Lokomotiv Moscow (FC Lokomotiv Moskva) is a Russian football club based in
Moscow. It was founded in 1923 as Club of the October Revolution and was
renamed Lokomotiv in 1936.
Lokomotiv are the reigning Russian Premier League champions. They also won
the Russian Premier League in 2002 (ending Spartak Moscow domination), the
USSR Cup in 1936 and 1937, and the Russian Cup in 1996, 1997, 2000, and
2001.
In 2004 Lokomotiv Moscow won the Russian Premier League by a single point
over city rivals CSKA Moscow. Lokomotiv won the championship by defeating FC
Shinnik Yaroslavl 3-0 in Yaroslav, a week after CSKA slipped up against city
rivals Dynamo Moscow at home. This is Lokomotiv's second Russian
championship. |
