FC Arsenal Kyiv

Arsenal Kyiv

Full name	Football Club Arsenal Kyiv
Nickname(s)	The Cannoneers
Founded	14 July 1925 (1925-07-14)
Ground	Dynamo Stadium (capacity: 16,873)
President	Oleksandr Onyschenko
Head coach	Yuriy Bakalov
League	Ukrainian Premier League
2011–12	5th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

Football Club Arsenal Kyiv (Ukrainian: Футбольний Клуб Арсенал Київ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Kiev.

History

In the 1950s, a different club under the same name Arsenal Kyiv won the 1958 Ukrainian SSR Championship. However in 1963 the club was renamed to "Temp Kyiv". In 1964 the club was replaced by Dynamo-2 Kyiv in the Soviet Second League. The origin of the current Arsenal club is disputed; some consider it to be part of the CSKA Kyiv heritage, another of FC Boryspil. In 1994 CSKA merged with FC Boryspil under the name CSKA-Borysfen Boryspil. After a series of successful seasons the club made its way from the Ukrainian Third League to the Ukrainian Premier League. The club has continuously competed in the top flight since the 1995–96 season.

In 1996 CSKA-Borysfen split into two different clubs: CSKA Kyiv and Borysfen Boryspil. The management of CSKA-Borysfen decided to recreate a club in Boryspil, while CSKA was reorganized under the Ministry of Defense as the first team of CSKA. Simultaneously the actual CSKA that was competing at the lower division has won a promotion and later was reorganized as the second team, CSKA-2. Borysfen after competing at the amateur level of the Kyiv Oblast has applied to the professional competition and entered the lower divisions of the championship.

The army-men has also managed to appear in the domestic cup's finals twice (1998 and 2001), where it lost both times: first against city-rivals Dynamo Kyiv and then against Shakhtar Donetsk. The club's greatest achievements include a successful UEFA Cup run in the season of 2001–02, defeating the now defunct Finnish side Jokerit and Serbian giants Red Star Belgrade.

Arsenal Kyiv

After the 2000 financial crisis at CSKA, the club as a state company of the Sports Committee of Ministry of Defense had its budget cut and was on the brink to be dissolved. The Kyiv city government on the initiative of Oleksandr Omelchenko bought the club in 2001 reorganizing it under the name of Arsenal grandfathering everything from CSKA Kyiv. The First League second team CSKA-2 Kyiv continued to be affiliated with the Ministry of Defense and once again became the primary team of the Army football club, FC CSKA Kyiv.

While under the city government's ownership, Arsenal has struggled financially, resorting to loaning many of its first squad players. The city had decreased funding to the club significantly as it sought to reduce its numerous sports holdings. In May 2007, it was announced that the club would be demoted due to financial issues, however soon afterward it was revealed that Arsenal would be purchased by Ukrainian oligarch, Vadim Rabinovich. The new owner started actively financing the club and its transfers. In January 2009 the Mayor of Kiev Leonid Chernovetskyi bought Arsenal Kyiv for 1 hryvnia from Rabynovich; Chernovetskiy's 30-year-old son Stepan became the club's president. Next year Rabynovich bought the club back due to the poor management.

Players

Current squad

As of 8 May 2013

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Vitaliy Reva 2 DF Veli Lampi 4 DF Michael Odibe 5 DF Kyrylo Sydorenko 6 DF Rafael dos Santos 7 FW Ionuţ Mazilu 8 MF Andriy Tkachuk (on loan from Karpaty) 9 MF Yuriy Bushman 10 MF Volodymyr Arzhanov (captain) 11 DF Andriy Mostovyi 13 MF Vyacheslav Sharpar (on loan from Metalist) 17 MF Andriy Bohdanov (on loan from Dynamo Kyiv) 18 MF Abeiku Quansah 19 DF Yaroslav Martynyuk (on loan from Karpaty) 20 FW Dominic Adiyiah 21 FW Oleksandr Filippov

No. Position Player 22 FW Volodymyr Homenyuk 23 GK Bohdan Sarnavskyi 24 MF Denys Favorov 25 MF Pelé (on loan from Milan) 27 MF Serhiy Starenkyi 28 MF Vyacheslav Turchanov 29 DF Milan Obradović (on loan from Metalist) 30 MF Artem Shabanov 31 DF Oleksandr Romanchuk (on loan from Metalist) 33 DF Andriy Khomyn 44 FW Ihor Brovko 45 MF Mykola Vechurko 78 MF Serhiy Valyayev 88 MF Levan Hulordava 99 MF Oleh Herasymyuk

Out on loan

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

No. Position Player — MF Leandro (at Kuban Krasnodar)

League and cup history

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Europe		Notes
Previous	Refer to CSKA Kyiv
2001–02	1st	12	26	6	5	15	18	28	23	1/4 finals	UC	2nd round	Name changed to Arsenal
2002–03	1st	5	30	16	8	6	24	25	56	1/4 finals
2003–04	1st	9	30	10	7	13	38	44	37	1/8 finals
2004–05	1st	9	30	9	10	11	30	33	37	1/16 finals
2005–06	1st	12	30	9	8	13	31	39	35	1/4 finals
2006–07	1st	14	30	7	9	14	28	44	30	1/32 finals
2007–08	1st	6	30	11	9	10	42	36	42	1/8 finals
2008–09	1st	11	30	8	8	14	26	33	32	1/8 finals
2009–10	1st	7	30	11	9	10	44	41	42	1/16 finals
2010–11	1st	9	30	10	7	13	36	38	37	1/2 finals
2011–12	1st	5	30	14	9	7	44	27	51	1/4 finals
2012–13	1st									1/4 finals	EL	3rd qual round

European competitions

UEFA Europa League

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggr.
2001–02	Qualifying round	FC Jokerit	2–0	2–0	4–0
	First round	Red Star Belgrade	3–2	0–0	3–2
	Second round	Club Brugge K.V.	0–2	0–5	0–7
2012–13	Third qualifying round	ND Mura 05	0–31	2–0	2–3

Notes

• Note 1: UEFA awarded Mura 05 a 3–0 win due to Arsenal Kyiv fielding a suspended player in the first leg. The original match had ended in a 3–0 win for Arsenal Kyiv.

External links

• Official website