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FC Amkar Perm (Russian: Футбо́льный клуб "Амка́р" Пермь ) was a professional football club. Founded in 1994, it was based in the city of Perm. It was a participant in the Russian professional football league from 1995 and in the Russian Premier League from 2004 to 2018. Amkar's home stadium was the Zvezda Stadium, which was covered with artificial turf in 2005. On 13 June 2018, the club announced that the Russian Football Union had recalled their 2018–19 season license, making them ineligible for the Russian Premier League or Russian Football National League. On 18 June 2018, club president Gennadi Shilov announced that the club would not register for the third-tier Russian Professional Football League and would be dissolved. FC Zvezda Perm was reestablished during the offseason and entered the PFL for the 2018–19 season. On August 2020 it was re-established by the Government of Perm Krai as amateur club.