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"Tosno" returns!
The Tosno football club will resume participation in tournaments under the auspices of the Russian Football Union. The message about this was published on April 13 on the club page in VKontakte.
The report said that “agreements have been reached”, in which an adult male team, children and youth teams and a team of veterans under a single brand of FC Tosno will perform in all official competitions under the auspices of the RFU.
In 2023, the teams of FC Tosno will participate in regional tournaments: the championship, the championship and the Cup of the Leningrad Region. The main team will also take part in the Cup of Regions, the Championship and the CSF Cup. The deadlines for returning to tournaments of the main championship of Russia are not specified.
The report said that the agreements were achieved with the support of the administration of the Tosnensky district and the local municipality, as well as the Atlanta sports and leisure center.
Context. FC Tosno was created in the Leningrad region in 2013. The team became a sensation in the first year of existence, knocking out the Moscow Spartak from the Russian Cup. In 2017, the team made his way to the Russian Premier League, and in May 2018, the Russian Cup won.
The victory in the Russian Cup gave Tosno the right to participate in the Europa League, but the club did not receive the necessary license. Despite the victory in the Russian Cup, the team showed bad results in the RPL and flew out of the tournament.
In addition, in 2018 it became known about the serious financial problems of the club: the players did not receive a salary and asked for the help of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Tosno could not be accredited to participate in the FNL (the following RPL division of the Russian football championship).
In June 2018, the founder of Fort Group, which owns Tosno, Maxim Levchenko announced that the club is ceasing to exist.
At the same time, the pages of the club on VKontakte and Twitter continued to live: every day the message appeared there "Nothing happened today." On February 24, 2022, on the day of the beginning of a full -scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the record appeared on the Tosno page "Today it would be better to happen."