FC Akron Tolyatti

In June 2019, it was confirmed that the club will enter the Russian Professional Football League in the 2019–20 season.[1]

On 15 May 2020, the 2019–20 PFL season was abandoned due to COVID-19 pandemic in Russia. As Akron was leading in their PFL zone at the time, they were promoted to the second-tier FNL for the 2020–21 season.[2]

Akron finished their first FNL season in 17th place, which would normally mean relegation. On 15 May 2021, FNL confirmed that FC Tambov, which placed last in the Premier League and was expected to be relegated to FNL, did not apply for the FNL license for the 2021–22 season and therefore Akron would not be relegated.[3]

In June 2022, Akron became the backer of Konoplyov football academy.[4]

In the 2022–23 season, Akron had an impressive run in the Russian Cup. They consecutively eliminated four Moscow-based Russian Premier League clubs (Torpedo, Lokomotiv, Dynamo and Spartak, including two penalty-shoots) and reached the Regions Path final of the competition, where they lost, also in a shootout, to FC Krasnodar.[5] The cup competition structure was changed to double-elimination for RPL teams that season as Russia was banned from the European competitions due to the Russo-Ukrainian War, in the traditional cup structure, eliminating four RPL teams would have been sufficient for Akron to qualify for the final.

As of 22 February 2023, according to the FNL website.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  RUS Sergey Volkov 3 DF  UKR Danylo Sahutkin 4 DF  SRB Ivan Rogač 5 DF  RUS Dzhamaldin Khodzhaniyazov 6 MF  RUS Sergei Makarov 8 MF  RUS Yevgeni Pesegov 9 MF  RUS Vladimir Azarov 10 MF  RUS Maksim Paliyenko 14 FW  RUS Nikita Saltykov (on loan from Krylia Sovetov) 15 MF  RUS Denis Pavlov 17 DF  RUS Nikita Krivoruchko 18 MF  RUS Anton Kilin 19 MF  RUS Aleks Matsukatov (on loan from Krasnodar) 22 FW  RUS Ruslan Apekov (on loan from Krasnodar) 23 FW  VEN Andrés Ponce

No. Pos. Nation Player 27 MF  RUS Ivan Chudin 31 DF  RUS Maksim Matveyev 35 GK  RUS Vitali Sychyov 50 GK  RUS Dmitry Nagayev 55 DF  RUS Aleksandr Popov 58 DF  RUS Ilya Zuyev 59 FW  RUS Ruslan Bart 69 DF  RUS Pavel Shakuro 70 FW  RUS Abu-Said Eldarushev 77 MF  RUS Konstantin Savichev 78 MF  RUS Aleksey Gusev 88 MF  RUS Dmitri Sasin 90 FW  RUS Artyom Malyshev 97 MF  RUS Danil Poluboyarinov (on loan from Torpedo Moscow)

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  RUS Vladimir Marukhin (at Volga Ulyanovsk until 31 May 2023)

• FC Academiya
• Konoplyov football academy

• FC Akron Tolyatti