FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv

Football Club Metalist 1925 Kharkiv (Ukrainian: Металіст 1925) is a professional football club from Kharkiv, Ukraine. Founded in 2016, the club plays in the Ukrainian Premier League. Their home stadium is Metalist Oblast Sports Complex with 40,003 capacity.

Metalist 1925 Kharkiv
Full nameFootball Club Metalist 1925 Kharkiv
Founded17 August 2016 (2016-08-17)
1925 (1925) (claimed)
GroundOSC Metalist
Capacity40,003
Head coachEdmar
LeagueUkrainian Premier League
2021–22Ukrainian Premier League, 10th of 16
WebsiteClub website

Metalist 1925 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

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.

On the initiative of former Metalist player Volodymyr Linke, among others, a new club was created under the name FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv.[1] It entered the Ukrainian Football Amateur League for the 2016–17 season and earned promotion to the Ukrainian Second League the next year.[2]

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

Metalist 1925 plays its games at Metalist Stadium. It has its own training site in the town of Vysokyi.

Squad

Players

As of 5 March 2023[3][4][5]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Ukraine UKR Denys Sydorenko (captain)
2 DF Ukraine UKR Dmytro Kapinus (on loan from Shakhtar Donetsk)
3 DF Ukraine UKR Yevhen Tkachuk
4 DF Ukraine UKR Ivan Kovalenko
5 DF Ukraine UKR Mykhaylo Rudavskyi
6 MF Georgia (country) GEO Beka Vachiberadze
7 FW Ukraine UKR Vitaliy Ponomar
8 MF Ukraine UKR Yaroslav Martynyuk
10 MF Ukraine UKR Rostyslav Rusyn
11 FW Ukraine UKR Andriy Remenyuk
13 GK Ukraine UKR Ihor Potimkov
15 MF Ukraine UKR Abdulla Abdullayev
17 DF Ukraine UKR Ihor Kurylo
No. Pos. Nation Player
21 FW Ukraine UKR Kostyantyn Bychek
22 FW Ukraine UKR Vladyslav Dmytrenko
23 MF Ukraine UKR Mykhaylo Shershen
27 MF Ukraine UKR Dmytro Kravchenko
28 MF Ukraine UKR Artem Habelok
29 DF Ukraine UKR Maksym Zhychykov
30 DF Ukraine UKR Mykyta Bezuhlyi
33 MF Brazil BRA Igor Henrique
37 GK Ukraine UKR Oleh Mozil
69 DF Ukraine UKR Yuriy Potimkov
79 FW Ukraine UKR Andriy Chyruk
99 FW Ukraine UKR Vladyslav Ostrovskyi

On loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
GK Ukraine UKR Maksym Kovalenko (at Nyva Vinnytsia until 30 June 2023)
No. Pos. Nation Player
DF Ukraine UKR Antoniy Emere (at Hirnyk-Sport Horishni Plavni until 30 June 2023)

Administration

  • Owner – LLC FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv[6]
  • Co-owner – Solar Solutions Ukraine and Borky Solar[7]
  • CEO – Yaroslav Vdovenko[8]

Managers

Honours

Seasons

Season Div. Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA P Domestic Cup Other Notes
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 67 164 finals Promoted
201819 2nd
(First League)
4 28 15 6 7 35 20 51 116 finals
201920 7 30 15 6 9 44 34 51 132 finals
202021 3 30 16 8 6 36 22 56 164 finals Promoted

Notes

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