2002
The season should be interesting. The administration put the task to get the medals. But the first circle showed than team has a lot of problems. As the result FC Rostselmash got finance and moral crisis. The gubernator of Rostov Region Vladimir Chub advised Ivan Savvidi to lead the club. After change of leaders the situation became better. The club had no more financial problems, got two new strong legionaries, returned Alexandr Maslov to team. Sergei Balakhnin became the head coach again. The result of the season stayed in the league, but wasn’t higher than 12 position for the first time during last 3 seasons.
2003
In 2003 club was renamed in honour of its city and got their best achievement in Russia. In Russian Cup they played in the Final, where they played equal with 9-time Russian champion Spartak Moscow. Rostov lost 0-1, but one week later they won in chapionship game vs Spartak 3-2 proved they had the ability to win Cup. On December 9, 2003 Balakhnin was sacked. Vitaliy Shevchenko took his place.
2004
Club started this season with bad results. Rostov lost 0-4 its starting championship match against Torpedo on the home ground. This match was followed by a series of games without a single win. As a result, when on April 14, 2004 Rostov lost 0-3 the Russian Cup game to Torpedo-Metallurg, Shevchenko resigned. Two days later club chairman Ivan Savvidi again appointed Balakhnin as head coach. Club has occupied 12 places showing bad play, what antipathy to rooters. All were not a complacent president a club. On December 30, 2004 Sergey Balakhnin was sacked again and replaced by Gennady Stepushkin, a former Rostselmash defender.
2005
Again, the club's start in the championship was very poor. In the first 5 games, FC Rostov got only one point. On April 18, 2005 the club's official website stated that Stepushkin was ill and would be temporarily replaced with Paul Ashworth, director of sport of the club. In July 2005 Ashworth moved to coach Skonto Riga and was replaced by Valeri Petrakov who coached FC Moskva before that. In the first four games under Petrakov Rostov took only one point, and he was fired and replaced by Sergei Balakhnin, who will have his fourth stint as a head coach of the club. Some days later, Ivan Savvidi also resigned as the president. In the middle of the season it seemed that nothing could save FC Rostov from relegation, but after these changes the club's performance improved dramatically. The club signed some good players, who, especially striker Maxim Buznikin, helped the club to get 19 points in 11 games and to stay away from relegation. Buznikin, who scored 8 goals in 10 games, was voted player of the year by Rostov supporters.
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