The club was founded in 1937 as
Lokomotiv Krasnoyarsk and spent one season in Class D of the Soviet league. In 1957 the club was re-formed and entered the
Far East zone of Class B. In 1968 Lokomotiv was renamed
Rassvet and, in 1970,
Avtomobilist. In 1991 it became
Metallurg, a title it held until February 2010 when it was renamed
Metallurg-Yenisey (formally, Metallurg was excluded from the league and a new independent club Metallurg-Yenisey was admitted into the league). In 2011, the club was renamed to
Yenisey. The club is named after the
Yenisei river, on which
Krasnoyarsk is located. Yenisey (or their predecessors) never played in the
Soviet Top League or
Russian Premier League until
2018. Their best result in Soviet League was a 2nd position in Group 7 of Class B in 1959, while their best result in Russian history is the 3rd position in
Russian National Football League in 2016–17 and 2017–18. Since the end of the Soviet Union, the club has suffered relegation to the
Second Division on five occasions, most recently in 2006. In the 2015–16 season, Yenisey took 16th spot in the FNL and should have been relegated, but one of the third-tier
Russian Professional Football League zone winners,
FC Smena Komsomolsk-na-Amure, refused to be promoted due to lack of financing, and Yenisey stayed in the FNL. At the end of the 2016–17 season, Yenisey reached the
Russian Premier League promotion play-offs, but lost to
FC Arsenal Tula on away goals rule (2–1 at home, 0–1 away) and stayed in the FNL. Despite spending a portion of the next 2017–18 season in the top-two direct-promotion spot, by the end of the season Yenisey dropped into 3rd position and qualified for promotion play-offs again. They defeated
FC Anzhi Makhachkala 6–4 on aggregate in the promotion play-offs and were promoted to the
Russian Premier League for the 2018–19 season for the first time in the team's history. joined FC Yenisey in 2022 They were relegated back to the second tier after one year in the Premier League. Yenisey ended the 2022–23 season in 4th place in the First League and qualified for the promotion play-offs. Yenisey lost 0–3 on aggregate in the playoffs to
Fakel Voronezh and remained in the First League.
Domestic history ==Current squad==