FC Baltika Kaliningrad

The club was founded on 22 December 1954 as Pishchevik Kaliningrad. In 1958 the club was renamed Baltika.

The team entered the Soviet League in 1957 and played in Class B (1957–1965), Class A, Group 2 (1966–1970), and Second League (1971–1991). The best result was achieved in 1984, when Baltika won the regional group tournament.

In 1992 Baltika entered the Russian Second Division and won the regional tournament and promotion to the First Division. After a fourth-place finish in 1993 and third position in 1994 Baltika won the division in 1995. In 1996 Baltika achieved the best result in club's history, finishing 7th in the Top Division, the Russian Premier League. Baltika were relegated in 1998, spending a total of three seasons in the top flight. In 1998 Baltika participated in the Intertoto Cup and reached the third round.

Since then, Baltika played in the First Division, except for the 2002 and 2005 seasons which they spent in the Second Division.

In 2018–19 Russian Football National League, they finished 16th (a relegation spot). However, PFL zone East winners FC Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk did not apply for the FNL license, keeping Baltika in the league.[2]

On 19 May 2023, Baltika secured a promotion to the Russian Premier League for the first time in 25 years.[1]

As of 14 September 2023, according to the official Russian Premier League website.

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 Yevgeni Latyshonok 2 DF  RUS Aleksandr Zhirov 3 DF  RUS Kirill Malyarov 4 DF  FRA Nathan Gassama 5 MF  RUS Aleksandr Osipov 6 MF  RUS Maksim Kuzmin 7 DF  BOL Roberto Fernández (on loan from Bolívar) 8 DF  RUS Aslan Dudiyev 9 FW  BIH Gedeon Guzina 10 MF  RUS Yan Kazayev 13 DF  CHI Guillermo Soto 16 GK  RUS Aleksandr Koryakin

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 MF  CRO Kristijan Bistrović (on loan from CSKA Moscow) 18 FW  CHI Ángelo Henríquez 19 MF  RUS Sergei Pryakhin 20 MF  ARM Artur Galoyan 21 DF  SRB Ivan Ostojić 22 FW  RUS Tamerlan Musayev 23 DF  RUS Aleksandr Putsko 26 DF  SRB Nikola Radmanovac 27 DF  ARM Sergey Kochkanyan 35 GK  RUS Soslan Dzhanayev 59 MF  ARM Tigran Avanesyan 66 MF  POR João Lameira 67 GK  RUS Maksim Borisko 89 MF  RUS Vladislav Lazarev

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  RUS Gocha Gogrichiani (at Volgar Astrakhan until 30 June 2024)

Baltika's reserve team played professionally in the Russian Third League in 1994 as FC Baltika-d Kaliningrad and in the Russian Second Division in 2006 and 2007 as FC Baltika-2 Kaliningrad.

These players had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Baltika.

• Official website (in Russian)