Vladimir Fedotov becomes head coach of Russia’s CSKA football club

Vladimir Fedotov has replaced Alexey Berezutsky as head coach of Moscow’s CSKA football club, the team’s press service announced on Wednesday.

According to reports, the club signed a long-term contract with Fedotov. The coaching staff includes Oleg Fomenko, Murat Iskakov and Radik Yamlikhanov, who had previously worked with Fedotov in Sochi.

Fedotov will be stepping into the shoes of Berezutsky, who has been the head coach since the summer of 2021.

Since 2017, Fedotov, 55, has been the head coach at Orenburg, in the 2017-2018 season, the club won first place in the championship of the Olimp Football National League and won the right to play in the Russian Premier League. In January 2020, Fedotov left Orenburg to lead Sochi. In the 2020-2021 season, Sochi ranked fifth in the Russian championship and for the first time in history made it to the European Cups. Last season, the team lost to Serbia’s Partizan in the third qualifying round of the Conference League, reaching the 1/8 finals of the Russian Cup, where they lost to CSKA with a score of 1:2. In the Russian championship, Sochi finished second, which is the club’s best achievement in its history.