Fartak Moscow History

From the beginning
The Fartak Moscow story can be traced back to 6 April 2011 in Ancient Greece. A game of football was played on the beach in the Greek town of Tolo. Current Fartak members including Alex Simpson, Felix Laing, Felix Dixey and Lewis Dorling were present at this match.

A few weeks later back in the UK these four plus a few others including current Fartak Players Seb Sanders and Bob Savill played 5 a side friendlies at the UEA, spawned from the game played in Greece. Unfortunately this weekly occurances came to an end in July 2011.

Two months later  in September 2011, Bob Savill, Felix Laing, Alex Simpson, Lewis Dorling, Seb Sanders and former Fartak players Sam Ings and Sam Moore were led by their captain Felix Dixey as a team at Goals 5 a side soccer centre in Norwich. The teams original name was AEK Intercourse, this was changed to Junior Dragons for Fartaks first game, in October 2011 against CNS Mafia.

The next month Fartak joined the Championship league for their first ever season. In pre-season regular starter Sam Moore was forced to retire from the game due to failing to recover from a head injury, midfielder Sam Ings was released and striker Lewis Dorling signed for Moby Dick FC. To replace the loss of these key players Fartak took on a host of signings including, Arran Wilkinson, Max Grimmer, Tom Sampson, Henry Coker, Scott Wigglesworth and James Baxter. However on only James and Scott managed to secure regular places in the team, with James leaving at the end of the season to sign for FC Big Guns.

That season was a poor one for Fartak with many losses and just one victory, leaving them with 3 points on the table at the end of the season. The victory came against Ings FC and was emphatic, after a baron spell of 14 losses Fartak beat Ings by 9 goals to 3. Unfortunately the team could not capitalise on this win and lost their last 3 games of the season.

For the next three season Fartak resided in mid table winning and losing about half their games each season. However in September 2012 Fartak Captain Felix Dixey was ousted by the squad for being incompetent and was replaced by Seb Sanders. Seb lead the team to the top of the table in his first season in charge, but with 5 games to go Fartak failed to win and handed the title to Ings FC, with Fartak eventually finishing fourth.

As the next season dawned in April 2013, Fartak were the bookies favourites to win the league. They finished their junior careers on a high coming secound in the league only to Substandard Liege. On the 9 May 2013 Fartak signed Spanish midfielder, Jack Long-Martinez for a club record 53 pence.