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PFC CSKA Moscow

Professional Football Club CSKA (Профессиональный футбольный клуб – ЦСКА, derived from the historical name 'Центральный спортивный клуб армии', English: Central Sports Club of the Army), commonly referred to as CSKA Moscow or CSKA Moskva outside of Russia, or simply as CSKA, is a Russian professional football club. It is based in Moscow, playing its home matches at the 30,000-capacity VEB Arena. It plays in red and blue colours, with various plain and striped patterns having been used.

Founded in 1911, CSKA is one of the oldest football clubs in Russia and it had its most successful period after World War II with five titles in six seasons. It won a total of 7 Soviet Top League championships and 5 Soviet Cups, including the double in the last season in 1991. The club has also won 6 Russian Premier League titles as well as 8 Russian Cups.

CSKA Moscow became the first club in Russia to win one of the European cup competitions, the UEFA Cup, after defeating Sporting CP in the final in Lisbon in 2005.

CSKA was the official team of the Soviet Army during the communist era. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union it has become privately owned. In 2012, the Ministry of Defence sold all of its shares (24,94%) to Bluecastle Enterprises Ltd, a conglomerate owning 100% of the club since then. On 13 December 2019, state-owned development corporation VEB.RF announced they will take control of over 75% of club shares that were used as collateral by previous owners for the VEB Arena financing. Russian businessman Roman Abramovich's Sibneft corporation was a leading sponsor of the club from 2004 to 2006.

After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the European Club Association suspended the team, along with all Russian club and national teams, from participation in European competition. Due to the international sanctions the Governmental Investments Bank VEB.RF has sold the club to Trinfico Investments company.

Names
CSKA Moscow was founded in 1911 and, like many clubs in the former Soviet Union, has seen a number of name changes. From 1928 to 1950 the association was called CDKA Moscow (ЦДКА Москва). In 1951 its name was changed to CDSA Moscow (ЦДСА Москва). In 1957 the sports society was renamed again into CSK MO Moscow (ЦСК МО Москва). The current name of club's football department, PFC CSKA Moscow (ПФК ЦСКА Москва) has been used since 1994.

 * 1911–22: Amateur Society of Skiing Sports (OLLS Moscow) (Общество Любителей Лыжного Спорта)
 * 1923: Experimental & Demonstrational Playground of Military Education Association (OPPV) (Опытно-Показательная Площадка Всеобуча)
 * 1924–27: Experimental & Demonstrational Playground of Military Administration (OPPV) (Опытно-Показательная Площадка Военведа)
 * 1928–50: Sports Club of Central House of the Red Army (CDKA) (Спортивный Клуб Центрального Дома Красной Армии)
 * 1951–56: Sports Club of Central House of the Soviet Army (CDSA) (Спортивный Клуб Центрального Дома Советской Армии)
 * 1957–59: Central Sports Club of the Ministry of Defense (CSK MO) (Центральный Спортивный Клуб Министерства Обороны)
 * 1960–: Central Sports Club of Army (CSKA) (Центральный Спортивный Клуб Армии)

Foundation and first successes
The history of CSKA football club began in 1911, when a football section was organized in the Amateur Society of Skiing Sports (OLLS). After the 1917 season, part of the reserve OLLS team moved to the first. In 1921, the champion of the autumn Moscow championship (winner of Fulda Cup) was determined in the final match, in which teams OLLS and KFS took part. The KFS team won 6:0. In the 1922 season, OLLS players won the spring Moscow championship and took second place in the fall championship. In the same year, OLLS won KFS-Kolomyagi Cup, in the final of which, according to the regulations, the winners of the first and second leagues of the Moscow championship met, and Tosmen Cup, where the champions of Moscow and Petrograd met.

Until 1970: Peaks and troughs
The club had its most successful period immediately after the end of the Second World War. At this time, one of the best players in its history and the best scorer in the history of the team, Grigory Fedotov, played for the club. The army men were runners-up in the first edition of the resumed Vysschaya Liga in 1945. Three consecutive championship titles followed for the first time in league history, including club's first double in 1948. This year the army team won their second USSR Cup. In the semifinals, as a result of a replay, CDKA snatched victory from Dynamo Moscow, and in the final they defeated the current cup holders, Spartak. By that time the main army team became dubbed as the "Team of Lieutenants" («Команда Лейтенантов»). After finishing second in 1949, in 1950, the army team became champions again, and in 1951, playing under the new name CDSA (Central House of the Soviet Army), they won a double again, winning both the championship and the cup. The history of the football department from this time is closely linked to the ice hockey department of the club, HC CSKA Moscow, because the leading players like Vsevolod Bobrov played both sports in parallel. After successful times Olympic Games 1952 in Helsinki marked the beginning of the decline of CDSA Moscow. The club's players formed the core of the national team, which, after tough negotiations, joined FIFA shortly before the Olympic football tournament. Boris Arkadiev became the coach of both the national team and the army club. The first meeting between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia in football is still amongst the most famous matches. On the political level, the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and the Yugoslav leader Josip Tito split in 1948, which resulted in Yugoslavia being excluded from the Communist Information Bureau. Before the match, both Tito and Stalin sent telegrams to their national teams, which showed just how important it was for the two head of states. Yugoslavia led 5–1, but a Soviet comeback in the last 15 minutes resulted in a 5–5 draw. The match was replayed, Yugoslavia winning 3–1. The defeat to the archrivals hit Soviet football hard, especially CDSA and its players. After just three games played in the season, CDSA was forced to withdraw from the league and later disbanded. Furthermore, Boris Arkadiev was stripped of his Merited Master of Sports of the USSR title. For intelligence chief Lavrentiy Beria, the Olympic elimination was the perfect opportunity to eliminate the successful city rival. As head of the KGB, he was also honorary president of Dynamo Moscow - the main rival of CDSA. After two seasons of oblivion and after Stalin's death in the spring of 1953 CDSA Moscow was re-established in 1954 on the initiative of then Soviet Defense Minister Nikolai Bulganin. Shortly thereafter, the team won the Soviet Cup in 1955, defeating Dynamo Moscow in the final with the legendary goalkeeper Lev Yashin being sent off. The fans had to wait 15 years for the next trophy. In 1970 season, CSKA became Soviet champions for the sixth time, gaining the same number of points with Dynamo. The first gold match held on December 5, 1970 in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR ended without goals. The next day CSKA won the second match against Dynamo 4:3 after 1:3 deficit. By winning the championship, CSKA qualified for the first round of the European Cup. CSKA defeated Turkish club Galatasaray in the first round, but lost to Belgian champion Standard Liège in the second round and was eliminated from the tournament.

1971 to 1991: Two decades drought
With only 19 points out of a possible 68 in the 1984 season, the club had to endure the first ever relegation to the second division, where CSKA spent two seasons. After returning to the Higher league, the club did not manage to stay in it for a long time, and in the 1987 season, a second relegation followed. Nevertheless CSKA was able to fight its way back after two seasons in the First League, immediately secured the runner-up and even won the last edition of the football championship of the Soviet Union in the 1991 season. Having also won the Soviet cup, the club thus secured the last golden double in the history of the USSR football. With the championship title from the 1991 season, CSKA Moscow qualified for the first round of the 1992–93 UEFA Champions League, where they defeated the Icelandic team Víkingur Reykjavík. In the second round the Spanish top club Barcelona with coach Johan Cruyff was defeated. The opponents in Group A were the current Champions League winners Olympique Marseille, Glasgow Rangers and Club Brugge. CSKA was unable to build on the results of the matches with Barcelona, becoming the fourth in the group with two draws and four defeats, and was eliminated from the tournament.

1992 to 2004: Back to the top
CSKA Moscow was one of the founding members of the newly formed Russian Top Division after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In the first six seasons, the team occupied the places in the middle of the table. In the 1998 season, the club was runner-up and in the next season finished third. In the following two seasons, CSKA Moscow again occupied places in the middle of the table. In the 2002 season, the team trained by Valery Gazzaev took second place again, winning the Russian Cup. In 2003, the team won its first championship in the history of the Russian Premier League. After that, the head coach Valery Gassayev was sacked surprisingly and the Portuguese coach Artur Jorge was signed as his successor. Under the new coach, the team could not build on the performances from the previous season. After falling to fifth place in July 2004, Arthur Jorge was sacked after only eight months at the helm of the club. After the return of Valery Gassaev, CSKA was able to save the season and become vice-champion.

2005 to 2010: Golden years
In the 2004 season, after qualifying for the UEFA Champions League, the team finished third at the group stage and therefore took part in the UEFA Cup play-off. The UEFA Cup for CSKA began with a home match against Portugal's Benfica in the round of 32, which ended in a 2-0 victory for CSKA, in the away match CSKA drew 1-1. The next rival of CSKA was the Serbian club Partizan, the away match in Belgrade ended with a score of 1-1, and the home match in Krasnodar - 2-0 in favor of the red-blue team. In the next round, the army team defeated the French side Auxerre 4-0. Despite the 2-0 away defeat, CSKA was able to continue playing in the UEFA Cup. In the semifinals, CSKA's opponent was the Italian side Parma, after beating which (0-0, 3-0), the Muscovites reached the final. Then, on May 18, 2005, the team became the first Russian team ever to win a European competition, the 2004-05 UEFA Cup at the José Alvalade Stadium in Lisbon, Portugal, winning Sporting 3-1. The team failed to consolidate their success, losing the UEFA Super Cup to English club Liverpool on 26 August 2005 at Stade Louis II, in Monaco. Nevertheless, this year, CSKA become the first Russian club to complete a treble after winning the second Russian championship title and the Russian Cup.

The team had qualified for the third qualifying round of the 2006–07 UEFA Champions League by winning the championship in 2005 and progressed to the group stage over MFK Ružomberok. At the group stage, CSKA finished in third place and qualified for the round of 32 in the UEFA Cup, but was eliminated there against the Israeli representative Maccabi Haifa. In the 2006 season, CSKA won domestic treble, as the team won all three national titles: the Premier League, the Russian Cup and the Russian Super Cup.

As Russian champions, CSKA qualified for the 2007–08 UEFA Champions League. At the group stage, CSKA finished fourth and last with just one draw out of five defeats and was eliminated. In the Premier League, CSKA occupied the third place, but won the Russian Super Cup. In the first half of the 2008 season, CSKA played below expectations and even finished in seventh place at the break of the season. After the European Championship, Valery Gazzaev, who announced his retirement at the end of the season, switched the game tactics to four defenders and let the young Alan Dzagoev, who was considered one of the greatest talents in Russian football, show himself. As a result, CSKA ended its negative series and from then on showed effective football. But it was no longer enough to win the championship, and CSKA took the runner-up behind Rubin Kazan. In the 2008-09 UEFA Cup, CSKA was the only team to achieve twelve points from four group matches. Then the team advanced to the round of 16, where they were defeated by the eventual UEFA Cup winners Shakhtar Donetsk from Ukraine after a 1-0 home win and subsequent 0-2 away defeat. The team also won the Russian Cup for the fourth time. In January 2009, the Brazilian Zico took over the position of head coach at CSKA. After the half of the 2009 season, the club was only fourth. At the end of the 2009 season, fifth place was just enough for participation in the 2010-11 UEFA Europa League. As a result, the Brazilian head coach was dismissed in September 2009. In the same month, the Spaniard Juande Ramos was signed as his successor, but only lasted 47 days before being released on October 26 and replaced by Leonid Slutsky. The club won the Russian Supercup for the fourth time and became the Russian Cup winner for the fifth time. The team had also qualified for the quarter-finals of the Champions League for the first time after defeating Sevilla FC 3–2 on aggregate. They were later eliminated from competition by the eventual winners Inter Milan, losing by 1–0 scorelines in both Milan and Moscow.

Slutsky era
Leonid Slutsky was introduced as the new head coach in October 2009. In the 2010 Russian Premier League season, the team was runner-up. In the Russian Cup, the team was eliminated in the round of 32 against the second division Ural Ekaterinburg. In the Europa League, CSKA made it to the round of 16, where the team lost to the eventual winners Porto after two defeats (0-1 and 1-2). Finishing as the runners-up in the previous season, the club qualified for the group stage of the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League. The opponents in Group B were Inter Milan, Trabzonspor and Lille. On 7 December 2011, CSKA qualified for the knockout phase after winning crucial 3 points by defeating Inter Milan with scoreline 1–2 in Milan and finishing as the runners-up in the group behind the Milanese. In the round of 16 the team met Spanish top club Real Madrid, to which CSKA lost 2-5 on aggregate. In the 2011–12 Russian championship, CSKA could only reach third place despite finishing second after the first phase of the season. By the 100th anniversary of the club, CSKA could not leave its fans without a trophy and won its sixth Russian Cup, beating Alania Vladikavkaz in the final 2-1 on May 22, 2011.

In the 2012–13 season, CSKA took part in the play-off round of the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League, where they were eliminated against Swedish side AIK after 1-0 in Moscow and 0-2 in Stockholm. At the end of the season, however, CSKA were crowned the champions of Russia. It was the eleventh championship title in club history. The team won the Russian Cup and thus achieving a double.

As Russian champions CSKA took part in the 2013–14 UEFA Champions League. The club was eliminated from the competition after the group stage against Bayern Munich, Manchester City and Viktoria Plzeň with only one win and five defeats resulting in the fourth place. In the domestic League, however, the club celebrated the second championship title in a row after Zoran Tošić scored the decisive goal against Lokomotiv Moscow on the last Matchday of the season for the tenth victory in the league in a row. In the 2015–16 season, CSKA advanced to the Champions League group stage over Sparta Prague and Sporting. With PSV Eindhoven, Manchester United and Wolfsburg, CSKA completed Group B of the competition, but wasn't able to advance to the round of 16. In the Premier League, the club started with six consecutive wins, with the first four games being won without conceding a single goal. At the end of the season, the army club finished two points ahead of the second-placed Rostov and won its sixth Russian title (and 13th overall).

As a result, CSKA took part in the group stage of the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League. Opponents in Group E were Monaco, Bayer Leverkusen and Tottenham Hotspur. On 6 October 2016, during the group stage, Finland announced that Roman Eremenko had been handed a 30-day ban from football by UEFA, with UEFA announcing on 18 November 2016, that Eremenko had been handed a two-year ban from football due to testing positive for cocaine. Following the ban of one of the team leaders CSKA couldn't win a single game and was therefore eliminated from the tournament. After the last group game against Tottenham and after a negative run in the league, longtime head coach Leonid Slutsky left the club at his own request.

On 12 December, Viktor Goncharenko was announced as the club's new manager, signing a two-year contract.

Under Goncharenko
As CSKA finished second in the 2016–17 Premier League, they started their way in the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League from the third qualifying round, defeating AEK Athens there and then Young Boys in the play-off round. In Group A, the army club met Benfica, Manchester United and Basel and finished in third place. As a result, CSKA continued to play in the Europa League and advanced to the quarter-finals, losing to Arsenal. On 21 July 2018, Goncharenko extended his contract until the end of the 2019/20 season. During the summer of 2018 CSKA lost many of its leaders: Aleksei and Vasili Berezutski and Sergei Ignashevich finished their careers as professional players; Alexandr Golovin was bought by AS Monaco; Pontus Wernbloom became a PAOK player and Bibras Natcho went to Olympiacos. However, at the start of that season CSKA showed good results, being at the top-three in Russian champions table and beating Real Madrid in Champions League group stage in both home and away matches (1–0 in Moscow and 3–0 in Madrid).

On 13 December 2019, state-owned development corporation VEB.RF announced they will take control of over 75% of club shares that were used as collateral by previous owners for the VEB Arena financing.

On 22 March 2021, Viktor Goncharenko left his role as head coach of CSKA Moscow by mutual consent.

Under Olić, Berezutski and Fedotov
On 23 March 2021, CSKA appointed their former striker Ivica Olić as their new head coach. After just nine games, culminating in a 6th place finish in the 2020–21 Russian Premier League, missing the European competitions for the first time in 20 years, Olić left CSKA by mutual consent on 15 June 2021 with Aleksei Berezutski being placed in temporary charge. On 19 July 2021, Berezutski was confirmed as CSKA's new permanent head coach.

In February 2022, CSKA were hit by sanctions from the United States Department of the Treasury as a consequence of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. CSKA is owned by Russian state-controlled VEB.RF and was sanctioned as its asset. In addition, the European Club Association suspended the team. CSKA won season-best 6 consecutive league games (last two before the winter break and the first four after), Berezutski was selected league's coach of the month for March 2022 and the club moved up to the 3rd position in the standings within 6 points of league-leading Zenit Saint Petersburg. However, CSKA won only twice in the remaining 8 games of the league season and finished in 5th place. On 15 June 2022, Berezutski left his role as Head Coach after his contract was terminated by mutual agreement, with Vladimir Fedotov being appointed as the clubs new Head Coach the same day. Fedotov led CSKA to the 2nd place in the 2022–23 Russian Premier League. CSKA also won the 2022–23 Russian Cup.

Stadium

CSKA had its own stadium called "Light-Athletic Football Complex CSKA" and abbreviated as LFK CSKA. Its capacity is very small for a club of its stature; no more than 4,600 spectators.

Between 1961 and 2000, CSKA played their home games at the Grigory Fedotov Stadium. In 2007, the Grigory Fedotov Stadium was demolished in 2007, and ground was broken on the club's new stadium Arena CSKA later the same year. During construction of their new stadium, CSKA played the majority of their games at the Arena Khimki and Luzhniki Stadium. After several delays in its construction, Arena CSKA was official opened on 10 September 2016.

On 28 February 2017, CSKA Moscow announced that they had sold the naming rights to the stadium to VEB.RF, with the stadium becoming the VEB Arena.

In 2018, CSKA decided to play its home UEFA Champions League matches at Luzhniki Stadium, instead of VEB Arena.

Domestic

 * Soviet Top League / Russian Premier League (First-tier)
 * Winners (13): 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1970, 1991, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2015–16
 * Runners-up (13): 1938, 1945, 1949, 1990, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2014–15, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2022–23
 * Soviet First League / Russian National Football League (Second-tier)
 * Winners: 1986, 1989
 * Runners-up: 1985
 * Soviet Cup / Russian Cup
 * Winners (13): 1945, 1948, 1951, 1955, 1990–91, 2001–02, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2010–11, 2012–13, 2022–23
 * Runners-up (7): 1944, 1966–67, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1999–2000, 2015–16
 * Soviet Super Cup / Russian Super Cup
 * Winners (7): 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2018
 * Runners-up (5): 2003, 2010, 2011, 2016, 2023
 * All-Union CPCS Tournament / USSR Federation Cup / Russian Premier League Cup
 * Winners: 1952

European

 * UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League
 * Winners: 2004–05
 * UEFA Super Cup
 * Runners-up: 2005

Non-official

 * Trofeo Villa de Gijón: 1
 * 1994

 * Channel One Cup: 1
 * 2007

 * Copa del Sol: 1
 * 2010

 * La Manga Cup: 1
 * 2013

UEFA club coefficient ranking
. Source: UEFA Coefficients''

Retired numbers

 * 12 – Club supporters (the 12th man)
 * 16 – 🇺🇦 Serhiy Perkhun, goalkeeper (2001) – posthumous honor

Notable players
Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for CSKA.

• Yuri Adzhem
 * USSR/Russia

•  Valentin Afonin

•  German Apukhtin

•  Vladimir Astapovsky

•  Anatoli Bashashkin

•  Yozhef Betsa

•  Vsevolod Bobrov

•  Valentin Bubukin

•  Vyacheslav Chanov

•  Yuri Chesnokov

•  Sergey Dmitriyev

•  Sergei Fokin

•  Yuri Istomin

•  Vladimir Kaplichny

•  Vagiz Khidiyatullin

•  Anatoly Krutikov

•  Nikolai Manoshin

•  Valentin Nikolayev

•  Valeri Novikov

•  Yuri Nyrkov

•  Mikhail Perevalov

•  Aleksandr Petrov

•  Viktor Ponedelnik

•  Igor Ponomaryov

•  Anatoli Porkhunov

•  Boris Razinsky

•  Viktor Samokhin

•  Albert Shesternyov

•  Valeri Shmarov

•  Andriy Sidelnikov

•  Aleksandr Tarkhanov

•  Viktor Yanushevsky

•  Georgi Yartsev

•  Mikhail Yeryomin

•  Viktor Zvyagintsev

•   🇷🇺 Dmitri Galiamin

•   🇷🇺 Andrei Ivanov

•   🇷🇺 Dmitri Kharine

•   🇷🇺 Igor Korneev

•   🇷🇺 Dmitri Kuznetsov

•   🇷🇺 Oleg Sergeyev

•  🇷🇺 Andrei Mokh

•  🇷🇺 Vladimir Tatarchuk

•  🇹🇲 Valeri Broshin

•  Sergey Shustikov

•  🇷🇺 Valeri Karpin

•  🇷🇺 Andrey Pyatnitsky

• 🇷🇺 Andrei Afanasyev

• 🇷🇺 Ilzat Akhmetov

• 🇷🇺 Igor Akinfeev

• 🇷🇺 Yevgeni Aldonin

• 🇷🇺 Aleksei Berezutski

• 🇷🇺 Vasili Berezutski

• 🇷🇺 Maksim Bokov

• 🇷🇺 Yevgeni Bushmanov

• 🇷🇺 Fyodor Chalov

• 🇷🇺 Nikita Chernov

• 🇷🇺 Vyacheslav Dayev

• 🇷🇺 Igor Diveyev

• 🇷🇺 Alan Dzagoev

• 🇷🇺 Soslan Dzhanayev

• 🇷🇺 Ilshat Fayzulin

• 🇷🇺 Sergei Filippenkov

• 🇷🇺 Vladimir Gabulov

• 🇷🇺 Aleksandr Golovin

• 🇷🇺 Rolan Gusev

• 🇷🇺 Sergei Ignashevich

• 🇷🇺 Aleksei Ionov

• 🇷🇺 Vyacheslav Karavayev

• 🇷🇺 Dmitri Khokhlov

• 🇷🇺 Dmitri Kirichenko

• 🇷🇺 Sergei Kolotovkin

• 🇷🇺 Oleg Kornaukhov

• 🇷🇺 Danil Krugovoy

• 🇷🇺 Konstantin Kuchayev

• 🇷🇺 Alan Kusov

• 🇷🇺 Pavel Mamayev

• 🇷🇺 Veniamin Mandrykin

• 🇷🇺 Valeri Minko

• 🇷🇺 Maksim Mukhin

• 🇷🇺 Kirill Nababkin

• 🇷🇺 Ruslan Nigmatullin

• 🇷🇺 Andrei Novosadov

• 🇷🇺 Ivan Oblyakov

• 🇷🇺 Kirill Panchenko

• 🇷🇺 Ilya Pomazun

• 🇷🇺 Denis Popov

• 🇷🇺 Vladislav Radimov

• 🇷🇺 Sergei Semak

• 🇷🇺 Igor Semshov

• 🇷🇺 Dmitri Sennikov

• 🇷🇺 Georgi Shchennikov

• 🇷🇺 Roman Shirokov

• 🇷🇺 Andrei Solomatin

• 🇷🇺 Yevgeni Varlamov

• 🇷🇺 Viktor Vasin

• 🇷🇺 Oleg Veretennikov

• 🇷🇺 Renat Yanbayev

• 🇷🇺 Igor Yanovsky

• 🇷🇺 Dmitri Yefremov

• 🇷🇺 Denis Yevsikov

• 🇷🇺 Anton Zabolotny

• 🇷🇺 Yuri Zhirkov

• 🇦🇲 Andrey Movsisyan
 * Former USSR countries

• 🇦🇲 Nair Tiknizyan

• 🇦🇿 Deni Gaisumov

• 🇦🇿 Vagif Javadov

• 🇦🇿 Dmitriy Kramarenko

• 🇧🇾 Vyacheslav Geraschenko

• 🇧🇾 Artyom Shumansky

• 🇧🇾 Vadim Skripchenko

• 🇰🇿 Baktiyar Zaynutdinov

• Aleksandrs Cauņa

•  Juris Laizāns

• 🇱🇹 Valdas Ivanauskas

• 🇱🇹 Edgaras Jankauskas

• 🇱🇹 Deividas Šemberas

• 🇲🇩 Oleg Șișchin

• 🇹🇯 Valeri Sarychev

• 🇹🇲 Dmitri Khomukha

• 🇺🇦 Serhiy Perkhun

• 🇺🇦 Bohdan Shershun

• 🇺🇦 Dmytro Tyapushkin

• 🇺🇿 Vitaliy Denisov

• 🇺🇿 Abbosbek Fayzullaev

• 🇺🇿 Alexander Geynrikh

• 🇧🇦 Elvir Rahimić
 * Europe

• 🇧🇬 Georgi Milanov

• Ivica Olić

•  Nikola Vlašić

• 🇨🇿 Jiří Jarošík

• 🇨🇿 Tomáš Necid

• 🇫🇮 Roman Eremenko

• 🇮🇸 Hörður Magnússon

• 🇮🇸 Arnór Sigurðsson

• 🇮🇱 Bibras Natcho

• 🇵🇱 Dawid Janczyk

• 🇷🇸 Milan Gajić

• 🇷🇸 Miloš Krasić

• 🇷🇸 Zoran Tošić

• 🇷🇸 Saša Zdjelar

• 🇸🇰 Marek Hollý

• 🇸🇮 Jaka Bijol

• 🇸🇪 Rasmus Elm

• 🇸🇪 Pontus Wernbloom

• 🇹🇷 Caner Erkin

• 🇹🇷 Yusuf Yazıcı

• 🇦🇷 Adolfo Gaich
 * South America

• 🇧🇷 Daniel Carvalho

• 🇧🇷 Dudu Cearense

• 🇧🇷 🇷🇺 Mário Fernandes

• 🇧🇷 Jô

• 🇧🇷 Vágner Love

• Víctor Dávila

•  Mark González

•  Víctor Méndez

• 🇨🇴 Jorge Carrascal

•  Jesús Medina

•  Abel Hernández

• 🇻🇪 Salomón Rondón

• 🇨🇮 Seydou Doumbia
 * Africa

• 🇨🇮 Jean-Philippe Gbamin

• 🇨🇮 Lacina Traoré

• 🇱🇷 Sekou Oliseh

• 🇲🇱 Sékou Koïta

• Ouwo Moussa Maazou

• 🇳🇬 Chidera Ejuke

• 🇳🇬 Ahmed Musa

• 🇳🇬 Chidi Odiah

• 🇳🇬 Aaron Olanare

• 🇰🇷 Kim In-Sung
 * Asia

• 🇯🇵 Keisuke Honda

Supporters and rivalries
CSKA Moscow fans maintain good relations with the fans of Serbian Partizan, Greek PAOK FC, Bulgarian CSKA Sofia, Polish Widzew Łódź and fellow Russian fans of Dynamo Moscow. The Club's main rival is Spartak Moscow.

Nickname
CSKA was nicknamed Horses because the first stadium was built on the old racecourse/hippodromo in Moscow. It was considered offensive, but later it was transformed into The Horses, and currently this nickname is used by players and fans as the name, along with other variants such as Army Men (армейцы) and Red-Blues (красно-синие).

Famous fans

 * Alexander Babakov
 * Matvey Blanter
 * Aleksey Buldakov
 * Igor Butman
 * Semyon Farada
 * Oleg Gazmanov
 * Andrei Grechko
 * Sergei Ivanov
 * Konstantin Kinchev
 * Leonid Kuravlyov
 * Otar Kushanashvili
 * Denis Lebedev
 * Yegor Letov
 * Oleg Menshikov
 * Aleksey Merinov
 * Maya Plisetskaya
 * Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov
 * Natalya Seleznyova
 * Maksim Shevchenko
 * Mikhail Tanich
 * Natalya Varley
 * Vladimir Vysotsky
 * Sergei Yastrzhembsky
 * Mikhail Youzhny
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Following the disbanding of Zorky Krasnogorsk near the end of the 2015 Top Division, FK Rossiyanka filled its vacancy for the next season and the new team was registered as CSKA in the 2016 championship. Its first game, a 1–1 draw against Chertanovo, coincided with the 93rd anniversary of the CSKA's first football match. CSKA ended the championship second-to-last, while Rossiyanka won its fifth title.

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Allagash River

The Allagash River is a tributary of the Saint John River, approximately 65 mi long, in northern Maine in the United States. It drains in a remote and scenic area of wilderness in the Maine North Woods north of Mount Katahdin. The name "Allagash" comes from the Abenaki language, a dialect of the Algonquin languages, spoken by the Penobscot Tribe. The word, /walakéskʸihtəkʸ/, means "bark stream".

The Allagash issues from Churchill Lake (formerly known as Heron Lake) at Churchill Depot in northern Piscataquis County. In its natural state, it also drained Allagash, Chamberlain, and Telos lakes, but in the 1840s dams were built which diverted their drainage into the East Branch of the Penobscot River, to facilitate the shipping of logs south to coastal Maine. Lock Dam drains some water from Chamberlain Lake into the south end of Eagle Lake, which then flows out through the Allagash as it naturally would. Extending the flowline of the Allagash River to Lock Dam on Chamberlain Lake gives a total length to the mouth of the Allagash at the Saint John River of 86 mi.

The Allagash flows generally northeast, passing through a chain of natural mountain lakes. It joins the Saint John from the south at Allagash, Maine, near the international border with New Brunswick. The relatively unspoiled nature of the river has long made it a popular destination for canoe trips. In 1857 Henry David Thoreau, along with his Concord friend Edward S. Hoar and Penobscot guide Joseph Polis, made a canoe journey which led him to the source of the river, i.e. Heron Lake. His account of the excursion called "The Allegash and East Branch" was published posthumously as the third chapter of The Maine Woods (1864).

In 1966, the citizens of Maine voted to protect the river by authorizing a $1.5 million bond that would "develop the maximum wilderness character" of the river. Much of the river was subsequently designated as the Allagash Wilderness Waterway. In 1970 the waterway became part of the National Wild and Scenic River program of the U.S. federal government. Although the wild designation of the river is normally applied to free-flowing streams, the designation left in place the wooden Churchill Dam for historic reasons. In the 1990s, with the dam failing, the citizens of Maine authorized a concrete replacement for the dam to preserve the nearby recreational facilities on the river. The rebuilding of the dam was highly criticized by environmentalists. The expansion of recreational access to the river through new roads and docks has remained a controversial topic in recent years.

Development in much of the area surrounding the Allagash Wilderness Waterway is restricted by the Seven Islands Land Company, a private land management company that owns approximately 1 million acres (4,000 km2) of forest in northern Maine.

The United States government maintains one stream gauge on the Allagash, located 3 mi above the river's mouth near Allagash, Maine (47.07056°N, -69.08083°W), at which point the watershed is 1479 sqmi. The river's discharge (flow) at this gauge averages 1967 cuft/s, with a recorded maximum of 40900 cuft/s and minimum of 87 cuft/s. Annual maximum flows occur during the spring snow melt and minimums in the fall.

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Much as I admire speakers of other languages who attempt to write articles in English, this is completely incomprehensible in its present form. Deb 16:54, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep and list for cleanup. Seems sufficiently encyclopedic to me, and if we can make sense out of Battle of Vysehrad I bet we can handle this. Triskaideka 17:11, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. I get the exact same result by running the german wikipedia article through babelfish. People should not paste machine-translated articles into wikipedia. If somebody wants to fix the article they can always start from the German original. Thue | talk 18:29, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep and list on cleanup. RickK 19:39, Jul 27, 2004 (UTC)
 * comment: the same anon user has evidently been doing the same with a whole raft of articles, many detailed articles on power line construction / electricity supply, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=80.185.105.163 . I think most are keepable, but there's a helluva lot of cleanup needing to be done. Anyone for Konti-Skan? It might be worth dropping an encouraging note to the author, hinting th articles would benefit from a more leisurely pace of addition. Ianb 19:54, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * OK, I've cleaned this one up. People interested in the history of medium-wave antennas might want to re-add the reference. Ianb 20:45, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)
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Hello Sunborn
I made some edits to a page you had previously worked on. My comments about the recent round of edits to the List of Zeta Psi chapters is on the Talk page. If you have continuing interest and time, I'd welcome your review. You'd also be welcome to join the Fraternities and Sororities Project. If I read correctly your reasons for semi-retiring, I concur that edit wars and Deletionism has been a problem. For us, we police these articles within our area of interest, and have kept the Deletionists and other trolls at bay. We now monitor several thousand pages, and are actively improving them. Jax MN (talk) 22:02, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

New comment, on Engineering WP page
As a fellow engineer, I believe that you should undo removal of

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An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect METAL GEAR SOLID 2 SONS OF LIBIRTY and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Dominicmgm (talk) 14:14, 11 December 2022 (UTC)

Review of the Themes And Analysis Section
I've been going through a lot of the sources for the section which analyzes the themes of the game and, apart from it coming off as "gushy", it attributes various blurb mentions of said themes that seem to have only been made in passing reference to it (such as "sexual orientation" and "incest"), and does not at all constitute being explored "in significant detail". There appears to be a whole plethora of links that have been dumped after a long laundry list of "philosophical themes" that the game supposedly expresses, which I do not have the time to cross-reference for each and every one. I think each specific philosophical theme should be cited individually, not given a dump of links at the tail end of a long list. Does anyone else agree? And shouldn't we only include said themes if they are actually explored in-depth instead of being mentioned off-hand? I'm also not sure how academically rigorous mentions of it in gaming publications in columns and opinion piece articles for places like "GamesRadar" and "Gamasutra" are, if we are to be truly exploring the philosophical merit of this game. MutedL (talk) 03:49, 10 January 2024 (UTC)


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No problem on the reverts. I listed him at WP:AIV, but there doesn't seem to be anyone in at the moment ;O)  FlowerpotmaN ·(t) 03:55, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
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no I'm not... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.0.125.230 (talk • contribs)

Quit editing my page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.0.125.230 (talk • contribs)

Vandalism on my user page

 * I'm just sorry it took so long for someone to block the user. The user page edit war had been raging for almost an hour. I only found out because FlowerpotmaN has posted to WP:AIV. Anyway, thanks again, I found a better 'hog picture.-Andrew c [talk] 04:55, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

its my school
and i know whats going on there, that was the truth and you should mind your own business, i was telling the truth, so you sholudnt involve yourself in it, nice userpage by the way!

User talk:68.0.125.230
On the bright side...as long as he's kept busy deleting his own talk page, he's not vandalizing other articles :-) Trusilver 02:47, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

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Thankyou FrankCostanza for deleting (reverting) vandalism on my userpage. Takk Fyllil again! H irohisat Talk 09:31, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

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FrankCostanza was born on March 6, 1981 in Windsor, Nova Scotia, and still lives with his parents]. His interests include sports, comedy, animals, bestiality, ,politics and music. He enjoys categorizing and recategorizing articles, correcting spelling mistakes (usually his own) and smoking cock. Most of the articles he works on are on sports or the Maritime Province
 * I was reading your page and saw this and didn't think it was quite....righttt...so I checked the history and sho 'nuff it was vandalism. Might wanna up the ol' vandalism counter. Tyler Warren (talk/contribs) 14:19, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

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Hey, Peeps, it's that time of the month again (no not that time — get your mind out of the gutter): time for another monthly edition of the LGBT Project's Love Boat newsletter from your cruise director Miss Julie. So much has been happening this month and I just can't wait to tell you all about it!!!

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Alice and her harasser
Let's start with some good news: Alice and the project lost the bothersome sock puppet who had been disrupting many articles we monitor, and now most of us can edit in relative peace. Congratulations, Alice, for being able to come out of semi-retirement. Benjiboi, on the other hand, has gained an anonymous IP stalker who seems to be more Catholic than the Pope and who has a hard-on for the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. We seem to have a sort of Yin and Yang thing going on here, which helps both to keep us in balance and on our toes.

Harry Potter and his homosexual teacher
Albus Dumbledore got outed this month, and was immediately adopted by our project. The international brouhaha surrounding this disclosure reached all the way to Wikiland, and his article was briefly locked due to homophobic vandalism (as well as well meaning editors who just couldn't believe that that nice man could possibly be gay). This is a wonderful article to add to your watchlist, and will surely give you hours of reverting fun on cold winter days.

"My Fellow Americans"
On a more serious note, Fireplace has suggested a new article series about LGBT rights in the United States, state by state. This ambitious topic will surely require many editors and a lot of research, but has the potential to add further prestige to our already prestigious project.

Same name, same sexuality: a riddle for the ages
Francis Bacon (not the new gay one, but the old gay one ... though they're actually both dead, now that I think about it) has also aroused passions here on Wikipedia, with editors opposing his sexuality being disclosed in his biography. The always helpful Haiduc has thoughtfully provided any number of sources, but it is slow going getting his point across. Anyone want to lend a hand?

Beat writer arouses Irish guy
And speaking of passions, Jack Kerouac has inflamed the senses once again with editors, including administrator Irishguy, mounting a spirited defense to keep him as heterosexual as possible for Wikipedia purposes. Why? I don't know. Perhaps some of you can drop by the talk page and ask your questions there. I feel certain a stimulating debate will ensue that will be enjoyed by all.

Love those Texas Longhorns
Did you know that one of our Featured articles, Lawrence v. Texas, lost its shiny gold star? That was a shocker. It has been suggested that we turn our attention to it in an effort to restore it to its former glory. I took a peek, and it does need our help badly. For our American editors, it would seem almost a civic duty to edit it (not that I'm hinting....).

Point and Counterpoint
Though it was far too intellectual a debate for a mere cruise director like myself to take part in, Intersexuality was certainly a hot topic a week or two ago. The thrust of the debate was over inclusion in our project. Lots of good editors had lots of good opinions. For those too lazy to check out the discussion, we decided to leave it out for now.

Drudgery on offer
Peer review is, as always, short staffed and seemingly unloved. Wouldn't you feel better about yourself and the world in general if you took a few minutes to read one of the listed articles and offer some helpful advice? I know I'd feel better if you did.
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"My Fellow Americans" redux
The article LGBT movements in the United States certainly raised eyebrows last week, especially when it was discovered that copyrighted content had been added to our article. Tragedy was averted at the last minute, though, when the original hosts of the article where the material had been pilfered agreed to make it free to everyone. Our thanks to them, whoever they are. Busy Bee that I am, I haven't had time to read it, but I'm sure it's sensational.

This month's Wiki stars
Lesbian pulp fiction (a genre close to my heart, I must confess) writer Ann Bannon has decided to spice up the featured articles candidates list this month. Why not drop by and make your opinion heard? Joining her in this lofty aspiration are the articles But I'm a Cheerleader and Conversion therapy. I'm sure their main editors would welcome any comments (well, helpful ones, anyway) on the talk pages or the FAC discussions. And lest we forget, the List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: Sd-Si became a Featured list!! Rah rah, siskumbah! Go, team, GO!!!!

And the Oscar goes to...
Not content to run for Best Actress, plucky Bannon won a Best supporting actress Oscar... whoops, I meant to say Ann is also getting more than her share of womanly attention on the Good Article list. Joining her on this exalted plane are Freddy Mercury, Waylon Smithers and Lance Bass. Good articles indeed, and the last one mentioned just goes to show that one needn't admire the subject of an article to appreciate the effort put into making him worthwhile reading. What on earth Britney ever saw in him I'll never know. Truly a riddle cloaked in an enigma and wrapped around a puzzle.

Fresh faces to brighten our pages
Though I may not be the first, let me extend a warm, LGBT Love Boat welcome to the 12 new members who joined us in October: Jliberty, JockCub360, ChristopherEdwards, Desiderius82, Zlrussell, Kelsied, BeardedWoof, Mujerado, Tyrfing, Fabgurrl, Redl@nds597198, and decafdyke! Whatever you choose to do here, I feel sure that your contributions will enhance our project to no end. And if they don't...well, let's just say that I'm not shy.

Leather and lace
On a personal note, your already overworked cruise director is being cyberly whipped almost daily by Nemissimo, who desperately wants to get the German BDSM translation copy edited and used as a replacement for the current one. It's such a ... err, stimulating topic that I am sure many of you will want to join the copy editing fun. Jump right in, folks! It's so lonely copy editing it all by my lonesome!

Late breaking news
A little birdie just whispered in my ear that our noble collaboration project was delisted from the Community Portal due to inactivity. When asked how this scandalous turn of events could have occurred, the answer I received was "we suck at stuff like that". Well. In the first place, I disagree that sucking should be considered a negative, but to each his or her own. In the second place, I have full confidence that we can and will collaborate with other projects in the future. So let's not view this as a setback (even though it is), but rather a challenge to improve (and good Lord, I sound almost Wikipedian!).

Champagne dreams and caviar kisses
Lastly, the holidays are rapidly approaching. Our American cousins are currently getting ready to slaughter masses of poultry in an effort to show their gratitude and generally peaceful demeanor, and those of the Canadian persuasion, trendsetters that they are, celebrated a bit early this year. I'm sure all us foreigners will join together in wishing them all a very happy Thanksgiving on their respective holidays, both already celebrated and forthcoming... though I would hope somebody would enlighten me as to why they don't celebrate it on the same day. I was awake all last night trying to figure that one out. - In the spirit of this peculiarly North American holiday, let me take a moment to thank all of our editors for their contributions to this project. It's people like you who make people like me...well, a "people person"! May all your Wiki days be bright, and may your Love Boat never turn into a Poseidon.
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Orphaned non-free media (Image:HalifaxMooseheads00.gif)
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Orphaned non-free media (Image:CapeBretonScreamingEagles.gif)
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Orphaned non-free image (File:Rouyn-NorandaHuskies.gif)
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Replaceable fair use Image:Dunsworth.jpg
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Copyright problems with Maritime Football League
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Nomination of Maritime Football League for deletion
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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Qued. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Qued~enwiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name. If you think you might own all of the accounts with this name and this message is in error, please visit Special:MergeAccount to check and attach all of your accounts to prevent them from being renamed.

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Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 02:15, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 17:50, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

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