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FC Cherepovets (Russian: Футбольный Клуб Череповец) is an association football club from Cherepovets, Russia. It completes in the Russian Second League Division B since 2025. Before 2025, Cherepovets club last competed professionally in the Russian Second Division, West Zone in the 2011–12 season as FC Sheksna, dropping to amateur levels after that. The club changed its name from SeverStal Cherepovets in 2004. In 2012 it was reorganized as FC Cherepovets.
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FC Iskra Smolensk (Russian: «Искра» (Смоленск)) is a Russian football team from Smolensk. Iskra played professionally in 1937 and from 1960 to 1994. In 1995 it merged with FC Kristall Smolensk. They played on the second-highest level in the Soviet First League in 1960–1962 and in 1980–1986. Their best result there was 7th place in 1981. In 2026, a Smolensk team that played in the Russian Amateur Football League under a different name was renamed to Iskra and licensed for the fourth-tier Russian Second League Division B.
The Football National League 2 (FNL2) (Russian: Первенство России II дивизиона ФНЛ), formerly Russian Professional Football League and the Russian Second Division is the third level of Russian professional football.
