FC Kolos Kovalivka

FC Kolos Kovalivka is a professional Ukrainian football club from the village of Kovalivka, Kyiv Oblast which competes in the Ukrainian Premier League, having been 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.

Kolos Kovalivka
Full nameFC Kolos Kovalivka
Founded2012
GroundKolos Stadium
Capacity5,000
ChairmanAndriy Zasukha
Head coachYaroslav Vyshnyak
LeagueUkrainian Premier League
2020–21Ukrainian Premier League, 4th
WebsiteClub website

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 Kyiv Oblast which it represents.[1]

The club is named after the Ukrainian sports society Kolos (Agro-Industrial Complex trade unions) that has existed since after 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]

Honours
Club emblem (2012–18)

Squad

As of 22 April 2022[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
2 DF  SVN Matija Rom
7 FW  UKR Volodymyr Lysenko
8 MF  UKR Vladyslav Veleten
10 MF  UKR Pavlo Orikhovskyi
11 FW  AZE Anatoliy Nuriyev
14 MF  UKR Vadym Milko
15 DF  UKR Oleksandr Chornomorets
17 MF  UKR Andriy Totovytskyi
18 FW  UKR Yevhen Isayenko (on loan from Dynamo Kyiv)
21 DF  UKR Yevhen Novak
No. Pos. Nation Player
25 GK  UKR Yevhen Volynets
27 DF  UKR Denys Kuzyk (on loan from Dynamo Kyiv)
30 MF  UKR Anton Salabay
33 GK  UKR Volodymyr Makhankov
47 MF  UKR Serhiy Myakushko
69 MF  UKR Oleh Ilyin
72 GK  UKR Kiril Fesyun
90 MF  UKR Andriy Bohdanov
— FW  UKR Stanislav Koval

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  UKR Yevhen Kucherenko (at Aksu until 30 June 2022)
— DF  UKR Yevhen Kostyuk (at Nyva Vinnytsia until 30 June 2022)
— DF  UKR Kyrylo Petrov (at Korona Kielce until 30 June 2022)
— DF  UKR Andriy Marchuk (at Lyubomyr Stavyshche until 30 June 2022)
— DF  BLR Nikolay Zolotov (at Bastia until 30 June 2022)
— DF  UKR Oleksiy Zozulya (at Lviv until 30 June 2022)
— MF  BRA Diego Carioca (at Jagiellonia Białystok until 30 June 2022)
— MF  UKR Vyacheslav Churko (at Mezőkövesd until 30 June 2022)
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF  UKR Arsentiy Doroshenko (at Kramatorsk until 30 June 2022)
— MF  UKR Bohdan Dukhota (at Dinaz Vyshhorod until 30 June 2022)
— MF  UKR Stanislav Morarenko (at Podillya Khmelnytskyi until 30 June 2022)
— MF  UKR Yevhen Morozko (at Polissya Zhytomyr until 30 June 2022)
— MF  CMR Alvaro Ngamba (at Mariehamn until 31 December 2022)
— MF  UKR Andriy Solovyov (at Chaika Petropavlivska Borshchahivka until 30 June 2022)
— FW  BRA Renan Oliveira (at Žalgiris until 30 June 2022)
— FW  GEO Nika Sichinava (at KuPS until 30 June 2022)

Coaches and administration
Administration[7] Coaching[5] (senior team) Coaching[8] (U-21 team)

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 1⁄2 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 1⁄32 finals Promoted
2016–17 2nd
(First League)		 5 34 16 9 9 52 38 57 1⁄32 finals
2017–18 5 34 19 4 11 39 30 61 1⁄16 finals
2018–19 2 28 15 9 4 45 18 54 1⁄32 finals Promoted[10]
2019–20 1st
(Premier League)		 6 32 10 2 20 33 59 32 1⁄8 finals Europa League play-offs – Winners
2020–21 4 26 10 11 5 36 26 41 1⁄4 finals EL 3rd qual. round
2021–22 ECL 3rd qual. round

European record
Season Competition Round Club Home Away Aggregate
2020–21 UEFA Europa League 2Q Aris N/A 2–1 N/A
3Q Rijeka N/A 0–2 (a.e.t.) N/A
2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League 3Q Shakhter Karagandy 0–0 0–0 (a.e.t.) 0–0 (1–3 p)

Notable players

Managers

References
  1. 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. 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. "Колос".
  6. "Kolos". upl.ua.
  7. "Менеджмент".
  8. "Колос U-21".
  9. "ТРЕНЕРСЬКИЙ СКЛАД". www.koloskovalivka.com. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  10. Won playoff against Chornomorets Odesa on aggregate 2–0
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