Editing FC Amkar Perm (section)

===2008. The most successful season===
[[File:MartinKushev.JPG|thumb|right|260px|[[Martin Kushev]]&nbsp;– Amkar top scorer in Premier League&nbsp;– 36 goals]] [[File:Miodrag Bozovic 2011.jpg|thumb|right|175px|[[Miodrag Božović]]&nbsp;– Amkar head coach in 2008 and 2011–12 seasons]]
In 2007, the club made two key acquisitions: [[Georgi Peev]] arrived from [[FC Dynamo Kyiv|Dynamo Kyiv]] and [[Nikola Drinčić]] from Turkish club [[Gaziantepspor]]. These players became leaders of the team and during the season the team was no longer forced to struggle for survival and could play more confidently, but several factors prevented it from rising higher than eighth place. However, in the 2007–08 Russian Cup, Amkar achieved its best result in its history. On 16 April 2008, the club beat [[FC Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast|Ural Yekaterinburg]] 1–0 and reached the final, losing to CSKA Moscow in a penalty shootout.

Before the start of the 2008 season, head coach Rashid Rakhimov left the club for Lokomotiv Moscow and was replaced by a little-known specialist from Montenegro, [[Miodrag Božović]]. Before the break for [[UEFA Euro 2008]], Amkar was in third place in the standings, one point behind second-placed Spartak Moscow and six adrift of leaders [[FC Rubin Kazan|Rubin Kazan]]. After the break, one of Amkar's team leaders, [[Vladimir Gabulov]], and the captain, [[Aleksei Vladislavovich Popov|Aleksei Popov]], left the team to join Dynamo Moscow and Rubin Kazan respectively. Two matches in a row on the "equator" of the Championship Amkar could have topped the league table but was unable to beat Tom Tomsk and [[PFC Spartak Nalchik|Spartak Nalchik]] at home. On 16 November, after beating Tom in Tomsk, with one match left to play, the team from the Urals secured fourth place in the league to earn a spot in the qualifying round of the [[UEFA Europa League]]. Once more, Amkar had the best record in the Premier League for not conceding goals, with 17 matches.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sport-express.ru/newspaper/2008-11-25/6_4/ |script-title=ru:Сухие матчи вратарей 2008 |publisher=[[Спорт-Экспресс]] |access-date=27 April 2011 |language=ru |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121219183540/http://www.sport-express.ru/newspaper/2008-11-25/6_4/ |archive-date=19 December 2012 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> The 2008 season had been the best in the history of Amkar.
[[File:Amkar.JPG|thumb|left|350px|Amkar in the [[2009–10 UEFA Europa League|Europa League 2009/10]]]]