FC Lada Tolyatti was a Russia

Russia

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n football

Football (soccer)

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 club based in Tolyatti

Tolyatti

Tolyatti , also known as Togliatti, is a city in Samara Oblast, Russia. It serves as the administrative center of Stavropolsky District, although it is administratively separate from it...

. In March 2010, the club was excluded from the Second Division, along with another Toylatti team, FC Togliatti

FC Togliatti

FC Togliatti was a Russian football club from Tolyatti, founded in 2008. Most of the players on the 2008 roster came from FC Krylia Sovetov-SOK Dimitrovgrad 2007 roster, and the club actually plays their home games in Dimitrovgrad...

, with Tolyatti now represented by FC Akademiya Togliatti.

History

The club was founded in 1970 at the VAZ

Vaz

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 automobile company under the name of Torpedo. The team played in the Soviet Second League until the dissolution of USSR. In 1988 the club was renamed after VAZ's Lada

Lada

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brand.

Since entering the Russian First Division in 1992 Lada experienced a number of divisional movements. They played in the Top Division

Russian Premier League

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 in 1994 and 1996, in the First Division in 1992-1993, 1995, 1997-1998, 2000-2003 and 2006, and in the Second Division

Russian Second Division

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 in 1999 and 2004-2005. Both spells in the Top Division were unsuccessful, as Lada finished last. Lada reached the semifinal of the Russian Cup in 2002/03. Lada Togliatti failed to obtain the First Division licence and were thus relegated to Second Division in 2007.

Reserve squad

Lada's reserve squad played professionally as FC Lada-d Togliatti in the Russian Third League in 1995.

Notable players

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

Vasili Zhupikov

Vasili Zhupikov

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 Maksim Buznikin

Maksim Buznikin

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 Maksim Demenko

Maksim Demenko

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 Yevgeni Kharlachyov

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   Aleksei Bakharev

Aleksei Bakharev

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 Barsegh Kirakosyan Alyaksandr Sulima Vaso Sepashvili

Vaso Sepashvili

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Andrei Miroshnichenko

Andrei Miroshnichenko

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Konstantin Pavlyuchenko

Konstantin Pavlyuchenko

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 Maksim Shevchenko

Maksim Igorevich Shevchenko

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Konstantīns Igošins

Konstantīns Igošins

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 Nerijus Barasa

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Rahmatullo Fuzailov

Rahmatullo Fuzailov

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 Charyar Mukhadov

Charyar Mukhadov

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Yevhen Drahunov

Yevhen Drahunov

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Yuri Hudymenko

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 Volodymyr Savchenko

Volodymyr Mykolayovych Savchenko

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 Aleksandr Khvostunov

Aleksandr Khvostunov

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 Andrei Rezantsev

Andrei Rezantsev

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 Gennadiy Sharipov

Gennadiy Sharipov

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 Maksim Shatskikh

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 Vladimir Shishelov

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