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Kolos Kovalivka
Full nameFC Kolos Kovalivka
Founded2012
GroundKolos Stadium (Kovalivka)
Capacity1,850
ChairmanUkraine Andriy Zasukha
Head CoachUkraine Ruslan Kostyshyn
LeagueUkrainian Premier League
2019–206th
WebsiteClub website

FC Kolos Kovalivka is a professional Ukrainian football club from village of Kovalivka, Kyiv Oblast that competes in the Ukrainian Premier League, having promoted from the Ukrainian First League on the 8 June 2019 for the first time in their history. The club colors are white and black.

The club has made a real cinderella story in 2020 transforming in five years from an amateur team into a continental challengers by advancing through the full league pyramid (4 tiers).[1] Outside of the league pyramid, the club also holds several honours of regional competitions for Kiev Oblast which it represents.[1]

The club is named after the Ukrainian sports society Kolos (Agro Industrial Complex trade unions) that exists since after the World War II.

History

The club was established in 2012 and until 2015 it participated in championship of Kyiv Oblast playing its games in a neighboring town of Hlevakha. The team were champions three times from 2012 to 2014.[2]

The club in 2014 made their debut in the Ukrainian Football Amateur League. Later that year after winning the Oleh Makarov Memorial Tournament, which is played in winter the head coach Ruslan Kostyshyn announced that the club intended to go into professional football.[2] That year in 2015 after finishing third in the Ukrainian Football Amateur League the club obtained professional status and joined the PFL entering into the Ukrainian Second League.[2]

In their first season the club won the championship and were promoted to the Ukrainian First League.[3]

On 29 July 2020 FC Kolos in overtime beat FC Mariupol 1:0 and qualified for the European competitions. The head coach Ruslan Kostyshyn was merely shocked stating that did not expect his club to place higher the 8th place.[4]

Honors

Club emblem (2012–18)

Squad

As of 15 August 2020[5][6]

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 Anton Yashkov
3 DF Ukraine UKR Illya Kovalenko
5 DF Ukraine UKR Kyrylo Petrov
6 DF Ukraine UKR Maksym Maksymenko
7 FW Ukraine UKR Volodymyr Lysenko
8 MF Ukraine UKR Yevhen Smyrnyi (on loan from Dynamo Kyiv)
9 MF Ukraine UKR Denys Antyukh
10 MF Ukraine UKR Yevhen Morozko
11 MF Ukraine UKR Oleh Kozhushko (on loan from SC Dnipro-1)
13 MF Ukraine UKR Vitaliy Havrysh (captain)
14 MF Ukraine UKR Vadym Milko
15 DF Ukraine UKR Oleksandr Chornomorets
17 FW Ukraine UKR Oleksandr Bondarenko
18 FW Ukraine UKR Denys Kostyshyn
19 MF Ukraine UKR Stanislav Sorokin
24 DF Ukraine UKR Oleksiy Zozulya
No. Pos. Nation Player
25 GK Ukraine UKR Yevhen Volynets
29 MF Ukraine UKR Vladyslav Yemets (on loan from Zorya)
48 MF Ukraine UKR Pavlo Orikhovskyi
28 MF North Macedonia MKD Darko Micevski
69 MF Ukraine UKR Oleh Ilyin
71 GK Ukraine UKR Yevhen Kucherenko
77 FW Iceland ISL Árni Vilhjálmsson
81 MF Latvia LVA Vladislavs Soloveičiks
89 MF Ukraine UKR Oleksandr Volkov (on loan from Desna)
90 MF Ukraine UKR Andriy Bohdanov
94 MF Senegal SEN Mamadou Danfa
99 MF Ukraine UKR Yevhen Zadoya
GK Ukraine UKR Anton Kotovyi
DF Ukraine UKR Yevhen Novak
MF Ukraine UKR Mykyta Kravchenko (on loan from Dynamo Kyiv)

Out 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
MF Ukraine UKR Arsentiy Doroshenko (at Podillya Khmelnytskyi)
No. Pos. Nation Player

League and cup history

Season Div. Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA P Ukrainian Cup Other Notes
2014 4th
(Championship among amateurs)
2 10 6 3 1 19 5 21 AC 12 finals
2 3 1 1 1 2 4 4
2015 1 6 6 0 0 26 3 18
2 10 5 1 4 17 5 16 joined the Second League
2015–16 3rd
(Second League)
1 26 19 3 4 62 22 60 132 finals Promoted
2016–17 2nd
(First League)
5 34 16 9 9 52 38 57 132 finals
2017–18 5 34 19 4 11 39 30 61 116 finals
2018–19 2 28 15 9 4 45 18 54 132 finals Promoted[7]
2019–20 1st 6 32 10 2 20 33 59 32 18 finals Europa League play-offs – Winners
2020–21 1st EL 2nd qual. round

European record

Season Competition Round Club Home Away Aggregate
2020–21 UEFA Europa League 2Q

Notable players

Managers

References

  1. ^ a b From competitions of the PFL to continental competitions! Compliments to "Kolos" (Зі змагань ПФЛ - до континентальних турнірів! Вітаємо "Колос"). Professional Football League. 30 July 2020
  2. ^ a b c Історія створення футбольного клубу "Колос" [History of the formation of the club "Kolos"]. Kolos Kovalika Official Website (in Ukrainian). 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  3. ^ Колос Ковалівка - чемпіон другої ліги сезону-2015/16 [Kolos Kovalivka - 2015–16 Second League Champions]. UA-Football (in Ukrainian). 21 May 2016. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  4. ^ Dmitriy Malianov. Ruslan Kostyshyn, "I did not think that Kolos in its debut season in the UPL will qualify for the European cups. I am not an idiot (Руслан Костышин: "Не думал, что "Колос" в дебютном сезоне УПЛ выйдет в еврокубки. Я же не идиот"). Footboom. 29 July 2020
  5. ^ https://koloskovalivka.com/kolos-golovnyj-sklad/
  6. ^ https://upl.ua/en/clubs/view/1806
  7. ^ Won playoff against Chornomorets Odesa on aggregate 2–0