FC Metalurh Donetsk

Metalurh Donetsk

Full name	Football Club Metalurh Donetsk
Founded	17 June 1996 (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.

History

Pre-history

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

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

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

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

• Ukrainian First League: 1

1996–97 Champions

• National Cup: 2

2009-10, 2011-12 Runners-Up

• Super Cup: 1

2011-12 Runners-Up

Players

Current squad

As of 1 April 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 Oleksandr Musiyenko 2 DF Artem Baranovskyi 4 DF Vyacheslav Checher (captain) 5 DF Volodymyr Polyovyi 6 MF Karlen Mkrtchyan 7 DF Mykola Morozyuk 8 MF Gregory Nelson 9 MF Đorđe Lazić 10 MF Gevorg Ghazaryan 11 MF Danilo 12 GK Oleksandr Bandura 13 MF Constantinos Makrides 14 DF Oleksandr Volovyk

No. Position Player 15 FW Dramane Traoré 17 MF Zé Soares 18 MF Velizar Dimitrov 20 DF China 21 MF Lorenzo Ebecilio 31 GK Dmytro Vorobyov 35 MF Yevhen Troyanovskyi 42 MF Leonardo 44 MF Vasyl Pryima 79 GK Yuriy Pankiv 84 DF Denys Holaydo 91 FW Júnior Moraes

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 — GK Anton Yashkov (at Hoverla Uzhhorod) — MF Anton Dolhyi (at Helios Kharkiv)

No. Position Player — FW Oleh Mishchenko (at Hoverla Uzhhorod)

League and Cup history

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 Werder Bremen 10–2
2003–04		4	30	14	10	6	51	34	52	1/4 finals	UC	1R	Lost to Parma 4–1
2004–05		3	30	14	7	9	38	35	49	1/4 finals	UC	1R	Lost to Lazio 6–0
2005–06		9	30	10	9	11	35	35	39	Semi-finals	UC	1R	Lost to 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 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 Tromsø 2–1

Managers

• Semen Altman (Aug 1999–Dec 02)
• Oleksandr Sevidov (Jan 2003–July 03)
• Ton Caanen (Jan 2004–June 04)
• Slavoljub Muslin (July 2004–March 05)
• Vitaliy Shevchenko (interim) (March 2005–June 05)
• Oleksandr Sevidov (July 2005–March 06)
• Stepan Matviiv (March 2006–June 06)
• Co Adriaanse (Oct 2006–May 07)
• Jos Daerden (May 2007–Dec 07)
• Sergey Yashenko (interim) (Dec 2007–April 08)
• Nikolay Kostov (April 2008–Nov 10)
• Andrei Gordeyev (Jan 2011–May 11)
• Volodymyr Pyatenko (interim) (May 2011–Aug 12)
• Yuriy Maksymov (Aug 2012–)

See also

• FC Metalurh Donetsk Reserves and Youth Team

External links

• Official website