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The Sochi Football Club was founded in July 2018. The official founding date of the club is July 4th. Home matches are played at the Fisht Stadium (capacity 45,994 spectators).
The team spent its first season as part of the FNL championship. Having started playing at the Slava Metreveli Stadium, the team finally moved to the Fisht Stadium only by October 2018. The captain of that team was Evgeny Pesegov, the best scorer was Maxim Barsov. At the end of the first season, Alexander Tochilin's wards took second place in the FNL standings, scoring 69 points in 38 matches, providing direct access to the Russian Premier League a few rounds before the end of the championship.
The beginning in the Russian Premier League was not easy to play. Five matches without goals, the first victory only in the eighth round (3:0 away with Rubin) and the struggle for survival with the first rounds of the Championship. After defeating Dynamo (3:2) and Akhmat (2:0), the team again waited for an unsuccessful series. In the end, Alexander Tochilin left the coaching post, the team finished the calendar year 2019 - 2020 under the leadership of Roman Berezovsky, and at the end of the year it was headed by Vladimir Fedotov.
The start of the second season in the Tinkoff RPL was a success for the Sochi residents, the "leopards" immediately fixed themselves in the top part of the standings. The first defeat happened only in the 8th round in Tula (2:3), while Sochi was completely invincible in the championship. The success of the beginning of the season was completed before the end of the calendar year: having beaten Dynamo (2:0), the Sochi team went into the winter break in the top four.
New calendar year 2020 – 2021 Championship started with Krasnodar team. The victory 2:1 allowed the Sochi team to achieve the best result in the history of all Sochi football - an outcome in the 1/4 finals of the Cup of the country. Successful games of Sochi residents in anticipation of the season, coupled with the victory of the Lokomotiv in the Cup and Sochi's entry into European competitions. For the first time in history. The most productive seasons in the career of Nikita Burmistrov, Christian Noboa, Anton Zabolotny and Artur Yusupov turned out to be in the composition of the Sochi team.
