Football Club Metalist 1925 Kharkiv (Ukrainian: Металіст 1925) is a professional football club from Kharkiv, Ukraine. Founded in 1925, the club plays in the Ukrainian Premier League. Their home stadium is Metalist Oblast Sports Complex with 40,003 capacity.
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| Full name | Football Club Metalist 1925 Kharkiv | |||
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| Founded | 2016 | |||
| Ground | OSC Metalist | |||
| Capacity | 40,003 | |||
| Owner | ?(52%)[1][2] Vitaliy Zhuravskyi (29%)[2] Group of owners (19%)[2] | |||
| General Director | Yaroslav Vdovenko[2] | |||
| Head coach | Viktor Skrypnyk | |||
| League | Ukrainian Premier League | |||
| 2022–23 | Ukrainian Premier League, 12th of 16 | |||
| Website | Club website | |||
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Metalist Kharkiv was promoted to the Ukrainian Premier League after finishing in third place in the 2020–21 Ukrainian First League. They earned promotion on two previous occasions: placing second in the 2016–17 Ukrainian Football Amateur League and placing third in the 2017–18 Ukrainian Second League.
History edit
The club was established in the summer of 2016 after the original club, FC Metalist Kharkiv, was refused a license by the Football Federation of Ukraine and expelled from national competitions.[citation needed]
On the initiative of former Metalist player Volodymyr Linke, among others, a new club was created under the name FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv.[3] It entered the Ukrainian Football Amateur League for the 2016–17 season and earned promotion to the Ukrainian Second League the next year.[4]
In 2018 the club was promoted to the Ukrainian First League and from 2021 it is playing in the highest tier of the Ukrainian assotiation football – at the Ukrainian Premier League.
Infrastructure edit
Metalist 1925 plays its games at Metalist Stadium. It has its own training site in the town of Vysokyi.
Squad edit
Players edit
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Other players under contract edit
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Out on loan edit
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Administration and coaches edit
Administration edit
- Owner – LLC FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv[8]
- Co-owner – Solar Solutions Ukraine and Borky Solar[9]
- CEO – Yaroslav Vdovenko[10]
Coaches (senior team) edit
- Head coach – Viktor Skrypnyk
- Assistant coach – Serhiy Popov
- Assistant coach – Maksym Tsvirenko
- Assistant coach – Serhiy Chernyshov
- Goalkeeper coach – Serhiy Volvakov
- Fitness Coach – Hryhoriy Yarmash
- Fitness Coach – Andriy Shabalin[11]
Managers edit
- Oleksandr Pryzetko (16 Aug 2016 – 26 September 2017)[12]
- Vyacheslav Khruslov (caretaker) (26 September 2017 – 28 September 2017)
- Oleksandr Ivanov (28 September 2017 – 3 May 2018)
- Serhiy Ralyuchenko (caretaker) (3 May 2018 – 8 May 2018)
- Serhiy Valyayev (8 May 2018 – 11 September 2018)
- Oleksandr Horyainov (caretaker) (11 September 2018 – 10 December 2018)
- Oleksandr Horyainov (10 December 2018 – 4 June 2019)
- Andriy Demchenko (4 June 2019 – 21 July 2020)
- Vyacheslav Khruslov (caretaker) (21 July 2020 – 21 August 2020)
- Valeriy Kriventsov (21 August 2020 – 22 October 2022)
- Edmar (caretaker) (23 October 2022 – 5 November 2023)
- Oleh Holodyuk (caretaker) (5 November 2023 – 20 December 2023)
- Viktor Skrypnyk (20 December 2023 – present)
Honours edit
- Ukrainian First League
- Third place (1): 2020–21
- Ukrainian Second League
- Third place (1): 2017–18
- Ukrainian Amateur Football Championship
- Runners-up (1): 2016–17
Seasons edit
| Season | Div. | Pos. | Pl. | W | D | L | GS | GA | P | Domestic Cup | Other | Notes | |
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| 2016–17 | 4th (Championship among amateurs) |
1 | 20 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 46 | 18 | 43 | LF | Lost final | Group winner, Promoted | |
| 2017–18 | 3rd "B" (Second League) |
2 | 33 | 21 | 4 | 8 | 77 | 27 | 67 | 1⁄64 finals | Promoted | ||
| 2018–19 | 2nd (First League) |
4 | 28 | 15 | 6 | 7 | 35 | 20 | 51 | 1⁄16 finals | |||
| 2019–20 | 7 | 30 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 44 | 34 | 51 | 1⁄32 finals | ||||
| 2020–21 | 3 | 30 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 36 | 22 | 56 | 1⁄64 finals | Promoted | |||
| 2021–22 | 1st (Premier League) |
10 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 11 | 17 | 29 | 19 | 1⁄8 finals | |||
| 2022–23 | 12 | 30 | 6 | 14 | 10 | 23 | 42 | 32 | Not played | ||||
| 2023–24 | 1⁄8 finals | ||||||||||||
See also edit
Notes edit
References edit
- ^ Неделин: Околофутбольное чудо произошло, угроза исчезновения Металлиста 1925 прошла. sportarena.com. 31 August 2023
- ^ a b c d Кому официально принадлежат украинские клубы. ukrrudprom.com. 12 November 2021
- ^ "Our club was created by fans for fans". In Kharkiv they went the other way ("Наш клуб создали болельщики для болельщиков". В Харькове пошли другим путем). UA-Football. 5 August 2017.
- ^ "Металлист 1925 стал профессиональным футбольным клубом". 16 May 2017.
- ^ "Основний склад".
- ^ "Metalist 1925".
- ^ "Професіональна футбольна ліга України". Archived from the original on 22 October 2018. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
- ^ "Металіст 1925 став професійним футбольним клубом". ua-football.com (in Ukrainian). 16 May 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
- ^ "Металіст 1925 змінив власників – "сонячні" енергетики та коксохіміки взяли контроль". Футбол 24 (in Ukrainian). football24.ua. 8 October 2020. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
- ^ "Гендиректор Металіста 1925: Зауважень до тренерського штабу Кривенцова немає". ua-football.com (in Ukrainian). 30 December 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
- ^ "Тренери команди".
- ^ Oleksandr Pryzetko is a head coach of Metalist 1925
External links edit
- Official website
- “Ми більше не хочемо президента-олігарха“. Сергій Стороженко про Металіст 1925. UA-Football (www.ua-football.com). 29 May 2017