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FC Shinnik Yaroslavl is an association football club based in Yaroslavl. It plays in the Russian First Division. The city also hosts the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice hockey team, which became the champion of Russia in 1996–1997, 2001–2002, and 2002–2003. All players on the team were killed on 7 September 2011, when the plane in which they were travelling for their first match of the season crashed on take off from Yaroslavl airport. As tribute to the team, the city co-hosted the 2012 Canada–Russia Challenge with Halifax, Nova Scotia.
A new football stadium is to be built in Yaroslavl in readiness for the 2018 FIFA World Cup which Russia will host.
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