FC Metalurh Donetsk
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| Full name | Football Club Metalurh Donetsk | |||
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| Nickname(s) | MetaDon | |||
| Founded | 1996 | |||
| Ground | Metalurh Stadium | |||
| Capacity | 5,300 | |||
| Chairman |  Serhiy Taruta | |||
| Manager |  Nikolay Kostov | |||
| League | Ukrainian Premier League | |||
| 2008-09 | 4th | |||
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FC Metalurh Donetsk (Ukrainian: ФК «Металург» Донецьк, Russian: ФК «Металлург» Донецк Metallurg Donetsk) is a Ukrainian football club from the city of Donetsk. The club currently plays in the Ukrainian Premier League.
History
Pre-history
Metalurh takes its roots from the FC 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, FC Metalurh Donetsk. The club was purchased by ISD, Ukrainian industrial corporation owned by Serhiy Taruta, one of the most wealthy buisnessmen in Ukraine and Europe. After placing second in Druha Liha Group C the club gained the promotion to Persha Liha. 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 significally 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 millenium Metalurh's owners developed a close working relationship with a well known Ukrainian agent Dmytro Sylyuk, who soon became club's acting chairman and has gained a lot of bad publcity 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, who were also 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 however were Yaya Toure, Andres 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 has 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 4th in the league, which granted them a spot in newly formed Europa League.
Stadium(s)
Metalurh has its own small stadium named after the club, Metalurh Stadium. In most of the domestic matches, the club plays at the stadium which just barely exceeds the 5000 mark for a possible attendance. In case when it is expected for an upcoming game to gather a significantly larger crowd then Metalurh plays at the Shakhtar Stadium which is the property of the well-established Shakhtar Donetsk. The Shakhtar Stadium is mostly used for the European competitions.
Rivalry
Metalurh's top rivals are the neighbour club and one of Ukraine's most successful teams Shakhtar Donetsk. 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, games between the two have always beed of a major significance to fans.
Sponsors
ISD - Industrial Union of Donbas (main), Kremen, Puma, Alchevskkoks, Keramet, DMKD, Enerhomashspecstal, Ukruglesnab, Onyx Don, and others.
Honours
- 1996/97 Champions
- 1995/96 Runners-Up Group "B"
Current squad
Squad is given according to the club's official website [1], as of 20 July 2008, as reported to Ukrainian Premier League. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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For recent transfers, see List of Ukrainian football transfers summer 2009 and List of Ukrainian football transfers Winter 2008-09.
In on loan
Serhiy Tkachenko (on loan from FC Shakhtar Donetsk)- Ihor Korotetskyy (on loan from FC Shakhtar Donetsk)
Out on loan
- Vitaliy Havrysh (on loan to Stal Alchevsk)
- Dmytro Nazarenko (on loan to Stal Alchevsk)
Notable former players
Head coaches
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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 Kirovske1992-93 4th 3 34 22 5 7 46 32 49 N/A Promoted
as Antratsyt Kirovske1993-94 3rd 8 42 18 6 18 50 41 42 1/32 finals as Medita Shakhtarsk 1994-95 3rd 7 42 22 8 12 57 36 74 1/64 finals as Medita Shakhtarsk 1995-96 3rd "B" 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 1st 14 30 7 7 16 27 51 28 Quarter-finals 1999-00 1st 7 30 11 10 9 39 35 43 Quarter-finals 2000-01 1st 5 26 11 9 6 30 24 42 Semi-finals 2001-02 1st 3 26 12 6 8 38 28 42 Semi-finals 2002-03 1st 3 30 18 6 6 44 26 60 Quarter-finals UC 1R Lost to Werder 2-10 2003-04 1st 4 30 14 10 6 51 34 52 Quarter-finals UC 1R Lost to Parma 1-4 2004-05 1st 3 30 14 7 9 38 35 49 Quarter-finals UC 1R Lost to Lazio 0-6 2005-06 1st 9 30 10 9 11 35 35 39 Semi-finals UC 1R Lost to PAOK (away goal) 2006-07 1st 9 30 9 9 12 26 35 36 Quarter-finals 2007-08 1st 12 30 6 13 11 34 39 31 Semi-finals 2008-09 1st 4 30 14 7 9 36 27 49 Quarter-finals 2009-10 1st 1/8 finals EL Play-off Round
UEFA ranking
Club Ranking for 2008/09 Euro Season (Previous year rank in italics, UEFA Club Coefficients in parentheses)[1]
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Artmedia Petržalka (14.070) - 145 File:GreenUpArrow.svg (162)
Vålerenga IF (13.400) - 146 File:GreenUpArrow.svg (147) Metalurg Donetsk (12.932)
- 147 File:GreenUpArrow.svg (190)
AaB Aalborg (12.748) - 148 File:GreenUpArrow.svg (152)
Egaleo Athens (12.525)
