PFC CSKA Moscow
or Professional Football Club - Central Sports Club of Army (Moscow)) is the
football section of the
CSKA sports club of
Moscow,
Russia.
It won the Soviet championship seven times (
1946,
1947,
1948,
1950,
1951,
1970,
1991), the Soviet Cup five times (
1945, 1948, 1951,
1955, 1991), the
Russian Cup in
2002,
2005, and
2006, won the
Russian Premier League champions title in
2003 and
2005, finishing second in
2002 and
2004, and the
Russian Super Cup in
2004 and
2006.
Recently, the club received a major financial infusion from a sponsorship deal with Sibneft, an
oil company owned by Russian billionaire
Roman Abramovich. Abramovich will not take an ownership interest in the club as he is the current owner of
English Premiership power
Chelsea and
UEFA rules allow only one club controlled by any one entity (person or corporation) to participate in European club competition in a given season.
In the season 2006 the club is sponsored by Vneshtorgbank.
CSKA Moscow won the
2005 UEFA Cup by beating
Sporting Lisbon 3–1 in the Final on
Sporting's home field in
Lisbon. It became the first Russian club to win a major European title.
The nickname "Koni" (horses) appeared soon after the club was founded, as the players signed for the team were assigned to cavalry units.
1911-1922 - Obshestvo Lyubiteley Lyzhnogo Sporta (OLLS)
(Amateur Society of Skiing Sports)1923 - Opytno-Pokazatel'naya Ploschadka Vseobucha (OPPV)
1924-1927 - Opytno-Pokazatel'naya Ploschadka Voenveda (OPPV)
1928-1950 - Sportivnyi Klub Tsentral'nogo Doma Krasnoy Armii (CDKA)
(Sports Club of Central House of the Red Army)1951-1956 - Sportivnyi Klub Tsentral'nogo Doma Sovetskoy Armii (CDSA)
(Sports Club of Central House of the Soviet Army)1957-1959 - Tsentral'nyi Sportivnyi Klub Ministerstva Oborony (CSK MO)
(Central Sports Club of the Ministry of Defense)1960-Present - Tsentral'nyi Sportivnyi Klub Armii (CSKA)
(Central Sports Club of Army)''As of
02 March 2006, according to the
Russian Premier League official website.
* Midfielder
Osmar Ferreyra is on loan to
San Lorenzo de Almagro.
* Defender
Bohdan Shershun is on loan to
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk.
*
Official website
