Voronezh “Torch” after the departure of Vasilenko left three coaches

After leaving the post of head coach Oleg Vasilenko, Torch lost three more specialists of the coaching staff - Sergey Omelyanchuk, Konstantin Sineokov and Igor Lebedenko. Information about this October 12 provided the press service of the football club.

Together with the “fire hazard” in Krasnodar went Alexei Rebko, Sergey Bryzgalov, Mikhail Smirnov and Alexander Chikhradze. Tomorrow, October 13, “Torch” will meet with “Krasnodar” in the Cup of Russia.

On October 11, "Torch" announced the termination of cooperation with Oleg Vasilenko by mutual agreement of the parties, the reason was the devastating results. Recall that the meeting of the tenth round of the Russian Premier League on the home field against the capital’s Lokomotiv ended with a score of 0: 5.

Recall that Oleg Vasilenko headed the club in October 2025. He was the first in the history of Voronezh football managed to return Torch to the Russian Premier League (RPL) a year after relegation. Earlier, Oleg Vasilenko already headed the coaching staff of the “fire-dangerous” from September 2020 to September 2022. Oleg Vasilenko is the only mentor who twice brought the club to the RPL.

However, the current season for “Torch” was unsuccessful. For ten rounds of the RPL and three matches of the Russian Cup, the “fire-dangerous” did not win a single meeting and suffered ten defeats.