Metalist 1925 Kharkiv
Full nameFootball Club Metalist 1925 Kharkiv
Founded2016
GroundOSC Metalist
Capacity40,003
Owner?(52%)[1][2]
Vitaliy Zhuravskyi (29%)[2]
Group of owners (19%)[2]
General DirectorYaroslav Vdovenko[2]
Head coachViktor Skrypnyk
LeagueUkrainian Premier League
2022–23Ukrainian Premier League, 12th of 16
WebsiteClub website

Football Club Metalist 1925 Kharkiv (Ukrainian: Металіст 1925) is a professional football club from Kharkiv, Ukraine. Founded in 1925, the club plays in the Ukrainian Premier League. Their home stadium is Metalist Oblast Sports Complex with 40,003 capacity.

Metalist Kharkiv was promoted to the Ukrainian Premier League after finishing in third place in the 2020–21 Ukrainian First League. They earned promotion on two previous occasions: placing second in the 2016–17 Ukrainian Football Amateur League and placing third in the 2017–18 Ukrainian Second League.

History

The club was established in the summer of 2016 after the original club, FC Metalist Kharkiv, was refused a license by the Football Federation of Ukraine and expelled from national competitions.

On the initiative of former Metalist player Volodymyr Linke, among others, a new club was created under the name FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv.[3] It entered the Ukrainian Football Amateur League for the 2016–17 season and earned promotion to the Ukrainian Second League the next year.[4]

In 2018 the club was promoted to the Ukrainian First League and from 2021 it is playing in the highest tier of the Ukrainian assotiation football – at the Ukrainian Premier League.

Infrastructure

Metalist 1925 plays its games at Metalist Stadium. It has its own training site in the town of Vysokyi.

Squad

Players

As of 27 September 2023[5][6][7]

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 Denys Sydorenko
2 DF Ukraine UKR Dmytro Kapinus (on loan from Shakhtar Donetsk)
3 DF Ukraine UKR Yevheniy Tkachuk
4 DF Ukraine UKR Ivan Kovalenko
5 DF Ukraine UKR Mykhaylo Rudavskyi
6 MF Ukraine UKR Beka Vachiberadze
7 FW Brazil BRA Ari Moura (on loan from Metropolitano)
8 MF Ukraine UKR Yaroslav Martynyuk
9 FW Ukraine UKR Andriy Boryachuk
10 MF Ukraine UKR Rostyslav Rusyn
11 FW Ukraine UKR Andriy Remenyuk
12 GK Ukraine UKR Ihor Potimkov
14 FW Ukraine UKR Dmytro Yusov
15 MF Ukraine UKR Abdulla Abdullayev
17 DF Ukraine UKR Ihor Kurylo
19 DF Ukraine UKR Andriy Tkachuk
No. Pos. Nation Player
20 DF Ukraine UKR Vadym Chervak
21 FW Ukraine UKR Kostyantyn Bychek
22 FW Ukraine UKR Vladyslav Dmytrenko
23 DF Ukraine UKR Ruslan Tkachenko
24 FW Ghana GHA Raymond Owusu
27 MF Ukraine UKR Dmytro Kravchenko
28 MF Ukraine UKR Artem Habelok (captain)
29 DF Ukraine UKR Maksym Zhychykov
30 DF Ukraine UKR Mykyta Bezuhlyi
31 MF Brazil BRA Leo Casaes
33 MF Brazil BRA Igor Henrique
37 GK Ukraine UKR Oleh Mozil
74 DF Ukraine UKR Maryan Faryna (on loan from Shakhtar Donetsk)
79 FW Ukraine UKR Andriy Chyruk
88 FW Ukraine UKR Vadym Solohub
97 FW Ukraine UKR Oleksiy Sydorov

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
— GK Ukraine UKR Maksym Kovalenko (at Zviahel until 30 June 2024)
— DF Ukraine UKR Yuriy Potimkov (at Nyva Buzova until 30 June 2024)
No. Pos. Nation Player
— FW Ukraine UKR Vladyslav Ostrovskyi (at Vorskla Poltava until 30 June 2024)

Administration and coaches

Administration

  • Owner – LLC FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv[8]
  • Co-owner – Solar Solutions Ukraine and Borky Solar[9]
  • CEO – Yaroslav Vdovenko[10]

Coaches (senior team)

  • Head coach – Edmar
  • Assistant coach – Oleh Holodyuk
  • Assistant coach – Yevhen Kotov
  • Assistant coach – Maksym Tsvirenko
  • Goalkeeper coach – Serhiy Volvakov
  • Fitness Coach – Andriy Shabalin[11]

Managers

Honours

Seasons

Season Div. Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA P Domestic Cup Other Notes
2016–17 4th
(Championship among amateurs)		 1 20 13 4 3 46 18 43 LF Lost final Group winner, Promoted
2017–18 3rd "B"
(Second League)		 2 33 21 4 8 77 27 67 1⁄64 finals Promoted
2018–19 2nd
(First League)		 4 28 15 6 7 35 20 51 1⁄16 finals
2019–20 7 30 15 6 9 44 34 51 1⁄32 finals
2020–21 3 30 16 8 6 36 22 56 1⁄64 finals Promoted
2021–22 1st
(Premier League)		 10 18 6 1 11 17 29 19 1⁄8 finals
2022–23 12 30 6 14 10 23 42 32 Not played
2023–24 1⁄8 finals

See also

Notes

    References

    1. ↑ Неделин: Околофутбольное чудо произошло, угроза исчезновения Металлиста 1925 прошла. sportarena.com. 31 August 2023
    2. 1 2 3 4 Кому официально принадлежат украинские клубы. ukrrudprom.com. 12 November 2021
    3. ↑ "Our club was created by fans for fans". In Kharkiv they went the other way ("Наш клуб создали болельщики для болельщиков". В Харькове пошли другим путем). UA-Football. 5 August 2017.
    4. ↑ "Металлист 1925 стал профессиональным футбольным клубом". 16 May 2017.
    5. ↑ "Основний склад".
    6. ↑ "Metalist 1925".
    7. ↑ "Професіональна футбольна ліга України".
    8. ↑ "Металіст 1925 став професійним футбольним клубом". ua-football.com (in Ukrainian). 16 May 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
    9. ↑ "Металіст 1925 змінив власників – "сонячні" енергетики та коксохіміки взяли контроль". Футбол 24 (in Ukrainian). football24.ua. 8 October 2020. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
    10. ↑ "Гендиректор Металіста 1925: Зауважень до тренерського штабу Кривенцова немає". ua-football.com (in Ukrainian). 30 December 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
    11. ↑ "Тренери команди".
    12. ↑ Oleksandr Pryzetko is a head coach of Metalist 1925
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