The KAMAZ Chronicle
Market21 Sep 2026
Maxim Laikin agrees terms with Chertanovo
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around KAMAZ people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Match19 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for KAMAZ
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around KAMAZ are no longer polite ones.
Match19 Sep 2026
4 matches without a goal for KAMAZ
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at KAMAZ
Artem Popov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
KAMAZ rebuffed over Jakub Pira
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Banik Ostrava have kept their man, and KAMAZ go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match19 Sep 2026
A bad afternoon for KAMAZ against Volga
0‑1 to Volga, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Timofey Kalistratov reaches 100 appearances
100 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
David Karaev was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 17. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Mikhail Markin
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mikhail Markin, and the manager let it.
In brief
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- The dugout KAMAZ pick somebody else ahead of Kian Visser
- Looking ahead David Khubaev faces his old club