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| Previous Names |
| 1923 |
Club of the October Revolution (KOR) |
| 1931 |
Kazanka (Moscow-Kazan Railway) |
| 1936 |
Lokomotiv |
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| Club History |
The history of football club "Lokomotiv"(Moscow) dates back to 1923 when the Club named after the October revolution (KOR) was formed. It united the strongest football players of several roads of the Moscow railway junction. In the late 20s - early 30s KOR constantly figured as one of the strongest football collectives of Moscow.
In 1936, when the Voluntary sports society of railwaymen "Lokomotiv" was created, its football team featured the best players of KOR and a number of the strongest Soviet footballers of that time: Valentin Granatkin, Nikolay llyin, Alexey Sokolov, Pyotr Terenkov, Mikhail Zhukov, llya Gvozdkov, Ivan Andreev. Moscow "Lokomotiv" has opened the draw of the first USSR football club championship by a game with Dynamo Leningrad on May, 22,1936. In the two first seasonal championships (spring and autumn) the team finished respectively 5-th and 4-th.
The first appreciable success "Lokomotiv" has achieved in the same 1936, becoming the first USSR Cup holder. In the final game railwaymen have beaten "Dynamo" Tbilisi - 2:0.
All the thirties Moscow "Lokomotiv" invariably showed stable game in national championships. Post-war years for the team were not so successful - they balanced between the premier and the first league.
In 1952 "Lokomotiv" for the second time in its history promoted to the premier league (then called "A" class). Since then the second rise of "Lokomotiv" started. Down to the beginning of 60s railwaymen constantly struggled for the highest trophies and in 1957 for the second time have won the USSR Cup, and in 1959 have received silver medals of the Soviet league.
Up to the late 50s international contacts of the Soviet teams were extremely rare. However since 1955, "Lokomotiv" became an original football ambassador of the Soviet Union abroad. Playing friendly matches the team has travelled the half-world including Europe, Asia, Africa and Northern America. In the same time the International sports union of railwaymen (ISUR) was formed. Socialist countries of the Eastern Europe were represented by rather strong teams, which participated in ISUR football tournament. Those games also became a good school for the capital's club.
It was a "silver" (and "crystal") era of Moscow "Lokomotiv". Then shone the stars of the famous Soviet players: Vladimir Maslachenko, Gennady Zabelin, Eugeny Rogov, Valentine Bubukin, Victor Sokolov, Victor Voroshilov, Igor Zajtsev, Zaur Kaloyev, Yuri Kovalyov, Vitaly Artemyev...
But when the team was abandoned by the strongest players, "Lokomotiv" again began to hand over a position. "Swing" between the premier and first divisions proceeded down to the end of 80s. The third rise of the club started with the arrival of present coach and management team led by Yury Syomin and Valery Filatov. During a rather short post-Soviet era Moscow "Lokomotiv" four times won silver medals and twice - bronze. Four times the railwaymen conquered the Cup of Russia, under the right having won a rank of the ultimate cup team of the country.
The certain hights were also achieved on the international level - two times in a row "Lokomotiv" reached the semifinals of the Cup Winners Cup. (And in 1998 at this stage muscovites have twice tied with "Lazio" being knocked out only on away goal rule).
"Lokomotiv"'s establishing in conditions of economic reforms owes much to the stable financial help from the Russian Ministry of Railways.
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| National Achievements |
| Russian Championship |
Champion 2002, 2004
2-nd place 1995, 1999, 2000, 2001
3-d place 1994, 1998 |
| USSR Championship |
2-nd place 1959 |
| Russian Cup |
Winner 1995/1996, 1996/1997, 1999/2000, 2000/2001
Finalist 1997/1998 |
| USSR Cup |
Winner 1936, 1957
Finalist 1990 |
| Russian Super Cup |
Winner 2003 |
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| International Achievements |
| Cup Winners Cup |
Semifinal 1997/98 and 1998/99
1/8 Final stage 2003/2004 |
| Champions League |
2nd group stage 2002/2003
3-rd place in the 1-st group stage 2001/2002 |
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