FC Metalurh Donetsk

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Metalurh Donetsk
FC Metalurh Donetsk.png
Full name Football Club Metalurh Donetsk
Founded 17 June 1996; 16 years ago (1996-06-17)
Ground Metalurh Stadium
(capacity: 5,094)
President Serhiy Taruta
Head coach Yuriy Maksymov
League Ukrainian Premier League
2011–12 7th
Website Club home page
Home colours
Away colours

Football Club Metalurh Donetsk (Ukrainian: Футбольний Клуб Металург Донецьк) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Donetsk.

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History [edit]

Pre-history [edit]

Metalurh takes its roots from the Football Club Antratsyt Kirovske that was allowed to participate on the non-amateur level once Ukraine attained its independence. After a disappointing first season in the Second League, in the 1993 season Antratsyt placed third in the Third League and was promoted back to the Second League. Once there, the club relocated to Shakhtarsk and changed its name first to Shakhtar, but then to FC Medita Shahtarsk.

Metalurh Donetsk [edit]

A couple of years later, the club was reorganized again and renamed to, already widely accepted, Football Club Metalurh Donetsk. The club was purchased by ISD, Ukrainian industrial corporation owned by Serhiy Taruta, one of the most wealthy businessmen in Ukraine and Europe. After placing second in the Druha Liha Group C, the club gained the promotion to the Persha Liha. In the next season, 1996–97, Metalurh won the Persha Liha championship and were promoted to the Vyscha Liha.

The club successfully started in the Top League and also improved significantly at the domestic Cup competition. Metalurh has managed to obtain few bronze medals in the League and since 1998 made through to at least the quarter-finals of the Ukrainian Cup.

Throughout majority of the first decade of the new millennium, Metalurh's owners developed a close working relationship with well known Ukrainian agent Dmytro Sylyuk, who soon became club's acting chairman and has gained a lot of bad publicity for bringing numerous foreign players into the club. Also, while working with Metalurh, Selyuk has lived in Barcelona and was a rare visitor to Ukraine. For several seasons, the foreigners, Selyuk's clients, have outnumbered domestic players. Many of the signed players were brought in without manager's consent, and a lot have been given an overly generous pay; among those were Yaya Touré, Andrés Mendoza, and Jordi Cruyff. After Sylyuk's questionable tactics, he was dismissed from his position and majority of the players brought in by him also left. As it appeared later, many of them have had contracts with Sylyuk, and not directly with the club.

After the era of Sylyuk ended, Metalurh's performance declined and a hunt for medals turned into a struggle for survival. However, in 2008, Bulgarian specialist Nikolay Kostov was brought in to rebuild the team. In his first season with the club, Kostov turned Metalurh's performance around and the club came fourth in the league, which granted them a spot in newly formed UEFA Europa League.

Stadium [edit]

Metalurh has its own small stadium named after the club, Metalurh Stadium. For most domestic matches the club plays at this stadium, which has a capacity barely in excess of 5,000. For games expected to draw a significantly larger crowd, Metalurh plays at Shakhtar Stadium, owned by Shakhtar Donetsk. The Shakhtar Stadium is mostly used for the European competitions. A new stadium with a capacity of 17,500 is under construction in Makiivka, near Donetsk. It will be the new home ground of Metalurh Donetsk.

Rivalry [edit]

Metalurh's top rivals are the neighbor club and one of Ukraine's most successful teams, Shakhtar Donetsk. The two clubs have not only had a close history since formation of Metalurh, but the club has also played at Shakhtar's former venue, Shakhtar Stadium. The games between the two clubs have been dubbed by the fans and the media as Donbass Derby, although Shakhtar has been dominant in the rivalry for a decade from 1996 and up until 2006, winning all 18 games between them, matches between the two have always been of a major significance to fans.

Honours [edit]

1996–97 Champions
2009-10, 2011-12 Runners-Up
2011-12 Runners-Up

Players [edit]

Current squad [edit]

As of 1 April 2013[1][2]

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 Ukraine GK Oleksandr Musiyenko
2 Ukraine DF Artem Baranovskyi
4 Ukraine DF Vyacheslav Checher (captain)
5 Ukraine DF Volodymyr Polyovyi
6 Armenia MF Karlen Mkrtchyan
7 Ukraine DF Mykola Morozyuk
8 Netherlands MF Gregory Nelson
9 Serbia MF Đorđe Lazić
10 Armenia MF Gevorg Ghazaryan
11 Belgium MF Danilo
12 Ukraine GK Oleksandr Bandura
13 Cyprus MF Constantinos Makrides
14 Ukraine DF Oleksandr Volovyk
No. Position Player
15 Mali FW Dramane Traoré
17 Brazil MF Zé Soares
18 Bulgaria MF Velizar Dimitrov
20 Portugal DF China
21 Netherlands MF Lorenzo Ebecilio
31 Ukraine GK Dmytro Vorobyov
35 Ukraine MF Yevhen Troyanovskyi
42 Brazil MF Leonardo
44 Ukraine MF Vasyl Pryima
79 Ukraine GK Yuriy Pankiv
84 Ukraine DF Denys Holaydo
91 Brazil FW Júnior Moraes

Out on loan [edit]

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
Ukraine GK Anton Yashkov (at Hoverla Uzhhorod)
Ukraine MF Anton Dolhyi (at Helios Kharkiv)
No. Position Player
Ukraine FW Oleh Mishchenko (at Hoverla Uzhhorod)

League and Cup history [edit]

Information since Ukraine's Independence

Season Div. Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA P Domestic Cup Europe Notes
1992 3rd "B" 8 16 2 3 11 15 32 7 1/16 finals Relegated
as Antratsyt Kirovske
1992–93 4th 3 34 22 5 7 46 32 49 N/A Promoted
as Antratsyt Kirovske
1993–94 3rd 8 42 18 6 18 50 41 42 1/32 finals as Medita Shakhtarsk
1994–95 7 42 22 8 12 57 36 74 1/64 finals as Medita Shakhtarsk
1995–96 2 38 24 7 7 53 27 94 1/32 finals Promoted
1996–97 2nd 1 46 32 5 9 77 39 101 1/16 finals Promoted
1997–98 1st 6 30 11 7 12 28 27 40 Semi-finals
1998–99 14 30 7 7 16 27 51 28 1/4 finals
1999–00 7 30 11 10 9 39 35 43 1/4 finals
2000–01 5 26 11 9 6 30 24 42 Semi-finals
2001–02 3 26 12 6 8 38 28 42 Semi-finals
2002–03 3 30 18 6 6 44 26 60 1/4 finals UC 1R Lost to Germany Werder Bremen 10–2
2003–04 4 30 14 10 6 51 34 52 1/4 finals UC 1R Lost to Italy Parma 4–1
2004–05 3 30 14 7 9 38 35 49 1/4 finals UC 1R Lost to Italy Lazio 6–0
2005–06 9 30 10 9 11 35 35 39 Semi-finals UC 1R Lost to Greece PAOK 3-3 (away goal)
2006–07 9 30 9 9 12 26 35 36 1/4 finals
2007–08 12 30 6 13 11 34 39 31 Semi-finals
2008–09 4 30 14 7 9 36 27 49 1/4 finals
2009–10 8 30 11 7 12 41 33 40 Runners Up EL Play-off round Lost to Austria Austria Wien 5–4 (aet)
2010–11 8 30 11 5 14 36 45 38 1/16 finals
2011-12 7 30 12 6 12 35 34 42 Runners Up
2012-13 1/16 finals EL 3rd qual. Lost to Norway Tromsø 2–1

Managers [edit]

See also [edit]

References [edit]

  1. ^ First team squad – FC Metalurh Donetsk website
  2. ^ Team squad – Ukrainian Premier League website

External links [edit]