BSC Kristall

BSC Kristall (Russian: ПФК «Кристалл»), or simply Kristall, is a professional beach soccer team based in St. Petersburg, Russia. Kristall is the most successful Russian club at the Euro Winners Cup, having won thrice in 2014, 2015 and 2020. Kristall are a fivefold Russian Nationals and Russian Beach Soccer Cup champions. Additionally, the team won the 2nd Russian Super Cup in 2018, defeating arch-rival BSC Lokomotiv.

BSC Kristall
Full nameBSC Kristall
GroundNova Arena
Capacity2,000[1]
Chairman Oleg Barinov
Manager Vadim Novgorodtsev
Coach Angelo Schirinzi
Alexander Elizarov
Vladimir Gavrilov
Alexey Ivanov
Gennady Tumilovich
WebsiteClub website
Medal record
Beach soccer
Representing  Russia
Euro Winners Cup
2014 Catania
2015 Catania
2020 Nazaré
2018 Nazaré
Nazaré Cup
2018 Nazaré
Russian Championships
2013 Moscow
2015 Sochi
2016 St. Petersburg
2018 Moscow
2019 Samara
2012 St. Petersburg
2014 Volgograd
2017 Saratov
Russian Cup
2015 Sochi
2017 Samara
2018 Sochi
2019 Sochi
2020 Moscow
2012 Moscow
2016 Sochi
Russian Super Cup
2018 Moscow
Inter Cup
2017 St. Petersburg
2018 St. Petersburg
2019 St. Petersburg
Open Indoor Beach Soccer League
2015 St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg Championships
2018 St. Petersburg
2019 St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg Indoor Championships
2017 St. Petersburg
2018 St. Petersburg
2016 St. Petersburg

The club's Brazilian forward, Mauricinho, has described Kristall as the "Real Madrid of beach soccer".[2]

History

Kristall was founded in 2006 on the basis of the Research and Production Center "Polyus" for the participation at the Saint Petersburg Championship and Cup. Since 2011, Kristall is playing in the national elite division. In the same year, Kristall won the OBSL Grand-Prix Winter, and a year later they joined the holding company NOVA Group, leading to its popularization within Russia.[3] Kristall became runner-up at the Russian Championships and third-place finisher at the Russian Cup. The next year the Petersburg club improved by winning the OBSL Grand-Prix Spring and the Russian Championships, although they failed to defend the OBSL Grand-Prix Winter Cup.[4]

Squads

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  RUS Ivan Ostrovsky
3 FW  RUS Aleksey Ilyinsky
5 FW  RUS Yury Krasheninnikov
6 FW  RUS Dmitry Shishin
7 FW  RUS Dmitry Kartashov
8 FW  BLR Igor Brishtel
9 FW  BRA Rodrigo Soares da Costa
10 FW  BRA Luiz Alberto Datinha Braga
14 FW  RUS Artur Paporotnyi
15 FW  RUS Kirill Romanov (captain)
18 FW  RUS Vladislav Zharikov
No. Pos. Nation Player
21 GK  RUS Maxim Chuzhkov
23 FW  RUS Igor Remizov
24 FW  RUS Dmitry Frolov
28 FW  RUS Timofey Khorev
31 GK  RUS Daniel Tumilovich
33 FW  BRA Mauricinho Pereira Braz de Oliveira
77 GK  RUS Aleksandr Besedin
88 FW  RUS Aleksey Krasnoshchekov
90 FW  RUS Innokenty Petrov
99 FW  RUS Mikhail Samusevich

Coach: Angelo Schirinzi

Honours

International competitions
  • Open Indoor Beach Soccer League
  • Winners (1): 2015
  • Inter Cup
  • Winners (2): 2017, 2018

National competitions
  • Winners (5): 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019
  • Russian Cup
  • Winners (3): 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
  • Russian Super Cup
  • Winners (1): 2018

Notable former players
  • André
  • Betinho
  • Bruno Xavier da Silva
  • Elinton Andrade
  • Jorginho
  • Nelito Oliveira da Silva
  • Anatoly Peremitin
  • Pavel Bazhenov
  • Llorenç

References
  1. АРЕНА ПЛЯЖНЫХ ВИДОВ СПОРТА. bsc-kristall.ru
  2. Beach Soccer: Melhor jogador do mundo, Mauricinho é a arma do Vasco para conseguir o bi da Libertadores (in Portuguese). NetVasco. 11 November 2017. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
  3. "About". Archived from the original on 2018-05-27. Retrieved 2018-06-01.
  4. Петербург готов всегда помогать пляжному футболу
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