians retained their registration in the elite. However, on June 13, it became known that the RFU had revoked the license for the 2018-2019 season from Amkar due to insufficient financial guarantees. Thus, the club lost the opportunity to play in the Premier League and the Football National League (FNL), which unites the clubs of the first division.
Today, on June 18, the board of FC Amkar met. After the meeting, it was announced that the club ceases to exist. Amkar President Gennady Shilov said that the team will not even enter the Professional Football League (follows the FNL - ed. note). According to Shilov, there is no financing, and it makes no sense to accumulate debts. It is expected that Anji Makhachkala will take the place of Amkar in the Premier League.
Budget cuts
Sports media note that everything was systematically moving towards the liquidation of the Perm club. The scenario was similar to how the Tosno club was dying. The team from the Leningrad region won the Russian Cup this year, after which it was disbanded for the same financial reasons.
It is reported that when the authorities of the Perm Territory reduced the amount of state support for Amkar in 2018, the team began to have financial difficulties. Before that, about half of the club's budget was made up of budget subsidies. In addition, sponsors turned away from the team, and therefore Amkar hardly finished the season.
According to the Sport Express newspaper, the Amkar management received offers from investors from Nizhny Novgorod and Kaliningrad to buy the club for 150 million rubles. But the deal didn't go through. According to some reports, Shilov intended to receive 180 million rubles, as well as guarantees for the repayment of the club's debts, which, according to various estimates, range from 200 to 500 million rubles.
Now the club has to pay, including salary arrears. So, Amkar owed Nigerian national team player Brian Idov a salary for three months and a bonus for five games, R-Sport writes. The football player noted that the situation with the club distracts him from the World Cup, while he feels sorry for the fans from Perm.
Club "buried"
Regrets about the situation with Amkar were expressed by many former players of the club, including ex-goalkeepers Roman Gerus and Alexander Selizov. The current players are still looking for new teams. This, in particular, said the captain of "Amkar" Petar Zanev.
Another former Amkar player, and now the manager of the revived Zvezda, Alexei Popov, told RIA Novosti that the elimination of the Perm team is a sore subject for him. “I gave this club 20 years. The team was buried. I talked about the fact that the club has been going to collapse for the last 5-10 years. In the end, it all happened. As far as I know, the management wanted to keep the team, but Shilov does not make any contact. It's a pity that this happens," he said.
Even its most irreconcilable rival, FC Ural from Yekaterinburg, spoke out about the liquidation of Amkar today. The teams are connected by a 21-year history of confrontations, and each match was positioned as a Ural derby, which aroused increased interest among fans.
“Every person close to Ural football knows about the difficult relationship between Ural and Amkar fans, but today, at least for a day, we urge all fans to forget about it. The Perm club was our closest neighbor in the matches of the Russian championship and, traditionally, the guest sector at the Zvezda stadium was filled to capacity with fans from Yekaterinburg. The Ural football club sincerely regrets that Amkar is no more... It's hard to believe it yet, but we hope that Perm will return to the football map of Russia," Ural's press service said on its Facebook page.
Basketball instead of football
The co-chairman of the regional headquarters of the ONF in the Perm Territory, Gennady Sandyrev, believes that the current financial turmoil of the club is based on the conflict between the top management of Amkar and the regional authorities. “Now the situation is quite negative. The club, which had been operating for more than 20 years, ceased to exist. And this does not at all agree with the decree of the President of Russia that it is necessary to develop sports in the regions, educate the younger generation and pay special attention to the sport of high achievements, he notes. - In general, the Amkar budget was one of the smallest in the Premier League. That is why it is doubly surprising that the leadership of the region and the club could not agree, to work out some steps to normalize the situation.”
According to the calculations of the Kommersant newspaper, in past years, about 400 million rubles were allocated from the budget of the region to Amkar. per year, plus the government negotiated with energy companies to help the club for 160 million rubles. The rest of the club earned on transfers, as well as through income from television broadcasts.
In September 2017, Governor Viktor Basargin was replaced by Maxim Reshetnikov, and already this year only 201 million rubles were allocated from the regional budget to Amkar. Perm media suggest that the new governor's other hobbies are to blame. Maxim Reshetnikov, according to rumors and some facts, prefers basketball. Coincidence or not, but the financing of the basketball "Parma" in Perm is now solid and stable, the club knows no problems.
Instead of sport - financial principle
Vice-President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of FC Ural Alexander Levin, in a conversation with a Znak.com correspondent, named another reason why Amkar was destined to leave the Premier League. According to him, the Premier League, instead of the sports principle of selecting participating teams, puts the financial principle in the foreground. And today, in order to obtain a license to participate in the RPFL, huge funds are required. And because of the FNL, no one is in a hurry to the top division.
“And why, if you have to spend on the season, roughly speaking, instead of 100 thousand a billion? And then, in addition to financial guarantees, we need guarantees in terms of infrastructure. Not everyone can do this today,” he noted. - But, of course, the liquidation of Amkar is simply shocking news, this is a very serious loss. It was known about the financial difficulties, but no one imagined that everything would end like this. If the state does not support our clubs now, until Russian football reaches the European level, we will lose teams.”
According to Kommersant's information, Amkar's management is now considering options for closing the club - through bankruptcy or through voluntary liquidation, declaring its intention to pay off all players. The only positive thing is that the Amkar Young Footballers Training Center will continue its work, where more than 700 young Permians train. The center will be transferred under the leadership of Perm officials from the regional administration of the same name.
While the attention of football fans is riveted to the World Cup taking place in Russia, sad news has come from Perm. One of the most colorful and original teams of the Russian Football Premier League - Perm "Amkar" - ceased to exist. Club President Gennady Shilov in an interview with Sport Express, he said that in the new season the team would not compete in any of the professional leagues: “We don’t have funding, what’s the point of accumulating debts?”
The fact that the team will not play in the RFPL in the 2018/2019 season became clear a week earlier, when the Russian Football Union revoked the team's license allowing it to play in the top division. There was a timid hope that the team would be able to survive in the lower leagues, like a number of well-known teams that had gone this way before. Alas, the hopes were not justified.
In Soviet times, the Zvezda football team, founded in 1932, existed in Perm. The club representing the Sverdlov Perm Engine Building Plant did not have enough stars from the sky. The best achievement of Zvezda was the 6th place in the USSR Championship among the teams of the First League (in 1972 and in 1976). In the early nineties, Zvezda managed to take third place in the First League of the Russian Championship. However, soon the team ran out of funding and the club where the famous Russian coach Pavel Sadyrin, ceased to exist.
Amkar originated in Perm as a competitor to Zvezda. In 1993, the team was created with the support of the Perm OJSC "Mineral Fertilizers". The name "Amkar" comes from a combination of parts of the words "ammonia" and "carbamide": these two substances were the main products of the enterprise.
In Perm, experienced fans were hostile to Amkar, who considered the new team the "gravedigger" of Zvezda. This was partly true: in any case, the leading players of Zvezda really moved to the more financially prosperous Amkar.
Cup final, fight for the championship and the match in London: the best year in the history of Amkar
Over time, however, "Amkar" received the love of the Permian audience. The first step towards it was taken in 1998, when at a crowded stadium in Perm, Amkar sensationally defeated the best team in the country, Spartak Moscow, 1:0 in the Russian Cup.
In 2003, Amkar took 1st place in the first division, breaking into the elite of Russian football.
The 2008 season was the best in the history of Amkar. Permians under the leadership Miodrag Bozovic not only joined the fight for medals, but even aimed at 1st place. As a result, Amkar finished fourth. Even more dramatic were the events in the Cup of Russia, where the Permians met with CSKA in the final. Bozovic's team led 2-0, but the army team managed to bounce back, and a brilliant game decided everything in the penalty shoot-out CSKA goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev.
The fourth place in the Russian Championship allowed Amkar to play in the Europa League. The rival of the team was the English "Fulham". Having lost in London with a score of 1:3, the Permians won at home with a score of 1:0. And even though Amkar dropped out of the tournament on the sum of two meetings, these matches remained a memorable page in the history of Perm football.
Spartak and Amkar players, 2008. Photo: RIA Novosti / Vladimir Fedorenko
Survival as fate
The team failed to stay at a high level. Serious problems with financing began, and in December 2010, a message appeared on the official website of Amkar about a voluntary transfer to the First League due to the difficult financial situation that prevailed in the club.
Shares of fans and open letters to various authorities up to the President of Russia had an effect: money was found for the team, and Amkar remained in the Premier League.
The team's budget was modest, the Permians for the most part fought for survival, but sometimes Amkar took away points from the giants.
Perm is accustomed to financial difficulties, but in the course of the 2017/2018 season they began to take on a fatal character. Several times the conversation was raised that Amkar would not finish the season. Perm played the home match against Lokomotiv in Moscow: the railway workers paid Amkar all the expenses. While journalists and experts were outraged by this situation, the Perm team won sensationally with a score of 2:1.
As a result, Amkar finished in the play-off zone, but managed to surpass FC Tambov and retained the right to play in the Premier League.
Perm will return the "Star"?
What was successful in wrestling did not work out in terms of finances. A quarter of a century after its creation, FC Amkar ceases to exist.
And the authorities of the Perm Territory are now going to revive the Zvezda after 20 years of oblivion. The team will be listed in the lower division. The new team will not have debts in the amount of hundreds of millions of rubles that dragged Amkar to the bottom. And the cost of Zvezda in the lower division will be significantly lower than in the Premier League.
Thus, Amkar Perm became the second Premier League team to cease to exist in 2018. Earlier, a similar fate befell the owner of the Cup of Russia "Tosno". As in the case of Amkar, Tosno ran out of funding.
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Story
"Amkar" is one of the clearest examples of the evolution of a football club in recent Russian history. In a short sixteen years by club standards, Permians have gone from a physical education team to a member of the Europa League, never taking a step back, if we take into account not places in the standings, but transitions from one division to another, a change in team status at the end of the season. On May 8, 1993, having beaten a team of military students from the Perm Higher Military Command Engineering School (6:1) in the Perm Cup match, the football team of the Mineral Fertilizers joint-stock company announced its birth. A year later, Amkar - and the name of the team was invented by a sports activist of the enterprise, successfully adding parts of the names of two substances that are the main products of the plant (ammonia and urea) - won the Cup and the championship of the Perm Region and received a professional status. A year later, the Permians made their way to the second league, and in 1999 they became members of the first division.
Having played for five years in the second most important division of the country and never dropped below sixth place in it, the Permians won the right to play in the Premier League - and in the fifth year of their stay there, they created a small miracle. The provincial team with modest capabilities took fourth place, ahead of Zenit, Lokomotiv, Spartak. Successes in the domestic championship allowed the Perm players to make their debut in Europe next year. Overcome the London “Fulham” on the sum of two meetings failed, but the very fact of the release of the “red-black” in the European arena is worth a lot. By the way, the Urals owe their colors not to anyone, but to Milan itself - a uniform close to the equipment of the Rossoneri was offered to the Permians by the Italian partners of the founding company of the team.
In general, 2009 was not the most successful year for Permians. If in the first two seasons of his stay in the elite it was naive to demand great success from the team led by Sergei Oborin (who led the Permians for eleven years and went with the team all the difficult way from the third division to the top), then, having settled down among the best, the Permians under under the leadership of first Rashid Rakhimov, and then Miodrag Bozovic, they invariably progressed. Thirteenth place, then eighth, fourth... The thirteenth place, already forgotten in the standings of the 2009 season, is a rollback to previous positions, but it is also an opportunity to look at yourself from the outside. A chance to assess their successes in recent years and understand whether the team has climbed too high, jumping somewhere, perhaps over a step in its development.
The fourth place in the championship-2008 is the main, but not the only success of the Permians. The team played twice in the semi-finals and once in the final of the Russian Cup, in 2003 the Urals became the winners of the first division with incredible tournament performance. “Amkar” can boast of its own pupil in the Russian national team – Permian Konstantin Zyryanov received a football education in this club. Zyryanov, however, is not the record holder for the number of games for the “red-blacks”: Alexei Popov entered his name in the history of Perm football forever, who played for the Urals by the time of his departure to Rubin in 404 official matches.
After the departure of Sergei Oborin, a real coaching leapfrog began. From 2006 to 2013, the club had seven coaches: Igor Uralev, Rashid Rakhimov, Miodrag Bozovic, Dimitar Dimitrov, Nikolai Trubachev, Rustem Khuzin and Stanislav Cherchesov. Moreover, Rakhimov and Bozovic came to Amkar twice, but each time their stay was short-lived. The saddest thing for the fans of the Perm team is that despite all the coaching changes, the results of the club left much to be desired. After the outbreak of 2008, Amkar's best result was tenth in the 2011/12 season.
Awards and achievements
Participant of 1/2 Cup of Russia 2002
Winner of the championship of Russia in the 1st division in 2003
Premier League since 2004
Finalist of the Cup of Russia - 2008
Team History
"Amkar" is one of the clearest examples of the evolution of a football club in recent Russian history. In a short sixteen years by club standards, Permians have gone from a physical education team to a member of the Europa League, never taking a step back, if we take into account not places in the standings, but transitions from one division to another, a change in team status at the end of the season. On May 8, 1993, having beaten a team of military students from the Perm Higher Military Command Engineering School (6:1) in the Perm Cup match, the football team of the Mineral Fertilizers joint-stock company announced its birth. A year later, Amkar - and the name of the team was invented by a sports activist of the enterprise, successfully adding parts of the names of two substances that are the main products of the plant (ammonia and urea) - won the Cup and the championship of the Perm Region and received a professional status. A year later, the Permians made their way to the second league, and in 1999 they became members of the first division.
Having played for five years in the second most important division of the country and never dropped below sixth place in it, the Permians won the right to play in the Premier League - and in the fifth year of their stay there, they created a small miracle. The provincial team with modest capabilities took fourth place, ahead of Zenit, Lokomotiv, Spartak. Successes in the domestic championship allowed the Perm players to make their debut in Europe next year. Overcome the London “Fulham” on the sum of two meetings failed, but the very fact of the release of the “red-black” in the European arena is worth a lot. By the way, the Urals owe their colors not to anyone, but to Milan itself - a uniform close to the equipment of the Rossoneri was offered to the Permians by the Italian partners of the founding company of the team.
In general, 2009 was not the most successful year for Permians. If in the first two seasons of his stay in the elite it was naive to demand great success from the team led by Sergei Oborin (who led the Permians for eleven years and went with the team all the difficult way from the third division to the top), then, having settled down among the best, the Permians under under the leadership of first Rashid Rakhimov, and then Miodrag Bozovic, they invariably progressed. Thirteenth place, then eighth, fourth... The thirteenth place, already forgotten in the standings of the 2009 season, is a rollback to previous positions, but it is also an opportunity to look at yourself from the outside. A chance to assess their successes in recent years and understand whether the team has climbed too high, jumping somewhere, perhaps over a step in its development.
The fourth place in the championship-2008 is the main, but not the only success of the Permians. The team played twice in the semi-finals and once in the final of the Russian Cup, in 2003 the Urals became the winners of the first division with incredible tournament performance. “Amkar” can boast of its own pupil in the Russian national team – Permian Konstantin Zyryanov received a football education in this club. Zyryanov, however, is not the record holder for the number of games for the “red-blacks”: Alexei Popov entered his name in the history of Perm football forever, who played for the Urals by the time of his departure to Rubin in 404 official matches.
After the departure of Sergei Oborin, a real coaching leapfrog began. From 2006 to 2013, the club had seven coaches: Igor Uralev, Rashid Rakhimov, Miodrag Bozovic, Dimitar Dimitrov, Nikolai Trubachev, Rustem Khuzin and Stanislav Cherchesov. Moreover, Rakhimov and Bozovic came to Amkar twice, but each time their stay was short-lived. The saddest thing for the fans of the Perm team is that despite all the coaching changes, the results of the club left much to be desired. After the outbreak of 2008, Amkar's best result was tenth in the 2011/12 season.
