The football team of masters in Vladimir was organized in 1959 on the initiative of the regional committee of the Communist Party and the leadership of the local tractor plant.

In the 2000 season, Torpedo players won the championship and the Golden Ring Interregional Football Federation Cup and returned to the second division.

To the disappointment of the Vladimir fans, in the next two seasons, Torpedo stopped a step away from repeating this success, losing in the 1/32 finals to Zenit-2 in 2006 and Baltika Kaliningrad in 2007.

Another record was set in the 2008 season by Torpedo goalkeeper Yevgeny Konyukhov, who conceded the first goal into his own net only in the 14th game of the championship.

Torpdeo, like three years earlier, reached the 1/16 finals of the National Cup and played with CSKA, conceding twice as many from the army team than in all previous games of the season – 1:4.

Three days later, on 9 August, Torpedo suffered their first defeat in the championship, losing with a score of 0:1 to their main competitor for entering the first division, FC MVD Moscow.

And all the same, the Vladimir players had very high chances of winning in the "West" zone – on 1 September, the gap between Torpedo and MVD was 12 points.

At the finish of the championship, Torpedo came close to FC Dynamo St. Petersburg in the standings, but after losing on 19 October in a face-to-face home meeting, they could not take the lead.

During the first 11 rounds of the 2011/12 season, five coaches of Torpedo rivals were dismissed in direct or indirect connection with the games with the club from Vladimir.

On 18 October 2011, Evgeny Durnev submitted his resignation, and his assistant Alexander Akimov was appointed acting head coach.