Football club "Torpedo-Moscow", which is also called "black and white" or "car factory" among fans, was founded in 1924 and has its own stadium named after Eduard Streltsov in the Russian capital. The president of the club is Alexander Tukmanova, the head coach is Alexander Borodyuk, and the captain is Vadim Steklov. According to the results of participation in the top league of the 2012/2013 season, Torpedo-Moscow took 14th place.
History of the "Torpedo-Moscow" club
Back in 1919, a playground was equipped near the Avtozavodskaya station of the Moscow metro, where residents of nearby areas and employees of a large number of enterprises spent their leisure time and later, in 1924, formed their own football team.
The club got its unofficial name - "Torpedo" - for the first time in 1930, and the team's first playing season dates back to 1931. Then "torpedo" several times won the championship of Moscow. For example, in 1944, when Nikolai Ilyin, a member of the "factory" football club, also received the title of Honored Master of Sports.
Torpedo-Moscow reached the final of the Country Cup in 1947, then defeating Dinamo Tbilisi in the quarterfinals and CBKA in the semifinals of the championship. Unfortunately, then the club turned out to be weaker than Spartak, who beat the factory workers with a score of 2: 0.
The 60s of the last century are considered the "golden" decade of Torpedo-Moscow, when the team's coaches contributed to the formation of Russian football by developing a new way of moving from attack to defense. In 1961, Torpedo-Moscow again reached the USSR Cup final, but again lost to Shakhtar Donetsk with a score of 1: 3.
In the future, the football history of the club was not so successful, and the post of head coach of Torpedo-Moscow was occupied by the following eminent people - Sergei Pavlov, Igor Chugainov, Boris Ignatiev and, at the end of the 2012/2013 season, V. V. Kazakov.
List of football achievements "Torpedo-Moscow"
The club has repeatedly hit the top three of the "USSR Football Championship / Russian Football Championship", as well as the top three prize-winners of the "USSR Cup / Russian Cup", "Professional Football League Championship", "Amateur Football League" and "Cup of the President of the Republic of Bashkortostan" …
Among the competitions within the framework of the pan-European competition, Torpedo-Moscow took part in the European Champions Cup / Champions League, reaching the 1/16 finals; in the UEFA Cup / Europa League - quarter-finalist of the 1990/1991 season; in the Cup Winners' Cup - a quarterfinalist in two seasons (1967/1968 and 1986/1987), as well as in the Intertoto Cup, where he was the group winner and reached the semifinals in the 1997 season.
It is also interesting that during its history "Torpedo-Moscow" has changed its name six times. In addition to the modern one, there were the following "Workers' Palace" Proletarian Smithy "(from 1924 to 1930)," Automobile Moscow Society "(1930-1932)," Stalin Plant "(1933-1936), simply" Torpedo "(from 1936 to 1966) and Torpedo-Luzhniki from 1996 to 1998.