FC Kuban Krasnodar - Trivia

Trivia

• In its history, in cup tournaments Kuban has never reached beyond 1/8 finals, in either the USSR Cup, or in the Cup of Russia. Despite the fact that opponents in these 1/8 finals were quite lowly, sometimes even more than a league below and Kuban were drawn at home, however, they have so far always failed. For Kuban fans, the 1/8 finals of the Cup are known as "Hoodoo".

• The Russian history of Kuban is marked by constant coaching changes. In over 17 seasons from 1992 to the present (as of October 1, 2008) the first team has changed its coach 25 times, and the post in the Russian period in the history of the club, it has had 20 different trainers, while none had served as head coach for even two full seasons, and only 5 of them were able to last one full season.
• Until 2005, when a team had a Czech coach, Jozef Chovanec, never in the history of the club had the head been foreign.
• Alexander Irhin is the only head coach of Kuban, under whom the team did not play any official matches.
• Vladimir Gabulov in 2007 became the national first team goalie, who played in starting the main Russia national football team, while playing for Kuban.
• The young goalkeeper Eugene Pomazan, won a 2006 Youth European Championship medal with Russia, becoming the first in Kuban to be a European champion.
• At that time the captain was Bulgarian defender Ivaylo Petkov, who in the game №3 in 2008 in the Russian First Division against FC Sportakademklub Moscow (3:0) was the scorer of the 1000th goal for Kuban, scoring the goal at their rival club.